Tag Archives: Prince Rupert
Peregrine Acland’s Obituary….
Peregrine Palmer Acland died on Saturday May 11th, 1963. His obituary was published in The Globe and Mail on Monday, May 13th. It reads: P.P. Acland: Newspaperman, Army Officer, Author, Poet Peregrine Palmer Acland, 71, of Gloucester St., an author … Continue reading
My Life, War Adventures and Poems (Part I)…
My Life, War Adventures and Poems By Major Peregrine Acland From Pearson’s Magazine, October 1918. Pages 326-330. I was born in Toronto, Canada in 1891. My father is an Englishman who came to America as a young man and who, … Continue reading
The Prince Rupert Daily News (Part II)…
In Jonathan Vance’s brilliant study of Canada’s reaction to the First World War, Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning and the First World War much is made in Chapter 6: Safeguarding the Past, about the negative reactions to the realistic portrayals … Continue reading
Prince Rupert Daily News…
In May 1913, having recently graduated from the University of Toronto, Peregrine Acland took the train to Vancouver and boarded the steamer Prince George for the northern British Columbia port town of Prince Rupert, where he joined the “reportorial staff” … Continue reading
Field Punishment No.1 