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74-544: Kaleden ( / k ə ˈ l iː d ən / ) is an unincorporated community about midway along the western shore of Skaha Lake in the Okanagan region of south central British Columbia . Adjacent to BC Highway 97 , the locality is by road about 13 kilometres (8 mi) south of Penticton . As early as 1875, the cattle of Thomas (Tom) Ellis grazed on the Kaleden hillside. The first Caucasian settler (Shoemaker) farmed on what became

148-454: A bunch of violets — Mary Perry's favorite flower — on the pillow of my bed." If he knew of the latter, Dr. King did not object: "He even supported her involvement in the career of Bliss Carman to the extent that the situation developed into something close to a ménage à trois " with the Kings. Through Mrs. King's influence Carman became an advocate of 'unitrinianism,' a philosophy which "drew on

222-523: A buyer for a 2-hectare (5-acre) lot was listed chronologically. Ranking on the list determined priority in choosing a specific property. After the November sale day, the KDC sold lots in a more conventional manner. At the time, the lakeshore commercial centre comprised a log cabin and barn built years earlier, a two-storey general store, blacksmith shop, some residences, and numerous tents. In 1910, D.D. Lapsley purchased

296-550: A cabin near their summer home in the Catskills , "Moonshine." Between 1908 and 1920, literary taste began to shift, and his fortunes and health declined. By 1920, Carman was impoverished and recovering from a near-fatal attack of tuberculosis . That year he revisited Canada and "began the first of a series of successful and relatively lucrative reading tours, discovering 'there is nothing worth talking of in book sales compared with reading.'" "'Breathless attention, crowded halls, and

370-426: A contributor to the magazines and newspapers, never an editor in any department." To make matters worse, Carman's first book of poetry, 1893's Low Tide on Grand Pré , was not a success; no Canadian company would publish it, and the U.S. edition stiffed when its publisher went bankrupt. At this low point, Songs of Vagabondia , the first Hovey-Carman collaboration, was published by Copeland & Day in 1894. It

444-404: A couple of years. In 1949, the community hall was built while the interior was gradually finished over the next decade. In 1933, the school became a superior one and Grade 10 was added the next year. In 1936, the new school opened at the present location. In 1966, a new gym and a library were added. In 1976, two classrooms were added. In 1994, the present school building opened. In August 1931,

518-400: A cult following, especially among college students, who responded to the poetry's anti-materialistic themes, its celebration of individual freedom, and its glorification of comradeship." The success of Songs of Vagabondia prompted another Boston firm, Stone & Kimball, to reissue Low Tide... and to hire Carman as the editor of its literary journal, The Chapbook . The next year, though,

592-416: A downmarket one served the orchard workers. A private hydro plant supplied electricity. Operating for about two and a half years, the hotel closed temporarily when war broke out but never reopened. Facing dim prospects, the furniture and fittings were sold. In 1912, Lapsley moved the general store into new larger premises beside the hotel, but falling demand led to closure in 1916. The store reopened in 1923 for

666-400: A local orchardist murdered his family, before taking his own life. In August 1958, a female murder victim was found in a fruit picker cabin near Kaleden. A suspect stopped for questioning shot an RCMP officer three times. A search plane pursuing possible sightings of the fugitive crashed into a mountainside, killing all three RCMP officers on board. The fugitive (who was not the murderer) and

740-568: A love of classical literature and introduced him to the poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne . He was later educated at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1881. His first published poem was in the UNB Monthly in 1879. He then spent a year at Oxford and the University of Edinburgh (1882–1883), but returned home to receive his master's degree from UNB in 1884. After

814-422: A nostalgic tone of pervading loss and melancholy. Three outstanding examples are "The Eavesdropper," "In Apple Time" and "Wayfaring." However, "none can equal the artistry of the title poem. What is more, although Carman would publish over thirty other volumes during his lifetime, none of them contains anything that surpasses this poem he wrote when he was barely twenty-five years old." Carman rose to prominence in

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888-411: A partnership to plant and initially nurture about 81 hectares (200 acres). Around 27,000 trees were planted in the first year, largely for private owners. In 1911, H.H. Whitaker performed this task on parts of the unsold KDC land. The 1913 recession and the outbreak of World War I in 1914 suspended new planting. In 1913, the first commercial crop was picked. The returns from these apricots did not cover

962-418: A scarlet maple For the grave-tree at my head, With the quiet sun behind it, In the years when I am dead. As a student at Harvard, Carman "was heavily influenced by Royce , whose spiritualistic idealism , combined with the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson , lies centrally in the background of his first major poem, "Low Tide on Grand Pré" written in the summer and winter of 1886." "Low Tide..."

1036-562: A strange, profound enthusiasm such as I never guessed could be,' he reported to a friend. 'And good thrifty money too. Think of it! An entirely new life for me, and I am the most surprised person in Canada.'" Carman was feted at "a dinner held by the newly formed Canadian Authors' Association at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Montreal on 28 October 1921 where he was crowned Canada's Poet Laureate with

1110-475: A wreath of maple leaves." The tours of Canada continued, and by 1925 Carman had finally acquired a Canadian publisher. " McClelland & Stewart (Toronto) issued a collection of selected earlier verses and became his main publisher. They benefited from Carman's popularity and his revered position in Canadian literature, but no one could convince L.C. Page to relinquish its copyrights. An edition of collected poetry

1184-399: Is as if a sculptor of to-day were to set himself, with reverence, and trained craftsmanship, and studious familiarity with the spirit, technique, and atmosphere of his subject, to restore some statues of Polyclitus or Praxiteles of which he had but a broken arm, a foot, a knee, a finger upon which to build." Yet, on the whole, Carman succeeded. "Written more or less contemporaneously with

1258-464: Is by itself, however, a kind of emotional photography, and like other forms of photography is occasional and epigrammatic.... Hence the lyric poet, after he has run his gamut of impressions, must die young, develop a more intellectualized attitude, or start repeating himself. Carman's meeting of this challenge was only partly successful." It is true that Carman had begun to repeat himself after Sappho. "Much of Carman's writing in poetry and prose during

1332-552: Is now very smooth though with less vivacity than it used to have.'" Not only did Carman continue to write, but he continued to write fine poems: poems such as "The Old Grey Wall" ( April Airs ), the Wilfred Campbell -ish "Rivers of Canada" ( Far Horizons ), "The Ghost-yard of the Goldenrod" and "The Ships of Saint John" ( Later Poems , 1926), and "The Winter Scene" ( Sanctuary: The "Sunshine House" sonnets ). The best of these have

1406-529: The Kaleden to form the South Okanagan Transportation Company. The next year, they built wharves on the lake at Penticton, Kaleden, and Okanagan Falls. That year, they bought the new 12-metre (40 ft) launch Cygnet and sold the Kaleden. In 1914, the 10-metre (32 ft) Mallard entered service, which included the river route. During 1920–1931, CP's SS York pushed rail barges on

1480-502: The New York Independent at the grand sum of $ 20 a week. There he could help his Canadian friends get published, in the process "introducing Canadian poets to its readers." However, Carman was never a good fit at the semi-religious weekly, and he was summarily dismissed in 1892. "Brief stints would follow with Current Literature , Cosmopolitan , The Chap-Book , and The Atlantic Monthly , but after 1895 he would be strictly

1554-446: The 1890s, a decade the poetry of which anthologist Louis Untermeyer has called marked by "a cheerless evasion, a humorous unconcern; its most representative craftsmen were, with four exceptions, the writers of light verse." The first two of those four exceptions were Richard Hovey and Bliss Carman. For Untermeyer: "The poetry of this period ... is dead because it detached itself from the world.... But ... revolt openly declared itself with

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1628-722: The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1929. In 1945, Carman was recognized as a Person of National Historic Significance by the government of Canada. Carman is honored by a sculpture erected on the UNB campus in 1947, which portrays him with fellow poets Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and Francis Joseph Sherman . Bliss Carman Middle School in Fredericton , New Brunswick and Bliss Carman Senior Public School in Toronto , Ontario were named after him. "Bliss Carman Heights" (an extension of

1702-495: The Boston publishing firm Copeland & Day that would launch Vagabondia . After Harvard Carman briefly returned to Canada, but was back in Boston by February 1890. "Boston is one of the few places where my critical education and tastes could be of any use to me in earning money," he wrote. "New York and London are about the only other places." Unable to find employment in Boston, he moved to New York City and became literary editor of

1776-571: The Junction Ranch, which stretched southwest from the BC Highway 3A junction. Richard Hynds, who pre-empted these 130 hectares (320 acres) in 1891, operated a stopping place for a number of years at the White Lake Rd junction. In 1899, he sold the property to Basel Lawrence, who later pre-empted the adjacent 130 hectares (320 acres) to the east. Dugald Gillespie, who pre-empted the adjacent land to

1850-583: The KDC. By 1912, Lord de Vesci had invested about $ 150,000. The enormous irrigation construction costs had created liquidity problems. Consequently, the KDC was unable to meet its immediate obligations, and the war had cut off further financing. Although the orchards held by private owners survived, the 100 hectares (250 acres) of KDC ones were abandoned to die. In 1919, the bankrupt company was wound up. By 1921, about 81 hectares (200 acres) were in private hands. The Kaleden Estates (KE) syndicate, headed by Sir William Hutcheson Poë and including Lord de Vesci, acquired

1924-564: The Penticton–Okanagan Falls leg. The ferry service was subsidized in 1900 and 1910–1922. In the chain of Okanagan lakes, Skaha Lake is south of Okanagan Lake and north of Vaseux Lake . Possessing an approximate 20-square-kilometre (7.7 sq mi) surface area and 55-metre (180 ft) depth, the lake lies as the boundary between the Okanagan dry forests to the northeast and the Cascade Mountains leeward forests to

1998-403: The actual murderer were both committed to mental institutions. Kaleden Elementary provides K to Grade 5 education for approximately 100 students. Other services include a library branch, general store/post office, volunteer fire department, and community church. The two local parks are Kaleden Hotel Park and Pioneer Park, which has a public beach, boat launch and BBQ area. Across the street from

2072-466: The aesthetic and practice of Imagism . In his review of 1954's Selected Poems of Bliss Carman , literary critic Northrop Frye compared Carman and the other Confederation Poets to the Group of Seven : "Like the later painters, these poets were lyrical in tone and romantic in attitude; like the painters, they sought for the most part uninhabited landscape." But Frye added: "The lyrical response to landscape

2146-472: The benches. The Kaleden Baptist Church, erected in 1913, is now called the Kaleden Community Church. In the townsite plans, land was reserved for a hotel, a larger store, a bank, and other public buildings. In fall 1911, hotel construction began. Expensively modern for the era, the concrete structure comprised 26 rooms, each with sleeping porch and bath. An upscale dining room catered to guests, and

2220-469: The connecting river, the sternwheeler remained in Okanagan Lake after the initial run. In 1909, James Ritchie bought the launch Mallard, which he renamed Kaleden for his Kaleden subdivision. For two years, the vessel towed scows carrying building materials. The absence of wharves meant the scows were run up onto the beaches for loading and unloading. In 1911, J.F. Campbell and A.S. Hatfield bought

2294-604: The death of his father in January 1885 and his mother in February 1886, Carman enrolled in Harvard University (1886–1887). At Harvard he moved in a literary circle that included American poet Richard Hovey , who would become his close friend and his collaborator on the successful Vagabondia poetry series. Carman and Hovey were members of the " Visionists " circle along with Herbert Copeland and F. Holland Day, who would later form

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2368-454: The decade preceding World War I is as repetitive as the title of Echoes from Vagabondia (1912) intimates" says the DCB . What had made his poetry so remarkable at the beginning – that every new book was completely new – was gone. However, Carman's career was by no means over. He "published four other collections of new poetry during his lifetime and two more were ready for publication at

2442-583: The editor's job went West (with Stone & Kimball) to Chicago, while Carman opted to remain in Boston. "In Boston in 1895, he worked on a new poetry book, Behind the Arras , which he placed with a prominent Boston publisher (Lamson, Wolffe).... He published two more books of verse with Lamson, Wolffe." He also began writing a weekly column for the Boston Evening Transcript , which ran from 1895 to 1900. In 1896 Carman met Mary Perry King, who became

2516-408: The firm released three books based on Carman's Transcript columns, and a prose work on unitrinianism, The Making of Personality , that he'd written with Mrs. King. "Page also helped Carman rescue his 'dream project,' a deluxe edition of his collected poetry to 1903.... Page acquired distribution rights with the stipulation that the book be sold privately, by subscription. The project failed; Carman

2590-629: The five volumes of verse assembled in Pipes of Pan ." The Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB) calls the series "a collection that contains many superb lyrics but, overall, evinces the dangers of a soporific aesthetic." The 'superb lyrics' include the much-anthologized "The Dead Faun" from Volume I, From the Book of Myths ; "From the Green Book of the Bards", the title poem of Volume II; "Lord of My Heart's Elation" from

2664-444: The former hotel, the lakeshore building has been a general store, candy making business, garage, restaurant, and private living quarters. The latest iteration, called the 1912 Restaurant, appears to have permanently closed in the mid-2010s. Tourism accommodation includes Ponderosa Point resort and Banbury Green RV & Camping Resort. The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory lies to the southwest. Skaha Lake The lake

2738-512: The goat-god, traditionally associated with poetry and with the fusion of the earthly and the divine, becomes Carman's organizing symbol in the five volumes issued between 1902 and 1905" under the above title. Under the influence of Mrs. King, Carman had begun to write in both prose and poetry about the ideas of 'unitrinianism,' "a strategy of mind-body-spirit harmonization aimed at undoing the physical, psychological, and spiritual damage caused by urban modernity ... therapeutic ideas [which] resulted in

2812-417: The greatest and longest-lasting female influence in his life. Mrs. King became his patron: "She put pence in his purse, and food in his mouth, when he struck bottom and, what is more, she often put a song on his lips when he despaired, and helped him sell it." According to Carman's roommate, Mitchell Kennerley , "On rare occasions they had intimate relations at 10 E. 16 which they always advised me of by leaving

2886-570: The influence of New Brunswick's Premier J.B.M. Baxter and Canadian Prime Minister W.L.M. King , for Carman's ashes to be returned to Fredericton." "His ashes were buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Fredericton, and a national memorial service was held at the Anglican cathedral there." Twenty-five years later, on May 13, 1954, a scarlet maple tree was planted at his gravesite, to grant his request in his 1892 poem "The Grave-Tree": Let me have

2960-518: The late Richard Hovey.'" Carman's most famous poem from the first volume is arguably "The Joys of the Open Road." More Songs... contains "A Vagabond Song," once familiar to a generation of Canadians. "Canadian youngsters who were in grade seven anytime between the mid-1930s and the 1950s were probably exposed to ... 'A Vagabond Song' [which] appeared in The Canada Book of Prose and Verse, Book One ,

3034-527: The line connecting Penticton and Okanagan Falls (via Kaleden) opened, eliminating the barge service between those two points. In 1979, the tracks south of Okanagan Falls were lifted. In 1989, the last train passed through Kaleden. That year, all that remained of the Kettle Valley Railway was abandoned. The rail bed is now a rail trail . However, residential development has absorbed parts in Kaleden, necessitating detours to local streets. In June 1948,

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3108-604: The love poems in Songs of the Sea Children , the Sappho reconstructions continue the amorous theme from a feminine point of view. Nevertheless, the feelings ascribed to Sappho are pure Carman in their sensitive and elegiac melancholy." Virtually all of the lyrics are of high quality; some often-quoted are XXIII ("I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago,"), LIV ("How soon will all my lovely days be over"), LXXIV ("If death be good"), LXXXII ("Over

3182-548: The next year. In 1932, a modern cold storage plant adjacent to the railway replaced the old inadequate packing house. Over time, the produce has largely evolved from tree fruit to vineyards. During the earlier years, Skaha Lake ferries were critical to transportation. Passing along the upper level were the W.J. Snodgrass stage in the 1890s and the McDougall & Hine one in the early 1900s, when Warwick Arnott bought out McDougall. In 1910, new highway construction descended from

3256-510: The north (present Pineview Dr), rejoining the old highway (present Old Kaleden Rd) near Okanagan Falls . From 1911, the Arnott & Hine stage followed this road into the lakeshore townsite. Bliss Carman recounts the route in the poem "Kaleden Road". After 1920, Seaman Hatfield began a passenger and mail run via the White Lake area. In 1931, Greyhound Canada bought the stage franchise that included

3330-512: The poet hoped to make." In keeping with the "same key" idea, Carman's Ballad of Lost Haven (1897) was a collection of poetry about the sea. Its notable poems include the macabre sea shanty The Gravedigger . "By the Aurelian Wall" is Carman's elegy to John Keats . It served as the title poem of his 1898 collection, a book of formal elegies . In the last poem in the book, "The Grave-Tree," Carman writes about his own death. " Pan ,

3404-633: The publication of Songs from Vagabondia (1894), More Songs from Vagabondia (1896), and Last Songs from Vagabondia (1900).... It was the heartiness, the gypsy jollity, the rush of high spirits, that conquered. Readers of the Vagabondia books were swept along by their speed faster than by their philosophy." Even modernists loved Vagabondia . In the "October, 1912 issue of the London Poetry Review, Ezra Pound noted that he had 'greatly enjoyed The Songs of Vagabondia by Mr. Bliss Carman and

3478-647: The rail terminal at Okanagan Landing . Penticton separates Okanagan Lake from Skaha Lake. In 1893, W. J. Snodgrass acquired a new boat, the Jessie, named for his daughter. Plying the Okanagan Falls–Penticton run, this boat burned at the Falls in 1898. In 1894, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) built the 17-metre (55 ft) sternwheeler SS Fairview for this run but soon moved to Okanagan Lake, where

3552-671: The remaining 1,100 hectares (2,800 acres). In 1929, replanting of the abandoned orchards began. During 1921–1956, the KE sold the land for ranches and orchards, roads, and a cemetery, or gifted land to the province or the Kaleden Irrigation District to settle property taxes. In 1922, the Penticton Co-operative Growers bought the packing house, but the growers formed the Kaleden Co-Operative Growers instead

3626-419: The rights to Low Tide... "The rights to all Carman's books were now held by one publisher and, in lieu of earnings, Carman took a financial stake in the company. When Small, Maynard failed in 1903, Carman lost all his assets." Down but not out, Carman signed with another Boston company, L.C. Page , and began to churn out new work. Page published seven books of new Carman poetry between 1902 and 1905. As well,

3700-543: The roofs the honey-coloured moon"). "Next to Low Tide on Grand Pré , Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics seems to be the collection that continues to find the most favour among Carman's critics. D.M.R. Bentley, for example, calls it 'undoubtedly one of the most attractive, engaging and satisfying works of any of the Confederation poets.'" Bentley argued that "the brief, crisp lyrics of the Sappho volume almost certainly contributed to

3774-419: The same key.' Whereas Low Tide on Grand Pré is elegiacal and melancholy, Songs from Vagabondia is mostly light and jaunty, while Behind the Arras is philosophical and heavy." "Behind the Arras" the poem is a long meditation that uses the speaker's house and its many rooms as a symbol of life and its choices. The poem does not succeed: "there are so many asides that the allegory is lost along with any point

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3848-455: The same nostalgic air of melancholy and loss with which Carman began in "Low Tide...," but now even more poignant as the poet approached his own death. In 1906 Carman received honorary degrees from UNB and McGill University . He was elected a corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1925. The Society awarded him its Lorne Pierce Gold Medal in 1928. He was awarded a medal from

3922-449: The same volume; and many of the erotic poems of Volume III, Songs of the Sea Children (such as LIX "I loved you when the tide of prayer"). As a whole, though, the Pan series shows (perhaps more than any other work) the truth of Northrop Frye 's 1954 observation that Carman "badly needs a skillful and sympathetic selection." There were no such problems with Carman's next book. Perhaps because of

3996-427: The school reader that was used in nearly every province" (and was edited by Lorne Pierce). In 1912 Carman would publish Echoes from Vagabondia as a solo work. (Hovey had died in 1900). More of a remembrance book than part of the set, it has a distinct elegiac tone. It contains the lyric "The Flute of Spring". With Behind the Arras (1895), Carman continued his practice of "bringing together poems that were 'in

4070-477: The settlement. Around 1990, the highway north was widened to four lanes. BC Transit provides daily services. In spring 1909, a contest was held to name the new subdivision. Rev. Walter Russel, who submitted the winning entry, won one of the lots. The name combined the Greek word "kalos" (beautiful) and the biblical garden. While the townsite was being surveyed during summer and fall 1909, each $ 50 deposit lodged by

4144-452: The shipping and packing costs. In 1915 and 1916, profits were realized when Western Canners took most of the crop. In 1917, the first fruit packing house was built. By 1918, Kaleden had become the largest producer of apricots in the valley. The "Kaleden Cots", a form of apricot tree producing golden yellow apricots with red cheeks, were first propagated in Kaleden from trees purchased by Frank Harrison in 1910. Several English lenders had funded

4218-684: The south in 1895, planted a small orchard of mixed fruits. In 1900, he developed the first irrigation system in the district, by building a small dam at the foot of Marron Lake. He also operated a freighting business that primarily served the mining communities to the west and south. To the north in the Banbury Green/Point area, R. J. Cheeseman pre-empted in 1895, Cheeseman Point being the name for many years. Later purchaser Douglas Dewar called his holdings Banbury. During 1906–1909, under his own name and those of relatives and friends, James (Jim) Ritchie purchased 1,200 hectares (3,000 acres) which included

4292-406: The store from Ritchie and Hatfield. That year, Miss Olga Watson was the inaugural teacher at the school that was held in the upstairs part of the store. A new cookhouse building erected in 1910 served workers until 1912. A.S. Hatfield, who was the inaugural postmaster 1910–1920, operated from a small building about 23 metres (25 yd) north of the 1912 store. In 1912, a new two-room school opened on

4366-411: The surviving fragments of some of her poems. Carman's method, as Charles G.D. Roberts saw it in his Introduction to the book, "apparently, has been to imagine each lost lyric as discovered, and then to translate it; for the indefinable flavor of the translation is maintained throughout, though accompanied by the fluidity and freedom of purely original work". It was a daunting task, as Roberts admits: "It

4440-437: The theories of François-Alexandre-Nicolas-Chéri Delsarte to develop a strategy of mind-body-spirit harmonization aimed at undoing the physical, psychological, and spiritual damage caused by urban modernity." This shared belief created a bond between Mrs. King and Carman but estranged him somewhat from his former friends. In 1899 Lamson, Wolffe was taken over by the Boston firm of Small, Maynard & Co., who had also acquired

4514-423: The time of his death: The Rough Rider, and Other Poems (1908), A Painter's Holiday, and Other Poems (1911), April Airs (1916), Far Horizons (1925), Sanctuary (1929), and Wild Garden (1929). James Cappon's comment on Far Horizons applies almost equally to the other five volumes: 'There is nothing new in its poetic quality which has the sweet sadness of age rehearsing old tunes with an art which

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4588-436: The underlying concept, Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (1904) has a structure and unity that helps make it what has been called Carman's "finest volume of poetry". Sappho was an Ancient Greek poet from the island of Lesbos , who was included in the Greek canon of nine lyric poets . Most of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her reputation has endured, supported by

4662-469: The vessel burned in 1897. The 27-metre (89 ft) Greenwood, launched in 1897 at Okanagan Landing, burned at the Falls around 1903. In 1899, Snodgrass purchased another boat, the Maude Moore, named after his youngest daughter. In 1905, the vessel relocated to Naramata . In 1910, CP launched the 29-metre (94 ft) Kaleden for the Penticton–Okanagan Falls run. Encountering navigational difficulties on

4736-648: The west. To the south lies the Columbia Plateau shrubland , the only xeric shrubland ecoregion in Canada. The lake hosts a variety of fish including kokanee salmon , rainbow trout , and smallmouth bass . The most recent forming of thicker ice occurred in the mid-1990s and 2014. This article about a location in the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bliss Carman William Bliss Carman FRSC (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929)

4810-545: The whole present settlement. In 1908, the Kaleden Development Company (KDC), his syndicate, began installing an irrigation system. Water flowed along pipes and ditches from a diversion dam on Shatford Creek to west of the junction on Marron Creek, where a concrete intake was built. Various upgrades were made over the following years and after the Kaleden Irrigation District took over the water supply. In 1910, Jim Harrison, Harry Corbitt, and A.S. Hatfield established

4884-405: The widest international recognition. But unlike others, he never attempted to secure his income by novel writing, popular journalism, or non-literary employment. He remained a poet, supplementing his art with critical commentaries on literary ideas, philosophy, and aesthetics." William Bliss Carman was born on April 15, 1861, in Fredericton, New Brunswick . "Bliss" was his mother's maiden name. He

4958-541: Was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. In Canada, Carman is classed as one of the Confederation Poets , a group which also included Charles G.D. Roberts (his cousin), Archibald Lampman , and Duncan Campbell Scott . "Of the group, Carman had the surest lyric touch and achieved

5032-482: Was a first cousin to the siblings Charles (later Sir Charles) G. D. Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald . Carman was first educated through a private tutor until 1872 due to medical issues stemmed from a severe nose injury he received at the age of four. Afterwards, he attended the Fredericton Collegiate School where he came under the influence of headmaster George Robert Parkin , who gave him

5106-555: Was an immediate success. "No one could have been more surprised at the tremendous popularity of these care-free celebrations (the first of the three collections went through seven rapid editions) than the young authors, Richard Hovey and Bliss Carman." Songs of Vagabondia would ultimately "go through sixteen printings (ranging from 500 to 1000 copies) over the next thirty years. The three Vagabondia volumes that followed fell slightly short of that record, but each went through numerous printings. Carman and Hovey quickly found themselves with

5180-410: Was deeply disappointed and became disenchanted with Page, whose grip on Carman's copyrights would prevent the publication of another collected edition during Carman's lifetime." Carman also picked up some needed cash in 1904 as editor-in-chief of the 10-volume project, The World's Best Poetry . After 1908 Carman lived near the Kings' New Canaan, Connecticut , estate, "Sunshine", or in the summer in

5254-528: Was labelled L. du Chien on Anderson's map (1867) and Du Chien L. on Trutch maps (1866 and 1871). Likely named by French Canadian fur traders , the origin is unknown. The translation as Dog Lake was later adopted. When changed to Skaha Lake in 1930, the Shuswap name for dog was mistakenly chosen. The Okanagan meaning of Skaha is horse. In the early years, the Okanagan depended upon water transportation from

5328-664: Was published in the Spring, 1887 Atlantic Monthly , giving Carman a literary reputation while still at Harvard. It was also included in the 1889 anthology Songs of the Great Dominion . Literary critic Desmond Pacey considered "Low Tide..." to be "the most nearly perfect single poem to come out of Canada. It will withstand any amount of critical scrutiny." "Low Tide..." served as the title poem for Carman's first book. "The poems in this volume have been collected with reference to their similarity of tone," Carman wrote in his preface;

5402-506: Was published only after Carman's death, due greatly to the persistence of his literary executor, Lorne Pierce ." During the 1920s, Carman was a member of the Halifax literary and social set, The Song Fishermen . In 1927 he edited The Oxford Book of American Verse . Carman died of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 68 in New Canaan, and was cremated in New Canaan. "It took two months, and

5476-565: Was the great grandson of United Empire Loyalists who fled to Nova Scotia after the American Revolution , settling in New Brunswick (then part of Nova Scotia). His literary roots run deep with an ancestry that includes a mother who was a descendant of Daniel Bliss of Concord, Massachusetts, the great-uncle of Ralph Waldo Emerson . His sister, Jean, married the botanist and historian William Francis Ganong . And on his mother's side he

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