Isabella Valancy Crawford, poet
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Isabella Valancy Crawford

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About Isabella Valancy Crawford

1850 -1887/Canadianwas born of cultured parents,– Stephen Dennis Crawford, M.D., and Sydney Scott–in Dublin, Ireland, on Christmas day, 1850. In 1858, the family emigrated to Upper Canada and settled at Paisley, on the Saugeen river. Of these pioneer days in Bruce county

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I MIND him well, he was a quare ould chap,Come like meself from swate ould Erin's sod;
— Isabella Valancy Crawford
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My white canoe, like the silvery airO'er the River of Death that darkly rolls
— Isabella Valancy Crawford
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