James McIntyre, a furniture maker of Ingersoll, Ontario, wrote verse on everything around him: the birth of the Dominion in 1867, the Prince of Wales’s visit, Canada’s resources, the North-West Rebellion of 1885, a hunter’s fight with a bear, and above all the dairy industry, in the cheese odes that made him famous.
Often called one of the worst poets in the language, McIntyre is irresistible for lovers of glorious doggerel. Download the free EPUB.