John William Garvin (1859–1935) was a

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publisher and teacher in

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, Ontario. He was also the husband of the writer known as Katherine Hale, the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock. Garvin was a prolific editor and published numerous literary anthologies.

References

Entry for Katharine Hale
in Garvin's own ''Canadian Poets'' from 1916.

Selected works

*Garvin, J. W. (ed): ''The collected poems of

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'', Toronto: W. Briggs, 1905. With an introduction by Ethelwyn Wetherald. *Garvin, J. W. (ed):
Canadian Poets
', Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Publishers, 1916; with a second, updated edition 1926. *Garvin, J. W. (ed): ''Wanderings of an Artist: Among the Indians of North America'', The Radisson Socienty of Canada Ltd, Toronto, 1925. A republication of

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's original travel account from 1859 with an introduction by Lawrence J. Burpee. *Garvin, J. W. (ed): ''Voyages from Montreal on the river St. Laurence through the continent of North America to the frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country'' by Alexander MacKenzie, The Radisson Socienty of Canada Ltd, Toronto, 1927. Garvin, John William Garvin, John William Garvin, John William {{Publish-bio-stub