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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Reade (1837–1919)

Reade, John. An Irish-Canadian clergyman and journalist; born in Ballyshannon, Donegal, Nov. 13, 1837; died in 1919. He came to Canada in 1856, and contributed to every magazine or review established in Canada after 1860. His writings include: ‘The Prophecy and Other Poems’ (1870); ‘Language and Conquest’ (1883); ‘The Making of Canada’ (1885); ‘Literary Faculty of the Native Races of America’ (1885); ‘The Half-Breed’ (1886); ‘Vita Sine Liberis’ (1886); and ‘Aboriginal American Poetry’ (1887).