William Wye Smith

William Wye Smith (1826-1917) was a Scottish-born Canadian poet, editor, and minister.

Life
Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was ordained as a Congregationalist minister. He was an authority on the Scots language, who served as the authority for the Scottish Appendix of the Standard Dictionary, and who translated the New Testament into Scots. At various times he was editor of the Owen Sound Times, Canadian Independent, Sunday School Times, and Congregational Year Book''. He published several small volumes of poetry beginning about 1860. He died in Burford, Ontario.

Poetry

 * Alazon and other poems. Toronto: H. Scobie, 1850.
 * The Poems of William Wye Smith. Toronto: Dudley & Burns, 1888.
 * Selected Poems of William Wye Smith. Toronto: William Briggs, 1908.

Non-fiction

 * Gazetteer and directory of the county of Grey for 1865-6. Toronto: Globe Steam Press, 1865.
 * The Print of His Shoe; or, following Christ. Boston: Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1887.
 * The Gospel of Matthew in Broad Scotch. Toronto: Imrie, Graham, 1897.