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Charles Marion "Red" Lillard (February 26, 1944 - March 27, 1997) was a Canadian poet and historian.[1]

Charles Lillard (1944-1997). Courtesy KnowBC.

Charles Lillard (1944-1997). Courtesy KnowBC.

Life[]

Lillard was born in Long Beach, California, and raised and educated in Alaska.[2]

He moved to British Columbia in the mid-1960s,[1] becoming a Canadian citizen in 1972.[2]

He studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia (UBC); his earliest collection of poetry, Cultus Coulee was published in 1971, while he was still a student. He earned an M.F.A. from UBC in 1973.[2]

He wrote more than 20 published books. In addition, he wrote a literary column for the Victoria, British.Columbia, Times-Colonist. He died in Victoria.[2]

Writing[]

"Almost without exception," says the Canadian Encyclopedia, "Lillard's verse is tied to the West Coast; it is a reflective, though unsentimental, rendering of the culture, mythology, and natural beauty of the region."[3]

Recognition[]

At UBC, Lillard won the Bessendon Prize in 1970 and the Macmillan Prize in 1973.[2]

His 1988 poetry collection, Circling North, won the BC Book Prize for Poetry (now the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.[3]

His 1997 collection, Shadow Weather, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry.[3]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Cultus Coulee. Surrey, BC: Sono Nis, 1971.
  • Drunk on Wood, and other poems. Delta, BC: Sono Nis, 1973.
  • Jabble San Francisco: Katcherenjunga Press, 1975,
  • Raven. BC: Raven's Tree Press, [1975?]
  • Voice, My Shaman. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1976.
  • Poems (with Doug Beardsley). [Victoria, BC?]: Islomane Press, 1979.
  • Mythistoria. [Victoria, BC]: Islomane Press, 1979.
  • A Coastal Range. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1984.
  • Circling North. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1988.
  • Shadow Weather: Poems selected and new. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1996.

Non-fiction[]

  • Paths our Ancestors Walked: Father Vullinghs & the Saanich Peninsula, 1893-1909. Victoria, BC: Victoria Indian Cultural Centre, 1977.
  • Seven Shillings a Year: The history of Vancouver Island. Ganges, BC: Horsdal & Schubart, 1986.
  • The Fernwood Files(with J. Ellis). Victoria, BC: Orca, 1989.
  • The Brother, XII: The devil of DeCourcey Island (with Ron MacIsaac and Don Clark). Victoria, BC: Porcepic, 1989.
  • The Ghostland People: A documentary history of the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1859-1906. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1989.
  • Land of Destiny: The golden age of British Columbia (with Michael Gregson). Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1991.
  • Just East of Sundown: The Queen Charlotte Islands. Victoria, BC: Horsdal & Shubart, 1995.
  • A Voice Great Within Us: The story of Chinook (with Terry Glavin). Vancouver: New Star Books, 1998.
  • The Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia, 1951-1991. Vancouver: Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia, 1991.
  • Discover Nanaimo: An illustrated history. Nanaimo, BC: Greater Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce, 1992.

Edited[]

  • Father Augustin Brabant, Mission to Nootka, 1874-1900: Reminiscenses of the west coast of Vanvouver Island. Sidney, BC: Gray's Publishing, 1977
  • W.H. Collison, In the Wake of the War Canoe: A stirring record of forty years' successful labour, peril, and adventure amongst the savage Indian tribes of the Pacific coast, and the piratical head-hunting Haida of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1981.
  • Warriors of the North Pacific: Missionary accounts of the northwest coast, The Skeena and Stikine rivers, and the Klondike, 1829-1900. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1984.
  • Gilbert Malcolm Sproat, The Nootka: Scenes and studies of savage life. Victoria, BC: Sono Nis, 1986.
  • The Call of the Coast. Victoria, BC: Horsdal & Schubart, 1992.
  • The Hawthorne Anthology, 1996. Victoria, BC: Hawthorne Foundation / Reference West, 1996.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]

See also[]

References[]

Fonds[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lillard, Charles Marion "Red", Encyclopedia of B.C., KnowBC.com. Web, Nov. 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Lillard, Charles (1944-1997), ABC Bookworld, B.C. Bookworld, Web, June 5, 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Brian John Busby, Lillard, Charles Marion, Canadian Encyclopedia, Historica Institute, Web, June 5, 2012.
  4. ↑ Search results = au:Charles Lillard, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Nov. 12, 2014.

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