Name Alexander McLachlan Role Poet | Died 1896, Orangeville, Canada | |
Books The Emigrant, The poetical works of Alexander McLachlan | ||
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Alexander McLachlan (1818–1896) was a Scottish born Canadian poet, who was active in the mid nineteenth century and wrote in both Scottish dialect and poetic convention of the homesickness of Scottish immigrants to Canada. Both his contemporary and later critics have called him “the Canadian Robert Burns”, an earlier Scottish national poet who also authored Scottish traditional verse. McLachlan’s bound verse includes the titles The Spirit of Love (1846), Lyrics (1858), The Emigrant (1861) and Poems and Songs (1871).
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McLachlan was born in Johnstone, Scotland, to Charles McLachlan and Jean Sutherland. In 1820, his father immigrated to Canada and settled in Caledon Township on 100 acres of land, leaving his family in Scotland. At some point in the 1830s, he died, leaving Alexander his land. McLachlan immigrated in 1840.