Tom MacInnes
Thomas Robert Edward Macinnes (née McInnes) (October 29, 1867 — February 11, 1951) was a Canadian] poet and writer.
Born Thomas Robert Edward McInnes near Dresden, Ontario, he was raised in New Westminster, British Columbia.
He wrote various regional stories about Canada, as well as poetry and philosophical essays on the words of Lao Zi. His book, Oriental Occupation of British Columbia' (1927), proposes that British Columbia adopt apartheid-like policies in dealing with what he perceived to be an influx of Chinese immigrants.
MacInnes' father, Thomas Robert McInnes, served as Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1897 until 1900.
Bibliography
- A Romance of the Lost - 1908
- Lonesome Bar - 1909
- A Romance of the Lost and Other Poems - 1909
- In Amber Lands - 1910
- Rhymes of a Rounder, A Fool of Joy - 1918
- Roundabout Rhymes - 1923
- The Complete Poems of Tom MacInnes' - 1923
- Chinook Days - 1926
- Oriental Occupation of British Columbia' - 1927
- High Low Along: A Didactic Poem - 1934
- In the Old of My Age - 1947
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