Service, Robert

SERVICE, Robert, writer (b 16 Jan 1874, Preston, England; d 11 Sept 1958, Lancieux, France). The "Bard of the Klondike" immigrated to Canada in 1896 and lived near DUNCAN on VANCOUVER ISLAND from 1896 to 1903, working as a farm hand and ranch hand. He began university studies in VICTORIA in 1903 to prepare for a career in teaching but quit almost immediately and began working for the Canadian Bank of Commerce. The bank sent him to KAMLOOPS in July 1904 and, 4 months later, to its office in...

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