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Ross, Sinclair


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  • Variants

    • Ross, James Sinclair

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1908-01-22

    • Death Date

        1996-02-29

    • Has Affiliation

    • Descriptor

        Member of the Order of Canada

    • Birth Place

        Saskatchewan

    • Field of Activity

      (lcsh) Prairie Provinces--Fiction


    • Occupation

      Authors

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  • Sources

    • found: His As for me and my house, ©1941
    • found: The lamp at noon and other stories, ©1968:t.p. (Sinclair Ross)
    • found: As for Sinclair Ross, ©2005:p. 3 (James Sinclair Ross; b. Jan. 22, 1908 in northern Saskatchewan)
    • found: Wikipedia, Nov. 21, 2006(Sinclair Ross; James Sinclair Ross (Jan. 22, 1908-Feb. 29, 1996); Canadian banker and author)
    • found: The Canadian encyclopedia online, viewed 27 November 2017:Sinclair Ross (one of Canada's most respected writers; born James Sinclair Ross at Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, 22 Jan 1908; left school at 16 to join the Royal Bank of Canada as a clerk, retiring in 1968; wrote in his spare time, with his first story published in 1934 and his first novel published in 1941; most fiction is set on the Canadian prairies; lived in Greece and Spain, returning to Canada in 1980; died at Vancouver, British Columbia, 29 February 1996)
    • found: Canada. Governor General. Honours Recipients database, 27 November 2017(Sinclair Ross, C.M.; Vancouver, British Columbia; Member of the Order of Canada, awarded on April 30, 1992, invested on October 26, 1992; He is one of Canada's most distinguished writers and a critic whose novel, As For Me and My House, is a cornerstone of our literary heritage. Revered by other Canadian authors and widely read, he offers a vision of prairie life and of his own land that has been a powerful influence on subsequent generations of writers; deceased on February 29, 1996)
    • found: Amicus database, 27 November 2017(authorized access point (0103F4507): Ross, Sinclair, 1908-1996)

  • LC Classification

    • PR9199.3.R599

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  • Change Notes

    • 1978-12-12: new
    • 2023-09-08: revised

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