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- Affiliation: Saint Mary’s University
Janet Baker teaches in the English Department at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
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Archibald MacMechan
Canadian Man of Letters
Janet E. Baker
Archibald MacMechan taught English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, between 1889 and 1931. His students included Ernest Buckler, Lucy Maud Montgomery and Helen Creighton, and his influence as a teacher was far reaching. He was very active as a book reviewer whose reviews were widely read and often ahead of their time. Writers as disparate as Herman Melville and Virginia Woolf wrote to him expressing their appreciation of his readings of their work. MacMechan himself thought he would… (more information)