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Hugh MacLennan 🇨🇦

John Hugh MacLennan (Known as "Hugh MacLennan")
Pioneering Canadian Novelist and Essayist, Author of Two Solitudes and Barometer Rising
Born Mar 20, 1907 🇨🇦 Glace Bay (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia), Canada
Passed Away Nov 07, 1990 Montreal (Quebec), Canada
Lifespan 83 years old
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"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."

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Quintessential Canadian novelist whose 1945 masterpiece Two Solitudes defined the historic cultural divide between English and French Canada and who won five Governor General's Awards for fiction and non-fiction.

Biographical Record

Educated at Dalhousie, Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Princeton, MacLennan survived the catastrophic 1917 Halifax Explosion, which formed the dramatic climax of his acclaimed debut novel Barometer Rising (1941). In 1945, his novel Two Solitudes explored Montreal's linguistic friction, permanently entering Canadian vocabulary.

A long-time professor of English at McGill University, MacLennan published The Watch That Ends the Night (1959) and beloved essay collections, earning five Governor General's Awards and appointment as Companion of the Order of Canada.

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Mount Royal Cemetery
Montreal (Quebec), Canada
GPS: 45.5117, -73.6006
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