Alberta 1917–1954

Red Headed Boy

Author
W.R.
Red Headed Boy
Publisher
Date
5 Apr. 1933
Page Range
4
Genre
Exhibit
Document Type

Red Headed Boy

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Red Headed Boy

By W.R.
There’s a red-headed boy across our street,
And in spite of his freckles, he’s awfully sweet,
And I’d give a whole lot, if we only might week;
But whenever he sees me, he takes to his feet.
For that freckled faced boy with hair so red,
Fears if I caught him, I’d put him to bed;
I’d tuck him in warmly and smooth his red head,
And because he’s a man he’d sooner be dead!
I once had a red headed boy of my own,
A broth of a lad – but now he is grown
And the freckles have vanished; the carrots have flown.
He’s a grave, sober man, with a kid of his own!

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People Mentioned

Shaun Hunter

Shaun Hunter is the author of Calgary through the Eyes of Writers (Rocky Mountain Books, 2018) and consultant for an exhibition of the same name, featuring Winnifred Eaton, at the Lougheed House in Calgary. She is a collaborator on The Winnifred Eaton Archive

Author of Headnote

Winnifred Eaton

  • Born: August 21, 1875
  • Died: April 08, 1954
See the Biographical Timeline for biographical information on Winnifred Eaton.

Pseudonym used in this text

Joey Takeda

Joey Takeda is the Technical Director of The Winnifred Eaton Archive and a Developer at Simon Fraser University’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL). He is a graduate of the M.A. program in English at the University of British Columbia where he specialized in Indigenous and diasporic literature, science and technology studies, and the digital humanities.

Organizations Mentioned

Winnifred Eaton Reeve Fonds

Collection of Winnifred Eaton’s papers and unpublished manuscripts, which were transferred to the University of Calgary in 1982. The finding aid for this material is located here: https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/winnifred-eaton-reeve-fonds
Written by Joey Takeda

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Albertan

Also known as the Calgary Albertan. First established as the Calgary Tribune in 1886. Would be called variations of the Albertan from 1899 until 1980. Had a variety of names until the newspaper was sold to the Toronto Sun Publishing Corporation and renamed the Calgary Sun in 1980.
Written by Samantha Bowen, Joey Takeda, and Mary Chapman

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