Unknown in Ireland, his native land, and largely forgotten in Canada, the land of his adoption, Dr. William Henry Drummond (1854-1907), poet of the voyageur and the habitant farmer, was once a household name in the Dominion. His dialect verses had the power to charm - and to annoy. The latter emotion was experienced by those who believed (incorrectly) that he mocked a section of the French-Canadian population. J.B. Lyons describes how the Irish youth...