Tom MacInnes

Tom MacInnes (born Oct. 29, 1867, Dresden, Ont., Can.—died Feb. 11, 1951, Vancouver, B.C.) was a Canadian writer whose works range from vigorous, slangy recollections of the Yukon gold rush, Lonesome Bar (1909), to a translation of and commentary on Lao-tzu’s philosophy, irreverently titled The Teaching of the Old Boy (1927). His collected poems include Complete Poems (1923) and In the Old of My Age (1947). Chinook Days (1927), a fictionalized autobiography, also contains history and folklore of British Columbia.