George Walton
1887-1963


Fiddlehead review laid in lists price at $2.00 whereas this has $1.50. Inscribed by author "To Bert Rowe from his friend," signed and dated "14.9.62." Typescript explanations by the author of three poems tipped-in. 64 pp.


After military service in World War I, Walton studied medicine at the University of Toronto, receiving his Bachelor of Medicine degree in 1923. He practiced for several years, then did further training in public health, and became Medical Officer of Health for Regina City from 1936 through 1962.

Background
Jackson FI. George Walton MB DPH 1887-1963: prairie physician-poet. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 1991; 84: 110-11.

Poetry
The Wayward Queen (1959)