Graham G. Harris

Graham G. Harris (October 10, 1878 to April 4, 1958) was a British Canadian poet and prolific writer.

His poems appeared in "Rhymes of the Miner: An Anthology of Canadian Mining Verse", by E. L. Chicanot in 1937, which included selections from other notable poets such as Robert W. Service and William Henry Drummond, and were also published in "The Bell and the Book" by Andrew D. Clement in 1987.

Many of Harris’s poems were written while he was living in a remote cabin in the small rural community of Sapawe, near Atikokan, Ontario. His writings were regularly featured in the "Fort William Daily Times-Journal", "Port Arthur News-Chronicle" and "Atikokan Progress". Harris died in April 1958 and, until now, his work has been largely forgotten.

Collecting Harris’s work involved years of searching physical copies of old newspapers, microfiche, and transcribing by volunteers and employees of the Museum of Atikokan. Due to their effort, Harris’s work is now being made available to the public as a three-book set: "Poetry from the Woodlands" is a collection of his known poetry, "Reflections from the Woodlands" is a compilation of writings from his newspaper columns, and the illustrated hardcover titled "The Sage of Sapawe, Writings from the Woodlands" combines both, as well as biographical research, in the complete known works of Graham G. Harris.