Background
He was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, in 1883.
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'Jimmy-Why & NoEl Polchies: Their Adventures in the Great Woods', is a one-volume compilation of George Frederick Clarke's Jimmy-Why stories for children. Originally published in two volumes as 'The Adventures of Jimmy-Why' and 'NoEl and Jimmy-Why', these books recount the experience of a young boy as he learns the ways of the great woods and woodland living in New Brunswick, Canada. While written as fiction, we know that one of the main characters, NoEl Polchies, was a real First Nation person who appears in the stories in his own name. We also know that in real life NoEl was a mentor to a young Fred Clarke. This is, perhaps, why the stories ring so true.
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"It is not all of fishing to fish." - Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler George Frederick Clarke had an unwavering and well-practiced philosophy of fishing. He never tired of repeating Izaak Walton's famous saying and he delighted in spelling out exactly what it means. He begins the story in his previous book, Six Salmon Rivers, and brings it to full expression in Song of the Reel. The pinnacle of feeling to which Song of the Reel rises as it surrounds fishing with the beauty of New Brunswick's rivers and the deep forest landscape, as well as the pleasures of companionship and great story telling, leave no doubt that fishing is about much more than catching fish. You don't have to be a fisherman to enjoy these books. With stories of river adventures, wilderness solace, the camaraderie of camping, as well as fishing, Dr. Clarke spins together the lines of description and feeling that puts the "much more" in the picture. He plays out his memoires of a long life in the Saint John River Valley in a way that is a salute to the land and people he loved so well. He offers firm evidence of what it means to have a grateful heart and satisfied mind. We can imagine he would say with Thoreau, "I dream of no heaven but that which lies about me." With Six Salmon Rivers and Song of the Reel, Dr. Clarke has given us two of the finest renditions of what it means to say, "It is not all of fishing to fish." George Frederick Clarke (1883-1974) was the author of thirteen books and dozens of short stories. He lived in Woodstock, NB. Mary Bernard is Clarke's granddaughter and biographer. She is the editor of the George Frederick Clarke Project, which is republishing his books.
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He was born in Woodstock, New Brunswick, in 1883.
In 1910, he attended a dental college in Philadelphia, where he met his wife, Mary Schubert. He graduated the next year.
He started writing from an early age. His first published story appeared in Canada Monthly in 1904. Tappan Adney was one of his boyhood friends.
He supported himself working as a dental assistant.
The two married in 1912. They returned to Woodstock and bought a house, on 814 Main Street, now considered a historic place.
He eventually retired from his dentistry practise. He wrote several books and many magazine articles
During the 1960s, he campaigned against the construction of the Mactaquac Dam.
Poor health prevented him from continuing archaeology. He received an honorary degree from the University of New Brunswick in 1969, and a mountain was named after him in July 1974, Mount Frederick Clarke. In October 1974, he died of a stroke.
His house was formally recognized as a Provincial Historic Site on October 27, 1978.
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