Background
Mr. Bruce was born in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia, Canada, on May 11, 1906. He was a son of William Henry (a farmer-fisher) and Sarah Jane (a teacher; maiden name, Tory) Bruce.
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" A hundred and eighty years ago a throng of newcomers began to stream into the ports of Nova Scotia, the outposts of British North America: disbanded regiments, exiled farmers, Highlanders and Hessians, refugees from New England and York State and Florida and the Carolinas, Harvard men, day laborers, backwoodsmen-men and women caught on the losing side of a Revolution that was also a tragic civil war. The Township of Time is a series of related stories about some of these settlers and the generations they produced."
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Mr. Bruce was born in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia, Canada, on May 11, 1906. He was a son of William Henry (a farmer-fisher) and Sarah Jane (a teacher; maiden name, Tory) Bruce.
Charles Bruce attended Guysborough Academy, Nova Scotia. Then he graduated from Mount Allison University, receiving Bachelor of Arts in 1927.
In 1927 Mr. Bruce was appointed reporter at Chronicle, Halifax, NS. During 1928-1933 he was an editor for Canadian Press, Halifax. From 1933 to 1963 he served at Canadian Press, Toronto, as an editor, and later became a general superintendent.
Between 1944 and 1945 Charles Bruce worked as a war correspondent. In this role, he was presumed missing for several days after accompanying the Royal Air Force into the ill-fated Battle of Arnhem, but was located safe and alive several days later. Both Personal Note, and Grey Ship Moving consist of poetic meditations on lives interrupted by war. By 1945, he was general superintendent of the news agency, holding that role until his retirement in 1963.
He's mostly known as a poet and author. As a creative writer, Charles Bruce published the poetry collections Wild Apples (1927), Tomorrow's Tide (1932), Personal Note (1941), Grey Ship Moving (1945), The Flowing Summer (1947) and The Mulgrave Road (1951), the novel The Channel Shore (1954) and the short story collection The Township of Time (1959). His poetry also appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Saturday Night, Canadian Poetry and The Saturday Evening Post.
His final book, a history of the Southam News company titled News and the Southams, was published in 1968.
Mr. Bruce died on December 19, 1971 in Toronto. Several of his works have been republished posthumously, including 1980s editions of The Channel Shore and The Township of Time.
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(WILD APPLES [Charles Bruce])
(News and the Southams. [Charles Bruce])
Mr. Bruce married Agnes King on December 13, 1929. They had four children: Alan, Harry, Andrew, Harvey.