Robert Service
(1874–1958)

Robert Service was a Canadian poet who was born in England and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. He moved to Canada at the age of 20 and was hired by a bank in 1905. When the bank transferred him to a branch in the Yukon, Service began to write lively poems about the trappers and prospectors he met there. These poems were an immediate success. Soon he was able to leave the bank and concentrate on writing. His most famous collection of poetry is Songs of a Sourdough (1940), which contains the famous poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee."

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