John William Garvin
John William Garvin was a Canadian publisher and teacher in Toronto, Ontario. He was also the husband of the writer known as Katherine Hale, the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock.
Garvin was a prolific editor and published numerous literary anthologies.
Selected works
- Garvin, J. W. : The collected poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford, Toronto: W. Briggs, 1905. With an introduction by Ethelwyn Wetherald.
- Garvin, J. W. : , Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Publishers, 1916; with a second, updated edition 1926.
- Garvin, J.W. : Canadian Verse for Boys and Girls, Thomas Nelson & Sons, Limited, Toronto
- Garvin, J. W. : Wanderings of an Artist: Among the Indians of North America, The Radisson Society of Canada Ltd, Toronto, 1925. A republication of Paul Kane's original travel account from 1859 with an introduction by Lawrence J. Burpee.
- Garvin, J. W. : Voyages from Montreal on the river St. Laurence through the continent of North America to the frozen and Pacific Oceans in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country by Alexander MacKenzie, The Radisson Society of Canada Ltd, Toronto, 1927.