Carl Frederick Klinck, was a Canadian

Canada

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 literary historian and academic.

Born in Elmira, Ontario

Elmira, Ontario

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, he received a B.A. from Waterloo College (now Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University

Wilfrid Laurier University is a university located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It also has campuses in Brantford, Ontario, Kitchener, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario and a future proposed campus in Milton, Ontario. It is named in honour of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the seventh Prime Minister of Canada....

) in 1927, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in 1929 and 1943. In 1928, he became an associate professor of English at Waterloo College, becoming head of the department in 1940. From 1943 to 1948, he was the Dean of Waterloo College. He was the editor of Literary History of Canada in 1965.

In 1973, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada

Order of Canada

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. In 1978, was awarded the Royal Society of Canada

Royal Society of Canada

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's Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal

The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English or French...

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External links

• Carl Frederick Klinck at The Canadian Encyclopedia
  The Canadian Encyclopedia
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