Tramp and Fish
Author: first_name: James
last_name: McIntyre
Language: English
Year: 0

James McIntyre, called The Cheese Poet, was a Canadian poet.<br /><br />

McIntyre was born in Forres, Scotland and came to Canada in 1841 at the age of 14, finally moving to Ingersoll, Ontario, then a town of 5,000 on the banks of the Thames in Oxford County, the heart of Canadian dairy country at the time. He opened a furniture factory on the river as well as a store which sold furniture, along with such items as pianos and coffins.<br /><br />

He was well loved in the community, from which h