page_title: John Reade
section_title: Recognition
hierarchical_section_title: John Reade / Recognition
context_page_description: John Reade was an Irish-born Canadian journalist, essayist, and poet once considered "the grand old man of Canadian letters." He is best known as the literary editor of the Montreal Gazette, a position he held for almost 50 years.
context_section_description: Reade was appointed a charter Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1882, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain in 1896.
  He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa in 1909.
  The Dictionary of Canadian Biography notes that although Reade  "was appropriately identified in his later years as 'the grand old man of Canadian letters,' his reputation has not fulfilled the dream of his friend John Boyd that 'no anthology of Canadian verse will ever be complete without a wide selection from John Reade’s work, rich as it is in content and faultless in its technique.' Despite such praise, the late-Victorian personal, political, and poetic values characteristic of Reade’s poetry and criticism led to their general disregard within a few years of his death."
caption: Reade's papers are at the McCord Museum of Canadian History in Montreal.
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