Robert W. Service 18741958 was a Canadian poet best known for his poemsabout the Canadian North. Service came to Canada when he was 21 hoping tobecome a cowboy.... » 

Robert W. Service 18741958 was a Canadian poet best known for his poemsabout the Canadian North. Service came to Canada when he was 21 hoping tobecome a cowboy. Instead he ended up working in a bank in the Yukon Territory.The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee made him famous.During World War 1 he was an ambulance driver and war correspondent. Rhymes ofa Red Cross Man 1916 was written about his experiences. Service wrote aboutthe soldiers sacrifices in war and his duty to his country. «