MACINNES, TOM

born Oct. 29, 1867, Dresden, Ont., Can. died Feb. 11, 1951, Vancouver, B.C. byname of Thomas Robert Edward McInnes Canadian writer whose works range from vigorous, slangy recollections of the Yukon gold rush, Lonesome Bar (1909), to a translation of and commentary on Lao-tzu's philosophy, irreverently titled The Teaching of the Old Boy (1927). His collected poems include Complete Poems (1923) and In the Old of My Age (1947). Chinook Days (1927), a fictionalized autobiography, also contains history and folklore of British Columbia.