Poet Laureate Map of Canada
What is the term of a poet laureate.

From one year to a lifetime. Most often the term is for two or three years.
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Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Map Candice James - Poet Laureate of New Westminster, B.C. Roger Nash, Sudbury, Ontario Jill Battson, Cobourg, Ontario pj johnson, Poet Laureate of the Yukon Kristan Anderson, Owen Sound Ontario Roland Pemberton - Poet Laureate of Edmonton, AlbertaBrad Cran - Poet Laureate of Vancouver, B.C. Poet Laureate of Newfoundland: Agnes Walsh Linda Rogers - Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C. Douglas Lochhead, Sackville, New Brunswick Shauntay Grant - Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia John B. Lee, Brantford Ontario Dionne Brand, Toronto, Ontario Pierre DesRuisseaux - Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Ottawa Hugh MacDonald, Prince Edward Island Robert Currie, Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan Gary Hyland, Poet Laureate, City of Moose Jaw, SK Poet Laureate of Cobalt Ann Margetson

pj johnson

pj johnson

Poet Laureate of the Yukon
  1994 -

pj johnson was formally invested as the Yukon's first Poet Laureate on Canada Day, 1994 by Yukon Commissioner Kenneth McKinnon during a ceremony held in Whitehorse at Rotary Park. Sometimes called “the Raven Lady”, johnson’s personal symbol of office is a locally carved 'Talking Stick', adorned with a northern raven and a beaver. The raven was chosen to reflect the Yukon's official territorial bird and the beaver as an official symbol of Canada.

The daughter of a Yukon trapper, johnson is also a singer/songwriter, actress, playwright, and storyteller with a passion for sharing the beauty, history, and excitement that is the Canadian North.
 
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