Galt
Galt names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Galt JOHN, a Scotch novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, a Scotch novelist; born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, May 2, 1779. He was educated in Greenock, and was then placed in the custom house. He remained there till 1804, when he went to London, with an epic poem on the battle of the Largs. After a few years his health began to fail, and he was obliged to seek relief in a more genial climate. At Gibraltar he made the acquaintance of Lord Byron and his se friend Hobhouse, and the three travelers subsequently medicine at the university became fellow-voyagers; but soon after there, and in 1762 was elected Professor from his new friends to Galt separated ated visit Sicily, then Malta, and finally Greece, where he again renewed his acquaintance with Byron. On his return he published with considerable success "Letters from the Levant"; "The Ayrshire Legatees" (1820); "The Annals of his masterpiece; the Parish" (1821), 1), 1822); "The Pro "Sir Andrew Wylie" (1) "( vost" (1822); "The Entail" (1823). He was now busily engaged in the for formation of the Canada Company. He went to Canada in 1826, but three years later returned to England a ruined man, and at once recommenced his literary labors. "Lawrie Todd" His first novel was (1830), which was followed by "Southennan," and a "Life of Lord Byron." In 1834 he published his "Literary Life and Miscellanies." He returned to Scotland, and died in Greenock, April 11, 1839. English
Galt a city of Ontario
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Ontario, Canada, in Waterloo co. It occupies both sides of the Grand river, and is on the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific railroads. The river is spanned by several bridges. The city is important as an industrial center. The manufactured products include edged tools, underwear, agricultural implements, boilers, engines, leather, safes, stoves, etc. The city has four parks, a collegiate institute and a mechanics' institute. It is connected by electric railway with the neighboring towns of Kitchener, Paris, Waterloo, and Brantford. Pop. (1919) 12,434.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
The city Collier's described in 1921, with 12,434 people and factories turning out safes, stoves and edged tools, no longer exists under that name: on 1 January 1973 Galt was merged with Preston, Hespeler and part of Blair to form the city of Cambridge, Ontario, now home to some 138,000 people. Galt survives as the downtown core and as a neighbourhood name, and the electric railway linking it to Kitchener and Brantford is long gone. John Galt himself is still read chiefly for "The Annals of the Parish" (1821), which Collier's rightly called his masterpiece and which is now credited with helping invent the regional novel of Scottish village life. The Ontario town was named for him because of his work founding the Canada Company, the venture that, as the entry notes, sent him home in 1829 "a ruined man"; his son Alexander Tilloch Galt went on to become one of the architects of Canadian Confederation. Note that the 1921 text as scanned has stray lines from a neighbouring article mixed into it.
Written for this edition, 2026.