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George McWhirter was born in 1939 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He's an Irish-Canadian writer, translator, editor, teacher and Vancouver's first Poet Laureate. McWhirter came to Canada in 1966 and taught high school in Port Alberni. In 1968 he moved to Vancouver where he received his M.A. from UBC in 1970, and stayed on to become a full Professor in 1982, and Head of the UBC Creative Writing Department from 1983 until 1993. He retired as Professor Emeritus in 2005. He was made a life member of the League of Canadian Poets in 2005; in 2007 he was named Vancouver's inaugural Poet Laureate.

Born: 1939