C. Frederick Boyle

1911-1966

Charles Frederick Boyle (poet) was born in Waasis, New Brunswick in 1911. Boyle published three chapbooks of poetry beginning with Stars Before the Wind in 1937. His poems were also published in Canadian Poetry Magazine, in the Daily Gleaner, the Telegraph-Journal, the Toronto Daily Star, the Atlantic Advocate, and the Montreal Star. Boyle received his education at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, NB. He was a member of the editorial staff for the Canadian Author and Bookman, a quarterly magazine that acted as the voice of the Canadian Author’s Association (CAA) until 1992. His first book of poetry was followed by the chapbooks Excuse for Futility (1939) and Prayers at a High Altar (1942). Two of his war poems appeared in the British publication, The Empire Anthology of Verse (1941). His poem “End or Beginning” (1959) was featured in Fiddlehead Gold: 50 Years of the Fiddlehead Magazine (1995). His poems “Summation” and “Aftermath” were published in The Atlantic Advocate’s Holiday Book (1961). Charles Frederick Boyle died in Fredericton in 1966 at the age of 55.