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he had his name changed by act of the legislature to John Hunter Duvar, and he was subsequently known as Hunter Duvar. By that name he became well known as a facile writer of prose and poetry and also as an enthusiastic member Of the militia force _ of the country in which he obtained the rank of Colonel.

After his‘arr‘ival in PrinCe Edward Island and the establiSh— ment of his residence at Hernewood, in the western part of Prince - County, he continued to supply excellent “copy” for publication

A in Halifax and St. John. Of Hernewood he wrote:

It was a quiet shady place 1 A nook apart from traffic’s toil and ‘moil , , .Nor fair, nor market, but unbroken face

Of lush green pastures on a fertile soil, Well filled with wealth of woods by nature 8 bounty

L 'And known as Hernewood Hall, throughout thecounty.”

'Towards the end, of his life Hunter Duvar was appointed to the office of InspectOr of Fisheries in Prince Edward Island; and,

. in this office he gave satisfaction to the public and the govern- .ment. While engaged in the duties appertaining to it he was

stricken by paralysis; and he passed away on the 25th of January, ‘ 1899, aged sixty- nine y.ears , _

In the course of one of his poems'Duvar philosOphizes fanci-' - fully as was his wont, on the several stages of human life; and it

is not unlikely that his own experience was Set forth when he

wrote: . Man 3 earliest years are taken up with tr1fles ;‘

His middle time is slave of divers fashions,

And not till age remOves,‘ or what not rifles V. His brain of prejudice and heart of passions IgAt .brighest shines his, purer mental spark,—'—'

Then, sudden out the lamp,——and “all is dark! *