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Fireside Canada: Two Winter Legends of the North

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Sightings of Smoker - Part 5

The Cremation of Sam McGee is actually a Christmas poem. The titular character falls ill on Christmas night and dies the next day. Robert Service made his living, transforming his impressions of the Canadian north into verse.

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