Edmonton schoolteacher finished Dickens book

1925

Harold R. Leaver wrote The mystery of John Jasper. This was a parody and verse continuation of Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Leaver taught school in Edmonton, 1920 to 1943.

Source of this info is Peel's Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies.

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