His death

Raymond Knister’s sudden passing impacted many: his family, his friends and the larger literary community in Canada and abroad. This section compiles immediate reactions, in the form of letters and death notices, as well as two essays looking back on his death, written by Imogen Knister Givens, his daughter, and John B. Lee, a Canadian author and poet laureate of Brantford, Ontario.

There are four rectangular text panels, the first on the top left has an oval with an illustration of a sky, a pillar with a pot of ivy on top and wreath, with the words "In Loving Memory." The top right is an orbituary statement with the date and location of the funeral. The bottom left gives information about when and where Knister died. The bottom right is the same information about the whereabouts of the funeral.

Death notices for Raymond Knister, 1932.

"The shock of Knister's going affected many people outside his own family. It seemed as if in him Canada had created a writer who believed in the land and the people, who might be at the beginning of new powers of expression.”

From "Raymond Knister. A Memoir" by Dorothy Livesay, in The Collected Poems of Raymond Knister. (Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1949, page xxxvii)