Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox comics creator Sam Hunter (1858–1939) was a Canadian cartoonist and writer who worked for four Toronto newspapers.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". His work displayed his support for the Conservative Party of Canada and criticized Liberals such as Wilfrid Laurier, as well as French Canadians, Catholics, and Americans. Peter Desbarats and Terry Mosher described Hunter as "a great and gentle caricaturist".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Biography
Hunter was born in Millbrook in Canada West[1] in March 1859, and first started showing his talent for caricature during his time as a schoolboy.[2] He initially followed his father John Hunter's footsteps[2] to become a Clerk of the Division Court at Millbrook.[3]
As a young man, he travelled through Western Canada, and produced a series of prints concerning Indians and western life.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". His first published work as an illustrator appeared in 1882,[2] with his first political cartoons commissioned by John Wilson Bengough for the satirical magazine Grip in Toronto. He was firmly established in Toronto by 1885.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Together with Bengough and other cartoonists, he helped to popularize the fictional character of Johnny Canuck as a national personification of Canada.[4]
He worked for the Toronto World newspaper for twenty years beginning in 1897.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". His work displayed his support for the Conservative Party of Canada and criticized Liberals such as Wilfrid Laurier, French Canadians, Catholics, and Americans. Many of Hunter's cartoons were inspired by William Findlay Maclean.[5]
During World War I, Hunter moved to The GlobeScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". where his satirical targets included French-Canadian opposition to conscription.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". These cartoons had a noticeable anti-Laurier and anti-Quebec bias.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". After the war, he moved to the Toronto Star.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He had also worked for the Toronto NewsScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
For three months every summer, Hunter stayed at "Pepacton", a cottage on the McCracken's Shore of Stony Lake, which became a gathering place for artists, writers and musicians.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". He wrote about the area for the Peterborough Examiner in 1895.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Hunter retired in early 1937,[1] and died in Toronto in December 1939.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[5] Template:Clear