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unusual facts about Robert Service


Robert Service

Robert Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska, named for Robert W. Service


Aengus Finnan

In the winter of 2003 he traveled to the Yukon to record a collection of Robert Service poetry as field recordings (as yet unreleased) in the locations of the subject matter of the poems, including The Shooting of Dan Mcgrew, and The Cremation of Sam McGee.

Buckwheat Donahue

"He is a devotee of Robert Service whose poems paint the picture of Alaska during the Gold Rush. And he is, when you see him, the very visage of an Alaskan Sourdough."

Edward J. Cowan

‘The War Rhymes of Robert Service, Folk Poet’, Studies in Scottish Literature, xxviii (1993) 12-27.

Generalissimus of the Soviet Union

However, according to Stalin biographer Robert Service, Stalin regretted allowing himself the ostentatious military title, and asked Winston Churchill to continue to refer to him as a marshal instead.


see also

R. H. King Academy

Feeder schools for R. H. King Academy are John A. Leslie Public School, Bliss Carman Senior Public School, Robert Service Public School, Fairmount Public School and Anson Park Public School.