The Weavers

Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet PC, now better known as Gilbert Parker, was born on 23rd November 1862 at Camden East, Addington, Ontario. Parker initial career path was as a teacher, initially at Marsh Hill and Bayside schools in Hastings County and then at the Ontario Institute for the Deaf and Dumb in Belleville before lecturing at Trinity College. In 1886, he began to travel extensively, firstly to Australia, becoming the associate editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and then