Northern Troubadour
The Songs and Poems of Jim Sargent
Jim Sargent, more widely-known as "Singing Sarge," was born in 1925 and has lived in New Liskeard for five decades. Jim spent many years working in the logging industry in Northern Ontario. In his early 20s, he began writing poetry and setting it to music. He has performed his songs at various sporting venues across Canada and will still sing a song or two at special events. Jim passed his remaining time reading, penning his own distinct style of verse and indulging his passion for the game of golf.
Journey with Jim Sargent from Latchford, Ontario, where he was raised, to places like Halifax, Philadelphia and Montego Bay. He's the "official" poet laureate of Latchford says mayor George Lefebvre.
Go on a log drive with this "Northern Troubadour" down the Montreal River and meet colourful characters like Alphonse Letourneau and "Big" Fred Maille. Check out the glossary of logging terms so you'll know the meaning of strange words such as "geemo" and "peavey".
Feel Jim take the pulse of our country as he tells us why he's proud to be Canadian and from Northern Ontario. He asks us to never forget the boys in khaki, navy and air force blue.
Jim's love for the"game" comes through loud and clear with his poems, "Take Me to the Brier", "Stanley Cup 1971" and his elegant portrayal of Frog's Breath Golf Course, located at Twin Lakes and owned by Peter Grant.
He touches on the politics of the Tritown area with "The Hospital Song" ( two new verses included) and "The Liquor Vote". Jim writes about local people and celebrities; from Bobby Orr and Sandra Schmirler to Dangerous Dean and Leo LaBine.
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Table of Contents
06 Singing Sarge
Latchford Memories
07 Latchford
08 A Country School--Class of '39
10 Remember
The Language of the Logs
12 The Log Drive
15 The Sleigh Haul
17 Murphy's Mill Pine
19 A Christmas Tale
21 Old Growth
23 A Vanished Breed
From Twin Lakes to Montego Bay
25 Frog's Breath
26 The Liquor Vote
27 Go Cubs Go
28 The Hospital Song
30 Cobalt Is For Me
32 Montego Bay
For the Love of the Game
34 Take Me to the Brier
36 Ode to the FGZ (Free Guard Zone)
38 The Curler
39 The Lads from Nipigon
41 Stanley Cup 1971
43 The Philly Flyers
This Land is Our Land
44 Pioneers
46 Of Trees and Bears
47 Autumn
48 Northern Ontario
50 Why I'm Proud to be Canadian
51 Dare We Forget
To the People
53 Dangerous Dean
54 Pookey Jones
56 Mike 'Straight From the Hip' McArthur
57 Roy Nightingale's Day
58 Bobby Orr "The Mighty, Rushing Defenceman"
60 Charlie Reid--To Sixty Years of Curling
61 Shirley
Rest in Peace
63 'Big' Fred Maille
66 Leo 'Peewee' Grozelle
67 Sandra Schmirler 'The Curler'
68 Ol' Professor Yeates
70 Denny 'Tazz' Gabriel
72 James Smyth
73 Sonny Moore
74 Leo 'Give and Take' LaBine
Please Bring Her Home
76 Melanie
77 More About the Poems
80 Logging Lingo: A Glossary of Logging Terms