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| | Ross Macdonald |
 | | The poet-father was John Macdonald "Jack" Millar, a forty-two-year-old Canadian who'd edited newspapers in British Columbia and Alberta settlements for the past several years. |
 | | Jack Millar adopted his father's Liberal politics but rejected his Presbyterian faith, becoming an admirer of Robert Green Ingersoll, "the Great Agnostic." Like John Millar, who'd sailed from Scotland as a teenager, the teenaged Jack Millar left the family home early to strike out on his own. |
 | | Jack was in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1907, when young William Mackenzie King, federal deputy minister of labor, came to investigate anti-Japanese riots there. |
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