![]() Galt was instrumental in establishing the Canada Company, which was granted a charter in 1826 and bought almost 2.5 million acres of land from the British Government wit John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. ![]() His novel Ringan Gilhaize (1823) offers a very different perspective on Scotland's Covenanting period to Walter Scott's The Tale of Old Mortality (1816). In 1820 Galt began to write for Blackwoods Magazine which published Annals of the Parish and The Ayrshire Legatees in 1821, The Provost and Sir Andrew Wylie in 1822, and The Entail in 1823. He was the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution and he has been called the first political novelist in the English language. ![]() John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. ![]()
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