John Daniel Logan fonds (finding aid)John Daniel Logan was a writer and professor of poetry, literary and music criticism, and literary history. He was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia on May 2, 1869 and died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 24, 1929. Logan claimed to have taught the first university course on Canadian literature (at Acadia University in 1915) and is known for arguing with Archibald MacMechan of Dalhousie University about the teaching of Canadian literature there. Fonds contains music manuscripts and published scores, photographs, and autograph letters written by well-known composers such as Jacques Offenbach, Giuseppe Verdi, and John Philip Sousa.