Ishbel Gordon, Lady Aberdeen lived in Canada from 1893 to 1898, during her husband's term as Governor General. In addition to leading many causes that concerned health and women's issues, she wrote...
The poems of Jane Arkley, who lived in various towns in Quebec, were not published until they were collected into a posthumous volume titled A Book of Verse (1912).
A devoted Baptist, Jane Buchan helped to found the Women's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of Ontario West and managed its associated periodical, the Canadian Missionary Link.
A member of New Brunswick's literary Roberts family, Jane Elizabeth Robert MacDonald wrote poetry and later became involved in the suffrage movement in British Columbia.
During her relatively short life, Jean Burton established herself as a versatile and gifted writer with a strong gift for biographies about overlooked women in history.
Jean Makins Powley was based in Stratford, ON, and wrote two murder mysteries in the 1940s. The first, Crazy to Kill (1941), has been frequently reprinted and was turned into an opera in 1989 with...
A telegrapher for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Jean Mitchell Smith published a book of stories in 1911 and regularly contributed verse to the Saskatchewan Poetry Society's annualPoetry Book.
Raised in London, England, Jessie Georgina Sime emigrated to Montreal in 1907, where she became an active member of the literary community. Her collection of stories, Sister Woman (1919), and her...
After immigrating to Ontario, Scottish-born Jessie Kerr Lawson supported her large family by undertaking a successful career in journalism and popular fiction.
Jessie Turnbull McEwen was an energetic women's rights activist in Ontario and Western Canada, well known for her periodical articles expressing her views.
Josephine Phelan worked as a librarian in Toronto while writing books about historical figures, one of which won the Governor General’s Award for non-fiction in 1952.
