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Dorothy Roberts Leisner, a member of the literary Roberts family of New Brunswick, was well known as a poet.

An established author in England before she immigrated to Canada in 1832, Catharine Parr Traill wrote several foundational volumes about pioneer life in the Canadian backwoods.

Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald, based in southern Ontario, enjoyed a long and admired career as a poet and journalist.

Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables (1908) and many other books, remains one of Canada’s best-known writers at home and abroad.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Emily Pauline Johnson, who also used the name "Tekahionwake," became Canada's best-known Indigenous writer.

Amy Redpath Roddick was a lifelong Montrealer who published over a dozen volumes of verse, plays, and verse drama.