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Author of three novels as well as poetry and a play, Constance Travers Sweatman spent much of her adult life in Manitoba, before moving to Toronto.

After training as a teacher, Marie McPhedran published stories and books for young readers.

Edith Catherine Slater published her poems in local Ontario newspapers and issued one volume of verse.

The first trained librarian in Ontario, Mabel Dunham wrote fiction and non-fiction based on local history.

At the age of thirteen, Ann Bruyères wrote a poem in commemoration of the fallen General Brock during the War of 1812. Very little information is known about this author; this poem is her only...

Melba Morris Croft spent most of her life in Owen Sound, ON, where she published two volumes of poetry before writing many books about the region's local history.

A trained journalist, Maara Haas was based in Winnipeg, MB, where she published in many genres, including some work that addressed a Ukrainian-Canadian readership.

Author of several books for children, Alice Townley was well known as a community activist and suffrage advocate in Vancouver, BC.

A life-long resident of Victoria, BC, Georgina Seymour Waitt published one book. Her novel Three Girls Under Canvas (1900), is an anecdotal account of the adventures of three independent young...

Poet Melvina Pasmore spent much of her adult life in England before returning to Montreal in the 1930s.

Florence Steiner spent most of her life in Toronto and Winnipeg, where she was known as a journalist and a poet for children.

Born in Canada and raised by missionaries in Japan, Phyllis Elta Argall became a journalist and recounted her experiences in her memoir, My Life With the Enemy (1944).

Gertrude Balmer Watt was known for her editing of Alberta periodicals and her newspaper columns that were collected into her two books about the West.

Under the pseudonym "R.H. Grenville," Beatrice Rowley regularly published poetry and some fiction in a wide range of periodicals, beginning while a teenager living in Winnipeg and continuing into...

A brilliant and irascible Toronto journalist, Laura B. Durand wrote for the Globe and edited a posthumous volume of the poetry of her sister, Evelyn Durand.

Born in Winnipeg but primarily a resident of the United States, Mary MacLane achieved notoriety with her controversial best-selling memoir, published when she was only nineteen.

While a student at the University of Alberta, Clara May Bell co-authored a musical in 1916, for which she also composed the score.

Best known as a Hollywood movie star, Toronto-born Gladys Louise Smith, whose professional name was "Mary Pickford," also published three novels, four volumes of memoirs, and several religious...

American-born Miriam Green Ellis established her career as a journalist in Edmonton. In 1922, she embarked on a career-defining adventure to Aklavik, NT, which led to many articles and public...

Kate Barry Bottomley published two novels before her marriage and returned to writing in her later years.

Elizabeth Grove, or possibly one of her sisters, authored the first children's book to be produced in Nova Scotia.

Toronto-based poet Constance Davies Woodrow published extensively in magazines and issued many chapbooks of poetry between 1920 and her untimely death at the age of 38.

After beginning as a poet in her student days, Toronto-based Lois Darroch went on to write several novels and biographies.

Toronto journalist Annie Gray Caswell wrote for various periodicals and also published a novel for girls.

Poet, author, and visual artist P.K. Page authored over 30 books of poetry, fiction, children’s literature, travel writing, and autobiography over the course of her impressive life-long career.

Gertrude MacGregor Moffat's only volume of poetry was published posthumously, following her untimely death.

Feminist author and journalist Doris Anderson was active in many areas of Canadian life, and made a major impact as editor of Chatelaine magazine from 1957 to 1977.

Lily Lewis was the Montreal-based journalist who travelled around the world with Sara Jeannette Duncan in 1888-89.

Born in Ottawa, Kitty Marcuse was a professional writer adept in many genres, from radio and television plays for children, to stories for romance magazines and Playboy.

While working for the Department of External Affairs, Ontario-born Marjorie McKenzie contributed poetry to periodicals and issued one volume of verse, Graphite and Galena, in 1927.

Reputedly a capable writer, Eliza Jane Davin was active in women's organizations in the Northwest Territories but none of her publications have yet been found.

Edith M. Luke lived in Westmount, QC and wrote magaine articles, including an important essay on woman suffrage that appeared in 1895.

New Brunswick poet Kay Smith was well acquainted with the leading Canadian modernists. Her work appeared in major literary magazines and in six volumes of verse.

Elmira Elliott Atkinson was a pioneering Canadian woman journalist who was best known for her columns written in the name of "Madge Merton."

Kathryn E. Colquhoun published poetry and drama, and was an active member of the Vancouver literary community.

Isabella Campbell spent most of her life in Quebec, except for the two years in Australia that she described in her best-known book, Rough and Smooth (1865)..

A Montreal resident, Blanche Macdonnell published fiction that drew on the heritage of New France.

Sophia Street is best known for translating Sepass Poems: The Songs of Y-Ail-Mihth at the request of Chief William K’HHalserten Sepass of the Skowkale people.

After receiving her doctorate from the University of Toronto, Flora MacKinnon published several works in her field of philosophy.

Ontario author Mabel Burns McKinley wrote a novel based on her missionary experiences in China, as well as four volumes of biography.

After earning a doctorate in classical archaeology, Cornelia Harcum moved from the United States to Toronto, where she published on ancient Greek and Roman culture.

Born in England, Amy Parkinson spent much of her life as an invalid in Toronto where she published inspirational poems.

After her early death, Margaret Laing's parents published her poems in a posthumous volume.

Born in Ontario, Mary Bourchier Sanford spent much of her life in the US, where she contributed fiction and non-fiction to many periodicals and published several works of historical fiction.

Mary Elizabeth Colman was a well-known poet who spent much of her life in British Columbia.

Member of a prominent literary family, Ottawa-based Annie Howells Fréchette worked as a magazine editor and published fiction for both adults and children.

Dorothy Abraham came to Canada as a war bride in 1919 and lived on the west coast of British Columbia, where she documented her experiences in several published volumes.

Camilla Sanderson resided in Ontario and issued two volumes of poetry as well as a biography of her father.

Born in the West Indies, Frances Wood Musgrave settled in Nova Scotia where she was known as a social reformer and the author of articles and fiction.

A lifelong resident of the province of Quebec, May Austin Low published one verified volume of poetry.

Gladys Arnold was a major western journalist who sent eyewitness reports of Europe back to Canada from 1934 to 1940.

Irene Baird is best known for her novel, Waste Heritage (1939), about the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office by the unemployed.

Ethel Audrey Silcox contributed poems and stories to various periodicals and issued two chapbooks of verse.

A life-long resident of Ontario, Beatrice Embree published a novel set in a girls' boarding school.

Emily Augusta McLennan spent her adult life in British Columbia and published her only novel in 1893.

Well-known for her exploration of Maligne Lake, Mary Schaffer Warren published several articles and books about the Canadian Rockies.

Maud Ogilvy published poetry and prose that reflected her origins in Montreal, QC.

Phebe Florence Miller was known as the "poetess-laureate of Newfoundland" for her serious and humorous verse.

In 1919, a woman known only as "Madeleine Blair" published an autobiographical account of her life as a prostitute in the US and a successful madam in frontier Alberta.

Born in Northern Ireland, Sara E. Carsley immigrated to western Canada where she achieved recognition as a poet and active member of the Calgary branch of the Canadian Authors Association.

A tenacious Canadian woman journalist and occasional poet, Eve Brodlique spent most of her professional life in Chicago.

A contributor of many poems to the Canadian Poetry Magazine, Mary Woodworth Lorton seems to have spent most of her life in Nova Scotia.

Based in BC after her marriage to a Methodist minister, Florence Sarah Hall wrote many articles advocating temperance and women's suffrage.

Mary Wilson Alloway spent much of life in Montreal where her interest in local history inspired her descriptive book, Famous Firesides of French Canada (1899), and her historical romance,Crossed...

Both an artist and a writer, Lois Gilpin self-published two pamphlets of poetry in Vancouver.

Martha Louise Black was a colourful figure in the Yukon, where she variously engaged in mining, botany, and politics, becoming Canada's second female Member of Parliament in 1936. She published...

Lucy Bagnall published books about history that reflect her work as a teacher and as a Baptist missionary.

Born in Brantford, ON, Theodocia Pearce overcame the crippling effects of childhood meningitis to achieve brief recognition for her literary fiction.

An immigrant from the Netherlands, Frances van Hoogenhouck Tulleken lectured about folk culture and crafts, and wrote a chapter for a book on Canadian crafts that was never published.

In 1854, Miss Agnes Megowan, of St. John NB, published a book of her religious and elegiac poems.

English-born Alice Ravenhill immigrated to Canada in 1910 and became a prominent figure in Women's Institutes, domestic education, and advocacy on behalf of Indigenous peoples.

Despite spending most of her life in the United States, Florence Ralston Werum retained her Canadian identity and published in many Canadian periodicals.

Dividing her time between Ontario and New England, Hersilia Mitchell Keays supported her children by publishing eight novels.

Clara Armstrong spent most of her life in Saskatchewan, where she produced three collections of verse in the 1930s and 1940s.

Mona Hildegarde Coxwell spent her entire life in Toronto, where she founded and edited Curtain Call magazine from 1929 to 1941.

Member of an illustrious Nova Scotian family, novelist Alice Jones spent her later life in France.

Born in Nova Scotia, Edith Ferguson Black published moral stories for young readers.

Best known for her paintings of the wild flowers of Nova Scotia, Maria Morris was also a published poet.

A lifetime resident of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Anne Alley published poems in the Charlottetown Patriot and issued one volume, Leaflets of Verse (1925).

The mother of author Mordecai Richler, Lily Rosenberg Richler published some articles in the 1930s and an autobiographical memoir in 1981.

Ellanore Parker was a nurse in a Canadian hospital near Dieppe in the First World War. She used her experiences there as the foundation of two novels: The Flower of the Land: A Tapestry of the...

Under the name "Janet Munro," Ida Isabel Thompson published journalism and issued three pamphlets of poetry.

Ontario-born Grace Jones Morgan, who often used the pseudonym "Bassett Morgan," published at least three novels, as well as adventure and fantasy stories in many magazines.

Nova Scotian Alice Porter published two letters concerning astronomy in 1893.

A lifetime resident of Ontario, Florence Sherk worked as a teacher and then as a journalist. She published several volumes of non-fiction and one book of poetry.

An Ojibwa woman who married an Englishman, Catherine Sonego Sutton (Nahnebahwequay) became well known as an advocate of Indigenous rights.

Winifred M. Stevens was born in England and spent her adult life in British Columbia, where she produced two volumes of poetry.

Member of an illustrious Nova Scotia family, Susan Morrow Jones published magazine stories and seven novels.

English-born Muriel Frances Watson was a schoolteacher in North Vancouver when she published her only book, Fireweed (1924), inspired by British Columbia’s scenery.

Following the lead of her famous mother, Evelyn Gowan Murphy worked as a journalist and also published poetry.

During the 1840s and 1850s, Celia Eddy published her poetry in the newspapers of St. Catharines, ON.

Mary Anne Madden Sadlier, one of the most prominent and prolific Irish-Catholic authors in North America, spent much of her life in Montreal.

During the North-West Resistance, Theresa Delaney was taken captive at Frog Lake, an experience recounted in her only publication, Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear (1885).

Montrealer Celeste Belnap published several poems in 1930 in a periodical edited by her sister, Jane Belnap.

Toronto-born Maud Allan, well-known for her daring dance creations, wrote about her art in her only book, My Life and Dancing (1908).

Ida Cecil Moore, of Prince Edward Island, was known for her children’s novel, Lucky Orphan (1947).

Poet and journalist Bertha Jane Thompson was a close friend of E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) during the latter’s final years in Vancouver.

After moving from Maine to Montreal, Harriet Vaughan Cheney became deeply involved in the city's literary life.

Born in Nova Scotia, Cecilia Viets Jamison spent most her life in the United States where she became a well-known author of fiction for children.

Born in England, Mary Rice Schooley settled in Vancouver, BC, after her marriage and issued a single collection of poetry in 1936.

Annie Logan spent her adult life in Montreal, where she contributed to various periodicals and published two books.

Octavia Ritchie, one of the first women students to graduate from McGill University, wrote a published report on health in Canada.

Gladys Gigg Ross was an accomplished athlete and worked briefly as a sports journalist in North Bay, ON.

Born in Quebec, Laeta Ramage, sister of author Kate Ramage (1855-1883), published short stories and a novel, but spent most of her life outside of Canada.

Ann de Bertrand Lugrin, who published as N. de Bertrand Lugrin, was a well-known journalist and author in Victoria, BC.

Maritime author Mary Kinley Ingraham contributed poetry to a wide range of periodicals and also published several volumes of non-fiction.

Kathleen Lizars collaborated with her sister, Robina Lizars, on three books of fiction and non-fiction about the history of Ontario.

Maude Elizabeth Paterson, who taught kindergarten in Toronto for 45 years, assembled A Child's Garden of Stories (1911), an anthology that includes much of her own writing.

Over the course of her life, Anna Rebecca Hunt published two novels and two volumes of poetry.

Mavis Gallant spent most of her adult life in Paris, where she established herself as one of Canada’s most outstanding authors of literary short stories.

English-born Emily Poynton Weaver immigrated to Canada as a child and became a career journalist primarily based in Toronto. Most of her books of non-fiction concern Canadian history, while her...

Molly Bevan's first poems were supported by her employer, the Bell Telephone Company, in Hamilton, ON.

Aimee Semple McPherson, one of the most famous Christian evangelists of the twentieth century, published many religious works as well as accounts of her own spiritual journey.

After marrying a Canadian, American-born Leslie Grant published her only book in Canada, and later lived in Ottawa.

Alice Chown recorded much of her social activism in her only book, The Stairway (1921), a semi-fictionalized account of her early years.

Ottawa-born Elizabeth Smart is known for her iconoclastic writing and unconventional life.

Best known as an artist, Cecilia MacKinnon published one volume of poetry.

Based in southern Ontario, Margaret Samantha Wade published one volume of verse as well as a range of non-fiction whose subjects included ornithology and a company history.

Nina Moore Jamieson spent most of her life in Ontario, where she was well known as a poet and newspaper columnist.

Ontario-born Blanche Walker Luscombe moved to Vancouver, where she issued her only booklet of verse in the 1930s.

Susan Sibbald settled comfortably in Upper Canada in the 1830s and recorded her experiences in her The Memoirs of Susan Sibbald, 1783-1812, published posthumously in 1926.

Born in New Brunswick, Sarah Jameson Craig published some periodical poems and left manuscript memoirs that describe her complex, itinerant life as a social reformer.

Evah McKowan set her two novels in the Cranbrook area of British Columbia, which was her home for most of her life.

Based at York University in Toronto, Clara Thomas was a pioneer scholar of Canadian literature whose articles and books did much to establish the status of Canadian literary studies as a primary...

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).

Juanita O'Connor lived in Halifax where she contributed criticism, poetry, and fiction to local and national newspapers and magazines.

Mona Clark was a lifelong resident of Toronto. In 1925 she founded Gossip!, a magazine that she edited for forty years.

Nora Lugrin Shaw, sister of journalist N. de Bertrand Lugrin, wrote radio scripts that were broadcast in Vancouver during the 1920s.

Esther Marjorie Hill, the first woman to graduate with an architecture degree in Canada, published several articles, followed by a later book on glove-making.

Anna Theresa Sadlier, a daughter of Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903), followed in her mother's footsteps as a prolific author of Catholic fiction and non-fiction.

Carrie Derick was one of the first Canadian women to establish a career in science when she qualified as a lecturer in botany at McGill University; upon her retirement, she became the first...

Agnes Laut developed an extensive career as the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction about the history of North America.

The poetry of Kate Douglas Ramage, who lived in Quebec's Eastern Townships, appeared in the local newspaper and was issued in a posthumous volume shortly after her death.

During the 1920s, Mabel Broughton Billett lived in British Columbia, which served as the setting for most of her detective fiction.

Eleanor Cripps Kennedy came to Western Canada from England as an Anglican missionary and composed an unpublished memoir of her experiences.

Born in the US, Helen Slack Wickenden spent much of her adult life in Quebec, a setting that inspired her two books of poetry.

A teacher in Toronto, Elsie M. Pomeroy wrote many biographies, including a book on poet Charles G.D. Roberts.

After the death of her husband, painter Charles Wyatt Eaton, Charlotte Eaton published books in various genres.

While living in Kingston, ON, Muriel Miller Humphrey edited two volumes of short stories and published a pamphlet of her own verse in the Ryerson Poetry Chapbook series.

After excelling as one of Canada's foremost women athletes, Bobby Rosenfeld then became a major female sports reporter.

Born in New Brunswick, Sarah Edmonds published an autobiographical account of her service in the Union Army during the American Civil War while disguised as a man.

Elise Aylen, the second wife of well-known author Duncan Campbell Scott, published her poetry in various periodicals and in one collected volume.

Born and raised in New Brunswick, Muriel Miller later lived in Ontario. She wrote about Canadian art and artists, and authored several books about Bliss Carman.

Sarah Olivia Prince, known as "Sadie," spent her life in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia and issued one collection of poems in 1890.

Julia Colliton Flewellyn wrote two novels and a play that support her causes of Sabbath observance and temperance.

Scottish-born Margaret Sharp Peace was living in Newfoundland in 1850, when she published her only book of poems.

Poet Edna Lillian Morley achieved significant recognition in her home town of Milverton, ON, as a local historian.

A lifelong resident of Nova Scotia, Una MacKinnon published one volume of poetry.

Mary Sarah Snell spent most of her life in New Brunswick and issued two volumes of writings despite losing her sight during childhood.

A lifelong resident of Middlesex County, ON, Charlotte Grant MacIntyre published one volume of poetry.

A star basketball player, Phyllis Griffiths worked as a pioneer sports journalist in Toronto.

Known primarily a writer for children, Jessie McEwen gave many public lectures about books and authors.

Born in Ontario, Flos Jewell Williams wrote four novels after shen moved to Calgary.

Newfoundland author Margaret Duley achieved international recognition for her four novels.

Christine Jenkins co-founded a pioneering newspaper for Black readers in Ontario and wrote much of its content.

Journalist Corolyn Cox wrote biographical sketches that were subsequently collected into her only known book, Canadian Strength (1946).

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 leader in the professionalization of nursing in Canada, Kathleen Ellis published many articles in the Canadian Nurse.

Anna DeGraf left a memoir of her life in the Yukon from 1892 to 1917 that was published posthumously in 1992.

Although she spent most of her adult life in the United States, prolific author Evelyn Eaton enjoyed an association with the Bay of Fundy, where she long maintained a summer home.

Minnie Hallowell Bowen spent most of her life in Sherbrooke, QC, where she was well-known as a poet and an active participant in community life.

Born in Toronto. ON, Amelia E. Johnson became one of the first North American Black writers to publish a novel.

Although Frances Gillmor was born in the US, where she became a university professor, she considered herself a Canadian due to her family’s roots in New Brunswick, where she spent the happy...

A life-long resident of Winnipeg, MB, journalist Katherine Queen-Hughes was one of Canada's first woman sports reporters.

Jean Kilby Rorison immigrated to Vancouver where she established the Vancouver Shakespeare Society and was known as a prominent local poet.

Mary Sollace Saxe, long-time librarian at the Westmount Public Library in Montreal, published poetry, journalism, drama, and a children's novel.

After immigrating from England, Annie Fowler Rothwell Christie lived in or near Kingston, ON, and contributed poems and serialized novels to many different periodicals.

A resident of Montreal, Annie Bethune McDougald wrote poetry that expressed her strong sense of patriotism.

American-born poet Hilma Parsons moved to Canada as a child, and after settling in British Columbia became an active member of the Vancouver Poetry Society, appearing in many of their publications.

A life-long resident of Saint John, NB, Florence Estabrooks published work in variety of genres, including poetry and family history.

Scholar Kathleen Coburn, who devoted her career to editing the notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, spent most of her life in Toronto where she taught at Victoria College.

Best known for her various positions in the civic administration of East York (just north of Toronto), True Davidson was also a published poet and author of several books for children.

Jean Nealis converted to Catholicism upon her marriage and wrote poetry that reflected her troubled life in New Brunswick and New England.

A sometime journalist, Elsie Bell Gardner was best known as the author of the popular "Maxie" series of girls' adventure novels.

During the First World War, Florence McPhedran spent several years in England where she worked as a correspondent for the Toronto Daily Star.

Journalist Anne Elizabeth Wilson worked in many aspects of Canadian publishing in the 1920s. She was known for her poetry and her love of animals.

Social activist June Callwood was well known as a Toronto journalist and as the author of books about the rights of the sick, the poor, and the marginalized, especially children and women.

Constance Ward Harper issued three volumes of poetry, one of which earned her an award for its expression of patriotism.

Born in Quebec City, Melita O'Hara led a colourful life as a journalist and travel writer and later became an American citizen.

Trained as a teacher, Olive Knox wrote children's fiction, biographies, and radio plays, many of which were based on the history of Western Canada.

Elsa Gidlow, author of the first openly lesbian book of poetry to be published in North America, resided in Montreal during her youth.

Born in England, Ellen Ross immigrated to Montreal, where she published her best-selling novel, Violet Keith, in 1868.

Lilla Stewart Dunlap Nease wrote journalism, poetry, and fiction throughout a long life that took her to various residences in Ontario and Western Canada.

A lifelong resident of Sydney, NS, Henrietta Burchell Clarke wrote poetry inspired by the local landscape.

Mary White was a well-known Toronto journalist during the first decades of the twentieth century.

Enid McGregor worked as a librarian at McMaster University and contributed articles to the university's magazine.

A pioneer of Canadian film, Rae Levinksy published poetry and a play and edited the Canadian Motion Picture Digest.

Maria Amelia Fitch spent most of her adult life in Saint John, NB, where she published two novels.

Joyce Marshall was a versatile Toronto-based writer who was best known for her short stories and her literary translations.

Lottie Plewes McAlister expressed her support for temperance reform and women’s suffrage in her only novel, Clipped Wings (1899).

Ontario-based Anne Sutherland Brooks was a well-known poet who often wrote for children.

Laura Bedell spent most of her life in Ontario, where her poetry appeared in numerous periodicals and several volumes.

An Olympic athlete, Myrtle Cook enjoyed a long-time career as a sports journalist in Montreal.

Rhoda Sivell lived on Western ranches, an experience reflected in her poetry

Scottish-born Mary Maitland arrived in Canada in 1857. Here she contributed to many magazines and issued two volumes of poetry.

Born in Quebec City, Elizabeth Montizambert established herself in London and Paris as a Canadian correspondent for several major Canadian periodicals.

A granddaughter of Susanna Moodie, Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon wrote about her travels and about the history of Ontario.

A life-long resident of southern Ontario, Hannah Isabel Graham published three volumes of verse and numerous poems, stories, and feature articles in various periodicals.

Margaret Pauline Anderson spent her life in Saint John, NB, where she wrote poetry and fiction.

Born in Akron, OH, in 1881, Carol Cassidy Cole later immigrated to Ontario, where she issued several books for children.

Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Bamewawagezhikaquay) was one of the first Indigenous women in North America to compose literary work in English and Ojibwe.

A leader in the professionalization of nursing, Toronto-based Mary Agnes Snively published articles and speeches about her work.

Louise McKinney, best known as one of the "Famous Five," published many of her speeches as well as some articles written for Canadian periodicals.

American-born Adeline Boardman Todd lived in New Brunswick after her marriage to a wealthy businessman, and was known for her Sunday school stories for children.

Anna May Wilson, who sometimes used the pseudonym "Anison North", was an Ontario-based teacher and journalist who published four well-received historical novels.

Charlotte Bompas wrote several books about her experiences as a missionary in the Northwest Territories.

Alice Elizabeth Wilson spent her entire life in Sherbrooke, QC, where she blended her interests in music and poetry. After her early death in 1934, her mother collected her poems in a posthumous...

In addition to her radio career, Toronto journalist Claire Wallace published two books on etiquette.

Lilian Fortier Taylor contributed poetry to newspapers across Canada and published two volumes of verse.

Laura E. McCully was a suffrage activist and author of two volumes of poetry.

A lifelong resident of Newfoundland, Kathleen Mary English published one novel.

Primarily based in Montreal, Gwethalyn Graham wrote two novels, both of which won the Governor General's Award for fiction.

After settling in Ontario, Margaret Bossance Boreham turned to writing poetry later in her life.

Mary Josephine Trotter Benson was an active journalist in Toronto as well as a published poet.

Upon immgrating from Ireland to the backwoods of Upper Canada, Frances Stewart recorded her experiences in letters that were later published.

Journalist Jean Watts was well-known as a committed left-wing activist who served in the Spanish Civil War.

A schoolteacher in Toronto, Mariel Jenkins wrote magazine stories for children and issued several volumes of poetry.

A skilled athlete, Patricia Page worked as a sports journalist in Edmonton.

Born in England, Lillian Leveridge became an active poet later in life.

Well known as an artist, Maritimer Mary Barry Smith also contributed poetry to Canadian and American periodicals.

Before her early death, Montreal-born Mabel Hodgson Gurd published two volumes of fiction.

After her marriage, English-born Evelyn L. Weller settled in Toronto where she published two novels.

Teacher Jennet Roy wrote a history of Canada for school use that was reprinted many times after its first publication in 1847.

Finally settling in British Columbia where she became known as a nature writer and local activist, Gillian Joan Douglas published her poetry in scores of magazines as well as producing several...

Miriam Waddington produced a large body of poetry and prose, much of which reflected her Jewish heritage and her left-wing political sympathies.

Reporter Simma Holt is best known for her outspoken commentary on Canadian social issues.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Phyllis Salomons Margolick wrote advertising copy and contributed articles to trade and fashion magazines.

Mary van der Mark, the mother of writer Christine van der Mark, published a few items in periodicals.

Isabel C. Armstrong was a career journalist with an interest in art and music; she wrote for many Ontario and Western newspapers, including an extensive association with the Ottawa Citizen.

An accomplished athlete and advocate of women's sports, Alexandrine Gibb was a career Toronto sports journalist.

Montrealer Jane Belnap worked as an editor on a literary magazine and several professional reports.

Bertha Lewis spent her later life in Vancouver BC, where she was active as a poet and an artist.

American-born writer Martha Banning Thomas was strongly associated with Nova Scotia, although she did not move there until the last decades of her life.

After immigrating to Canada, English-born Gwendolen Merrin Massey resided first in New Brunswick and then moved to Ontario, where she published two chapbooks of poetry.

Born near London, England, Kathleen Strange came to Canada in 1920 to start a new life on an Alberta wheat farm, an experience recorded in her best-known book, With the West in Her Eyes (1937). Her...

Born in eastern Europe, Regina Lenore Shoolman spent part of her life in Montreal and in Ottawa. Her publications include a translation of Marius Barbeau's collection of of folk songs, a chapbook...

Julia Grace Wales was better known for her work as a peace activist and a Shakespeare scholar than for her small output of poetry.

Best known for her tenure as mayor of Ottawa, Charlotte Whitton expressed her views on social and political issues in ten monographs and many newspaper columns.

Deeply involved in the musical and cultural life of Toronto, Edith Mulock published one volume of poetry.

Sadie Gairns worked as Dr. Frederick Banting's research assistant and co-authored many of his research papers.

Luella Bruce Creighton spent her adult life in Toronto where she published numerous stories while her children were young, before embarking on novels and historical narratives.

A lifelong resident of various towns in Ontario, Emma Jeffers Graham published a light-hearted collectio of sketches about her experiences as a minister's wife.

A lifetime resident of New Brunswick, Hattie E. Colter published at least eight Sunday School books.

A prolific author of children's stories, Mary Graham Bonner spent part of her life in Nova Scotia.

A longtime resident of Toronto, Florence Elizabeth Westacott frequently contributed stories and poems to Canadian periodicals. Her only volume of poetry, The City Dweller and Other Poems (1935),...

After Evelyn Durand died of tuberculosis at a young age, a volume of her poems was published by her older sister, journalist Laura B. Durand.

A life-long resident of Nova Scotia, Claire Harris MacIntosh expressed her talents in many published genres, including poetry, drama, and music.

While residing in the US, Anne Helena Woodruff published three children's books set in her home town of St. Davids, ON.

Lillian Coo was a pioneer sports journalist in Winnipeg.

Annie Angus published poetry and articles while enjoying a busy life of social service, largely centred on the University of British Columbia.

Raised in Ontario, Stella Asling Riis was known for her interest in Scandinavian culture and for writing historical fiction.

A professional musician, Ethel O’Neil McKenzie published one volume of poetry.

Born in England, Daisy Louise Saunders spent her adult life in western Canada and published a collection of poetry in 1926.

Ontario-based Elizabeth Donaldson published poems in various periodicals in the 1930s and 1940s.

Mabel Ray was an avid organizer of women's sports in Toronto, about which she authored newspaper articles.

Irene Chapman Benson was a well-recognized poet during the 1930s and 1940s, when her work appeared in many periodicals and one Ryerson chapbook.

Throughout her long life, journalist Margaret Bemister wrote for newspapers and published stories for children.

Mona Purser was a prominent Toronto journalist, active from 1913 to 1954.

Journalist Eleanor McNaught also published poetry and short stories in Canadian periodicals.

A privileged English woman, Katharine Götsch-Trevelyan enjoyed a three-month trek across Canada in 1930 and described her visit in her subsequent travel narrative.

After her early death from tuberculosis, friends of Margaret Elizabeth DesBrisay published her writings in a memorial volume.

Jennie Nelson Smith emigrated from Scotland to Halifax, NS, where she published two volumes of poetry in the 1920s.

Member of an elite Nova Scotia family, Helen Morrow Paske Duffus published some of her her novels under pen names that she shared with her sister, Susan Morrow Jones.

Author of one book of verse, Florence Clark McLaren was a prominent member of the poetry community in Victoria, BC, where she joined with Dorothy Livesay, Anne Marriott, and Doris Ferne to found...

While working for many years in the library at Queen's University in Kingston, Lois Saundrs contributed to periodicals and published a book of translated poems.

Letitia Youmans was a prominent Canadian temperance reformer who recounted her experiences in her published autobiography.

Often using the pen name "Jemima Remington," Florence Edith Bevans published stories and poems about pets.

A resident of Montreal, Ethel Lenore Gnaedinger published at least one poem in a periodical.

Gladdis Joy Tranter was a versatile professional author who wrote poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and plays.

As an Albertan newspaper journalist and editor, Hughena McCorquodale was recognized across Canada for championing freedom of the press.

Daisy McLeod Wright spent much of her adult life in Nova Scotia where she wrote her only volume of poetry, which was published in 1915.

Mona Gould was a versatile and colourful journalist and poet whose wartime poem, This was my Brother (1942), was highly regarded during and after the Second World War.

Born in Germany, Henrietta Skelton, published fiction based on her temperance ideals.

Based in Toronto, journalist Estelle M. Kerr contributed poetry to many periodicals and published several books.

Best known as an actress, Nell Shipman was also an adept writer in many genres, including fiction, journalism, and film scripts.

A painter in watercolours and a musician, Carrie Holmes MacGillivray published one novel, based on stories of Scottish immigrants in Glengarry, ON.

Grace Dean McLeod Rogers was well-known for her fiction and her historical writing about the Atlantic provinces.

Dorothy Burnham enjoyed a long career in the textile department at the Royal Ontario Museum, which led to her many publications in the field of Canadian and global textiles and costumes.

During her residence in Montreal from about 1834 to 1849, Theoda Davis Foster published her writings in Canadian periodicals.

Dorothy Choate Herriman published one volume of poetry in Toronto in 1929.

A career journalist in Toronto, Mary Adelaide Dawson was a founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club.

Ontario-based poet Edith Beatrice Henderson contributed to many periodicals and issued two volumes of verse.

Elsie Caroline Woodley trained as a teacher, and published a chapbook of poetry in 1930.

Based in Toronto, Mary A. Bucham published a single volume of poetry in 1905.

Journalist Faith Fenton (Alice Freeman) was well-known for her columns in a variety of Toronto newspapers and for her travels to the Klondike in 1898.

English-born Dorothea Allison settled in the interior of British Columbia, where she became known for writing poetry for both children and adults.

Elizabeth Lichtenstein Johnston ended her colourful life in Nova Scotia where she wrote her memoirs that were later published as Recollections of a Georgia Loyalist (1901).

Helen Robina Foote contributed her writings to local newspapers in southern Ontario and issued one volume of poetry.

Margaret-Gertrude Lang-Miller self-published her only book of poetry, Gleanings Along the Highways, in 1934 in Hamilton, ON.

During her husband's tenure as Governor-General of Canada (1935-1940), Charlotte Grosvenor Buchan (Lady Tweedsmuir) wrote several plays, followed by a book about Canada after her return to England.

Poet Lucia Clark Markham spent most of her life in Lexington, KY, and was also a member of the Vancouver Poetry Society.

Lydia Jutsum Taylor spent five years in Canada, which served as the setting for her only book, a prize-winning novel.

Eloise White Street is best known for facilitating the publication of the poems of Chief William K’HHalserten Sepass of the Skowkale people of British Columbia, which were translated into English...

Nelda MacKinnon Sage spent her adult life in Vancouver, BC, where she was known as a poet and playwright.

Born in the British Isles, Ena Constance Barrett came to Newfoundland after her marriage to a Newfoundlander and became well-known as a poet.

The first woman in Canada to receive a PhD in the field of geology and palaeontology, Madeleine Fritz produced an extensive list of scholarly publications, many in association with the Royal...

Member of a well-educated and literary family, Catherine de Vaux MacKinnon published some poetry in periodicals.

Eleanor Caroline Smyth recorded her experiences in Victoria, BC, in a memoir that was published in 1916.