Fowler, Josephine

Biography

Josephine Fowler was born on February 7, 1957 in San Francisco, California to parents Joseph William Fowler and Nevi Unti Isaura Fowler. With her two sisters, she spent her early years surrounded by an extended family of Italian American relatives on her mother's side and by New England and English Canadian grandparents on her father's side. At the age of five, her family left San Francisco and lived in many cities across North America, including Chicago, Detroit and New York, until settling in Toronto, Canada in 1967. There, Josephine attended the Toronto French School, becoming fluent in French, proficient in Russian, and earning the Governor General's Award.

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