Margaret Cowie fonds. 1920-1934.

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Margaret Cowie fonds. 1920-1934.

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The fonds consists of 141 letters written by 83 Canadian authors who received letters from the school requesting their books, a photograph, and a letter relating to their literary career. The photographs, with two exceptions, were not retained with letters and the books were placed in the school library; but the letters, many with their envelopes addressed to Miss Margaret Cowie, were passed by Margaret Cowie to a friend and eventually donated to the UBC Library. The correspondents include Marius Barbeau, Frank Burnett, Bliss Carman, Mazo de la Roche, Francis Dickie, Hubert Evans, Nellie McClung, L.M. Montgomery Macdonald, Isabel E. MacKay, Charles Mair, Emily Murphy, Charles G.D. Roberts, Constance Skinner, Robert Stead, and A.M. Stephen. Most of the letters were written between 1925 and 1928.

145 items.2 photographs.

University of British Columbia Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781983

University of British Columbia Library

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Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929

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Skinner, Constance Lindsay, 1882-1939

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Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir, 1860-1943

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Mair, Charles, 1838-1927

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Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969

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Burnett, Frank, 1852-1930.

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Stead, Robert J. C., 1880-1959

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Stephen, A. M. (Alexander Maitland), 1882-1942

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A.M. Stephen was born near Hanover, Ontario and he obtained part of his education at Walkerton Collegiate Institute. He travelled west and pursued occupations such as cattle ranching and logging before he went to Europe to serve in World War I. After the war, he moved to Vancouver where he taught and took an active part in the literary, social and political life in Vancouver. Stephen was known throughout Canada for his literary work which comprised two novels, four volumes of verse and two volum...

De la Roche, Mazo, 1879-1961

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Mackay, Isabel Ecclestone, 1875-1928

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Isabel E. Mackay was a writer and poet. From the description of Isabel Mackay fonds. 1900-1925. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 606462178 ...

McClung, Nellie L., 1873-1951

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Nellie Letitia McClung (née Mooney) was a suffragist, writer, and public speaker. She was born in Chatsworth, Ontario and was educated in Manitoba where she received her teaching certificate at Winnipeg Normal School. Partly influenced by her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Annie McClung, Nellie became prominent in the Women's Christian Temperance Union from 1896 on, and in the suffrage movement. In 1912, Nellie organized the Winnipeg Political Equality League with the aim of advancing women's suffr...

Evans, Hubert Reginald, 1892-1986.

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Hubert Evans was a writer and poet as well as a newspaper reporter and salmon hatchery superintendent. He was born in Galt, Ontario and served in World War I before moving to British Columbia. He married Ann (Anna) Emily Winter in 1920 and, in 1926, decided to take up freelance writing as a full time occupation. From the 1930s through the 1950s, Evans published many adventure and wilderness stories for young readers. He expanded his readership in 1954 with the publication of Mist on the River. C...

Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud), 1874-1942

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Dickie, Francis Joseph, 1890-1976.

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Murphy, Emily F. (Emily Ferguson), 1868-1933

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Cowie, Margaret C., 1886-1961.

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Born in 1886 in Simcoe County, Ontario, Margaret C. Cowie began teaching in Aberdeen Public School, located at 901 Barclay Avenue in Vancouver in November 1914. Moved to Nightingale Public School in February, 1934, was superannuated in 1946, but continued at Nightingale as a substitute until June 1948. During her career as a Grade 5-6 teacher she was instrumental in developing a Canadian Literature library within her school. She passed away in 1961. From the description of Margaret C...