Biography | Database of Canadian Early Women Writers

Label	Biography
Description	This category includes all biographies of individuals other than the author, regardless of the degree of scholarly detail (such as popular biographies and accounts of historical personalities).
Created	2017-09-29 2:56:17 PM
Updated	2017-10-25 12:43:08 PM

Mona Troop Johnston, Prophet, Presbyter, And Servant of Mankind: A Memoir of Rev. Canon G. Osborne Troop, M.a.
Anna Brownell Jameson, The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second, 1833
Eliza Field Jones, Memoir of Elizabeth Jones, A Little Indian Girl Who Lived at the River-Credit Mission, Upper Canada, 1838
Hannah Maynard Pickard, Memoir and Writings of Mrs. Hannah Maynard Pickard, 1845
Lillian Foster, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States: His Life and Speeches, 1866
Laura Agnes Stevenson, The Ladies' Benevolent and Industrial Sallymag Society, being a Series of Comic Chapters, taken from an Unpublished Novel, 1868
Agnes Maule Machar, Faithful Unto Death: A Memorial of John Anderson, Late Janitor of Queen's College, 1870
Agnes Maule Machar, Memorials of the Life and Ministry of the Rev. John MacHar, D.D., Late Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Kingston, 1873
Jeanie Bell, Effie Raymond's Life Work, c1874
James Colton Yule, Records of a Vanished Life: Lectures, Addresses, Etc., Of James Colton Yule, M.a., 1876
Mary Agnes Nannary, Memoirs of the Life of Rev. E.j. Dunphy, 1877
Maria Simpson, Sayings and Doings of Noted Temperance Advocates, 1879
(unknown), Memoir of Rev. Thomas Henry, Christian Minister, York Pioneer, And Soldier of 1812, 1880
Anne Langton, The Story of Our Family, 1881
Helen Mar Johnson, Canadian Wild Flowers: Sketches from the Writings of Helen M. Johnson, 1884
Mary L.T. Witter, The Edomites: Their History As Gathered from the Holy Scriptures, 1888
Sophie Veitch, James Hepburn, Free Church Minister, 1888
Pamelia Vining Yule, Sowing and Reaping: Or, Records of the Ellisson Family, 1889
Lucretia Newman Coleman, Poor Ben, 1890
Ellen Hardin Walworth, The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks, 1656-1680, 1891
Sarah Anne Curzon, The Story of Laura Secord, 1813, 1891
Frances Elizabeth Murray, Memoir of Lebaron Botsford, 1892
Agnes Maule Machar, Heroes of Canada: Based Upon "Stories of New France, 1893
Agnes Maule Machar, Mère Marie-Rose: Fondatrice de la Congregation des SS. Noms de Jésus et di Marie au Canada, 1895
Lizzie Vincent, Broken Fetters: A Life Story, 1897
Anna Ross, The Man with the Book: Or, The Memoirs of John Ross of Brucefield, 1897
Jessie Campbell, The Pioneer Pastor, 1900
Mary J. Shenton, A Biographical Sketch of the Late Rev. Job Shenton by His Widow, 1902
Sketch of Our Foreign Mission Fields, 1902
Elizabeth A McCully, A Corn of Wheat: Or, The Life of Rev. W.J. McKenzie of Korea, 1903
Jean Newton McIlwraith, Sir Frederick Haldimand, 1904
Katherine Hughes, Archbishop O'Brien: Man and Churchman, 1906
Ada B. Teetgen, The Life and Times of the Empress Pulcheria, 1907
Frances Hughes, Supplement to an Irish Saint: The Life Story of Ann Preston, Holy Ann, c1907
Annie Robertson MacFarlane Logan, An Account of the Explorations and Discoveries of Samuel De Champlain, And of the Founding of Quebec, 1908
Katherine Hughes, Father Lacombe, The Black Robe Voyageur, 1911
Frances May Simpson, Brock, 1812-1912, 1912
Mildred Louise Jackson Bain, Horace Traubel, 1913
Charlotte Albina Aikens, Lessons from the Life of Florence Nightingale, 1915
Agnes Maule Machar, A Child of the Light, 1916
Lucie Vessot Galley, Famous Women Character Representation: An Historic Entertainment, 1916
Maude Abbott, Florence Nightingale As Seen in Her Portraits: With a Sketch of Her Life and an Account of Her Relation to the Origin of the Red Cross Society, 1916
Emily Clarke, William Newton Clarke: A Biography, 1916
May Sinclair, Mary Olivier: A Life, 1919
Peggy Webling, Saints and Their Stories, 1919
Young Soldiers Hearts of France: A Wreath of Immortelles, 1919
Peggy Webling, A Sketch of John Ruskin, 1920
Mary Ellen Spence, Some Young Immortals, c1920
Elisabeth Robinson Scovil, Wee Folks Life of Christ, 1920
Minnie Wright Blogg, Bibliography of the Writings of Sir William Osler, Revised Edition, 1921
Mary Christine Ritchie, Major-General Sir Geoffrey Twining, Kcmg, Cb, Mvo: A Biographical Sketch and the Story of His East African Diaries, 1922
Louisa May Mitchell, Glimpses and Gleams of India and Bolivia: The Jubilee Book of Mission Bands, 1923
Margaret Amy Ross, Sir George W. Ross: A Biographical Study, 1923
Henry Cawthra, Past and Present: Notes by Henry Cawthra and Others, 1924
Helen Steeves, The Story of Moncton's First Store and Storekeeper: Life Around"the Bend" A Century Ago, 1924
Isabel Skelton, The Life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, 1925
Margery Durham Campbell, A Long Life, 1925
Flora Isabel MacKinnon, Philosophical Writings of Henry More, 1925
Sister Mary Agnes, Children of Nazareth, 1926
Helen Ernestine Williams, Count de Frontenac, 1926
Ralph C. Horner, Evangelist: Reminiscences from His Own Pen, also Reports of Five Typical Sermons, Issued Posthumously by his Widow Annie E. Horner, c1926
Brock Family Records, 1927
Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, Hors de sa Prison, 1927
Anna Maude Brock, The Mills, Holton and Smith Families, 1927
Irene Moore, Valiant La Verendrye, 1927
Catherine Dunlop MacKenzie, Alexander Graham Bell: The Man Contracted Space, 1928
Maude Abbott, An Early Canadian Biologist—Michel Sarrazin 1659-1735: His Life and Times: An Appreciation of the Prize Essay by Dr. Vallée, 1928
Isabel Skelton, Jean De Brébeuf, 1928
Blanche Hume, Laura Secord, 1928
Isabel Skelton, Isaac Jogues, 1929
Blanche Hume, The Strickland Sisters: Catherine Parr Traill and Susanna Moodie, 1929
Blanche Hume, Barbara Heck, 1930
Helen Ernestine Williams, Bishop Laval, c1930
Alice Selby Marquis, Dr. John McLoughlin, 1930
Helen Ernestine Williams, Jean Baptiste Talon, 1930
Mary Cramp, The Radiant Life: A Memoir of Ruth Marion Shatford-Holmes, c1930
Sei Shōnagon, The Sketchbook of the Lady Sei Shonagon, 1930
Isabel Skelton, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, 1930
Mabel Evangeline Archibald, Glimpses and Gleams of Our Own India, 1932
Edna Kells, Elizabeth McDougall, Pioneer, 1933
E. May Merkley, Our Doctor, 1933
Martha Louise Black, Alexander Hunter Murray, 1934
Carroll Langstaff Davis, The Davis Family and the Leather Industry, 1934
Carroll Langstaff Davis, A Davis Geneology, 1934
Margaret Janet Hart, Janet Fisher Archibald, Wife of Matthew Archibald 1750-1843; Some Account of Her Ancestry, Environment and a Few of Her Descendants, 1934
Annie E. Wolfe Aylwood, The Pictorial Life of Wolfe, 1934
Abbie Lyon Sharman, Sun Yat-Sen, His Life and Its Meaning: A Critical Biography, 1934
Olive Irene Ziegler, Woodsworth: Social Pioneer, 1934
Muriel Miller Miner, Bliss Carman: A Portrait, 1935
Margaret Arnett MacLeod, The Frozen Priest of Pembina, 1935
Eva Rose Fitch York, When My Dream Came True, 1935
Effie Jameson Day, Annie Elizabeth Bradley, 1936
Margaret MacKellar, Amelia J. Harris: The Story of Her Life, 1937
Edith Lennox Morrison, William Tyrrell of Weston, 1937
Lolita Woolrich Flockhart, A Full Life: The Story of Van Dearing Perrine, 1939
Janet Winifred MacKay, Little Madam: A Biography of Henrietta Maria, 1939
Esther Clark Wright, Alexander Clark, Loyalist: A Contribution to the History of New Brunswick, 1940
Sister St. Ignatius Doyle, Marguerite Bourgeoys and Her Congregation, 1940
Wilhelmina Gordon, Daniel M. Gordon: His Life, 1941
Margaret Adeline Brown, Extracts from the Life of Joseph Brant and History of the Aeriokwa or Six Nation Indians, 1941
Margaret Adeline Brown, Life of Joseph Brant: Comprising in Part the Origin and History of the Iroquois or Six Nations Indians, 1941
Mary Kinley Ingraham, Robert Bruce Kinley and His Family, 1941
Genevieve May Fox, Sir Wilfred Grenfell, 1941
Martha Ostenso, And They Shall Walk: The Life Story of Sister Elizabeth Kenny, 1943
Mary Shearwood, By Water and the Word: A Transcription of the Diary of the Right Reverend J.A. Newnham, MA, DD, LLD while Plying the Waters and Ice Fields in Northern Canada in the Diocese of Moosonee, 1943
Elsie May Pomeroy, Sir Charles G.D. Roberts: A Biography, 1943
Edward LeCompte, The Glory of the Mohawks: The Life of the Venerable Catherine Tekakwitha, 1944
Esther Clark Wright, The Miramichi: A Study of the New Brunswick River and of the People Who Settled Along It, 1944
Byrne Hope Sanders, Emily Murphy, Crusader ("Janey Canuck"), 1945
Margaret Mason Shaw, He Conquered Death: The Story of Frederick Grant Banting, 1945
Katherine Sarah McLaurin, Mary Bates McLaurin, 1945
Jean Brown Segall, Wings of the Morning, 1945
Isabel Skelton, A Man Austere: William Bell, Parson and Pioneer, 1947
Alice Helen Collins, A Biographical Sketch of Katherine E. Wallis, Canadian Artist, 1948
Elsie May Pomeroy, G.B. Lancaster, 1873-1945: A Canadian Tribute, 1948
Dorothy Hoover, J.W. Beattie, 1948
Esther Kreengle-Bach Cohen, Esther's Story: The Reminiscences, 1950
Josephine Phelan, The Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thos. D’Arcy McGee, 1951
Dorothea Deans, C.A. Fleming: A Biography, 1953
Grace Winona Woodsworth MacInnis, J.S. Woodsworth: A Man to Remember, 1953
Esther Clark Wright, The Loyalists of New Brunswick, 1955
Elsie MacGill, My Mother, The Judge: A Biography of Judge Helen Gregory MacGill, 1955
Josephine Phelan, The Bold Heart: The Story of Father Lacombe, 1956
Viola Whitney Pratt, Famous Doctors: Osler, Banting, Penfield, 1956
Anne Wilkinson, Lions in the Way: A Discursive History of the Oslers, 1956
Hilda Mary Ridley, The Story of L.M. Montgomery, 1956
Elisabeth Wallace, Goldwin Smith: Victorian Liberal, 1957
Bluebell S. Phillips, Something Always Turned Up, 1958
Iris Allan, Boy in Buckskins: The Early Life of John McDougall, 1959
Sheilagh Somerville Jameson, The Wyndham Family, c1959
Elsie May Pomeroy, Arthur Stringer, 1962
Joan Walker, Marriage of Harlequin: A Biographical Novel of the Important Years in the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1962
Laura Moore Wright, Campaigns of Napoleon: Vive l'Empereur, 1963
Margaret Arnett MacLeod, Cuthbert Grant of Grantown: Warden of the Plains of Red River, 1963
Dora Geneva Lent, West of the Mountains: James Sinclair and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1963
Elsie May Pomeroy, Archibald Lampman, 1964
Nan Shipley, The James Evans Story, 1966
Nan Shipley, Almighty Voice and the Red Coats, 1967
Josephine Phelan, The Ballad of D’Arcy McGee: Rebel in Exile, 1967
Maida Parlow French, Kathleen Parlow, A Portrait, 1967
Clara Thomas, Love and Work Enough: The Life of Anna Jameson, 1967
Barbara Villy Cormack, Perennials and Politics: The Life Story of Hon. Irene Parlby, LL. D., 1968
Lawren Harris, 1969
Clara Thomas, Margaret Laurence, 1969
Miriam Waddington, A.M. Klein, 1970
Madeleine Alberta Fritz, William Arthur Parks, Ph. D., LL. D., F.r.s., 1868-1936, 1971
Fredelle Bruser Maynard, Raisins and Almonds, 1972
Barbara Villy Cormack, George, 1978
Edith Iglauer, Seven Stones: A Portrait of Arthur Erickson, Architect, 1981
Eleven Exiles: Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution, 1982
Sheilagh Somerville Jameson, W.J. Oliver: Life Through a Master's Lens, 1984
Muriel Miller Miner, Bliss Carman: Quest and Revolt, 1985
Muriel Victoria Roscoe, The Roscoe Family of Kings County, Nova Scotia, 1986
P.K. Page, Brazilian Journal, 1987
Ethel Wilson, Ethel Wilson: Stories, Essays, And Letters, 1987
Audrey McKim, Her Special Vision: A Biography of Jean Little, 1987
Barbara Villy Cormack, George II, 1988
Harris Vineberg and His Family: A History, 1988
Edna Staebler, Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries, 2005
Miriam Green Ellis, Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis, 2013

The International Congress of Women of 1899, 1900
Builders of Canada from Cartier to Laurier, 1903
Life of Herbert Symonds, 1921
The River St. John and Its Poets, 1947
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 2018