Marie Joussaye

Marie Joussaye
Born	Marie Josie 1864 Belleville, Canada West
Died	1949 Vancouver
Occupation	journalist
Nationality	Canadian
Genre	poetry
Spouse	David Heatherington Fotheringham

Marie Joussaye (1864 in Belleville – 24 March 1949 in Vancouver) was a Canadian poet.

Life

Marie Josie was born at and grew up in Belleville Canada West. She was a newspaper journalist in Toronto. In 1893, she was president of the Working Girls' Union.[1] She moved to Dawson City, Yukon. In November 1903, she married David Heatherington Fotheringham, a Northwest Mounted Policeman. They had financial difficulties. In 1924, she moved to Mayo, Yukon. In 1929, she moved to Vancouver, where she died in a rooming house[2] on 24 March 1949.[3]

Works

• The Songs that Quinte Sang (1895)
• Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs (1918)

References

1. Gregory S. Kealey (1991). Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892. University of Toronto Press. pp. 383–. ISBN 978-0-8020-6883-5.
2. Rodger J. Moran (September 18, 2011). "Marie Joussaye Fotheringham". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
3. Moran, Rodger J. "Marie Joussaye Fotheringham". Retrieved 2016-06-29.

Sources

• Carole Gerson, "Only a Working Girl: The Story of Marie Joussaye Fotheringham," Northern Review 19 (Winter 1998)