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Authority record- CA QUA07644
- Person
- 6 Mar. 1917-14 Oct. 2007
Derek Stanley (D.S.) Savage, a poet, critic, and noted pacifist, was born in Essex, England on 6 March 1917. He served as Secretary General of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship. In 1938, he married Constance Kiernan, with whom he had six children. Savage passed away in 2007.
- CA QUA05002
- Person
- 1861-1947
Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) was a Canadian author best known for her novel Beautiful Joe. Much of Saunders’ work addressed social issues, including child labou, housing issues and animal cruelty. Active in local media, Saunders co-founded the Maritime branch of the Canadian Women’s Press Club with Anne of Green Gables author Lucy Maud Montgomery, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1934. Other titles by Saunders include Tilda Jane: An Orphan In Search of a Home, The House of Armour, and The Girl from Vermont.
Saunders, Margaret (Maisie) Helen Strickland
- CA QUA11468
- Person
- 1898-1985
Margaret (Maisie) Helen Inverarity Stickland Saunders, was born in 1898, and died in Ottawa in 1985. In June of 1918, Maisie and Louis Farquhar Strickland married in Edinburgh Scotland. They had one child. Inverarity and Strickland divorced in 1925 after Maisie had returned to Scotland. Maisie then married William Eric Pentland Saunders in 1926. She was a pioneering aviator, having been within the first fifty women to receive a Royal Aero Club certificate in 1929.
- CA QUA06394
- Corporate body
- n.d.
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