Edith Watson

Edith Sarah Watson (November 9, 1861 – December 23, 1943) She is best known for her photojournalistic images of rural people working, most often women, particularly in Canada. The pair lived, worked, and traveled extensively together through isolated areas of Newfoundland, Labrador and Canada. The two women stayed with First Nations people in Quebec and Ontario; Mennonites, Doukhobors, and other "New Canadians" in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia

Edith worked and travelled alone for twenty years, then for almost another two decades with Victoria Hayward. Throughout that time she sold her work to governments and advertisers, as well as publications including Chatelaine, Maclean's, the Canadian Magazine, National Geographic, and Ladies’ Home Journal. Uncommonly for the time, she insisted on being credited for her published work. In it, Hayward coined the phrase "the Canadian mosaic" to describe the country's multiculturalism;

Photographs of Canadian women

Photographs of Bermuda