About Marie Joussaye
Lived 1864 – 1949 (aged 84–85). Marie Joussaye was a Canadian writer and poet.
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. 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 on 24 March 1949.
Works The Songs that Quinte Sang (1895) Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs (1918)
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Canadian poet
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Marie Joussaye was born in 1864 in Belleville.
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Marie Joussaye died on 24 March 1949 in Vancouver.
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Marie Joussaye was a writer and poet.
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