About Norah Story
Lived 1902 – 1978 (aged 75–76). Norah Story was a Canadian archivist.
Norah Story (1902 – March 5, 1978) was a Canadian archivist. She won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1967 for her Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature.
Early life and education Norah Story was born in England in 1902 and emigrated to Canada in 1912.
With Arthur Doughty, Story edited Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada, 1819–1828 (1935), a collection of primary source documents about Canadian constitutional history.
Story was a classmate of the politician Paul Martin Sr. at University of St. Michael's College. When Martin was in the Senate, Story and Josephine Phelan worked with him on his memoirs. Story took his dictations, while Phelan reviewed and compiled his papers.
She died on March 5, 1978.
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Canadian archivist (1902–1978)
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