Marie Joussaye | |
Birth Name: | Marie Josie |
Birth Date: | 1864 |
Birth Place: | Belleville, Canada West |
Death Date: | 1949 |
Death Place: | Vancouver |
Occupation: | journalist |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Genre: | poetry |
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Spouse: | David Heatherington Fotheringham |
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Marie Joussaye (1864 in Belleville - 24 March 1949 in Vancouver) was a Canadian poet.
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]