| Main entry | Arkley, Jane Ann McKenzie |
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| Birth place | Millfield, Megantic, Quebec |
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| Birth date | 8 November 1844 |
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| Death place | Westbury, Quebec |
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| Death date | 31 July 1894 |
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| Identifier | 0148 |
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| Birth name | Jane Ann McKenzie |
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| Married name | Arkley |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Presbyterian; Methodist |
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| Paid work | teacher (school) |
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| Biography | The father of Jane Ann ("Jane Annie") McKenzie (1844-1894) built the first of the grist and sawmills that gave her birthplace its name of Millfield, Megantic County, Quebec. The McKenzies also seem to have resided in nearby Inverness Township. After a local education, Jane received her diploma in 1864, became a teacher, and in 1870, married George Arkley (1842-1927). She subsequently lived in her husband's home town of Leeds, Quebec where her three children were born. They returned to Millfield in the early 1880s, then moved to East Angus in 1890. Nearly two decades after Jane's death, her poems were published as A BOOK OF VERSE (1912). |
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| Other notes | According to 1871 Census of Canada, daughter Louisa was born in the United States. Son Lorne became a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and settled in Pennsylvania, but still published a book in Canada on residential fuel efficiency. |
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| Residences | Millfield, Quebec (1844); Leeds, Quebec (1870-1881); Millfield (c1882); East Angus, Quebec (1890); Westbury, Quebec (1891) |
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| Geographic regions | Eastern Townships |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | A BOOK OF VERSE (1912) |
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| Father's name | Thomas McKenzie |
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| Life dates of father | c1789, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland - 3 November 1860, Inverness, Quebec |
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| Father's note | farmer; miller; businessman; arrived in Quebec City from Scotland in 1829 |
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| Mother's name | Mary (Burry or Burray or Bury) |
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| Life dates of mother | c1801 Perthshire, Scotland - 24 November 1874 or 8 November 1875 |
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| Spouse 1 | George Arkley |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 1 August 1842, Leeds, Quebec - 28 November 1927, East Angus, Quebec |
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| Spouse 1 note | farmer |
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| Marriage 1 date | 15 April 1870 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Leeds, Megantic, Quebec (Methodist Church) |
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| Children number | 3 |
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| Children's names and dates | Louisa McKenzie (12 January 1871 - 10 July 1934), m. to H.H. Cooper; Lorne McKenzie (29 February 1873 - ), m. to Winfred; Stella Burry (c September 1878 - 14 October 1879) |
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| Biographical references | 1871 Census of Canada; 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 |
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| Bibliographic references | University of British Columbia Library |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Image credits | Image from Mrs. Geo. Arkley [Jane McKenzie Arkley], A Book of Verse (Sherbrooke, QC: Page, 1912), frontispiece. |
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| Copyright | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/. Please cite Canada's Early Women Writers. SFU Library Digital Collections. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. 1980-2014. |
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