| Main entry | Gilpin, Lois A. Hunter |
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| Birth place | Cambray, Fenelon Township, Victoria, Ontario |
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| Birth date | 14 September 1869 |
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| Death place | Richmond, British Columbia |
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| Death date | 25 July 1963 |
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| Identifier | 0287 |
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| Birth name | Minnie Louisa Hunter |
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| Alternate names | Lois A. Gilpin |
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| Married name | Gilpin |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Baptist; Anglican |
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| Biography | Minnie Louisa Hunter (1869-1963) was born in the small community of Cambray, Ontario, to a British-born carpenter and wife. Her childhood was spent in different parts of North Victoria county, including Fenelon Falls, where William Hunter (1828-1922) and Jane Ellen Leech (1833-) remained until their deaths. Some time during the years leading up to her 1899 marriage to optometrist George Thomas Gilpin (1874-1952), Louisa moved to British Columbia's west coast. As "Lois A. Hunter Gilpin," she was known as both an artist and a writer. She belonged to the Canadian Authors Association, Pacific North West Academy of Arts, the Vancouver Sketch Club and the British Columbia Art League, and had a one-person show at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Her two collections of verse were privately published in Vancouver, her home for most of her life. Lois Gilpin had no children. She was widowed in 1953 and died a decade later, in 1963. |
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| Other notes | Some records have birthday as 2 September. Birth registry reads 14 September 1869. Went by "Louisa" in childhood. |
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| Residences | Cambray, Ontario (1869); Fenelon, Ontario (1871); Fenelon Falls, Ontario (1881, 1891); Vancouver, British Columbia (1901); North Vancouver, British Columbia (1926-1937); Vancouver, British Columbia (1938-1956); Richmond, British Columbia |
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| Geographic regions | British Columbia |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | EASTER SUNDAY, EARLY, AND OTHER POEMS (1935); THE ARBUTUS TREE [193-?] |
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| Periodicals | FULL TIDE |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Creighton and Ridley, NEW CANADIAN ANTHOLOGY (1938); Vancouver Poetry Writers' Group, POEMS (1938) |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association |
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| Other arts | art |
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| Father's name | William Hunter |
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| Life dates of father | 16 August 1828, Newcastle, England - 1 February 1922, Fenelon Falls, Ontario |
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| Father's note | carpenter |
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| Mother's name | Jane Ellen Leech |
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| Life dates of mother | 18 February 1833, England - after 1922 |
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| Spouse 1 | George Thompson Gilpin |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 21 June 1874, Ontario - 30 December 1952, Vancouver |
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| Spouse 1 note | optometrist |
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| Marriage 1 date | 12 April 1899 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Vancouver, British Columbia |
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| Biographical references | 1871 Census of Canada; 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; British Columbia, Canada, Death Index, 1872-1990; British Columbia, Canada, Marriage Index, 1872-1935; Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 76 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | Lois Gilpin file, Add. Mss 294 vol 5, Vancouver City Archives; three letters to Robert A. Hood, University of British Columbia Archives; one letter to Mrs. E.S. Robinson, Judge Howay papers, University of British Columbia Archives. |
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| Image credits | Image from Lois H. Gilpin, THE ARBUTUS TREE (1926). |
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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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