| Main entry | Durie, Mary Stewart |
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| Birth place | Carleton (Ottawa), Ontario |
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| Birth date | 22 October 1875 |
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| Death place | Carleton (Ottawa), Ontario |
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| Death date | 29 November 1911 |
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| Identifier | 0276 |
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| Birth name | Mary Stewart Durie |
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| Married name | Gibson |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Presbyterian; Free Church |
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| Paid work | nurse |
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| Biography | Born and raised in Ottawa Mary Stewart Durie (1875-1911) seems to have resided for some time with her grandparents after her mother's death, even though her father soon remarried. By 1891, she had returned to her father's household. Educated at local schools in Ottawa and at Madame Amaron's French Boarding School in Berthier-en-haut, Quebec, she completed her nursing training at the Rhode Island Homeopathic Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. A long-time resident of Ottawa, Mary contributed poems and stories to various periodicals. After a lifelong struggle with endocarditis (inflammation of the lining of the heart), she died in 1911, only four years after her marriage to James Goodwin Gibson (1875-1949). Her grieving husband selected the contents of STORIES AND VERSES (1913), most of which had been written before their marriage, and they were published with an introduction by Mrs. E.W. Thomson. |
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| Other notes | Siblings: Corbet Locke Durie (1877-), m. Isabelle Victoria Gratias, Anna Harley Laidlaw, and was a barrister at law; William Archibald Durie, half-sibling (1889-) was a salesman; Margorie Robertson Durie, half-sibling (c1890-), m. Hermann Herbert Schwartz. |
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| Residences | Ottawa, Ontario (1875, 1881, 1891, 1907, 1911) |
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| Geographic regions | Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry; fiction |
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| Books | STORIES AND VERSES (1913) |
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| Periodicals | CANADIAN MAGAZINE; EAST AND WEST; KING'S OWN; PRESBYTERIAN; SCOTTISH AMERICAN; WESTMINSTER |
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| Father's name | John Stewart Durie |
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| Life dates of father | 8 January 1844, Ontario - 29 November 1914; m. 1874, 1887 |
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| Father's note | bookseller and stationer; barrister (?); second wife was Matilda ("Ilda") Robertson |
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| Mother's name | Mary Elizabeth Locke |
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| Life dates of mother | 23 March 1847, Inisfil Township, Barrie, Ontario - c1887, Selkirk, Manitoba; m. 1874 |
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| Spouse 1 | James Goodwin Gibson |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | August 1875, Ottawa - 2 April 1949, Vancouver |
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| Spouse 1 note | lawyer |
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| Marriage 1 date | 19 June 1907 |
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| Marriage 1 place | Ottawa, Ontario |
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| Biographical references | 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; Ontario, Canada Births, 1869-1913; Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928; Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 223 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | one letter and poetry, Lorne and Edith Pierce collection, Queen's University Archives |
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| Image credits | Line drawing by Una Vernelli (Vancouver, British Columbia). |
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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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