| Main entry | Redpath, Beatrice Constance Peterson |
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| Birth place | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Birth date | 19 January 1886 |
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| Death place | Montreal, Quebec |
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| Death date | 11 February 1937 |
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| Identifier | 0361 |
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| Birth name | Beatrice Constance Peterson |
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| Married name | Redpath |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Anglican |
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| Biography | Daughter of the Chief Engineer of the C.P.R., Beatrice Constance Peterson (1886-1937) attended private schools in Montreal and was renowned as one of the beauties of her social circle. In 1910 she married William Redpath (1882-1936), a son of the prominent Redpath Sugar family, and had one son. After living in Ontario for many years she returned to Montreal when she was in her forties, where she died at the age of 50. Her two volumes of poetry appeared early in her literary career, and experienced reprints within a few years of their initial publication. A prolific contributor of poems and stories to popular magazines, Beatrice won the IODE short story prize in 1922. |
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| Travel | New York City (1916) |
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| Other notes | Wrote frequently in 1917 for New York's MORNING LEADER, perhaps suggesting that she lived there for that year. |
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| Honours and awards | Award, IODE story prize (1922) |
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| Residences | Montreal, Quebec (1886-c1903); Goderich, Ontario (c1903-c1908); Montreal (1911-1916); Toronto, Ontario; Montreal (c1926-1937) |
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| Geographic regions | Quebec; Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry; fiction |
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| Books | DRAWN SHUTTERS (1914, 1916); WHITE LILACS AND OTHER POEMS (1919, 1922) |
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| Periodicals | CANADIAN BOOKMAN; CANADIAN MAGAZINE; CHATELAINE; MACLEAN'S; MONTREAL POETRY YEAR BOOK (1931); MORNING LEADER (New York) |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Carman and Pierce, OUR CANADIAN LITERATURE (1934); Caswell, CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS (1925); Garvin, CANADIAN POEMS OF THE GREAT WAR (1918); Garvin, CANADIAN POETS (1916; 1926) |
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| Father's name | Peter Alexander Peterson |
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| Life dates of father | 8 October 1839, Niagara, Ontario - 21 November 1913, Montreal, Quebec; m. 1876 |
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| Father's note | engineer; Chief Engineer, Toronto Waterworks; Engineer-in-Chief, Canadian Pacific Railway; designed and built bridge across St. Lawrence at Montreal and bridge at Sault Ste. Marie |
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| Mother's name | Mary ("Minnie") Isabella Langlois |
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| Life dates of mother | 7 July 1854, Quebec - c1948; m. 1876 |
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| Spouse 1 | William Redpath |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 20 June 1882, Montreal, Quebec - 12 February 1936, Montreal, Quebec |
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| Spouse 1 note | sugar manufacturer, of Redpath Sugar, started by grandfather John Redpath (1796-1869) |
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| Marriage 1 date | April 1910 |
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| Children number | 1 |
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| Children's names and dates | John Peter (2 February 1911 - 30 December 1943), m. to unknown |
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| Biographical references | 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada; Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956; Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 164 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | several letters to W.A. Deacon, Deacon Papers, Fisher Library—University of Toronto |
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| Image credits | Image from John. W. Garvin, ed., CANADIAN POETS (2nd ed., Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 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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