| Main entry | Tupper, Kathryn Munro |
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| Birth place | Orangedale, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia |
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| Birth date | 9 July 1885 |
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| Death place | Toronto, Ontario |
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| Death date | 21 January 1964 |
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| Identifier | 0324 |
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| Birth name | Kathryn Munro |
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| Married name | Tupper |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Anglican |
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| Paid work | reporter, Nova Scotia Supreme Court; staff, Willard Hall (Toronto) |
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| Other work | clergyman's wife |
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| Biography | Kathryn Munro (1885-1964) received her primary education from the public school in Sydney, Nova Scotia and later took business courses at the Sydney Academy. She worked in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court as a court clerk, and in Willard Hall, Toronto, as a member of the office staff. In 1910 she married Reverend Joseph Tupper (1883-1937), who was also a writer, and subsequently had a son and a daughter. Always publishing under her maiden name, "Kathryn Munro," she won a number of prizes for her poetry. She tied for third place for the Macnab Poetry Award (1945) with "Old, Grey City," and also won prizes from the Canadian Literature Club, and the Canadian Authors Association (Nova Scotia branch). In addition to her five volumes of verse and a children's book, WHISKERS IN LILACTOWN (1934), she composed a number of hymns, including "Aviation Hymn," "Hymn of Peace," and "Dominion Hymn." A friend of Mariel Jenkins,* Kathryn died in 1964. |
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| Honours and awards | Sonnet Award for "The Reaper Wind," Alberta Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1940); 3rd place for "Old, Grey City," McNab Poetry Award (1945); Award ($5) for “Retreat,” Canadian Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1946); Sonnet Award for "Disobedient Garden," Alberta Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association, 1952); Honourable Mention, Canadian Literature Club Book Prize; Sonnet Award for "Ah, How Shall I Requite Thee?" Nova Scotia Poetry Contest (Canadian Authors Association) |
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| Residences | Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (1885-); Kentville, Nova Scotia (1916); Toronto, Ontario (-1964) |
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| Geographic regions | Nova Scotia; Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry; fiction (juvenile) |
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| Books | FORFEIT, AND OTHER POEMS (1926); UNDER THE MAPLE (1930); WHISKERS IN LILACTOWN (1934); NEW MOON (1938); TANAGER FEATHER (1950); COLLECTED POEMS (1961) |
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| Periodicals | CANADIAN BOOKMAN |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Canadian Authors Association (Ottawa), PROFILE (1946); Canadian Authors Association (Toronto), VOICES OF VICTORY (1941); Carman and Pierce, OUR CANADIAN LITERATURE (1934); Creighton and Ridley, NEW CANADIAN ANTHOLOGY (1938); Roberts, FLYING COLOURS (1942) |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association, Canadian Literature Club, Macnab Historical Association |
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| Other arts | music (wrote hymns) |
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| Father's name | James J. Munro |
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| Mother's name | Catherine (or Katherine) Anne Macdonald |
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| Spouse 1 | Reverend Joseph Freeman Tupper |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 5 March 1883, Port Medway, Nova Scotia - 28 November 1937, Toronto, Ontario |
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| Spouse 1 note | clergyman, Anglican; served as chaplain for The Royal Canadian Regiment in First World War; rector, St. Monica's (Toronto); wrote editorials, biography, history, and songs (Christmas carols and military hymns) |
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| Marriage 1 date | 30 November 1910 |
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| Children number | 2 |
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| Children's names and dates | Victor Munro; Dorothy Jean |
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| Biographical references | WHO WAS WHO AMONG NORTH AMERICAN AUTHORS 1921-1939 |
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| Bibliographic references | PROFILE; Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), pp. 200, 408 |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | several letters to Lorne Pierce, Lorne and Edith Pierce collection, Queen's University; several items, J.D. Logan papers, Acadia University; letter to Archibald MacMechan, MacMechan papers, Dalhousie; poem and letter, Tupper Kathryn (Munro), Special Collections, University of Calgary; letter, Walter Jackson McCrea fonds, McMaster University Libraries |
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| Image credits | Image from Alan Creighton and Hilda M. Ridley, eds., A NEW CANADIAN ANTHOLOGY (Toronto: Crucible, 1938). |
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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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