| Main entry | Graham, Hannah Isabel |
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| Birth place | Harpurhey, Huron, Ontario |
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| Birth date | 13 May 1869 |
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| Death place | Seaforth, Huron, Ontario |
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| Death date | 29 October 1941 |
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| Identifier | 0291 |
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| Birth name | Hannah Isabella Graham |
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| Marital status | single |
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| Religious affiliation | Presbyterian |
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| Paid work | teacher (music); journalist |
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| Biography | Combining philanthropic activities, writing, and music, Hannah Isabella Graham (1869-1941) led a full life. She received her basic education at public schools in Egmondville and Seaforth, Ontario, and at the Collegiate Institute at Seaforth, afterwards continuing her music training at the Toronto College of Music where she studied piano, pipe organ, and harmony. Most of her life was spent in Tuckersmith Township and Egmondville, adjoining the town of Seaforth. She taught music for a time, wrote several songs, and enjoyed music as a form of relaxation. As a writer, she published three volumes of verse and numerous poems, stories and feature articles in various periodicals. Her philanthropy occurred through her many memberships in missionary societies. Hannah died in 1941 and was buried at Egmondville United Cemetery. |
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| Residences | Harpurhey, Ontario (1869); Tuckersmith, Huron, Ontario (1871, 1881, 1891, 1901); Seaforth, Huron, Ontario (1911); Egmondville, Huron, Ontario (-1941) |
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| Geographic regions | Eastern Ontario |
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| Primary genres | poetry; journalism |
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| Books | A SONG OF DECEMBER AND OTHER POEMS (1904); BEN ONA AND THE CHRISTMAS CAROL (1931); SAINT IGNACE AND THE VISION AND OTHER POEMS (1934); BE OF GOOD CHEER (1939) |
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| Periodicals | CANADIAN BOOKMAN; CANADIAN MAGAZINE; LONDON FREE PRESS; NEW OUTLOOK; TORONTO GLOBE |
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| Other publications | Anthologized in: Clark, SELECTIONS FROM SCOTTISH CANADIAN POETS (1900); Creighton and
Ridley, NEW CANADIAN ANTHOLOGY (1938); Garvin, CANADIAN POEMS OF THE GREAT WAR (1918) |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association, Canadian Women's Press Club |
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| Other arts | songwriter; music (piano, organ) |
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| Father's name | Reverend William G. Graham |
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| Life dates of father | c1817, Scotland - 1893, Egmondville, Huron, Ontario |
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| Father's note | clergyman, Presbyterian |
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| Mother's name | Elizabeth Gouinlock |
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| Life dates of mother | 9 November 1828, Scotland - 1907, Egmondville, Huron, Ontario |
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| Biographical references | WHO WAS WHO AMONG NORTH AMERICAN AUTHORS 1921-1939; WOMAN'S WHO'S WHO OF AMERICA (1914-15); 1871 Census of Canada; 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada |
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| Bibliographic references | Watters, CHECKLIST OF CANADIAN LITERATURE...1620-1960 (1970), p. 78, National Union Catalogue |
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| Research references | complete |
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| Archival references | several letters to John Willison, Willison papers, National Archives of Canada; one letter, J.D. Logan papers, Acadia University Archives; poem, Lorne and Edith Pierce collection, Queen's University Archives; poems and letters in Newton McTavish papers, North York Public Library |
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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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| Unverified titles | FIFTY YEARS OF PRESBYTERIANISM IN EGMONDVILLE (1896) |
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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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