| Main entry | Jackson, Katherine H. (Henrietta) McDonald |
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| Birth place | Brockville, Leeds, Ontario |
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| Birth date | 11 October 1868 |
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| Death place | Brockville, Leeds, Ontario |
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| Death date | 3 July 1927 |
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| Identifier | 0101 |
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| Birth name | Katherine Henrietta McDonald |
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| Married name | Jackson |
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| Marital status | married |
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| Religious affiliation | Anglican |
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| Biography | Aside from a possible stay in Winnipeg, Katherine McDonald Jackson (1868-1927) spent her entire life in Brockville, Ontario. Although she grew up with only one other sibling surviving childhood, upon marrying widower Dr. William Frederick Jackson (1852-1935) in 1891, Katherine instantaneously inherited four step-children, to which she and William would add three daughters. It was to her father, however, that she dedicated her only book, SUMMER SONGS IN IDLENESSE (1903). Herbert Stone McDonald (1842-1921), whom Katherine referred to as "my nearest friend," was a county court judge in Brockville and a member of the Ontario legislature who likely encouraged his daughter's interest in literature and writing. Katherine died of a stroke in 1927 at St. Vincent de Paul Hospital, and was buried in Brockville. |
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| Other notes | Spelling variants: Katharine, Catharine, Kathryn |
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| Residences | Brockville, Leeds, Ontario (1881, 1891, 1901, 1911); Winnipeg |
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| Geographic regions | Ontario; Manitoba |
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| Primary genres | poetry |
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| Books | SUMMER SONGS IN IDLENESSE (1903) |
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| Organizations | Canadian Authors Association (Winnipeg) |
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| Father's name | Judge Herbert Stone McDonald |
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| Life dates of father | 23 February 1842, Gananoque, Ontario - 7 January 1921, Brockville, Ontario; m. 1864 |
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| Father's note | barrister; MLA for South Leeds, Ontario (1871-73); county court judge; loyalist and Scottish ancestry |
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| Mother's name | Emma Matilda Jones |
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| Life dates of mother | 17 March 1842, Brockville, Ontario - 23 September 1908, Brockville, Ontario; m. 1864 |
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| Spouse 1 | Dr. William Frederick Jackson |
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| Life dates of spouse 1 | 17 September 1852, Brockville, Ontario - 29 January 1935, Brockville, Ontario |
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| Spouse 1 note | medical doctor; first wife, Annie Medora Hutcheson (had four children) |
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| Marriage 1 date | 16 September 1891 |
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| Marriage 1 place | St. Peter's Church, Brockville, Ontario |
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| Children number | 3 (plus 4 step-children) |
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| Children's names and dates | T H Doris (11 January 1893 - ), m. to William F. Arthur;
Brenda Matilda Katharine (30 June 1894 - ), m. to Winthrop Sears;
Athold Yvonne (26 February 1905 - ) |
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| Biographical references | 1881 Census of Canada; 1891 Census of Canada; 1901 Census of Canada; 1911 Census of Canada; 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. 97 |
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| Research references | complete |
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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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