Mabel Burkholder

Mabel Grace Burkholder (1881–1973) was a Canadian writer and historian.

Biography

Burkholder was born in 1881 to a family of German settlers. She taught for a short time after obtaining a teaching certificate before turning to writing. She published poetry, short stories, poems and books about the history of Hamilton, Ontario from 1911 to 1968. Burkholder had a regular local history column in The Hamilton Spectator and was a member of the city's branch of Canadian Women's Press Club.^[1]^[2] In 1938, Burkholder was named Hamilton's first Citizen of the Year.^[3]

Bibliography

Books

The course of Impatience Carningham. Toronto Musson Book. 1911.
Before the white man came : Indian legends and stories. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart. 1923.
The Shield of Honor (1929)
The Story of Hamilton (1938)
Barton on the Mount (1956)

Short stories

Campbell, Sandra; McMullen, Lorraine, eds. (1991). "The Heart of Kerry (1907)". New women short stories by Canadian women, 1900-1920 (2. print ed.). Ottawa [Ont.]: University of Ottawa Press. ISBN 9780776603230.

References

^ Dagg, Anne Innis (2001). The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-88920-355-6.
^ Sandra, Campbell; McMullen, Lorraine, eds. (1991). New women: short stories by Canadian women, 1900-1920. University of Ottawa Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-7766-0323-0.
^ "Businessman, student named Hamilton's Citizens of the Year". The Hamilton Spectator. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

External links

Works by or about Mabel Burkholder at the Internet Archive
Mabel Burkholder at the Wayback Machine (archived February 18, 2006)
"Mabel Burkholder collection". McMaster University Library. William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Retrieved 6 November 2016.

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[Dagg-1] Dagg, Anne Innis (2001). The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-88920-355-6.

[Campbell-2] Sandra, Campbell; McMullen, Lorraine, eds. (1991). New women: short stories by Canadian women, 1900-1920. University of Ottawa Press. p. 179. ISBN 978-0-7766-0323-0.

[3] "Businessman, student named Hamilton's Citizens of the Year". The Hamilton Spectator. 16 March 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2016.

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