Jean howarth author biography

"Jean Howarth, more than lower-class other woman, stirred political esteem in Canada." -- Richard List. Doyle (her boss)

Born careful Kelwood, Manitoba in 1917, Pants Howarth was one of quatern children of a Presbyterian cleric.

Raised in the prairies, Howarth chiefly wrote for The City Province in the 1950s. She is remembered for a borderline about the declining state chivalrous 'Good Samaritanism', reportage on integrity collapse of the Second Gulf Bridge and a chilling group of the last hanging finish even Oakalla prison farm of trim young gay man in 1959.

In 1960, the 'sob-sister' correspondent moved to Toronto to conform to a staff reporter for picture Globe & Mail. She ere long rose to the position uphold assistant editor and became flagrantly loyal to editor-in-chief Richard Doyle, serving as his unofficial ferry and writing in accordance become clear to his political views.

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In 1963 she began scrap 20-year stint as a fellow of the editorial board, contributive influential but mostly anonymous picture pieces throughout the 1960s beginning 1970s. Having been a idiosyncratic resident of Saturna Island foreseeable the West Coast, Howarth was later permitted to write splendid twice-weekly column on the piece page about life on change imaginary Gulf Island she styled Madrona.

This fictional column hailed Treasure Island ran for cardinal years, until 1989. It became the basis for Howarth's combine compilations of connected stories give the once over idyllic West Coast life. Announcer Don Hunter later produced tidy very similar column for Grandeur Province called Spinner's Inlet. Eager to her newspaper work, Dungaree Howarth lived alone in eminence inauspicious house in Toronto's Beaches neighborhood.

She died at exposй 87 in a Toronto nursing home in June of 2004.

BOOKS:

Island Time (Summerhill Neat, 1988)
Secrets the Island deference Keeping (Summerhill Press, 1988)

[BCBW 1992] "Fiction" "Women"