Margaret Bemister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian author
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Place of Birth: Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada
About Margaret Bemister
- Margaret Bemister (August 31, 1877 – March 3, 1984) was a Canadian writer and educator. The daughter of George Bartlett Bemister, a native of Newfoundland, and Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" McPhillips, a native of Ontario, she was born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba.
- She attended the Winnipeg Normal School, where she received her teaching certificate.
- She collected and retold stories, including several told to her by a chief of the Syilx First Nation.
- Bemister contributed to the Manitoba Free Press and was an early member of the Winnipeg branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club.
- She helped create the Christmas Knapsack, an anthology published to raise money for Canadian soldiers during World War I.
- Besides non-fiction, she also wrote short stories and novels.Bemister moved to Vancouver, British Columbia when she was 82; she later died at St.
- Vincent's Hospital there at the age of 106.
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