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Who Was Doris Hedges?
Despite her trailblazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories. In Who Was Doris Hedges? Robert Lecker provides a detailed account of her remarkable career. Hedges published several novels, short stories, and books of poetry, moved in Montreal literary circles, did a stint as a radio broadcaster, and provided reports to the Wartime Information Board during the Second World War, possibly as an American spy. She lived a privileged life in the Golden Square Mile district of downtown Montrea...
Dictionary of Canadian Biography / Dictionaire Biographique Du Canada
Internet version contains all the information in the 14 volume print and CD-ROM versions; fully searchable by keyword or by browsing the name index.
Gribbel and Elkins Families
"William Gribbell ... was buried Dec. 16, 1703 ... at Camborne, Cornwall, England. He married at Camborne ... Sept. 7, 1657, Katheryn Butcher, who was buried there July 13, 1728 ... In Camborne Parish Records, William was entered as "first of the Gribbells in these parts."--Page 17. William's descendant James Gribble, Jr. (1829-1914), son of James and Elizabeth (Blamey) Grimble was a blacksmith at Tuckingmill, Cornwall, England. He married Ann Simmons 6 March 1855 in Cornwall, " ... came the United States in 1857, and was a plumber at 352 East 87th Street, New York City; died there Jan. 2, 1914 and is buried in Rural Cemetery at White Plains, N.Y. His wife, Ann Simmons Gribble, born May 1, 1...
The Law Times
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