Hilary Stewart
{{Short description|Saint Lucia-born Canadian writer (1924 – 2014)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|11|3}}
| birth_place = Saint Lucia
| death_date = {{death date and age|2014|6|5|1924|11|3}}
| death_place = British Columbia
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| education = St. Martin's School of Art
| employer = CHEK TV
| occupation = writer, illustrator, and expert
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Hilary Stewart (3 November 1924 – 5 June 2014) was a Saint Lucia- born Canadian writer known for her books about the Northwest Coast First Nations people. She illustrated other writers' books and published eleven of her own.
Life
Stewart was born in Saint Lucia in 1924.{{Cite web |title=Fonds 122 - Hilary Stewart fonds |url=https://atom.moa.ubc.ca/index.php/hilary-stewart-fond}} She was sent to boarding school in the UK before studying at St. Martin's School of Art. She had a sister and a brother. She was in the military during the Second World War, and after leaving the forces, she arrived in Canada in 1951.{{Cite web |last=Cramp |first=Beverly |date=2014-06-14 |title=Remembering Hilary Stewart |url=https://bcbooklook.com/23077/ |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=BC Booklook |language=en-US}}
She was a founding member of the Archaeological Society of British Columbia{{Cite web |title=Hilary Stewart {{!}} Canadian Archaeological Association / Association canadienne d'archéologie |url=https://canadianarchaeology.com/caa/about/awards/recipients/margaret-and-james-f-pendergast-award/hilary-stewart |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=canadianarchaeology.com}} which started in 1966.
In 1979, she published Looking at Northwest Coast Indian art. The book looks not only at the style of the art but also the associated stories behind the images.{{Cite web |title=Looking at Northwest Coast Indian art hilary stewart - Google Search |url=https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0adcfbb17eb07e8c&sca_upv=1&rlz=1CATRIY_enGB1089&sxsrf=ACQVn0_xQUGNWtTTu_95EIdIe8_8zwluMA:1711226489514&q=%27%27Looking+at+Northwest+Coast+Indian+art%27%27+hilary+stewart&tbm=bks&source=lnms&prmd=ibnvmtz&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjppaa4n4uFAxVlSkEAHcgNAAwQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1366&bih=599&dpr=1 |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=www.google.com}}
In 1985, British Columbia began giving prizes for books, and her 1984 book, Cedar, was one of the first recipients. Three years later, she repeated the trick after she published her book about John R. Jewitt, John R. Jewitt, Captive of Maquinna.
She lived for 35 years on Quadra Island. She had no qualifications in archaeology, but she was accepted as an authority. She used her skills as an artist to illustrate her work, and others used her work. She experimented by splitting cedar to understand better how the First Nation people made their tools and art.{{Cite web |date=2014-06-16 |title=R.I.P Hilary Stewart, 1924-2014 |url=https://qmackie.com/2014/06/16/r-i-p-hilary-stewart-1924-2014/ |access-date=2024-03-23 |website=Northwest Coast Archaeology |language=en}}
The Canadian Archaeological Association awarded her their Pendergast award for her work.
She spent the last five years of her life at Campbell River after a stroke. She died in 2014, leaving her books and an endowment fund for the Museum of Anthropology at UBC.
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Category:Saint Lucian women writers
Category:Writers from British Columbia
Category:Canadian illustrators
Category:Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art