Kate Simpson Hayes
{{Short description|Canadian writer (1856–1945)}}
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| pseudonym = Mary Markwell; Elaine; Marka Wohl; Yukon Bill
| birth_name = Catherine Ethel Hayes
| birth_date = 6 July 1856
| birth_place = Dalhousie, New Brunswick, British North America
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| death_place = British Columbia, Canada
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| occupation = playwright, author, journalist, poet, teacher, milliner, legislative librarian
| language = English
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Kate Simpson Hayes ({{nee}}, Hayes; after first marriage, Simpson; after separation, Hayes; pen names, Mary Markwell, Elaine, Marka Wohl, Yukon Bill; 6 July 1856 - 15 January 1945) was a Canadian playwright, author, journalist, poet, teacher, milliner, and legislative librarian. She was a founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club, and the first woman journalist in Western Canada.
Biography
Catherine Ethel Hayes was born in 1856, in Dalhousie, New Brunswick. Her parents were Patrick Hayes, a lumber merchant and storekeeper, and Anna Hagan Hayes, a school teacher.
A founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club, she was the first woman journalist in the Canadian West.{{sfn|Lewis|2006|p=10}}{{cite web|title=Hayes, Kate Simpson|url=http://digital.lib.sfu.ca/ceww-796/hayes-kate-simpson|publisher=Simon Fraser University|access-date=10 August 2017}} Hayes wrote for the Free Press, Winnipeg, and wrote poetry using the pen name Mary Markwell for the Regina, Saskatchewan Leader.{{sfn|Powell|Williams|University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center|1996|p=}} She married Charles Bowman Simpson in 2 June 1882; they had two children before separating in 1889. She had a relationship with Nicholas Flood Davin, and they had two children.{{cite web|title=Hayes, Kate Simpson (a.k.a Mary Markwell) - City of Regina|url=http://www.regina.ca/students/heritage-history/historical-biographies/biography-hayes/|website=www.regina.ca|access-date=9 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810012825/http://www.regina.ca/students/heritage-history/historical-biographies/biography-hayes/|archive-date=10 August 2017|url-status=dead}} She was opposed to women being given the vote and she worked in the UK for a time encouraging other women to emigrate to Canada. She died in British Columbia in 1945.{{sfn|Wishart|2004|p=330}} Her papers are housed at the Saskatchewan Archives, McGill University, and National Archives of Canada.
Personal life
Simpson had four children: Burke Hayes Simpson, Anna W Elaine ("Bonnie") Simpson, Henry Arthur Davin, and Agnes Agatha Davin.
Kate Simpson Hayes died in Victoria, British Columbia, 15 January 1945.{{sfn|Wishart|2004|p=330}}
Selected works
- Prairie pot-pourri
- The legend of the West, 1908
References
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=Bibliography=
- {{cite book|last=Lewis|first=Norah L.|title=Dear Editor and Friends: Letters from Rural Women of the North-West, 1900-1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=blE9DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press|isbn=978-0-88920-732-5}}
- {{cite book|last1=Powell|first1=Barbara Pezalla|last2=Williams|first2=Myrna|author3=University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center|title=Piecing the Quilt: Sources for Women's History in the Saskatchewan Archives Board|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EEwmueUaPlYC&pg=PA124|year=1996|publisher=University of Regina Press|isbn=978-0-88977-090-4}}
- {{cite book|author1-link=David J. Wishart|last=Wishart|first=David J.|title=Encyclopedia of the Great Plains|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtRFyFO4hpEC&pg=PA330|year=2004|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=0-8032-4787-7}}
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Category:19th-century Canadian poets
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