Mabel Burkholder
{{Short description|Canadian writer and historian}}
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Mabel Grace Burkholder (1881–1973) was a Canadian writer and historian.
Biography
Burkholder was born in 1881 to a family of German settlers. She taught for a short time after obtaining a teaching certificate before turning to writing. She published poetry, short stories, poems and books about the history of Hamilton, Ontario from 1911 to 1968. Burkholder had a regular local history column in The Hamilton Spectator and was a member of the city's branch of Canadian Women's Press Club.{{cite book |title=The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945 |last=Dagg |first=Anne Innis |author-link=Anne Innis Dagg |page=51 |year=2001 |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJwyLyaT9KYC&q=%22Mabel+Burkholder%22&pg=PA51 |isbn=978-0-88920-355-6 }}{{cite book |title=New women: short stories by Canadian women, 1900-1920 |editor1-last=Sandra |editor1-first=Campbell |editor2-last=McMullen |editor2-first=Lorraine |page=[https://archive.org/details/newwomenshortsto00camp/page/179 179] |year=1991 |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |isbn=978-0-7766-0323-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newwomenshortsto00camp/page/179 }} In 1938, Burkholder was named Hamilton's first Citizen of the Year.{{cite news|title=Businessman, student named Hamilton's Citizens of the Year|url=http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6392082-businessman-student-named-hamilton-s-citizens-of-the-year/|accessdate=7 November 2016|publisher=The Hamilton Spectator|date=16 March 2016}}
Bibliography
=Books=
- {{cite book|title=The course of Impatience Carningham|date=1911|publisher=Toronto Musson Book|url=https://archive.org/details/courseofimpatien00burkuoft}}
- {{cite book|title=Before the white man came : Indian legends and stories|date=1923|publisher=Toronto : McClelland & Stewart|url=https://archive.org/details/beforewhitemanca00burk}}
- The Shield of Honor (1929)
- The Story of Hamilton (1938)
- Barton on the Mount (1956)
=Short stories=
- {{cite book|editor1-last=Campbell|editor1-first=Sandra|editor2-last=McMullen|editor2-first=Lorraine|title=New women short stories by Canadian women, 1900-1920|date=1991|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|location=Ottawa [Ont.]|isbn=9780776603230|edition=2. print|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e14OAAAAIAAJ&q=mabel+burkholder&pg=PA179|chapter=The Heart of Kerry (1907)}}
Further reading
- Watters, Reginald Eyre. A Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Material, 1682-1960. (2nd Revised Ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.
References
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Mabel Burkholder}}
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218202845/http://www.geocities.com/canlit2002/canliterature.html |date=February 18, 2006 |title=Mabel Burkholder }}
- {{cite web|title=Mabel Burkholder collection|url=http://archives.mcmaster.ca/index.php/mabel-burkholder-collection|website=McMaster University Library|publisher=William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections|accessdate=6 November 2016}}
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Category:20th-century Canadian historians
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