Canadian writer and historian

Mabel Grace Burkholder (1881–1973) was a Canadian writer and historian.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Bibliography
  • 2.1 Books
  • 2.2 Short stories
• 3 Further reading
• 4 References
• 5 External links

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. In 1938, Burkholder was named Hamilton's first Citizen of the Year.

Bibliography

Books

• The course of Impatience Carningham. Toronto Musson Book. 1911.
• Before the white man came:: Indian legends and stories. Toronto:: McClelland & Stewart. 1923.
• The Shield of Honor (1929)
• The Story of Hamilton (1938)
• Barton on the Mount (1956)

Short stories

• Campbell, Sandra; McMullen, Lorraine, eds. (1991). "The Heart of Kerry (1907)". New women short stories by Canadian women, 1900-1920 (2. print:ed.). Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press. ISBN:9780776603230.

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

External links

• Works by or about Mabel Burkholder at Internet Archive
• Mabel Burkholder at the Wayback Machine (archived February 18, 2006)
• "Mabel Burkholder collection". McMaster University Library. William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Retrieved 6 November 2016.