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Colleen Thibaudeau
Colleen Thibaudeau (December 29, 1925 – February 6, 2012) was a Canadian poet and short-story writer. A graduate of the University of Toronto, she began writing poetry for a number of magazines under the pseudonym M. Morris in the 1950s to the 1960s before going to publish eight books during the 1960s to the 1990s. The League of Canadian Poets established an literary award in Thibaudeau's name and a play set to music based on her words was staged in London, Ontario in March 2013. Early life Thibaudeau was born on December 29, 1925, in Toronto. Ontario. She was the daughter of the high school teacher and writer of Acadian descent John Stewart Thibaudeau and his wife, Alice ( Pryce) Thibaudeau, the Belfast-born war bride. Thibaudeau had one brother and a younger sister. She was raised in St. Thomas, Ontario and wrote poems during her schooling days that were published in the magazines ''Here and Now,'' ''Northern Review'' and ''Undergrad''. Thibaudeau completed a Bachelor of Arts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
