Elisabeth Margaret Hopkins (April22, 1894 April1991), born in

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, England, was a painter and writer in British Columbia.

Career

Elisabeth Hopkins, a cousin of

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and the granddaughter of the painter Frances Ann Hopkins. began painting during her childhood. Trained as a nurse at Middlesex Hospital in 1916, she saw service in the

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and in Canada, to which she moved in 1954, at a nursing home in Victoria, BC, then at Victoria Veterans' Hospital. Afterwards, she ran an Anglican bookshop. She retired to Galiano Island where she joined the Galiano Painters Guild and afterwards moved to Saltspring Island. In the 1970s and 1980s, her watercolour paintings created from her imaginary world were exhibited at the Bau Xi Galleries in Vancouver and Toronto. She illustrated and wrote a children's book, ''The Painted Cougar'', published by Talon Books in 1977, which tells the story of Leon, a cougar in love with another cougar named Lurline. In 1982, an exhibition titled ''The magical world of Elisabeth Hopkins'' was curated by Joan Stebbins for the

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in Lethbridge. She was the subject of a film made by Colin Browne for the

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in 1984 titled ''Hoppy: A Portrait of Elisabeth Hopkins'' (Hoppy was her nickname to local residents in BC). The Elisabeth Margaret Hopkins fonds is in the University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, Elisabeth Margaret 1894 births 1991 deaths Artists from British Columbia People from the Capital Regional District 20th-century Canadian painters British emigrants to Canada Canadian women painters 20th-century Canadian women artists 20th-century women painters