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In 1935, Jaques sent Joyce—now 12 years old—back to
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As a young girl, Jaques was "constantly jotting down rhymes on scraps of paper," which led to her being known as the "scrapbook poetess of the West" (in 1934, author and politician Nellie McClung wrote an article about her friend Edna Jaques entitled "The
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offered to pay for her to attend university. Still wanting to travel, though, Jaques convinced the editor, instead, to pay for her passage to the West Coast, where she worked as a stewardess on a coastal steamer before attending business school. After a short stint with the
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Scotland ... Edna Jaques is to Canada ... the voice of the people. Her poems — as she says herself — are clad in print and homespun and the rough weave of common folk." In 1976, she was proclaimed Woman of the Year by
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