Some Blessed Day

Author: Edna Jaques

Born: Jan­u­a­ry 17/18, 1891, Col­ling­wood, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da. Died: Sep­tem­ber 9, 1979, Wil­low­dale, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da. Buried: Trin­i­ty Unit­ed Church cem­e­te­ry, Col­ling­wood, On­tar­io, Ca­na­da. Daughter of Charles Adolph­us and Ma­ry El­len Don­o­hue Jacques, Ed­na grew up in Brier­crest, near Moose Jaw, Sas­kat­che­wan. She be­gan writ­ing verse as a teen­age­r, her first ef­forts ap­pear­ing in the Moose Jaw Times. After fin­ish­ing her stu­dies in the pub­lic schools, she moved to Cal­ga­ry where she wrote a po­et­ic re­sponse to In Flan­ders Fields, which was read at the ded­i­ca­tion of the Tomb of the Un­known Sol­dier in Wash­ing­ton, DC. This vault… Go to person page >