Lily Alice Lefevre, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lily Alice Lefevre

Canadian singer and author

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1853

Place of Birth: Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1938

Profession: writer, singer, author

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Lily Alice Lefevre

  • Lily Alice Lefevre (5 April 1854 – 17 October 1938) was a Canadian writer whose literary work closely linked her to her hometown of Vancouver.
  • Her book of poems Lion's Gate and Other Verses (1895) was the first book written by a woman and published by a British Columbia publisher, Province Publishing.
  • She was born in Kingston, Ontario.
  • As a teenager she received a medal for writing the best poem about a carnival in Montreal, which continued to be a theme in many of her later poems. Lefevre arrived in Vancouver in 1886 with her husband, a CPR district surgeon Dr.
  • John Lefevre.
  • Her husband died in 1906.
  • In 1889 the title poem of her book first appeared in The Vancouver Daily World as The Lions' Gateway, and was published under her pen name, Fleurange.
  • One of Lefevre's sonnets was published in a book of poetry edited by Lord Dufferin who was Governor General of Canada from 1872-1878.Lefevre organized the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire upon the occasion of the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902.
  • She was co-founder of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
  • In 1934 she donated $5,000 for a scholarship and gold medal to the University of British Columbia in honor of and to commemorate her husband J.M.
  • Lefevre.
  • Her book The Lion's Gate was first published in 1895, but was re-launched in 1903 along with The Beaver and the Empress.
  • In 1936 it was again re-printed for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the city of Vancouver.
  • In 1921 A Garden By The Sea appeared.
  • Her poem March on! Canada! was set to music by Harold Craxton.

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