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Florence Randal Livesay
1874 - 1953
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Florence Randal Livesay was a remarkable woman. Born, raised and educated in the small Quebec town of Compton, during the very same years as fellow Comptonian Louis St-Laurent, as a young woman Livesay taught in Montreal, New York, and overseas in Boer War concentration camps. She later worked at the
Winnipeg Telegram and
Winnipeg Free Press. Her lone book of verse,
Shepherd's Purse (Toronto: Macmillan, 1923), was followed by a novel,
Savour of Salt (Toronto: Dent, 1927), that was
praised by William Arthur Deacon. I came to Florence Randal Livesay through my interest in her daughter, Dorothy Livesay, whose career was propagated in the pages of the
Free Press.
Florence Randal Livesay was a good mother.
This verse is one of four Florence Randal Livesay poems included in editor John W. Garvin's
Canadian Poems of the Great War (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1918):
Being the the hundredth since the end of the Great War, I couldn't let this Mother's Day pass without acknowledging the fact and adding this verse by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, which is also taken from
Canadian Poems of the Great War:
Happy Mother's Day!
War is over if you want it.
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