Elsie Fry Laurence: Collected Poetry and Selected Prose

Sous la direction d'Eli MacLaren (U. McGill)

The representation of central Alberta and northern interior British Columbia in English poetry begins with Elsie Fry Laurence (1893–1982), who arrived on one of the first trains in the region in 1914. This edition, featuring an extensive introduction, presents her quest to make a home for herself and her children in deeds and in words, with the aim being not only to shed light on the formation of her daughter-in-law, Margaret Laurence, but also to renew the study of Canadian literature in general as a vital encounter between modernity and ecosystems, between books and First Nations, between language and place.