British Columbia Authors

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Location: British Columbia

This page is designed to help members of the British Columbia Project keep track of notable authors from British Columbia's history who belong in the British Columbia, Notable Writers category.

Contents 1 British Columbia Notable Writers Without WikiTree Profiles 2 British Columbia Notable Writers In Need Of Improvement 3 British Columbia Notable Writers - Complete 4 Resources

British Columbia Notable Writers Without WikiTree Profiles

You can add profiles for British Columbia notables starting with information from:

The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography

Wikipedia

or other sources.

Name	Notable As
M. Wylie Blanchet	Author and sailor
Hubert Evans	Author
Bruce Hutchison	Author, journalist
Eswyn Lyster	Author
Margaret (Lally) "Ma" Murray	Newspaper editor, publisher, and columnist
June "Rohan" O'Grady	Novelist
Paul St. Pierre	Author, journalist, member of parliament

Please list each person's date and place of birth and death and at least a short biography explaining why the person is important.

Once a profile for a BC Notable has been added to WikiTree, there are a few things which need to be added:

Sticker: {{British Columbian Sticker}} The British Columbian sticker marks this person as an early or significant British Columbian.

Privacy: The privacy level should be set to "Open" for deceased notables. (Please do not add living notables. Contact the leaders of the Canada Project for guidance on this issue.)

Sources: There should be a link under "See also:" to that person's entry in Wikipedia, the Canadian Encyclopedia, the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, KnowBC, or some similar source (and, in the case of people who are listed on Wikipedia, there needs to be a link to their Wikidata entry, and the WikiTree ID needs to be entered into their Wikidata entry). Use these to create Wikipedia links:

• * Wikipedia: [[wikipedia:Person_Name|Person Name]]
• * {{Wikidata|Q1234567|enwiki}}

Categories: The appropriate categories should be added: places of birth, longtime residence, and death, occupation(s), honours received, etc.

British Columbia Notable Writers In Need Of Improvement

Even once a profile has been added to WikiTree, it often needs further improvement:

a narrative biography

at least one primary source

at least one non-copyrighted picture of that person

and a connection to the global tree.

(If you see links at the bottom of the profile listing how many degrees that person is from King Henry VIII and two other people, then their profile is connected to the main tree. To find out more about getting a profile connected to the main tree, see the Connectors Project page.)

Please review the list below and see if you can assist by improving upon one or more of the profiles.

Name	Biography?	Sources?	Image?	Connected?
Margerie (Bonner) Lowry	Yes	Yes	No	No - has spouse, parents and paternal grandparents
Agnes Deans Cameron	needs further details	No primary	Yes	Yes
Julia Wilmotte (Henderson) Henshaw	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
W.P. Kinsella	Yes	Yes	Yes	No - has parents and 4 grandparents plus one spouse
Malcolm Lowry	Yes	Yes	Yes	No - has parents, paternal grandparents, brother, wife
George Ryga	Yes	Yes	No	No - has parents

British Columbia Notable Writers - Complete

Once a profile meets all of the requirements, it can be duplicated on the British Columbia Notables page. For more details, see the Profile Quality Levels page.

The following profiles for notables of British Columbia have been successfully created, cleaned up, and connected to the main tree. Let's celebrate our successes as we improve upon WikiTree's coverage of British Columbia!

Doris (Meisel) Shadbolt, Museum curator, author and jewellery designer

Susan (Moir) Allison, Memoirist

Resources

• The Canadian Encyclopedia
• The Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• Wikipedia: List of people from British Columbia
• Wikipedia: List of Canadian writers