Marie Joussaye

Marie Joussaye (?1864 - March 24, 1949) was a Canadian poet. She is considered Canada's first female working-class poet.

Life
She was born in Belleville, Ontario, into a working class family. She left school at 12 and worked as a domestic servant. In the early 1890s she worked as a labor activist organizing domestic servants in Toronto, on behalf of the Working Women's Protective Association.

Later she lived in British Columbia and then the Yukon, where she married David Fotheringham in 1903.

Publications

 * The Song that Quinte Sang. Belleville: Sun, 1895.
 * Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs. [Dawson, Yukon]: Dawson News Publishing Co., [1920?]. The Canadian Encyclopedia gives 1918 as the publication date.]