Marie Joussaye
# Marie Joussaye

Marie Joussaye (1864 in Belleville – 24 March 1949 in Vancouver) was a Canadian poet.

## Life

Marie Josie was born at and grew up in Belleville Canada West. She was a newspaper journalist in Toronto. In 1893, she was president of the Working Girls' Union. She moved to Dawson City, Yukon. In November 1903, she married David Heatherington Fotheringham, a Northwest Mounted Policeman. They had financial difficulties. In 1924, she moved to Mayo, Yukon. In 1929, she moved to Vancouver, where she died in a rooming house on 24 March 1949.

## Works

* The Songs that Quinte Sang (1895)
* Selections from Anglo-Saxon Songs (1918)
