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Literature Arts and Entertainment Literature Laurence, Margaret
Literature Arts and Entertainment Literature Laurence, Margaret
Laurence, Margaret
Also known as
Jean Margaret Wemyss
Cemetery:
Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa
Date of Birth:
July 18, 1926
Place of birth:
Neepawa, Manitoba
Date of Death:
January 5, 1987
Place of death:
Lakefield, Ontario
Cause of death:
Cancer: lung. The cancer had spread and rather than suffer, Laurence took her own life.
Margaret Laurence was a Governor General Award winning novelist for A Jest of God (1966) and The Diviners (1974). Her novel Stone Angel (1964) is also widely read in schools across Canada.
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Interment Info
She was buried in her hometown in the Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, Manitoba. Her ashes were brought by her children, Jocelyn and David, to be interred in Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, on June 23, the day before the official opening of The Margaret Laurence Home, the house where she had lived in her youth.
Cemetery
Riverside Cemetery is located on Smith Drive, in the North East corner of Neepawa. There are well over 2500 graves covered each summer with flowers, under the perpetual care program. It is said that there are more flower
Did you know ... ?
Riverside Cemetery in Manitoba is the furthest west burial place for a victim of the sinking of the Titanic.
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