BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Hermia Harris Fraser
(nee Hermia Rose Harris, m Wallace Irving Fraser)

April 25 1902 - November 20 1979

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Hermia Fraser was born in Buctouche, New Brunswick. Her father moved the family to the Yukon during the gold rush. She later lived in Burnaby, Vancouver, and Victoria. She attended the Victoria Normal School and became a school teacher.

She exhibited with the Island Arts and Crafts Society in 1940.

She had a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1947.

Her writing was published by Eldridge and Macmillan, Hob's Heaven in 1937, and Songs of the Western Islands in 1945. One Touch of Murder was published by Arcadia House, New York, U.S.A., 1953. Tall Brigade: True Adventures of Tom McKay, Brigade Leader for the Early Hudson's Bay Company was published in 1956. A book of her poetry titled The Arrow-Maker's Daughter, and Other Haida Chants was published in 1957 by Ryerson as Poetry Chap-book Number 169, 16 pages. It was reviewed in the October 1958 issue of the British Columbia Library Quarterly.

Fraser died a widow in Burnaby in 1979 at the age of 77.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION LOCATION
March 18-April 6 1947 Solo Show VAG

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK

References

Canadian Poetry Magazine, September (Sept.) 1947, Vol. 11, No. 1
Lowry, Malcolm; Adams, Myrtle; Brock, David; Crosland, M.; Fraser, Hermia; Reaney, J.; Sinclair, Lister; et al
Published by The Canadian Authors Association, Toronto, 1947

ARTISTS IN CANADA 1982 - UNION LIST OF ARTISTS' FILES (refer to AIC82)

Island Arts and Crafts Society - List of Exhibitors

https://hermiafraser.com/

Database of Canadian Early Women Writers: https://dhil.lib.sfu.ca/doceww/person/1580

https://archives.library.ryerson.ca/index.php/fraser-hermia-harris

HERMIA: An Artist's Legacy by her son
https://m.facebook.com/storyhive/videos/hermia-an-artists-legacy/948585265292654/?_rdr

https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/hermia-fraser/first-edition/

B.C. VITAL STATISTICS ON-LINE death certificate (refer to BCVS)

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