<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Bonjour Louise,</div><div><br></div><div>For the beginning of 19th c., player Harriet L'Estrange Usher. She played, in English, in Montreal aud in Québec City, where she also directed the company the last years <<a href="http://www.theatrales.uqam.ca/fil5.html#t5">http://www.theatrales.uqam.ca/fil5.html#t5</a>>.</div><div><br></div><div>For the end of 19th c., player Kate Horn, died inMontreal in 1896, who succeeded her husband as diretor of Treatre Royal <<a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcmtl-w/HornKate.html">http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcmtl-w/HornKate.html</a>>.</div><div><br></div><div>For the first part of the 20th c., Martha Allan and Eleanor Stuart, of the Montreal Repertory Theatre. They were both players and directors; Martha also wrote plays.</div><div><br></div><div>Amitiés,</div><div>André</div><br><div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region">
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<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">I have been invited to contribute articles to a 4-volume
dictionary currently being prepared on women in theatre everywhere for the
publishing house in Paris Des femmes. My contribution will be an overview of
women in anglophone Canadian theatre and short pieces on 5-10 Canadian “personalities”
from the past and the present: playwrights, directors, actors, technicians,
stage managers, designers, costumers, artistic directors, etc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Do you have suggestions for me of women in Canadian theatre
who are/were outstanding artists and who have made a significant contribution
and difference? I don’t want to overlook anyone and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> is a
vast country with a significant history. My knowledge certainly has its limits
and I thank you in advance for allowing me to draw on yours.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Thanks for your ideas and any names you can send me.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Louise Forsyth (<a href="mailto:louise.forsyth@usask.ca">louise.forsyth@usask.ca</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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