Fonds F821 - Carrie Holmes MacGillivray manuscript collection

Carrie Holmes MacGillivray was born in 1871 in Williamstown ON and was the grandaughter of the Honorable John MacGillivray who was a partner in the North-West Company. She moved to Toronto in 1912 when her father died, and became a clerk-typist at the Provincial Archives of Ontario where she worked for thirteen years. Ms. MacGillivray wrote several novels, one of which was published: "The Shadow of Tradition: a Tale of Old Glengarry" (1927). Her other known unpublished manuscripts were "Fifty years ago, a true story of the Canadian North West Rebellion" and "The Prairie Star : a saga of the western plains".