Wilton, Margaret Harvey

Margaret Harvey Wilton was born at Kingston in 1903. She attended Kingston Collegiate Institute and later graduated in Biology from Queen's University in 1922. She taught high school at Carleton Place from 1923 to 1930 before moving to Toronto in 1931. She worked in the Ministry of Health for thirty-two years, in charge of a scientific research library. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, and had many individual poems published, as well as having written and published two chap-books of poetry. She died in 1974.