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Huestis, Annie
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Description area
Dates of existence
1878 - 1960
History
Annie Huestis was a Canadian poet and librarian from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Born May 6th, 1878, she was educated at Sacred Heart School in Halifax. Her first poem was published c. 1890, when Charles G. D. Roberts send it to the New York Independent. She worked as a Hansard typist on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, then became a librarian for the YMCA in Brooklyn, New York. In 1945, she retired, and returned to live in Nova Scotia. She died on May 23rd, 1960.