Dead Canadians: Where are they now?

  • Home
  • Cemeteries
    • Newfoundland and Labrador
    • New Brunswick
    • Nova Scotia
    • Prince Edward Island
    • Quebec
    • Ontario
    • Manitoba
    • Saskatchewan
    • Alberta
    • British Columbia
    • Outside Canada
      • USA
      • Europe
  • People
    • Sports & Athletics
      • Hockey
      • Olympics
      • Baseball
      • Football
    • Science & Engineering
    • Military
    • Animals
    • Arts & Entertainment
    • Politics, Religion & Society
    • Pioneers and Explorers
  • Did you know?
  • Contributors
  • Home
  • People
  • Politics, Religion and Society
  • Jacobs, Jane

Laurence, Margaret

Date of Birth
1926-07-18
Place of birth:
Neepawa, Manitoba
Date of Death
1987-01-05
Place of death:
Lakefield, Ontario
Cause of death:
Cancer: lung. The cancer had spread and rather than suffer, Laurence took her own life.
Margaret Laurence
Margaret Laurence Margaret Laurence
  • Also known as
    Jean Margaret Wemyss

Margaret Laurence was a Governor General Award winning novelist for A Jest of God (1966) and The Diviners (1974).  Her novel Stone Angel (1964) is also widely read in schools across Canada.

fShare

TAB05

Cemetery:
Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa
  • Interment Info

    She was buried in her hometown in the Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, Manitoba. Her ashes were brought by her children, Jocelyn and David, to be interred in Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa, on June 23, the day before the official opening of The Margaret Laurence Home, the house where she had lived in her youth.

Cemetery

Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa
Riverside Cemetery, Neepawa
Riverside Cemetery is located on Smith Drive, in the North East corner of Neepawa. There are well over 2500 graves covered each summer with flowers, under the perpetual care program. It is said that ...
Read more...

  • Forgot your password?
  • Forgot your username?
Facebook Login Twitter Login
loading
Please wait, logging in...