Ethel Lenore Gnaedinger Daryn Wright Canada's Early Women Writers Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Born digital English Born digital Life writing Biography Bibliography Ethel Lenore Gnaedinger (1872-1952)

A resident of Montreal, Ethel Lenore Gnaedinger published at least one poem in a periodical.

 6 May 1872, Montreal, QC 30 September 1952, Montreal, QC Name at birth: Ethel Lenore Nichol Acknowledgements

Special thanks to family members Christine Gnaedinger Kilpatrick (daughter of Ainslie MacKinnon) and Daphne Spencer Greenwood Biggs (daughter of Catherine de Vaux MacKinnon) for family contributions.

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This entry is brief, as writing was a very minor aspect of this woman's life.

Entry written by Daryn Wright

 Ethel Lenore Gnaedinger (1872-1952)

Ethel Lenore Nichol was born in Montreal, QC, in 1872 to John Christopher Nichol (1849-1925) and Annie Maria Webster (b. c1850). She married Julius Theodore Gnaedinger (1865-1937) in 1895 and the couple had three children together.

Ethel's poem An' There'll Never be a Winter was published in the June 1921 edition of the Canadian Bookman. She may have been a student at McGill University; her name also appears in the McGill Daily in March 1924 as offering private lessons in "English diction and voice culture" with "academic references."

 Periodical Contributions Canadian Bookman Family and Relationships Father: John Christopher Nichol (1849 – October 1925) Mother: Annie Maria Webster (b. c1850) Siblings Henry Nichol (10 July 1870 – 23 September 1935) Annie Nichol (b. c1874) Gwendoline Nichol (b. 10 November 1875) Frank Christopher Nichol (18 April 1876 – 1946): m. Margaret Ethel Seath Horatio Nichol (b. 1878): m. Olive Bernice William Nichol (b. c1882) Isabella Nichol (b. c1883) Spouse: Julius Theodore Gnaedinger (19 June 1865 – 13 December 1937) Marriage: 22 May 1895, Montreal, QC Children Lois Lenore Nichol Gnaedinger (daughter) (13 January 1897 – 21 February 1990) Louis Beverly Nichol Gnaedinger (son) (12 December 1898 – 22 January 1977): m. Mary Catherine Jacobson Ethel Elaine Gnaedinger (daughter) (11 July 1902 – 25 July 1953) Awards Tangential Information

Ethel Lenore Gnaedinger is distantly related to writers Lilian Vaux MacKinnon and her daughter Catherine de Vaux MacKinnon. Catherine's sister Ainslie was married to John Gnaedinger (1915-1998), the grandson of Ethel Lenore Gnaedinger's brother-in-law.

 Archival Holdings Published Resources 1891 Census of Canada. 1901 Census of Canada. Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2012. Ethel Lenore Gnaedinger. Find a Grave. Web. 21 February 2017. Julius Theodore Gnaedinger. Find a Grave. Web. 21 February 2017. Lenore Gnaedinger. Find a Grave. Web. 21 February 2017. Louis Beverley Gnaedinger. Find a Grave. Web. 21 February 2017. New York, Naturalization Records, 1882-1944. Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947. Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968. The McGill Daily. 13.131 (26 March 1924): 3.