Ethel Ursula Foran Linnea McNally Karyn Huenemann Canada's Early Women Writers Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory Born digital object, initially housed by the Simon Fraser University library. English Born digital Life writing Biography Bibliography Ethel Ursula Foran (1900-1988)

A life-long resident of Montreal, Ethel Ursula Foran issued two volumes of poetry.

October 1900, Montreal, QC 24 October 1988, Montreal, QC Name at birth: Ethel Ursula Foran Alternate names: E.U.F.

Entry revised by Linnea McNally and Karyn Huenemann

 Ethel Ursula Foran (1900-1988)

Ethel Ursula Foran followed in the footsteps of her father's mother and her father when she became a writer. Her grandmother, Catherine F. Kearney, was on the staff of the Dublin Nation and The Ladies' Home Journal in Philadelphia. Often publishing with D & J Sadlier, Ethel's father, lawyer Joseph Kearney Foran (1857-1931), wrote poetry and was a journalist for and editor of the Montreal True Witness.

Educated in a convent school, Ethel wrote primarily during her school years, collecting her work in two published volumes: <XREF URL="https://archive.org/details/poemsfewblossoms00fora/page/n3" RESP="KME">Poems: A Few Blossoms from the Garden of My Dreams</XREF> (1922), and Springtime Fancies (1935). The latter includes verse and essays about her extensive travels in Europe and North Africa. In the early 1930s, she compiled and published her father's works in A Garland: Lectures and Poems. Never married, Ethel died in 1988 and was buried at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery in Montreal.

 Published Texts Poetry <XREF URL="https://archive.org/details/poemsfewblossoms00fora/page/n3" RESP="KME">Poems: A Few Blossoms from the Garden of My Dreams</XREF> (Montreal: Librarie Beauchemin, 1922) Springtime Fancies (Montreal: Gazette, 1935) Periodical Contributions Other Publications Edited: Foran, Dr. J.K., A Garland: Lectures and Poems (Montreal: Gazette, 1931) Family and Relationships Father: Joseph Kearney Foran 5 September 1857 – 11 March 1931

Joseph Kearney Foran, the son of John Foran and Catherine Kearney, was born in born Aylmer, QC, on 5 September 1857. He was a prominent member of Montreal society, a lawyer, journalist, and editor of the Montreal True Witness. He was also author of a number of non-fiction titles and two volumes of poetry: <XREF URL="https://archive.org/details/poemslyrics00forauoft/page/n5" RESP="KME">Poems and Canadian Lyrics</XREF> (1895) and A Garland: Lectures and Poems, published the year of his death and edited by his daughter Ethel. At one point, he was a clerk in the Canadian House of Commons in Ottawa. He died in Montreal in 1931.

 Mother: Mary Louisa Davis b. March 1870

Very little is known about Maria Louisa Davis except that, according to the 1911 Census of Canada, she was born in Quebec in March 1870.

 Siblings John Joseph Alonzo Foran (27 December 1892 – 6 February 1893) Joseph Herbert Paul Foran (26 February 1896 – 5 June 1933)

Herbert enlisted at the end of the First World War while a student. He was a scientist and editor of the Chemical Journal in Toronto. He died at the age of 37 of tuberculosis.

 Religion Catholic Residences

Montreal, QC (1900-1988)

 Education Awards Employment and Volunteer Activities Archival Holdings Published Resources 1871 Census of Canada. 1881 Census of Canada. 1891 Census of Canada. 1911 Census of Canada. 1921 Census of Canada. Canada, Ocean Arrivals (Form 30A), 1919-1924. Canada, Soldiers of the First World War, 1914-1918. Canada, WWI CEF Attestation Papers, 1914-1918. Canadian Passenger Lists, 1865-1935. <XREF URL="http://faculty.marianopolis.edu/c.belanger/QuebecHistory/encyclopedia/JosephKearneyForan-QuebecHistory.htm" RESP="KME">Joseph Kearney Foran</XREF>. The Quebec History Encylcopedia. Web. 17 January 2019. Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938 and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947. Quebec, Canada, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1968. UK, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960. Watters, R.E. Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Materials, 1620-1960 (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1972): 71, 222.