Victoria Hayward (journalist)

Victoria Hayward (1876–1956) was a Bermudan-born journalist and travel writer.[1] Hayward is credited with coining the term "Canadian mosaic".

Victoria Hayward
Born1876 (1876)
Bermuda
Died1956 (aged 79–80)
Cape Cod, United States
Other namesQueenie
OccupationJournalist, travel writer
Notable work
Romantic Canada
Partner(s)Edith Watson

Early life

Hayward was born in 1876 in Bermuda.[2] At age 16, Hayward left Bermuda and moved to New York to teach math at a private boys' school. About ten years later, she returned to Bermuda and pursued journalism.[3]

Career

Hayward's writings were widely published in Canadian magazines and often focussed on Canadian culture, though she was not Canadian.[2] Hayward and photographer Edith Watson spent three summers in the late 1910s and early 1920s living with the Doukhobors in Saskatchewan and British Columbia.[4] The two recorded Doukhobor life and presented it to the public first in their 1919 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette article "Doukhobor Farms Supply All Needs" and later in Romantic Canada.[5][6]

In 1922, Hayward published the travel book Romantic Canada. The book was based on her recent travels across southern Canada, though it focuses largely on Canada's maritime provinces.[7] In Romantic Canada, described Canada's culture, both in terms of ethnicities and architecture, as a "mosaic".[8] Hayward is credited with coining the phrase "Canadian mosaic".[9] Romantic Canada was illustrated and contained photography by Watson.

Personal life

Hayward met photographer Edith Watson in Bermuda in 1911. The two would later live in Connecticut when not travelling.[2][4] Though both were officially closeted, their surviving letters indicate they were romantically involved.[3][10] Hayward left Connecticut after Watson's death in 1943, relocating to a cottage in Cape Cod, where she died in 1956.[4]

Bibliography

References
  1. Zimmerman, Bonnie, ed. (2000). Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures. Taylor & Francis. p. 143. ISBN 0-203-79612-8.
  2. Innis Dagg, Anne (2001). The Feminine Gaze: A Canadian Compendium of Non-Fiction Women Authors and Their Books, 1836-1945. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-88920-355-5.
  3. Rooney, Frances (December 31, 1997). "Edith Watson". section15.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  4. Rooney, Frances (2005). "Edith S. Watson and Victoria Hayward". Extraordinary Women Explorers. Second Story Press. ISBN 1-896764-98-3.
  5. "The Doukhobors: A Community Race in Canada". Doukhobor Genealogy Website. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  6. "Doukhobor Farms Supply All Needs". Doukhobor Genealogy Website. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  7. Grant, W. L. (1923). "Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward, British Colonial Policy in the Twentieth Century by H. E. Egerton (review)". The Canadian Historical Review. University of Toronto Press. 4 (1): 76–80 – via Project MUSE.
  8. McKenney, Ryan; Bryce, Benjamin (May 16, 2016). "Creating the Canadian Mosaic". Active History. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
  9. Böss, Michael (2016). "From Mosaic to Multiculturalism: The Canadian Roots and Character of Multiculturalism". In Böss, Michael (ed.). Bringing Culture Back In: Cultural Diversity, Religion, and the State. Aarhus University Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-87-7184-120-6.
  10. Block, Niko (June 16, 2014). "Queer Culture". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
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