Katherine Mabon Connell
Toronto, , Ontario, Canada
Canadian, 1899 - 1975
Canadian, 1899 - 1975
| Biography: | Katherine Mabon Connell moved frequently: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Andover, New Brunswick, Guelph, Ontario, Woodstock, New Brunswick and Sioux Lookout, Ontario, where she married in 1930. He father was in banking. All of her children, three boys and one girl, Allison, Lucy, Edward and Mark were born in Sioux Lookout. Katherine attended Havergal, a private school, then the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, where she received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and became a medical researcher. Katherine started the Peter Pan School for the mentally disabled and she was head of the Home and School Association. She collected flora from Carleton and York Counties and started the Connell Memorial Herbarium at the University of New Brunswick. She was a birder and she made the first sighting of the Townsend Solitaire (bird) in New Brunswick. She initiated the forming of the Woodstock Weavers with Dr. Ivan Crowell. Her first mat was completed in Sioux Lookout and the last in Woodstock, New Brunswick. She exhibited at the CNE for weaving. |
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