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Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba , the daughter of J.F.B. Livesay and Florence Randal Livesay, she moved to Toronto with her family in 1920 . She received a BA in 1931 from Trinity College in the University Of Toronto and received a diploma from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Social Work in 1934 . She also studied at the Sorbonne and University Of British Columbia . Her first collection of poetry, ''Green Pitcher'', when she was only nineteen. She worked for UNESCO in Paris in 1959 and in Northern Rhodesia as a field worker from 1960 to 1963 . From 1951 until 1984, she was an instructor and a writer-in-residence many Canadian universities, including the University of British Columbia (1951-53 and 1966-68), University Of New Brunswick (1966-1968), University Of Alberta (1968-1971), University Of Victoria (1972-1974), University Of Manitoba (1974-76), Simon Fraser University (1980-82), and University of Toronto (1983-84). In 1937 she married Duncan Macnair, they had two children Peter and Marcia. She died in Victoria, British Columbia in 1996 . HONOURS
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