With thanks to a friend in Canada for sending me this information about Edna
Lecturer, author and poet, Edna Jaques was a popular figure throughout Canada. Her poems sometimes depicted the harsh beauty of the Prairies, but above all they celebrated the daily experiences of domestic life.
Born in Collingwood, Ontario, on 17th January 1891, Edna moved with her family to a homestead southeast of Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan in 1902. Her education included attending a business college in Vancouver. Edna married Ernest Jamieson in 1921 and they had one daughter.
"IN FLANDERS NOW"
We have kept faith, ye Flanders' dead,
Sleep well beneath those poppies red
That mark your place.
The torch your dying hands did throw,
We've held it high before the foe,
And answered bitter blow for blow,
In Flanders fields.
And where your heroes' blood was spilled,
The guns are now forever stilled
And silent grown.
There is no moaning of the slain,
There is no cry of tortured pain,
And blood will never flow again,
In Flanders fields.
Forever holy in our sight
Shall be those crosses gleaming white,
That guard your sleep.
Rest you in peace, the task is done,
The fight you left us we have won,
And Peace on Earth has just begun,
In Flanders now.
Edna Jaques
Source Information received from a friend in Canada and
https://kathyrumleski.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/canadian-poet-edna-jaques-wide-horizons/
