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Restoring the legacy of a 'trailblazing' Black Saint John writer


Posted: Feb 07, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: February 7
Saint John writer Anna Minerva Henderson, pictured with her graduating class of 1905 at Saint John High School. (Submitted by Saint John High School)
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Grey wharves that know the way of wind and tide,
Dim, drifting fog, the sea-gull s plaintive cry,
A city, old and assured, wearing the pride 
Of epic memories and heritage ….
Few poems have so perfectly captured the grit and dignity of Canada s oldest incorporated city. 
These lines, titled
Saint John, N.B. become even more remarkable when you learn the author was a Black woman born in 1887.
Anna Minerva Henderson, the daughter of a schoolteacher and a barber, grew up to be an award-winning civil servant and literary pioneer. Black literary critic and Governor General s Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke describes her as the first Black woman in English in Canada to dare to publish a chapbook of verse.   ....

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