page_title: Georgina Fraser Newhall
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Georgina Fraser Newhall / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Georgina Fraser Newhall
context_page_description: Georgina Fraser Newhall was a Canadian author of poetry and short stories, and a teacher. She was the country's first female stenographer. She distinguished herself through her poetic and prose writings. She served as the bardess of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada, and her "Fraser's Drinking Song", set to a stirring martial tune, was adopted as the society's "Faille".
  Newhall wrote numerous articles for leading literary periodicals. She frequently produced short stories, a line of writing in which she has had probably more success, and was more prolific than most Canadian writers of the time. Because of her versatility, she championed causes, formulated social ideas, and contributed essays to the press on the social status of women and her place in the economy of the future.
context_section_description: After completing her education, she resided for a few years in the province of Quebec, and afterwards in Toronto, working as an amanuensis. After studying the problems affecting working girls, she conceived the idea of helping them by imparting a knowledge of stenography, which she was thoroughly competent to do. This led her to the formation of classes, which she taught. These were large classes in the towns surrounding Toronto, and in Victoria University (now Victoria University, Toronto), when that institution was located at Cobourg. In addition to these duties, she undertook journalistic work, and was the first woman writer in Toronto to conduct the department devoted to woman's interests. Occupying a position on the daily press, she developed her talents as a descriptive writer, in addition to the regular work of her stenographer's position.
  In 1884, while occupying the position of Assistant Secretary to General Manager Thomas Fletcher Oakes of the Northern Pacific Railway at Saint Paul, Minnesota, she married Eugene Pier Newhall, of the Pacific Express Co. in Omaha, Nebraska. She divided her time between a home at Canton, Ohio, and Scarborough, Ontario, where she owned a fruit farm. 
  Newhall was successful as a writer of short stories, of magazine articles and of verse, which  made her name widely-known. She was bardess to the Clan Fraser Society of Canada. Her themes were general in character, although Scottish subjects predominated. Her "Fraser’s Drinking Song" from was adopted as the "Failte" of the Clan Fraser Society of Canada, and was sung to a stirring martial tune at the annual gatherings, with music composed by John Lewis Browne.
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