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Wilson, Betty
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Elizabeth Wilson was a Canadian writer of fiction and non-fiction. She wrote novels and poems and short stories for adults and children. Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, she grew up on a farm during the depression. She received Normal School training and taught in a one room school in James River Bridge, Alberta in the 1940s. She married Don Wilson in 1949 and moved to Edmonton, Alberta. In 1987, she and her husband moved to Nanaimo, B.C, where she died in 2005. Her first novel Andre Tom MacGregor won her the Alberta Search for a Novelist contest in 1976 and the Beaver Award in 1976. In 2003 she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in creative writing from Malaspina College in Vancouver, B.C. Wilson was active in teaching creative writing to school children in rural communities in Alberta.