MacIntosh, Keitha K., 1924-2012

Keitha Kinsman Pearce-MacIntosh was born on July 5, 1924, in Lachine, Quebec.

She was a Canadian poet and educator. She was a registered nurse before earning her B.A. and M.A. degrees. She was also a professor of English at Vanier College for twenty-two years (1973-1995). Keitha and her husband ran a dairy farm in Dewittville, Quebec, but as Keitha became more independent, she wanted a place of her own. After the farm was sold, she lived in a trailer until the restoration of her 200-year-old log cabin was completed. She was active in promoting literacy and access to books. She was always on the side of the underdog, whether for women’s rights, for Natives and French Canadians who had been dispossessed by the newly arrived English, or English-speaking Quebecers whose rights had been denied by the French. In 1972, she co-founded the Little Green Library in Huntingdon, Quebec. In the 1970s, she contributed to a poetry renaissance in Montreal by publishing and editing the magazine Montreal Poems. After she retired, she moved to Vancouver, where she lived for the next fifteen years. She published many of her poems in various magazines, e.g., Ellipse, Other Voices, Quebec Histoire, Anthol, Cross Country, Canadian Author, and Bookman. She is the author of collections of poems, "The Shattered Glass and Other Fragments" (1976) and "Poems of the Chateauguay Valley" (1981).

She died on August 17, 2012, and is buried in Ormstown, Quebec.