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Cecelia Marie Helene Cecile Masson Globensky, neé Burroughs, was born on September 15, 1859, in Quebec City, Quebec, daughter of John Henry Ross Burroughs (1824-1904), a chief clerk of the Quebec Superior Court, and Léda Marie LaRue (1824–1902).
In 1883, she married Louis-Rodrigue Masson (1833-1903), a Canadian lawyer, militia officer, a Member of Parliament for Terrebonne, Quebec, and the fifth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. They had three children. In 1911, she remarried Léon Alphonse Globensky (1840–1913), a real estate broker for Globensky and Hill Jones Ltée, Montreal, and a founder of Montreal's first French-language weekly newspaper, Les Nouvelles (1894).
She died on December 1, 1943, in Ottawa, Ontario, and is buried in Terrebonne, Quebec.