====== Shepherd, Eva Pearl ====== 
 (16 Sept. 1895-21 Feb. 1987), author. (E. Pearl Shepherd, Pearl Shepherd) Born at Maxville, GC. Parents: George W. Shepherd and his wife by his first marriage, Emily Mary Lemieux. Pearl Shepherd was educated at Alexandria High School, the Ontario Ladies’ College, Whitby, Ont. (//Glengarry News// 24 Dec. 1915), and the University of Toronto (B.A., 1919, M.A., 1921). After teaching at Bishop Bethune College, Oshawa, Ont., she did social work in London, Eng., for three years, returning to Canada in the spring of 1925. During the early stages at least of this period, her address was a docklands settlement at Canning Town in East London. In a brief tour she visited a part of the battlefield area of France, April 1923, and saw the grave of her brother M. L. Shepherd. The //Glengarry News// at this time printed an article summarizing a letter she had written to her father describing the tour. Pearl Shepherd lived in Toronto for many years, and worked for the Ontario Government and afterwards for an insurance company. She returned to Alexandria and spent the final two years of her life there in the Community Nursing Home, where she died, aged 91. At the end of her life she was the last surviving of her father’s children. Pearl Shepherd wrote the historical articles “Glengarry Forever,” Ottawa //Evening Journal// (appeared 1 Nov. 1947 under her name– continued 12 & 19 Nov. but with no author stated for those dates) and “The Pioneers of Prescott,” Montreal //Gazette// (16 & 23 Oct. 1948), on Prescott County. It has not been possible to confirm the tradition that she wrote the scripts of radio plays on historical topics. She was the sister of Major M.L. Shepherd and the half-sister of George and Louis Shepherd.


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<fs small>//Glengarry News// 8 Sept. 1922, 15 May 1925, 4 May 1923 (tour), 25 Feb. 1987 * UTA
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