(fl. second half of 19th century), newspaper writer. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Ross. She married Donald McRae of Glen Sandfield, GC, and later moved with him to Calgary. “Mrs. McRae had a flair for writing and up to the time she was ninety years of age she wrote articles on every conceivable subject for the Montreal Witness.” As a GC schoolteacher, presumably at Glen Roy, and presumably before her marriage, one of her pupils–in a period which can be dated somewhere between the late 1850s and the first half of the 1860s–was Hugh Munro, later the Alexandria manufacturer. It has not been possible to find out anything more about her life, unless she was the Elizabeth M. McRae who was buried in the Burnsland Cemetery, Calgary, in 1933. No search has been made in the surviving files of the Montreal Witness for her articles, and no identifiable copies of her articles have come to light through any other channels. It may be, of course, that the journalism or much of it, was anonymous.

Article on Glen Roy, Glengarry News 20 Dec. 1935, based on recollections of Hugh Munro, and repr. from Ottawa Citizen (QF) *Ewan Ross, The Rosses of Martintown (1971) 56 (perhaps her?)