When six-year-old Anna and her family stepped off the boat from Finland onto the Canadian shore, the English language spoken around her seemed to have no words, just gutteral sounds, and seemed impossible to learn. Schooling demanded that she learn English. This posed just one of many difficulties faced by Anna and her family as they struggled to survive in the harsh Canadian wilderness.
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Elizabeth Kouhi was born in a small pioneer community near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Her education proceeded in fits and starts from a one-room schoolhouse to graduation from McGill University in Montreal in 1949. She obtained a teaching diploma from Ontario College of Education in Toronto in 1964 and taught in a one-room school, then in a high school for nineteen years, retiring in 1982. She lives in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where she writes poetry and books for children.
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