Laura Nixon Haynes

Laura Eleanor Nixon was born and raised Baltimore, Hamilton Twp., Northumberland Co., Ontario. While attending Cobourg Collegiate, she had her first book of poems, When You and I Remember, published in 1900. She received her teaching credentials from the Ottawa Normal School, the odd term once used to identify teachers colleges in Ontario. Her career brought her to the Niagara Peninsula, where she taught in the communities of Pelham, Stamford, and Grantham Townships. While teaching, many of her poems were …