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About the Author

Esther Paul was born and raised in a small railroad town in Manitoba in the 1930's. Her memoirs of her early years have been published under the title “A Railway Kid: Stories of a Prairie Childhood in the Great Depression” (Borealis Press, 2004). See link above.

Her latest book is “In Spite of All That”, a work of fiction about a Canadian woman’s life. See link above.

Esther has been a Registered Nurse, wife, widow, mother and grandmother, artist, art teacher, entrepreneur, and community activist.

In her mid-fifties she received a master’s degree in Pastoral Counselling and worked as a psychotherapist/counsellor with a mental health agency and in private practice until her retirement in 1998. She then began to seriously study and practice writing poetry, fiction, newspaper columns and her memoirs.

Esther lives in Kanata, Ontario, and has been recently widowed from her second husband.

Graduate Nurse and age 4