Mary Agnes FitzGibbon

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Mary Agnes FitzGibbon

1851–1915

A lively Canadian journalist and nonfiction writer, she wrote under the pen name "Lally Bernard" and helped shape literary life in Toronto. Her work ranged from travel writing to nature essays and historical subjects, giving readers a vivid picture of late-19th-century Canada.

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A Trip to Manitoba

A Trip to Manitoba

by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon

About the author

Born in 1851 and died in 1915, Mary Agnes FitzGibbon was a Canadian writer and journalist. She became known in Toronto literary circles under the pen name Lally Bernard, a name formed from her family surnames.

She wrote nonfiction on a wide range of subjects, including travel, nature, and Canadian history. Confirmed titles associated with her include A Trip to Manitoba and Pearls and Pebbles; or, Notes of an Old Naturalist, works that suggest her curiosity about both the Canadian landscape and everyday observation.

FitzGibbon was also connected to prominent Canadian social and cultural networks of her time; archival records identify her as an author and as a niece of Lady Agnes Macdonald. Although some online records appear to mix her with another woman of a similar name, the available evidence clearly places Mary Agnes FitzGibbon among the active Canadian women writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.