Born in 1926 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ruth M. McVeigh came to B.C. in 1962. A journalist in Halifax and Ontario, she wrote for the Campbell River Courier & Upper Islander, while living in Black Creek on Vancouver Island. She is the author of Fogswamp (Hancock House, 1977), with Trudy Turner, and Close Harmony (Theytus, 1984).

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