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'''Dora Sanders Carney''' (12 September 1903 – 18 September 1986), mother of Canadian Conservative Member of Parliament (1980-1988) [[Pat Carney]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Dora Sanders Carney {{!}} CWRC/CSEC |url=https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/ceww:ff2d9ddf-b421-497e-a951-df3e1415326c |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=cwrc.ca}}</ref> was a Canadian journalist who lived in occupied Shanghai during the onset of the Second World War.
'''Dora Sanders Carney''' (12 September 1903 – 18 September 1986), mother of Canadian Conservative Member of Parliament (1980-1988) [[Pat Carney]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Dora Sanders Carney {{!}} CWRC/CSEC |url=https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/ceww:ff2d9ddf-b421-497e-a951-df3e1415326c |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=cwrc.ca}}</ref> was a Canadian journalist who lived in occupied Shanghai during the onset of the Second World War.


== Early life ==
== Early life ==
Dora May Sanders was born in Claremont, Capetown, South Africa, on 12 September 1903, to Harry and Lucy. Harry Sanders (1872-1952) crippled by polio in his youth, had immigrated to South Africa as a tutor to his brother-in-law’s family. There, he met and married Lucy Emma May Bing (1875-1947), South-African born but Irish in ancestry, temperament, and musical ability, according to her older sister Byrne’s ''Reminiscences''.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Sanders |first=Byrne Hope |title=Reminiscences, Part 1 (pp. 1-9) |url=https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/islandora:fe349103-76f5-45c9-b98b-6b5789146966 |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=cwrc.ca}}</ref>
Dora May Sanders was born in [[Cape Town|Capetown, South Africa]], on 12 September 1903.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Bayley |first=Chuck |date=1982-06-15 |title=Dora's fascinating tale |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-doras-fascinating-tal/146509133/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Vancouver Sun |pages=34}}</ref>


Dora spent her early years travelling throughout the southern African states, where her father worked as a lawyer in rural communities, moving between them in a "cape cart" pulled by oxen. As Dora’s sister Byrne commented: "for the most part we were isolated in black communities, for my father practiced law up in Rhodesia and the Transvaal. I can remember no white children, as there were no schools, and Mother taught us to read and write. When the Boer War and a tsetse fly plague{{Cite news |date=7 February 1942 |title=Consumer Champion |pages=6 |work=National Post (Toronto)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=31}}</ref> created financial hardship that the family could not overcome, the family emigrated, moving first to England, where they stayed for a time with Charles Higham, the brother-in-law who had first employed Harry in South Africa.<ref name=":1" /> Finding no work in England, the family moved in 1912 to Canada.<ref name=":0" />
Dora spent her early years travelling throughout the southern African states, where her father worked as a lawyer in rural communities, moving between them in a "cape cart" pulled by oxen. As Dora’s sister Byrne commented: "for the most part we were isolated in black communities, for my father practiced law up in Rhodesia and the Transvaal. I can remember no white children, as there were no schools, and Mother taught us to read and write. When the Boer War and a tsetse fly plague{{Cite news |date=7 February 1942 |title=Consumer Champion |pages=6 |work=National Post (Toronto)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=31}}</ref> created financial hardship that the family could not overcome, the family emigrated, moving first to England, where they stayed for a time with Charles Higham, the brother-in-law who had first employed Harry in South Africa.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Sanders |first=Byrne Hope |title=Reminiscences, Part 1 (pp. 1-9) |url=https://cwrc.ca/islandora/object/islandora:fe349103-76f5-45c9-b98b-6b5789146966 |access-date=2023-04-03 |website=cwrc.ca}}</ref> Finding no work in England, the family moved in 1912 to Canada.<ref name=":0" />


== Early career ==
== Early career ==
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In autumn of 1933, Dora set sail for China to join her cousin Tony, whom she had agreed to marry, but: "the lure of travel was tantalizing and I was beginning to make some mark as a freelance writer — Surely a trip to China, even if it ended in a broken engagement, would provide material to bait the hooks that would catch the freelance cheques!"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939 |publisher=Dorset |year=1980 |location=Toronto |pages=1}}</ref> Having met James ("Jim") Carney, a member of the Shanghai Municipal Council, on board the ship from Vancouver to Shanghai, Dora abandoned her Hong Kong plans and remained in Shanghai to find work as a journalist. It took number of weeks and great perseverance for Dora—a single European woman—to create a place for herself with a news agency, but she did, finally getting a job with Baker's news agency.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939 |publisher=Dorset |year=1980 |location=Toronto |pages=49-50, 61-67}}</ref> In March 1934, she and Jim were married at the British Consulate in Shanghai and moved into Dora's small apartment with one servant, Amah, who became invaluable when twins Pat and Jim were born on 26 May 1935.<ref name=":0" /> A third child, named Norah after Dora's maternal grandmother, was born on 6 June 1937.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939 |publisher=Dorset |year=1980 |location=Toronto |pages=183}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
In autumn of 1933, Dora set sail for China to join her cousin Tony, whom she had agreed to marry, but: "the lure of travel was tantalizing and I was beginning to make some mark as a freelance writer — Surely a trip to China, even if it ended in a broken engagement, would provide material to bait the hooks that would catch the freelance cheques!"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939 |publisher=Dorset |year=1980 |location=Toronto |pages=1}}</ref> Having met James ("Jim") Carney, a member of the Shanghai Municipal Council, on board the ship from Vancouver to Shanghai, Dora abandoned her Hong Kong plans and remained in Shanghai to find work as a journalist. It took number of weeks and great perseverance for Dora—a single European woman—to create a place for herself with a news agency, but she did, finally getting a job with Baker's news agency.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939 |publisher=Dorset |year=1980 |location=Toronto |pages=49-50, 61-67}}</ref> In March 1934, she and Jim were married at the British Consulate in Shanghai and moved into Dora's small apartment with one servant, Amah, who became invaluable when twins Pat and Jim were born on 26 May 1935.<ref name=":0" /> A third child, named Norah after Dora's maternal grandmother, was born on 6 June 1937.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939 |publisher=Dorset |year=1980 |location=Toronto |pages=183}}</ref><ref name=":0" />


In August 1937, when [[Battle of Shanghai|Japanese troops attacked Shanghai]], Dora was asked to provided a statement to a Toronto newspaper. Her message that described the horrors of the attack but reassured Canadians of the safety of the foreign community within the walled International Settlement was sent just before she received news of the first bombing of the Settlement.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939 |publisher=Dorset |year=1980 |location=Toronto |pages=193–97}}</ref> A few short days later, Dora and the three children were on the P & O liner ''Rajputana'' headed for Hong Kong. Jim took leave and joined them, and the family travelled home to Canada.
In August 1937, when [[Battle of Shanghai|Japanese troops attacked Shanghai]], Carney described the situation to a Toronto newspaper.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1937-10-18 |title=Saw Shanghai carnage says it could happen here |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-saw-shanghai-carnage-sa/146507106/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Toronto Star |pages=17}}</ref> Her message that described the horrors of the attack but reassured Canadians of the safety of the foreign community within the walled International Settlement was sent just before she received news of the first bombing of the Settlement.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939 |publisher=Dorset |year=1980 |location=Toronto |pages=193–97}}</ref> A few short days later, Dora and the three children were on the P & O liner ''Rajputana'' headed for Hong Kong. Jim took leave and joined them, and the family travelled home to Canada.


Carney arrived in Shanghai in 1933, and described the city as an "exhilarating and bewildering experience".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gordon |first=Katherine |url=http://archive.org/details/curiouslifebiogr0000gord |title=A curious life : the biography of Princess Peggy Abkhazi |date=2002 |publisher=Winlaw, B.C. : Sono Nis Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-1-55039-125-1 |pages=111}}</ref> She was one of the approximately 250 Canadians living in Shanghai at the time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meehan |first=John David |url=http://archive.org/details/dominionrisingsu0000meeh |title=The Dominion and the Rising Sun : Canada encounters Japan, 1929-41 |date=2004 |publisher=Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-7748-1120-0 |pages=150}}</ref>
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The family settled briefly in Toronto. In March 1938, Jim's leave was up, and in September 1938, Dora and the children returned to Shanghai. In August 1939, difficulties with a fourth pregnancy meant that Dora and the children had to return to Canada before the birth; on the doctor's recommendation, Jim tendered his resignation to accompany them. The family sailed on the ''Empress of Canada'', leaving Shanghai only days before war was declared in Europe.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=20 January 1938 |title=Mrs. Dora Sanders Carney Painted a Vivid Word Picture of Trying Scenes |pages=8 |work=Brantford Expositor}}</ref>


She returned to Shanghai<ref>{{Cite news |date=1941-12-01 |title=Over the teacups |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-over-the-teacups/146507341/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Toronto Star |pages=22}}</ref> in 1938.
Their fourth child, Daniel David Thomas ("Tom") Carney,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=52–53}}</ref> was born in Vancouver, BC, but the family then moved to Ontario, where enrolled in the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=63}}</ref> From there, Dora reconnected with her journalistic community in Toronto, giving lectures to the Heliconian Club,<ref name=":3" /> of which she had been a member, and the American Women's Club.<ref name=":0" />

She spent six years living in Shanghai.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Turcotte |first=Bobbi |date=1980-10-23 |title=Writer recalls adventure |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-citizen-writer-recalls-advent/146507509/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Ottawa Citizen |pages=76}}</ref>

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The family settled briefly in Toronto. In March 1938, Jim's leave was up, and in September 1938, Dora and the children returned to Shanghai. In August 1939, difficulties with a fourth pregnancy meant that Dora and the children had to return to Canada before the birth; on the doctor's recommendation, Jim tendered his resignation to accompany them. The family sailed on the ''Empress of Canada'', leaving Shanghai only days before war was declared in Europe.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=20 January 1938 |title=Mrs. Dora Sanders Carney Painted a Vivid Word Picture of Trying Scenes |pages=8 |work=Brantford Expositor}}</ref>


Immediately after Jim's graduation, the family returned to British Columbia, settling first in Victoria, BC. In 1950, the family purchased 54 acres—complete with farmhouse and animals—just outside of Nelson, BC.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=69}}</ref> Jim’s veterinary clinic included a boarding enterprise, managed by Dora, who restored a streetcar as extra rooms for their "doggy hotel."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=78}}</ref> Dora also restored the derelict [[Nasookin|''Naksookin'']] paddle wheeler, towing it up the lake, beaching it below their home, and turning it into a tourist craft shop. "The day I knew my mother had power," Pat Carney writes in her autobiography, "was the day I watched hydro crews remove the electric lines along the highway so that the salvaged superstructure, containing the mail saloon, two staterooms, and the captain's bridge with its wheel, could be swung ashore."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=79}}</ref>
Immediately after Jim's graduation, the family returned to British Columbia, settling first in Victoria, BC. In 1950, the family purchased 54 acres—complete with farmhouse and animals—just outside of Nelson, BC.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=69}}</ref> Jim’s veterinary clinic included a boarding enterprise, managed by Dora, who restored a streetcar as extra rooms for their "doggy hotel."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=78}}</ref> Dora also restored the derelict [[Nasookin|''Naksookin'']] paddle wheeler, towing it up the lake, beaching it below their home, and turning it into a tourist craft shop. "The day I knew my mother had power," Pat Carney writes in her autobiography, "was the day I watched hydro crews remove the electric lines along the highway so that the salvaged superstructure, containing the mail saloon, two staterooms, and the captain's bridge with its wheel, could be swung ashore."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carney |first=Pat |title=Trade Secrets: A Memoir |publisher=Key Porter |year=2000 |location=Toronto |pages=79}}</ref>
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In 1961, Dora and Jim moved to Saturna Island. There, Dora wrote a column, "Gulf Islands Vignette," for the ''Victoria Times-Colonist'' newspaper.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 September 1986 |title=Author Carney Dead at 83 |pages=5 |work=Vancouver Sun}}</ref> She died on Saturna Island on 18 September 1983.<ref name=":0" />
In 1961, Dora and Jim moved to Saturna Island. There, Dora wrote a column, "Gulf Islands Vignette," for the ''Victoria Times-Colonist'' newspaper.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 September 1986 |title=Author Carney Dead at 83 |pages=5 |work=Vancouver Sun}}</ref> She died on Saturna Island on 18 September 1983.<ref name=":0" />


Carney was 77 when her book was published.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dufour |first=Pat |date=1980-10-12 |title=At 77, she's rookie author |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-colonist-at-77-shes-rookie-autho/146506927/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=Times Colonist |pages=16}}</ref> (more personal details in there)
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Review of her book<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fraser |first=John |author-link2= |date=8 November 1980 |title=FOREIGN DEVILS HAD LIGHT EYES |pages=E17 |work=The Globe and Mail ; Toronto, Ont. |via=[[Proquest]]}}</ref> ; maybe details in Canadian paper obituary <ref>{{Cite news |date=24 Sep 1986 |title=Dora Carney, 83, was noted author |pages=H14 |work=Toronto Star; Toronto, Ont. |via=[[Proquest]]}}</ref>


Maybe details in Canadian paper obituary <ref>{{Cite news |date=24 Sep 1986 |title=Dora Carney, 83, was noted author |pages=H14 |work=Toronto Star; Toronto, Ont. |via=[[Proquest]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1980-10-10 |title=Shanghaied by a dream |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-shanghaier-by-a-dream/146506757/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Vancouver Sun |pages=121}}</ref>
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== References ==


Her second book was to be titled ''Gotta, Gotta, Gotta''.<ref name=":2" />

== Selected publications ==
* {{cite book |last=Carney |first=Dora Sanders |title=Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes |date=1980 |publisher=Dorset Pub |isbn=978-0-88893-024-8 |publication-place=Toronto}}<ref>Reviews of ''Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes''
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*{{Cite news |last=Fraser |first=John |author-link2= |date=8 November 1980 |title=FOREIGN DEVILS HAD LIGHT EYES |work=The Globe and Mail ; Toronto, Ont. |pages=E17 |via=[[Proquest]]}}
*{{Cite news |last=Long |first=Frank |date=1980-10-10 |title=Shanghaied by a dream |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-shanghaier-by-a-dream/146506757/ |access-date=2024-05-03 |work=The Vancouver Sun |pages=121}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Her sister, [[Byrne Hope Sanders]], was the editor of the Canadian magazine [[Chatelaine (magazine)|Chatalaine]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sutherland |first=Fraser |url=http://archive.org/details/monthlyepichisto0000suth |title=The monthly epic : a history of Canadian magazines, 1789-1989 |date=1989 |publisher=Toronto : Fitzhenry & Whiteside |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-88902-897-5}}</ref> Carney had four children,<ref name=":2" /> including [[Pat Carney]] who became a politician in Canada.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mickleburgh |first=Rod |date=12 August 2023 |title=POLITICIAN HELPED KEEP ABORTION OUT OF CANADA’S CRIMINAL CODE: A trailblazer in federal politics, she was the first female cabinet minister to hold each of three major economic portfolios, and she later served in the Senate for 18 years |work=The Globe and Mail; Toronto, Ont.. |pages=O12 |via=[[Proquest]]}}</ref>

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Revision as of 01:39, 3 May 2024

  • Comment: 12 of the 16 footnotes here are to either Dora's own memoir or the memoir of her daughter, which are thus not third party sources for the purposes of establishing notability -- and two more are to an archival database that is not a WP:GNG-building source.
    People don't get over our inclusion criteria by being the author, or the mother of the author, of content about themselves -- people get over our inclusion criteria by being the subject of reliable source media coverage and analysis written by other people. But there are only two footnotes here which meet that standard (#10 Brantford Expositor, #16 Vancouver Sun), and two acceptable sources isn't enough. Bearcat (talk) 14:20, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
Dora Sanders Carney
Born
Dora May Sanders
Other namesMrs. James E. Carney
Dora Carney

Dora Sanders Carney (12 September 1903 – 18 September 1986), mother of Canadian Conservative Member of Parliament (1980-1988) Pat Carney,[1] was a Canadian journalist who lived in occupied Shanghai during the onset of the Second World War.

Early life

Dora May Sanders was born in Capetown, South Africa, on 12 September 1903.[2]

Dora spent her early years travelling throughout the southern African states, where her father worked as a lawyer in rural communities, moving between them in a "cape cart" pulled by oxen. As Dora’s sister Byrne commented: "for the most part we were isolated in black communities, for my father practiced law up in Rhodesia and the Transvaal. I can remember no white children, as there were no schools, and Mother taught us to read and write. When the Boer War and a tsetse fly plague"Consumer Champion". National Post (Toronto). 7 February 1942. p. 6.</ref>[3] created financial hardship that the family could not overcome, the family emigrated, moving first to England, where they stayed for a time with Charles Higham, the brother-in-law who had first employed Harry in South Africa.[4] Finding no work in England, the family moved in 1912 to Canada.[1]

Early career

Dora's first publication was a poem, “Song of the Trees,” printed in the Toronto Globe in 1915, when she was 11. She published a number of poems in the “Playtime Prizes” column of the Circle of Young Canada page, winning best poem in April 1915 and January 1916.[1] After high school, she majored in mathematics at Trinity College, although she did not take a degree. Needing funds to support her brother Wilfred’s education, she took a job alongside her sister Byrne Hope Sanders as "one of the first female advertising professionals, writing copy for T. Eaton department stores."[5] Byrne Hope Sanders became the editor of Chatelaine magazine in 1929, and Dora moved to the advertising department of the upscale Mayfair magazine, both associate magazines of Maclean's.[1][6]

Dora and Jim Carney in 1934

In autumn of 1933, Dora set sail for China to join her cousin Tony, whom she had agreed to marry, but: "the lure of travel was tantalizing and I was beginning to make some mark as a freelance writer — Surely a trip to China, even if it ended in a broken engagement, would provide material to bait the hooks that would catch the freelance cheques!"[7] Having met James ("Jim") Carney, a member of the Shanghai Municipal Council, on board the ship from Vancouver to Shanghai, Dora abandoned her Hong Kong plans and remained in Shanghai to find work as a journalist. It took number of weeks and great perseverance for Dora—a single European woman—to create a place for herself with a news agency, but she did, finally getting a job with Baker's news agency.[8] In March 1934, she and Jim were married at the British Consulate in Shanghai and moved into Dora's small apartment with one servant, Amah, who became invaluable when twins Pat and Jim were born on 26 May 1935.[1] A third child, named Norah after Dora's maternal grandmother, was born on 6 June 1937.[9][1]

In August 1937, when Japanese troops attacked Shanghai, Carney described the situation to a Toronto newspaper.[10] Her message that described the horrors of the attack but reassured Canadians of the safety of the foreign community within the walled International Settlement was sent just before she received news of the first bombing of the Settlement.[11] A few short days later, Dora and the three children were on the P & O liner Rajputana headed for Hong Kong. Jim took leave and joined them, and the family travelled home to Canada.

Carney arrived in Shanghai in 1933, and described the city as an "exhilarating and bewildering experience".[12] She was one of the approximately 250 Canadians living in Shanghai at the time.[13]

She returned to Shanghai[14] in 1938.

She spent six years living in Shanghai.[15]

The family settled briefly in Toronto. In March 1938, Jim's leave was up, and in September 1938, Dora and the children returned to Shanghai. In August 1939, difficulties with a fourth pregnancy meant that Dora and the children had to return to Canada before the birth; on the doctor's recommendation, Jim tendered his resignation to accompany them. The family sailed on the Empress of Canada, leaving Shanghai only days before war was declared in Europe.[16]

Immediately after Jim's graduation, the family returned to British Columbia, settling first in Victoria, BC. In 1950, the family purchased 54 acres—complete with farmhouse and animals—just outside of Nelson, BC.[17] Jim’s veterinary clinic included a boarding enterprise, managed by Dora, who restored a streetcar as extra rooms for their "doggy hotel."[18] Dora also restored the derelict Naksookin paddle wheeler, towing it up the lake, beaching it below their home, and turning it into a tourist craft shop. "The day I knew my mother had power," Pat Carney writes in her autobiography, "was the day I watched hydro crews remove the electric lines along the highway so that the salvaged superstructure, containing the mail saloon, two staterooms, and the captain's bridge with its wheel, could be swung ashore."[19]

In 1961, Dora and Jim moved to Saturna Island. There, Dora wrote a column, "Gulf Islands Vignette," for the Victoria Times-Colonist newspaper.[20] She died on Saturna Island on 18 September 1983.[1]

Carney was 77 when her book was published.[21] (more personal details in there)

Maybe details in Canadian paper obituary [22][23]

Her second book was to be titled Gotta, Gotta, Gotta.[2]

Selected publications

Personal life

Her sister, Byrne Hope Sanders, was the editor of the Canadian magazine Chatalaine.[25] Carney had four children,[2] including Pat Carney who became a politician in Canada.[26]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Dora Sanders Carney | CWRC/CSEC". cwrc.ca. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. ^ a b c Bayley, Chuck (1982-06-15). "Dora's fascinating tale". The Vancouver Sun. p. 34. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  3. ^ Carney, Pat (2000). Trade Secrets: A Memoir. Toronto: Key Porter. p. 31.
  4. ^ Sanders, Byrne Hope. "Reminiscences, Part 1 (pp. 1-9)". cwrc.ca. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  5. ^ Carney, Pat (2000). Trade Secrets: A Memoir. Toronto: Key Porter. p. 26.
  6. ^ Carney, Pat (2000). Trade Secrets: A Memoir. Toronto: Key Porter. pp. 38–39.
  7. ^ Carney, Dora Sanders (1980). Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939. Toronto: Dorset. p. 1.
  8. ^ Carney, Dora Sanders (1980). Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939. Toronto: Dorset. pp. 49–50, 61–67.
  9. ^ Carney, Dora Sanders (1980). Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939. Toronto: Dorset. p. 183.
  10. ^ "Saw Shanghai carnage says it could happen here". The Toronto Star. 1937-10-18. p. 17. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  11. ^ Carney, Dora Sanders (1980). Foreign Devils Had Light Eyes: A Memoir of Shanghai, 1933-1939. Toronto: Dorset. pp. 193–97.
  12. ^ Gordon, Katherine (2002). A curious life : the biography of Princess Peggy Abkhazi. Internet Archive. Winlaw, B.C. : Sono Nis Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-1-55039-125-1.
  13. ^ Meehan, John David (2004). The Dominion and the Rising Sun : Canada encounters Japan, 1929-41. Internet Archive. Vancouver, B.C. : UBC Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-7748-1120-0.
  14. ^ "Over the teacups". The Toronto Star. 1941-12-01. p. 22. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  15. ^ Turcotte, Bobbi (1980-10-23). "Writer recalls adventure". The Ottawa Citizen. p. 76. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  16. ^ "Mrs. Dora Sanders Carney Painted a Vivid Word Picture of Trying Scenes". Brantford Expositor. 20 January 1938. p. 8.
  17. ^ Carney, Pat (2000). Trade Secrets: A Memoir. Toronto: Key Porter. p. 69.
  18. ^ Carney, Pat (2000). Trade Secrets: A Memoir. Toronto: Key Porter. p. 78.
  19. ^ Carney, Pat (2000). Trade Secrets: A Memoir. Toronto: Key Porter. p. 79.
  20. ^ "Author Carney Dead at 83". Vancouver Sun. 23 September 1986. p. 5.
  21. ^ Dufour, Pat (1980-10-12). "At 77, she's rookie author". Times Colonist. p. 16. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  22. ^ "Dora Carney, 83, was noted author". Toronto Star; Toronto, Ont. 24 Sep 1986. pp. H14 – via Proquest.
  23. ^ "Shanghaied by a dream". The Vancouver Sun. 1980-10-10. p. 121. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
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  26. ^ Mickleburgh, Rod (12 August 2023). "POLITICIAN HELPED KEEP ABORTION OUT OF CANADA'S CRIMINAL CODE: A trailblazer in federal politics, she was the first female cabinet minister to hold each of three major economic portfolios, and she later served in the Senate for 18 years". The Globe and Mail; Toronto, Ont.. pp. O12 – via Proquest.
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