Mary Irene Gurney Evans (c. 1870 – August 29, 1951) was a pianist and clubwoman in Manitoba.
Biography
Gurney was born in Toronto, the daughter of Edward Gurney and Mary Frances Cromwell, and was educated there and at the New England Conservatory of Music. She helped found the Women's Musical Club of Toronto and served as its vice-president. In 1900, she married William Sanford Evans and came to Winnipeg the following year. She was president of the Women's Musical Club of Winnipeg and was the first president of the Women's Canadian Club of Winnipeg. She died in Winnipeg in 1951.
Her son Gurney Evans served in the Manitoba legislature.
References
- ^ "Mary Irene Gurney Evans (c1870-1951)". Memorable Manitobans. Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
- Canadian Press Association (1911). Who's who in western Canada. p. 171. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
- ^ Bumsted, J M (2000). Dictionary of Manitoba Biography. University of Manitoba Press. p. 78. ISBN 0887553184. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
- McCrea, Walter Jackson (1925). Pioneers and prominent people in Manitoba. p. 173. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
- Artibise, Alan (1975). Winnipeg: A Social History of Urban Growth 1875-1914. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 30. ISBN 0773502025. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
- "The Winnipeg W. C. C." Canadian Magazine (April 1908): 573.