{{Short description|Canadian folklorist (1913–1996)}} {{Infobox person | name = Edith Fowke | honorific_suffix = CM | image = | caption = | birth_name = Edith Fowke | birth_date = April 30, 1913 | birth_place = Lumsden, Saskatchewan, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|March 28, 1996|April 30, 1913}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = University of Saskatchewan | employer = CBC Radio | occupation = | title = Member of Order of Canada | spouse = Frank Fowke | children = | parents = William and Margaret Fulton | relatives = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Edith Fowke''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM}} ''(née'' '''Margaret Fulton'''; 30 April 1913 in Lumsden, Saskatchewan<ref>{{cite web |last=Kirby |first=Allan |title=What Ordinary People Do Is Important: Edith Fowke's Life and Publications |url=http://cjtm.icaap.org/content/26/kirby.html |format=web reprint, ''Canadian Journal for Traditional Music'' (1996) |access-date=2008-03-10}}</ref> – 28 Mar 1996 in Toronto) was a Canadian folklorist.<ref name="CdnE">Nygaard King, Betty and Ruth Pincoe. {{cite encyclopedia|title=Edith Fowke|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/edith-fowke-emc|access-date=2008-03-10}}</ref> Fowke was educated at the University of Saskatchewan. She hosted the CBC Radio program ''Folk Song Time'' from 1950 to 1963.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1964/12/2/how-edith-fowke-dug-up-2000-old-songs-in-of-all-places-ontario|title=How Edith Fowke dug up 2,000 old songs in—of all places—Ontario {{!}} Maclean's {{!}} DECEMBER 2 1964|website=Maclean's {{!}} The Complete Archive|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-22}}</ref> She wrote numerous books in collaboration with folklorist and composer Richard Johnston, including ''Folk Songs of Canada'' (Waterloo Music Company 1954), ''Folk Songs of Quebec'' (Waterloo 1957), ''Chansons canadiennes françaises'' (Waterloo 1964), and ''More Folk Songs of Canada'' (Waterloo 1967). She is particularly noted for recording the songs of traditional singers O. J. Abbott,<ref name=CdnE/><ref>[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oj-abbott-emc O. J. Abbott]</ref> LaRena Clark,<ref name=CdnE/><ref>[http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/larena-clark-emc LaRena Clark]</ref> and Tom Brandon.<ref name=CdnE/> Edith Fowke died in Toronto in 1996.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Edith M. Fowke |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/edith-m-fowke-1.54009 |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=What Ordinary People Do Is Important: Edith Fowke's Life And Publications |url=https://cjtm.icaap.org/content/26/kirby.html |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=cjtm.icaap.org}}</ref>
==Books== {{Library resources box|by=yes|viaf=46775215}} * ''Folk Songs of Canada'' (1954) * {{cite book |title= Sally Go Round The Sun: 300 Songs, Rhymes, and Games of Canadian Children|last= Fowke |first= Edith|year= 1969|isbn= 0-385-02513-0}} * ''Lumbering Songs from the Northern Woods'' (1970) *Fowke, Edith and Bram Morrison (1972). ''Canadian vibrations = Vibrations canadiennes.'' Toronto: Macmillan of Canada.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fowke|first=Edith Fulton|title=Canadian vibrations = Vibrations canadiennes|last2=Morrison|first2=Bram|date=1972|publisher=Macmillan of Canada|isbn=978-0-7705-0975-0|location=Toronto|language=en|oclc=872297863}}</ref> * ''The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs. Selected and Edited by Edith Fowke'' (1973) * {{cite book |last1= Fowke |first1= Edith |last2= Glazer|first2= Joe |author-link2= Joe Glazer|title= Songs of Work and Protest |url=https://archive.org/details/songsofworkprote0000fowk|url-access= registration |year= 1973|publisher= Dover Publications |location= New York|isbn= 9780486228990 |oclc=260008507 }} ) * ''Folklore of Canada:Tall Tales, Stories, Rhymes and Jokes From Every Corner of Canada'' (1976) *''Folktales of French Canada'' (1979)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fowke|first=Edith Fulton|title=Folktales of French Canada|date=1979|publisher=NC Press|isbn=978-0-919601-01-7|location=Toronto|language=en|oclc=918171103}}</ref> * ''Singing Out History: Canada's Story in song'' (1984) * ''Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario'' by Edith Fowke and Katherine Boykowycz (1985) * ''Red Rover, Red Rover: Children's Games Played in Canada'' (1988) * ''Tales Told in Canada'' (1988) * ''Canadian Folklore'' Perspectives on Canadian Folklore (1988) * ''A Family Heritage: The Story and Songs of Larena Clark'' by Edith Fulton Fowke and Jay Rahn (1994) * {{cite book |title=Legends Told in Canada |year=1995 }} *{{cite book |title= Folktales of French Canada|last= Fowke |first=Edith |year= 1993}} * {{cite book |title=Songs of the North Woods: As sung by O J Abbott and Collected by Edith Fowkes |last= Vikar |first= L|author2=Jeanette Panagapka|year= 2004}}
==Recordings== * Collected Folk Songs are in the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Commercially issued recordings: * "Irish and British Songs from the Ottawa Valley" (sung by O. J. Abbott) (Folkways FM 4051)<ref>{{Citation|last=O. J. Abbott|first=Edith Fulton Fowke|title=Irish & British Songs From The Ottawa Valley|url=https://archive.org/details/IrishBritishSongsFromTheOttawaValley|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> * "Authentic Canadian Folk symbol" (sung by LaRena Clark) (Clark Records LCS 108) (1978) * "Canada at Turn of the Sod" (sung by LaRena Clark) (LCS 110) (1979) * "Canada's Queen of Song" (sung by LaRena Clark) (LCS 107) (1978) * "LaRena Clark: Canadian Garland" (Topic 12T140) (1965) * "Far Canadian Fields: Companion to the Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs" Leader LEE 4057 (1975) * "Folk Songs of Ontario" (Folkways FM 4005) (1958)<ref>{{Citation|last=Various Artists|title=Folk Songs Of Ontario|url=https://archive.org/details/FolkSongsOfOntario|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> * "Lumbering Songs from the Ontario Shanties" (Folkways FM 4052) (1961)<ref>{{Citation|last=Various Artists|title=Lumbering Songs From The Ontario Shanties|url=https://archive.org/details/LumberingSongsFromTheOntarioShanties|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> * "Tom Brandon of Peterborough, Ontario" (Folk-Legacy FSC-10) (1963)
==Awards and honours== * 1978: Member of the Order of Canada<ref name="CdnE" /> *1983: Fellow of Royal Society of Canada<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cshf.ca/songwriter/edith-margaret-fowke/|title=Edith (Margaret) Fowke {{!}} Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee|website=Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> *2000: Lifetime Achievement Award, Folk Alliance (posthumous)<ref name="CdnE" /> *2011: Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame<ref name=":0" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://atom.library.yorku.ca/index.php/edith-fowke-collection Edith Fowke archives] at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University Libraries, Toronto, Ontario *[https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/index.php/edith-fowke-fonds Edith Fowke archives] also at the Archives & Special Collections, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
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