{{Short description|Canadian writer and historian}} {{Infobox person | name = Mabel Burkholder | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = Canada | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Historian, writer | citizenship = Canada | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Mabel Grace Burkholder''' (1881&ndash;1973) was a Canadian writer and historian.

==Biography== Burkholder was born in 1881 to a family of German settlers. She taught for a short time after obtaining a teaching certificate before turning to writing. She published poetry, short stories, poems and books about the history of Hamilton, Ontario from 1911 to 1968. Burkholder had a regular local history column in ''The Hamilton Spectator'' and was a member of the city's branch of Canadian Women's Press Club.<ref name="Dagg">{{cite book |title=The feminine gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836-1945 |last=Dagg |first=Anne Innis |author-link=Anne Innis Dagg |page=51 |year=2001 |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IJwyLyaT9KYC&q=%22Mabel+Burkholder%22&pg=PA51 |isbn=978-0-88920-355-6 }}</ref><ref name=Campbell>{{cite book |title=New women: short stories by Canadian women, 1900-1920 |editor1-last=Sandra |editor1-first=Campbell |editor2-last=McMullen |editor2-first=Lorraine |page=[https://archive.org/details/newwomenshortsto00camp/page/179 179] |year=1991 |publisher=University of Ottawa Press |isbn=978-0-7766-0323-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newwomenshortsto00camp/page/179 }}</ref> In 1938, Burkholder was named Hamilton's first Citizen of the Year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Businessman, student named Hamilton's Citizens of the Year|url=http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6392082-businessman-student-named-hamilton-s-citizens-of-the-year/|accessdate=7 November 2016|publisher=The Hamilton Spectator|date=16 March 2016}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===Books=== *{{cite book|title=The course of Impatience Carningham|date=1911|publisher=Toronto Musson Book|url=https://archive.org/details/courseofimpatien00burkuoft}} *{{cite book|title=Before the white man came : Indian legends and stories|date=1923|publisher=Toronto : McClelland & Stewart|url=https://archive.org/details/beforewhitemanca00burk}} *''The Shield of Honor'' (1929) *''The Story of Hamilton'' (1938) *''Barton on the Mount'' (1956)

===Short stories=== *{{cite book|editor1-last=Campbell|editor1-first=Sandra|editor2-last=McMullen|editor2-first=Lorraine|title=New women short stories by Canadian women, 1900-1920|date=1991|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|location=Ottawa [Ont.]|isbn=9780776603230|edition=2. print|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e14OAAAAIAAJ&q=mabel+burkholder&pg=PA179|chapter=The Heart of Kerry (1907)}}

==Further reading== *Watters, Reginald Eyre. ''A Checklist of Canadian Literature and Background Material, 1682-1960.'' (2nd Revised Ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972.

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==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Mabel Burkholder}} *{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060218202845/http://www.geocities.com/canlit2002/canliterature.html |date=February 18, 2006 |title=Mabel Burkholder }} * {{cite web|title=Mabel Burkholder collection|url=http://archives.mcmaster.ca/index.php/mabel-burkholder-collection|website=McMaster University Library|publisher=William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections|accessdate=6 November 2016}}

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