Born: March 21, 1902, Canning, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 1965
Married: Vera Hazel Munro, November 06, 1921
Born: 1901, Scot’s Bay, Kings Co. NS
Died: March 29, 1982, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Children:
William Donald Fraser Smith , May 28, 1923
Linden Marshal Smith, June 08, 1924
Adrian Eral Smith , August 21, 1925
John Alexander Smith , September, 1926
Patricia Rosalie Smith , September 17, 1927
Don in 1934 Don & Vera – Taken 1940’s
Donald F. SMITH
Donald Fraser Smith, son Of the late William D. and Maude (Barkhouse) Smith died at Camp Hill Hospital, Halifax, following several months illness.
Born in Halifax 63 years ago, he received his early schooling in Canning and for a number of years was engaged as a mechanic in the valley area.
At the outbreak of world War Two Mr. Smith joined the RCAF.
Surviving besides his wife, the former Vera Munroe of Scotch Village Hants County are three sons, Donald, Saint John; Linden, British Columbia; Adrian, Bedford, one daughter, Mrs Patricia Boylde, Long Island, N.y.; six brothers, Robert, Lunenburg, Sheldon, Toronto; Frederick, Middleton; Archie, Berwick; Edward, Nictaux; John, Kentville; two sisters, Theresa (Mrs. Herbert Erickson), West Newton, Mass.; Marion (Mrs.Kenneth Keller), Winnipeg.
Mr. Smith was a member of the Royal Canadian Canning branch, and a member of the Canning Anglican Church.
The body is resting at the H. C. Lindsay Funeral Home Kentville, and will be taken to St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Canning, for funeral service Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. Rev. K. W. Mason will 0fficiate. Internment will be in the family lot in the Cornwallis Cemetery, Church Street,
Vera Smith,
prominent
poet, dies
Vera M. Smith
Vera Munro Smith, one of Nova Scotia’s bestknown poets died Monday in hospital in Sarasota, Fla. She was in her 80th year and had resided in Sarasota since the death of her husband, Donald Fraser Smith of Canning. She returned to her native province each summer.
Her poetry volume Dark Harvest, Flame the Shadows and Wine from Water, won international critical acclaim. Her sonnets, particularly those in Flame in the Shadows, published in England, and now out of print, were favourably compared with the work of Edna St. Vincent Mil
She was for many years active in the Nova Scotia Poetry Society and was a member of the Canadian Authors’ Association.
She was for many years active in the Nova Scotia Poetry Society and was a member of the Canadian Authors’ Association.
In 1977 in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. she was elected a member of the International Platform Society of authors and writers, established by Daniel Webster in 1828.
While best known as poet, she was also reco nized as an outstanding painter, particularly of landscapes and seascapes of her native Annapolis Valley and the South Shore. Her early work was published in The Halifax Herald.
Her writings have been since published in more than 20 journals and per
She was born in September, 1902 in Scot’s Bay, Kings County, daughter of John A. and Rose Hazel Munro.
Besides her husband, she was predeceased by a son, John Alexander, in 1935.
Surviving are three sons, William D.F. Smith of Halifax, Lindon Marshal Smith, QC, of Wolfville, and Adrian Earl Smith of Vancouver, and a daughter Patricia, Stamford, Conn.
Smith and Westcott 