Born: May 23, 1889, Sund­ridge, Ontar­io, Ca­na­da.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 17, 1973, To­ron­to, Ca­na­da.

Edgar at­tend­ed Ha­ver­gal Coll­ege, the Un­i­ver­si­ty of On­tar­io, and the Na­tion­al Train­ing School of the Young Wo­men's Christ­ian As­so­ci­a­tion in New York Ci­ty. From 1922 to 1956, she ran a girls’ camp called Glen Ber­nard, on Lake Ber­nard, near Sund­ridge. Her works in­clude:

• Once There Was a Camper
• Wood-Fire and Candle-Light, 1945
• Under Open Skies, 1955
• A Christmas Wreath of Verse, 1965

Sources

Lyrics

1. God, Who Touchest Earth with Beauty (1925, 1939)