MRS. CHRISTINA WILLEY.
 

	Mrs. Christina Willey, who has been engaged in business as the owner
of a drug store at Bredenbury since 1911, has demonstrated her ability
not only in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry but has also won envi-
able renown along literary lines as a poet of the plains. She came to the
Northwest Territories more than a third of a century ago. Mrs. Willey
is a native of Surrey, England, and a daughter of George and Jane (Law-
rence) Cooper, who were born in Scotland and England, respectively.
Her education was acquired in the Clapham Middle School, London,
England. It was in the year 1889 that she emigrated to Canada and took
tip her abode at Sumner, in the Northwest Territories, there remaining
for four years. On the expiration of that period-in 1893-she removed
to Saltcoats, Saskatchewan, where she made her home for eighteen years.
Since 1911 she has been a resident of Bredenbury, this province. Mrs.
Willey was graduated as a pharmaceutical chemist in 1899 and has con-
tinued active along this line. It is in the field of literature, however, that
she is perhaps best known, for she has published considerable prose and
verse that has gained her more than local fame and has met with nierited
appreciation among her readers.  She is a member of the Canadian
Authors Association.
	On the 29th of March, 1889, in London, England, Christina Cooper
became the wife of Thomas Burness Willey. She is a Liberal in politics
and a member of the Church of England.





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