[1]: 28 Nasmyth graduated from Woodstock Collegiate Institute and then attended finishing school at Alma College in St. Thomas, Ontario.

Nasmyth continued writing, and in two years she was reporting for The Vancouver Daily World and editing book reviews for the weekly B.C.

[1]: 34 Nasmyth helped found the Vancouver branch of the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC), and in 1913 she took on the role of president.

[1]: 35  In 1914, Nasmyth participated in the Komagata Maru incident, where she became part of a crowd of Canadian citizens and officials who prevented a ship full of Indian immigrants from coming ashore.

[3] Nasmyth covered the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, acting as press secretary to Canadian delegate Arthur Sifton,[2] who was her second cousin.