Donalda James Dickie (5 October 1883 — 15 December 1972) was a Canadian normal school teacher in Alberta from the 1910s to 1940s.
Her Canadian history book for schoolchildren, The Great Adventure, received the 1950 Governor General's Award for juvenile fiction.
[4] From 1910 to the mid 1940s, Dickie alternated between Calgary, Edmonton and Camrose, Alberta as a normal school teacher.
[10] In 1940, Dickie released a teachers manual on progressive education titled The Enterprise in Theory and Practice.
With roughly fifty-five textbooks by the early 1950s, Dickie covered social studies and English while primarily writing about history.
[8][1] During this decade, Dickie released a Canadian history book for middle schoolchildren titled The Great Adventure.