Jessie Sime

Jessie Georgina Sime, (February 12, 1868 – September 13, 1958) was a Scottish born Canadian novelist.

Sime was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire in Scotland in 1868.

Her mother worked as a teacher and her father was a journalist and historian who wrote several books on German history.

While in Edinburgh she began a relationship with a Canadian doctor, Walter William Chipman.

In 1907 she decided to visit Canada and ended up staying in Montreal for the remainder of her life.