Joan Finnigan

Joan Helen Finnigan (November 23, 1925 – August 12, 2007) was a Canadian writer and poet.

MacKenzie died in 1965 and Ms. Finnigan raised the children as a single mother, while supporting the family through her writing.

Her daughter Martha recalls as a child falling asleep to the sound of the typewriter at night.

After graduating from university, Finnigan began her career as a teacher and reporter for the Ottawa Journal.

[3] She published over thirty books during her career, half of them inspired by her native Ottawa Valley, including her ground-breaking, best-selling oral histories such as Some of the Stories I Told You Were True, It Was Warm and Sunny When We Set Out, Legacies, Legends & Lies, Tell Me Another Story and Tallying the Tales of the Old-Timers.