"[4][3] Clark became involved in the folk music circuit in Canada and the United States in the 1960s and recorded an album in 1968.

[6][7] In 1967 she and her husband built a model Canadian pioneer farmstead and toured it around the province as part of Canada's centennial celebrations in 1967.

[8][9][10] In the late 1970s she set out to record 25 albums of traditional Canadian folk and popular songs, working with a local radio station CHAY-FM, as well as recording half hour television programming in Owen Sound.

[2] During World War II she worked as a cook in a mess hall for the Canadian Armed Forces at Camp Bordon.

The couple were living in Ottawa in 1961 when she met folklorist Edith Fowke, who collected and recorded her songs.