Louise Manny

She was born in Gilead, Maine, the daughter of Charles de Grass Manny, a spoolmaker, and Minette Lee Harding, and her family moved to New Brunswick when she was three.

She graduated from McGill University in Montreal in 1913 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in French and English.

[2] In 1947 she was commissioned by Max Aitken Lord Beaverbrook, a wealthy British politician and newspaperman who was born in New Brunswick, and began to collect and record the songs of lumbermen and fishermen in the Miramichi region.

[1] Beaverbrook also provided financial assistance to allow her to restore The Manse in Newcastle, New Brunswick which became the local library.

[1] Manny also presented items of historical interest in a weekly newspaper column called "Scenes from an Earlier Day".

Beaverbrook House, formerly the Old Manse Library (where Louise Manny worked), and earlier the boyhood home of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook , in Newcastle, Miramichi, New Brunswick (IR Walker 1983)