Ruth Collie

Her grandfather was Marcus Hast [Wikidata], a Hebrew composer who spent 40 years as rabbi at the Great Synagogue of London.

[1][2] In 1908, her soon-to-be husband Elisha Arakie Cohen, travelled to England where he met and married Jacobs.

They returned to Winnipeg, Manitoba where her husband worked as a lawyer for the firm Daly, Crichton and McClure.

In January 1919, the Telegram was in financial trouble and she was recruited by the Winnipeg Tribune where she started to write a column called "What to Read... and What Not."

After her husband died in March 1919, she began working at Eaton's, writing advertising copy for their catalogues.

Many of Collie's poems were published in the Winnipeg Telegram and the Western Home Monthly under the pen name Sheila Rand.