[1] Hayward is credited with coining the term "Canadian mosaic".
[2] At the age of 16, Hayward left Bermuda and moved to New York to teach math at a private boys' school.
[2] Hayward and photographer Edith Watson spent three summers in the late 1910s and early 1920s living with the Doukhobors in Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
[4] The two recorded Doukhobor life and presented it to the public first in their 1919 Fort Wayne Journal Gazette article "Doukhobor Farms Supply All Needs" and later in Romantic Canada.
[3][10] Hayward left Connecticut after Watson's death in 1943, relocating to a cottage in Cape Cod, where she died in 1956.