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Catherine Macleod (10 June 1948 – 8 March 2021) was a Scottish-born Canadian feminist, trade unionist, poet, writer and playwright.




Biography






= Early life

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Born into an extremely poor family in Glasgow, Macleod emigrated to Canada in the 1950s. As a young woman, she left Kincardine for Toronto and the Yorkville hippy scene. There she discovered Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, and found her own voice as a feminist, socialist and artist.




= Career

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Macleod wrote Waking Up in the Men’s Room: A Memoir, published by Between the Lines Press in 1998. Toronto Star columnist Thomas Walkom called the book "a wry, articulate, unsparing and often poignant story." Macleod wrote three volumes of poetry, a chapbook titled Lessons Never Learned, The Telling Time published by the Ginger Press, and Re:late. Macleod's play Glow Boys was based on her family's experiences living beside Ontario's Bruce Nuclear Plant and was first performed in Kincardine and Port Elgin in 1985. Macleod co-directed (with singer Lorraine Segato) and produced Worth Every Minute, a 1987 NFB documentary about Pat Schulz, a working class socialist and child care activist. In 2007, Macleod edited The Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band: The First Century with author Basil McCarthy.
Macleod worked as a communications specialist in the Ontario labour movement for Bob White at the Canadian Auto Workers for a number of years, and as Director of Communications for Rosario Marchese, Ontario's Minister of Culture from 1990 to 1991. She also served as the acting Human Rights Director and later the Communications Director for the Ontario Federation of Labour. Macleod co-founded the Toronto's Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts and the Canadian Women's Educational Press, later called the Women's Press. Macleod strongly believed that everyone has the right to produce and enjoy art and culture. One of her favorite quotes was William Morris' "I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few."




= Personal life

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In 1992, Catherine moved back to Kincardine and married her high school sweetheart Martin Quinn. Macleod and Quinn were active in community heritage and gardening projects, co-publishing Grass Scapes: Gardening with Ornamental Grasses in 2004.




= Death

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Macleod died in Goderich, Ontario on 8 March 2021, aged 72.
After her death, Canadian actor and director David Ferry wrote in the Globe and Mail: '...one thing I remember so strongly was how she helped make one of our modest productions bloom - literally. We were doing a Norm Foster play called Jupiter in July... and (I) mentioned how the director, Kyra Harper, wanted the stage to be full of plants because the protagonist was a gardener. Catherine simply said, "Well, of course she should have them." I mentioned the cost and the challenge of keeping plants alive and Catherine said something like "Pshaw." The next day, (Catherine's husband) Martin, a horticulturalist, turned up at the theatre and after looking at the stage announced: "Okay, I am going to bring in topsoil and cover the stage and plant a beautiful garden and I will come every day and care for it and if something fades I can easily replace it." On opening night, when the lights came up on the play, you could hear a gasp from the audience. They were looking at a garden in full bloom. Our production went from small time to big time and I could feel the audience members think: "This is OUR theatre." That was the energy and follow-through that was Catherine Macleod.'




Works


Pandora
Ferns
Glow Boys, 1985
Worth Every Minute, 1987
Lessons Never Learned, 1995
Waking Up in the Men’s Room: A Memoir, 1998
The Telling Time, 2002
Grass Scapes: Gardening with Ornamental Grasses, 2003
The Kincardine Scottish Pipe Band: The First Century, (co-editor) 2007
Re:late, 2021




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Catherine MacLeod (4 September 1914 – 7 May 2000), also known as Kitty MacLeod, and in Gaelic as Kitty NicLeòid, was a Scottish Gaelic singer and school teacher.




Biography


MacLeod was born to Scottish parents in Kasuali, India, 4 September 1914. Her mother, Anna MacLeod, was a school teacher, and her father, Kenneth MacLeod was a British soldier serving with the Seaforth Highlanders during the First World War. After Catherine MacLeod was born, her father went "missing in action" and Anna MacLeod moved with her daughter back to the Isle Of Lewis in Scotland, where the young Catherine began her education at the Lionel School. Kenneth MacLeod reappeared two years afterwards, and recovered his faculties when he was brought back to Scotland and reunited with his daughter. Catherine MacLeod learnt Gaelic from her mother, but also from participating in local ceilidh gatherings in which people shared regional folklore. Her community at that time was largely monolingual.
She then attended the University of Edinburgh via a scholarship. At University she won gold medals for Celtic and Moral philosophy, as well as the Elizabeth Hamilton Prize for the best woman student in philosophy. While studying, she participated at the singing competition of the Royal National Mòd of 1936 in Inverness and won the gold medal.
MacLeod was a school teacher both in Scotland and England until she retired in 1974. During that time she also pursued a singing career, with early recordings with Parlophone. She avoided the commercial industry, but continued to sing in concerts, such as the People's Festival Ceilidhs, which emerged from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She was known for her recordings of An Aitearachd Àrd ("The high swelling of the sea") and Òran Chaluim Sgàire, which she also composed. She also appeared in The Western Isles, the first Scottish color documentary, and with her sister in the film Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue.
MacLeod was married to Murdoch Dubh MacLennan and then to Ernest Renaud Lewtas Gregson.




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