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\"ZitaZita Cameron was born in Melrose, NB. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree (1934) and a Master of Arts degree (1937) from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS. She taught school in Egerton, Pictou County, NS from 1934-1936. From 1937-1946 she acted as assistant to Dr. Moses Coady, first director of the St. F.X. Extension Department. From 1970-1977 she was editor of\u00a0The Atlantic Co-operator<\/em>\u00a0and from 1970 until her death she was an editorial writer for\u00a0The Antigonish Casket<\/i>. She was also a freelance writer and had her work published in\u00a0Columbia<\/i>, <\/i>America<\/i>,<\/i>\u00a0The Commonweal<\/i>,\u00a0The Family Herald<\/i>\u00a0and smaller journals.<\/p>\n

Among the awards she received were from the Canadian Women’s Press Club (1957) first place column CWP, second place column (1959) from the Co-operative Editorial Association, annual awards for editorial columns from the Co-op National News Service (N.Y.) for editing the best co-op publication (1976), from the Atlantic Co-op Union (1989), and for Distinguished Co-operator. St. F.X. awarded her an honorary doctorate of laws in 1978, in recognition of the 25th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the St. F.X. Extension Department. She was a member of the Order of St. Augustine, the Canadian Women’s Press Club, and the Co-operative Editorial Association (now Co-op Communicators). She died June 30, 1999 in Antigonish, NS and was buried from St. Ninian\u2019s Cathedral, Antigonish, NS.<\/p>\n

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Zita Cameron was born in Melrose, NB. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree (1934) and a Master of Arts degree (1937) from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS. She taught school in Egerton, Pictou County, NS from 1934-1936. From 1937-1946 she acted as assistant to Dr. Moses Coady, first director of the St. F.X. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":143,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

\"ZitaZita Cameron was born in Melrose, NB. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree (1934) and a Master of Arts degree (1937) from St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS. She taught school in Egerton, Pictou County, NS from 1934-1936. From 1937-1946 she acted as assistant to Dr. Moses Coady, first director of the St. F.X. Extension Department. From 1970-1977 she was editor of\u00a0The Atlantic Co-operator<\/em>\u00a0and from 1970 until her death she was an editorial writer for\u00a0The Antigonish Casket<\/i>. She was also a freelance writer and had her work published in\u00a0Columbia<\/i>,<\/i>America<\/i>,<\/i>\u00a0The Commonweal<\/i>,\u00a0The Family Herald<\/i>\u00a0and smaller journals.<\/p>

Among the awards she received were from the Canadian Women's Press Club (1957) first place column CWP, second place column (1959) from the Co-operative Editorial Association, annual awards for editorial columns from the Co-op National News Service (N.Y.) for editing the best co-op publication (1976), from the Atlantic Co-op Union (1989), and for Distinguished Co-operator. St. F.X. awarded her an honorary doctorate of laws in 1978, in recognition of the 25th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the St. F.X. Extension Department. She was a member of the Order of St. Augustine, the Canadian Women's Press Club, and the Co-operative Editorial Association (now Co-op Communicators). She died June 30, 1999 in Antigonish, NS and was buried from St. Ninian\u2019s Cathedral, Antigonish, NS.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions\/1018"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coady.stfx.ca\/collection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}