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Heaps, Mabel Boulkind, 1913-2008
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- Mae Boulkind
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1913-2008
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Mabel “Mae” Heaps (1913-2008) was a journalist from Montreal. She was the daughter of Samuel Boulkind and Fanny Fish, born in Montreal. She attended McGill University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1934 and a Master of Arts in 1938. She married David Heaps in 1948 and moved to the United States for David’s work. They had at least 3 sons, Jonathan, Alan, and Danny.
During the war years especially Mae and her sister Gwen wrote for the Montreal Star family of newspapers under the pseudonym "Boulkind." Their stories were social in nature and covered diverse topics from codebreaking in the RAF, spas for women in the Montreal area, to the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union strike of 1937.
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Boulkind, Fanny Fish, 1888-1953 (1888-1953)
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family
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Boulkind, Fanny Fish, 1888-1953 is the parent of Heaps, Mabel Boulkind, 1913-2008
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Boulkind, Samuel, 1884-1966 (1884-1966)
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Boulkind, Samuel, 1884-1966 is the parent of Heaps, Mabel Boulkind, 1913-2008