Profiles of Alberta Women
Elise Park Gowan – Supporting Information
Archival records
E. H. Gowan fonds. PR1375. Provincial Archives of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Elsie Park Gowan fonds. University of Alberta Archives, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Elsie P. Gowan fonds. PR1284. Provincial Archives of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Theatre Alberta Society fonds. PR0374. Provincial Archives of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Awards and honours
1942 – Canadian Drama Award
1977 – Provincial Achievement Award for Excellence in Literature
1982 – Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Alberta
1993 – Edmonton Hall of Fame
Further reading
Day, Moira. “Elsie Park Gowan’s (re)-Building of Canada, 1937-1938: Revisioning the Historical Radio Series through Feminist Eyes.” Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada 14, no. 1 (1993). https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/7231
Olson, Steven H. “The Function of Radio Drama: An Alberta Perspective.” Master’s thesis. University of Alberta, 1991. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/6bad2156-ef7a-429c-b1b1-c398ece5b47b/view/8f32a17c-eb98-4355-83a3-5bf7da1515ce/MM70214.pdf
Wagner, Anton. “Elsie Park Gowan: Distinctively Canadian.” Theatre Research in Canada/ Recherches théâtrales au Canada 8, no. 1 (1987): 68-82. https://utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/tric.8.1.68
Selected creative works
Gowan, Elsie Park. Breeches from Bond Street: A Comedy in One Act. New York: S. French, 1952.
Gowan, Elsie Park. “The Last Caveman.” Theatre Research in Canada 8 no. 1 (Spring 1987). https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/7380
Gowan, Elsie Park. The Hungry Spirit: Selected Plays and Prose by Elsie Park Gowan. Edited by Moira Day. NeWest Press: Edmonton, 1992.
A longer list of Elsie’s works can be seen here: https://dhil.lib.sfu.ca/doceww/person/1777
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