Norah Story Canadian archivist, won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1967 for her Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature.
Born in England, Story emigrated to Canada in 1912. After attending high school in Guelph, Story earned a Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Toronto in 1926. She completed a Master of Arts in 1927 at the University of Wisconsin. Story joined the Public Archives of Canada in 1927, where she directed the Manuscripts Division from 1942 to her retirement in 1960.
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