Sculptor, educator, art critic.
Born at Waskada on 10 July 1912, eldest of three daughters of Rev. Percy Heywood and Ethel Lucinda Bradley, she was educated in Winnipeg and Trenton, Ontario. She entered the Winnipeg School of Art in 1931 and studied there until 1934. It is alleged that, while there, she had a romantic relationship with instructor Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald. She subsequently studied sculpture at the Ontario College of Art. In 1945, she married composer Wade Hemsworth (1916-2002) and moved to Montreal where she taught at the Museum of Fine Arts school and wrote art criticism for Montreal newspapers. She died in 1989.
Birth registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1916 Canada census, Ancestry.
The Winnipeg School of Art: The Early Years by Marilyn Baker, University of Manitoba Press, 1984, page 101.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, December 1999, 288 pages.
“Lucky 7” by Alison Mayes, Winnipeg Free Press, 10 March 2009, page 33.
Obituary [Kathleen Ethel Findlay-Ireland], Winnipeg Free Press, 17 November 2012, page 45.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 October 2025
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