. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1994 Ainley: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992) 113. Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, bird-banding at Pimisi Bay, 1940s. 1942, she once again turned to Taverner. "I think I want you to tell me ... what I can do ... ? How should I record what I see? ... How can I do more, study better ... and let it come to some use for all our ;9 She enclosed a couple of her nature stories for which she could find no publisher. The recently retired Taverner considered her sto- ries "literature as well as good natural history and hence hardly material f
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1994 Ainley: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992) 113. Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, bird-banding at Pimisi Bay, 1940s. 1942, she once again turned to Taverner. "I think I want you to tell me ... what I can do ... ? How should I record what I see? ... How can I do more, study better ... and let it come to some use for all our ;9 She enclosed a couple of her nature stories for which she could find no publisher. The recently retired Taverner considered her sto- ries "literature as well as good natural history and hence hardly material for 'popular' magazines. I should think they are Atlantic Monthly ;10 He advised her to take up bird banding. With a govern- ment banding permit in hand, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence was soon trapping and banding birds. She sold a story to Farmer's Magazine, and was "writing and ;11 She began illustrating her bird stories and they were getting accepted by various maga- zines. Her early writing success led to an invitation, in 1944, to join the Canadian Authors' Association. Louise later recalled that in May 1944 "I had the unbelievable luck of having Murray and Doris Speirs ... walk in on me without ; The unexpected visit provided her with the "rare chance at long last having somebody whom I could talk to and who knew vastly more about birds than I ;12 Contact with her new friends led to a regional study of birds "centring around the banding and the birds of my own home woods, marshes and fields ... I am having the area properly mapped this spring [1945] and from then on I shall be able to say exactly where whose territory is and how far so and so goes for food or fight or just ;13 Her first nature book The Loghouse Nest was pub- lished in February 1945. At age 51 Louise de Kiriline Lawrence was launched on an illustrious career as nature writer/ornithologist. She wrote for Audubon Magazine as
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