. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1994 Ainley: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992) 115. Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, Pimisi Bay, Ontario, 1984. Photograph courtesy of Iola Price. Through her interpretation of this bird's life, she had sought "to discover the interplay between the living creature and its environment and to deter- mine the impact of events, trends and changes upon the individual's tolerance and ;21 MAR appealed to and enchanted a variety of readers, young and old, and created new interest in Louise's nature stories. Although she had steadily published in A
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1994 Ainley: Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992) 115. Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, Pimisi Bay, Ontario, 1984. Photograph courtesy of Iola Price. Through her interpretation of this bird's life, she had sought "to discover the interplay between the living creature and its environment and to deter- mine the impact of events, trends and changes upon the individual's tolerance and ;21 MAR appealed to and enchanted a variety of readers, young and old, and created new interest in Louise's nature stories. Although she had steadily published in Audubon for more than 30 years, many of her shorter works never appeared in Canada. To Whom the Wilderness Speaks (1980), published when the author was 86 years old, remedied this situation. For this work she received the Francis H. Kortright Outdoor Writing Award. In spite of her ongoing success as an author, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence felt that she was slow- ing down. "Planting, raking, watching, counting, observing, keep me too busy to achieve much else these days" she wrote to Doris H. She continued writing, however, and, in the early 1980s she was working on two nature stories, on wood- pecker and Ruffed Grouse behaviour respectively. The first, "From hostility to amity" was published in The Living Bird Quarterly in 1984, the second "A springtime affair" appeared in Audubon in 1985. They were her last original publications. In her early 90s, Louise could still get excited about discovering a new orchid on her land or watching a Barred Owl dash after a mouse. Having renewed her driving licence in 1984, she still drove to Rutherglen, Mattawa, or North Bay for supplies. But looking after Len, who was in poor health, occupied more of her time and used up most of her energy. In 1986, Louise made a decision that she sometimes regretted but never reversed; she gave up her forest home that for 50 years provided her with artistic and scientif
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