Up the Hill and Over

Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, born Isabel Ecclestone Macpherson, was a Canadian writer. Over the last 34 years of her life, she published six novels, four collections of poems and five plays. She also contributed over three hundred poems and short stories to various publications. Mackay was the first president of the Canadian Women’s Press Club. In 1926 her play “Treasure” won the open Canadian I.O.D.E. contest.