# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-quayle-innis
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:09:36.074Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-quayle-innis"
name: "Mary Quayle Innis"
slug: "mary-quayle-innis"
description: "Mary Emma Quayle Innis was a Canadian novelist, short story writer and author of historical works including An Economic History of Canada; three illustrated books for children about the country's founding; a history of the Canadian YMCA; and, Travellers West, an account of three 19th-century expeditions across western Canada. In addition, she researched and edited several books about women and Canadian history including a scholarly edition of Mrs. Simcoe's Diary, kept from 1791 to 1796, by Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe, the wife of John Graves Simcoe, the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada."
tagline: "Canadian author and historian (1899–1972)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Photo_of_the_late_Canadian_scholar_Mary_Quayle_Innis.jpeg/330px-Photo_of_the_late_Canadian_scholar_Mary_Quayle_Innis.jpeg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1899-04-13"
deathDate: "1972-01-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.29
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           1.535241333333333
  currentAttention:     41.66666666666667
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Quayle_Innis"
    title: "Mary Quayle Innis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56461769"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations