Eva Reid: Girl Reporter (Biography‪)‬

One of Calgary's longest serving and best loved newspaper columnists discovered her talent for writing only through a lucky break. In the height of the Depression, Eva Reid could not find work as a stenographer so when a friend launching a small newspaper offered her a job, she jumped at the chance. She was hired as circulation manager but soon was pressed into service editing copy, conducting interviews, and writing articles. Her true calling revealed, she dedicated the rest of her long career to newspaper work, juggling jobs as diverse as provincial editor, court reporter, women's editor, and social columnist. When she finally retired after more than four decades of writing about Calgary social life from bottom to top, faithful readers quietly mourned and colleagues announced it as the end of an era. Eva Adeline Reid was born on June 12, 1906, in Orangeville, Ontario, third child to William John and Ann Elizabeth (White) Reid. In 1908, when Eva was still a toddler, John Reid moved west, purchasing two adjoining quarter sections of land in the Hazelmere district, five miles southeast of the little town of Macleod.