Author: Knight, Ann Cuthbert
Biography:
KNIGHT, Ann Cuthbert, formerly RAE, later FLEMING (1788-1860: DCB)
She was born on 11 Dec. 1788 and baptised on 4 Jan. 1789 at St. Nicholas, Aberdeen, the daughter of John Rae and Margaret (Cuthbert) Rae. Her father was a merchant in Aberdeenshire and she was educated by a governess at home. On 3 July 1810 she married James Innis Knight and travelled with him to Canada, returning to Scotland in about 1812. The couple emigrated to Canada with their two young children in 1815 and Ann took up teaching in Montreal. Her husband died in 1816 and she supported the family by running a boarding school. On 8 May 1820 she married another Scot, James Fleming, a shopkeeper in Montreal who died in 1855. Her later books were educational texts: First Book for Canadian Children (1843), Views of Canadian Scenery (1843), The Prompter (1844), and Progressive Exercises on the English Language (1844). She died on 15 Mar. 1860 at Abbotsford, Lower Canada--now Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford, Quebec--and was buried in the cimetière Mont-Royal in Outremont. (DCB 25 Sept 2019; aancestry.com 31 Dec. 2025) HJ