Early life and family "Capi" Blanchet was born in
Montreal,
Quebec on May 2, 1891, and was raised in
Lachine, Quebec on the
Island of Montreal.
Personal life Blanchet's biographer Cathy Converse wrote that Blanchet "wrote modestly little of herself," but rather "exists as a shadowy protagonist against the backdrop of her stories; she is there and yet she is not." Her regular reading included challenging, intellectual fare like that found in ''
Blackwood's Magazine (also her first publisher) and The Atlantic'', which she would sometimes share with people she met in her travels.
Death and afterward She died in 1961 at her home in
North Saanich on
Vancouver Island while working on a second book. The Curve of Time, preface to Seal Press edition published 1993, p. ix. Because she died just six months after publishing
The Curve of Time, she did not live to see its success. Her second book,
A Whale Named Henry, was posthumously published in 1983 and tells the story of a small whale trapped behind the rapid currents of
Skookumchuck Narrows.; ==Published works==