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Her time as Vicereine of Canada is remembered for her energetic relief work. Her library project of gathering books in Eastern Canada for impoverished western communities and sending train carloads of them west was the foundation for many public libraries across the prairies.
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She died at Burford, near Oxford, on 22 March 1977 aged 94 and was buried beside her husband in the churchyard at Elsfield.
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Little, G. (2012). "The People Must Have Plenty of Books: Lady Tweedsmuir's Prairie Library Scheme, 1936-40".
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Buchan [nÊe Grosvenor], Susan Charlotte, Lady Tweedsmuir (1882–1977)
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Her interest in literary education influenced the establishment of the
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She was a childhood friend of Virginia Stephen (later
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Index

Susan Charlotte Grosvenor
The Right Honourable
Lady Tweedsmuir in 1937
Burford
Oxfordshire
John Buchan
John
William
Alastair
Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor
Caroline Stuart-Wortley
DStJ
John Buchan
viceregal consort of Canada
governor general
Mayfair, London
Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor
first Lord Ebury
Caroline Susan Theodora Stuart-Wortley
first Lord Wharncliffe
Dukes of Westminster
Baron Tweedsmuir
John
William
Alastair
Virginia Woolf
Hogarth Press
Governor General's Awards
Rideau Hall

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