slum clearance, and the improvement of playground facilities. Saunders also wrote newspaper articles about supervised playgrounds for city children and other social issues in the Halifax Morning Chronicle and the Toronto Globe. She also lectured frequently, and belonged to many organizations including various humane societies. In 1914, Saunders moved into 66 St. George Street in downtown Toronto, and later moved in with her younger sister at 62 Glengowan Avenue. Margaret's house was always filled with pets including at one time 28 canaries. She had a tendency to name her pets after the locations where they had been found, and once had a pigeon named 38 Front Street, and a dog named Johnny Doorstep. Saunders received an Honorary Master of Arts from Acadia University. in 1911. In 1934, at age 73, Margaret was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.). That same year she also received a medal from the Société protectrice des animaux in Paris, France. Death and legacy Saunders died in 1947 in Toronto, Ontario where she had lived for a number of years. She is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. In 1953 a plaque was installed by the Nova Scotia Site and Monuments Board near the site where she was born in Milton, Nova Scotia, which was later moved to Tupper Park. In 1994, the Beautiful Joe Heritage Society was formed to celebrate the life and story of Beautiful Joe and Saunders' achievements. A park dedicated to Beautiful Joe has been established in Meaford, Ontario, Canada Bibliography My Spanish Sailor (1889) Beautiful Joe (1893) Charles and His Lamb (1895) For the Other Boy's Sake, and Other Stories (1896) The House of Armour (1897) The King of the Park (1897) Deficient Saints (1899) For His Country (1900) Her Sailor (1900) Tilda Jane, An Orphan In Search of a Home (1901) Beautiful Joe's Paradise (1902) Nita, the Story of an Irish Setter (1904) The Story of Gravelys (1904) Princess Sukey; The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends (1905) The Story of an Eskimo Dog (1906) My Pets (1908) Tilda Jane's Orphans (1909) The Girl from Vermont (1910) Pussy Black-Face (1913) Boy, the Wandering Dog (1916) Golden Dicky (1919) Bonnie Prince Fetlar (1920) Jimmy Gold-Coast (1924) Esther de Warren (1927) References External links 1861 births 1947 deaths Canadian animal rights activists Canadian children's writers Canadian women novelists Canadian people of English descent People from