Jean McCallum Sweet
1904-1978

Jean Anderson (nee MacCullum) Sweet was born in Amherst in 1904 and was married to Harry C.L. Sweet on July 8, 1933, in Saint John, New Brunswick. She started work as a journalist at the Evening Times Globe in ca. 1955. In her younger years, she was a teacher at the Partridge Island Quarantine Station. Sweet was actively involved in theatre and belonged to a theatre guild. She wrote Small Potatoes (1938), The Ends of the Earth (1939), The Countess Comes to Stay (1941), Our New Brunswick Story (1945) with Jessie Lawson, and This is New Brunswick (1951). She died in 1978.

Source

Biographical entry for Jean Sweet fonds, New Brunswick Museum. Accessed 18 May 2023.

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Saint John

Archival Material

  • Location
    New Brunswick Museum Archives
    Retrieval Number
    34
    Date Range of Material
    1919-1978
    Extent

    20 cm of textual records and 4 photographs

    Scope and Content Note

    Fonds includes correspondence; play scripts; poetry, short stories, and other articles; Army programmes, 1943-1946 [World War II - WWII]; and theatre programmes, 1919-1967. Includes theatre programmes and correspondence.

Front cover of "Our New Brunswick Story"
Picture Caption

Front cover of "Our New Brunswick Story"

Credit

"Jessie Isabel Lawson." New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia, Winter 2010. Accessed 18 May 2023.

Bibliography Items

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Lawson, Jessie I. and Sweet, Jean McCallum. Our New Brunswick Story. Toronto, ON: Canada Publishig Co., 1948. [ book ]

Lawson, Jessie I. and Sweet, Jean McCallum. This is New Brunswick. Toronto, ON: Ryerson Press, 1951, 202 pp. [ book ]

Sweet, Jean McCallum. Creative hands. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Geographical Society, 1953, 5 pp. [ book ]