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Person
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Rordam, Vita, 1912-
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Description area
Dates of existence
1912-
History
Writer and illustrator Vita Rordam, daughter of the Danish poet Valdemar Rordam and his wife Margrethe, was born in Denmark in 1912 and educated there. She arrived in Canada in 1953 and lived and worked in Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick before settling in Nova Scotia in 1975. Her works include Payuk and the Polar Bears (1981) and "Journey to Canada" published in the Chronicle Herald (1983).