Background
Éva Senécal was born Marie-Eva Senecal, on April 20, 1905, in La Patrie, Quebec, Canada. She was a daughter of Adelard Senecal, a farmer, and Octavie (Beaudry) Senecal.
Éva Senécal was born Marie-Eva Senecal, on April 20, 1905, in La Patrie, Quebec, Canada. She was a daughter of Adelard Senecal, a farmer, and Octavie (Beaudry) Senecal.
Éva Senécal attended the Ecole Normale of Saint-Hyacinthe.
While unwillingly a resident in a sanitarium for several months in 1923, Senecal set down her first poems on paper. By 1927 her first volume of verse, titled Un Peu d'angoisse... un peu de fievre, was published; it would be followed two years later by La Course dans Vaurore.
She worked for La Tribune's Sherbrooke newspaper from 1930 to 1936 and worked there again in the mid-1960s.
In 1940, Éva Senécal married Clifford Cole.