"Aitken, born Kate Scott in Beeton, Ontario, worked as an entrepreneur, teacher and journalist both before and after marrying local businessman Henry Aitken. As a journalist, she once interviewed Benito Mussolini."

Just as I suspected, she was a small town Ontario girl. Beeton is a small rural community about 40 minutes drive from Orillia, southwest of Barrie. It's still a pretty small town even now, so it must have been very small when Kate Scott was born there in 1891. It's basically a farming area. I used to go to Beeton for an open stage thing that was happening at a coffee shop there a few years back, and a lot of the local musicians would gather to play a few tunes.

Ms Aiken has that distinctive rural Ontario accent that was quite a feature back then, but seems not to be heard nearly as much now.