About Catharine McAvity

Belleville was never home to this proud Maritimer. She simply entered the world where her young parents were briefly stationed on an assignment for the railway. She was born into the old Prince Edward Island clan of MacNeills from Stanley Bridge, the family that adopted a young Lucy Maud Montgomery. She married into the old New Brunswick business clan, the McAvitys of Saint John or, rather more importantly, Rothesay. Like so many, she rarely travelled or knew the world outside of the Maritimes until later in her life.
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Exhibitions

Catharine McAvity’s works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions over the years, including:

The National Gallery of Canada (Atlantic Journal 1976-77, a national touring exhibition)

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolours

Beaverbrook Art Gallery

New Brunswick Museum

Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto

Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre

Zwickers Art Gallery

Ring Gallery

Morrison Art Gallery

Peter Buckland Art Gallery

Trinity Galleries

Brock Street Gallery

Owens Art Gallery

Mount Allison University

University of New Brunswick

Her work can be found in many public and private collections