Winnifred Eaton’s writing apprenticeship began in Montreal where, as a young girl, she invented “stories and fairy songs.” Eaton exaggerated when she claimed that she was 14 when her first publication, a serialized short story, appeared in Montreal’s Metropolitan (“Poor Devil,” a fragment of which Eaton preserved in her scrapbook). During this early stage of her career, Eaton published short stories, several of which are set in Montreal, and also experimented with journalism. Her experience writing for a Montreal newspaper, she claimed, got her a job as a writer and reporter for the daily Gall’s News Letter in faraway Kingston, Jamaica, for a few months in 1895-6, where she purported to have published pieces signed “Busybody” and “Man on the Street.” Her works for Gall’s News Letter, other than one poem, have yet to be located.