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She learned to play guitar at age 11, and left home at 15.

Ferron attended Total Ed, an alternative high school in Vancouver, graduating in 1973 ( Thomas 2002 ).

Of her earliest musical memories, she wrote, " my mother ’ s French Canadian family played music.

I heard guitars and banjo and accordion and scrub board and my grandfather clogging.

I put it together ... music meant fun, meant love and laughter.

I started writing songs when I was 10, never saved them after some kids at school found them and teased me about it.

I wrote songs and remembered them and when I forgot them I felt they were not important anymore.

The next time I saved a song I was 18.

It was 1970.

" It was with that first saved song that she made her professional debut in 1975, playing the song " Who Loses " at a benefit for the Women's Press Gang, a feminist publishing house.