Artist, Educator. She is best remembered for her involvement in the Maritime Art Association and the "Maritime Art Magazine," Canada's first art periodical. She was also a noted Canadian artist who painted and worked with pottery. She was born one of five children as Helen Dorothy Beals in Canso, Nova Scotia, Canada, to Reverend Francis Harris Parker Beals (1856-1927), and his wife Annie Florence Nightingale Smith Beals (1866-1954), on May 27, 1897. She studied at the prestigious Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, and received her Bachelor's Degree in 1919. A year later, she obtained her certificate in Library Sciences from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts, and then studied art at the Scott Carbee School of Art also in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Scott Carbee School of Art in Boston, Massachusetts, she worked as a librarian at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, then returned to Canada and worked as an assistant librarian (beginning in 1926), and as an assistant to the art teacher and theoretician Walter Abell (1945 to 1963) in the Department of Art at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. During this time, she also started working with the Maritime Art Association in 1935, with whom she would publish Canada's first arts periodical, "Maritime Art Magazine," in 1940. She was also a talented artist who painted in watercolours, oils, acrylic paints, and who worked in pottery. As a Member of the Nova Scotia Society of Artists, and a Member of the Minas Potters Guild, she was able to showcase her art in displays at such locations as the Art Gallery of Canada in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She also exhibited her art at the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour Annual Exhibition in 1944 and 1945. She retired from education in 1963, but continued painting in her later years. In recognition of her exceptional contribution to the advancement of art in the Annapolis Valley and throughout the Maritimes, the government of the Province of Nova Scotia presented her with a Cultural Life Award in 1981. In 1987, she gave almost 200 of her watercolours to the Acadia Art Gallery in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. She passed away in her native Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 94, and was buried in the Willowbank Cemetery in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. She never married nor had any children. Her brother was the renowned astronomer Carlyle Smith Beals (1899-1979).