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EDGAR, MARY CAROLINE (1873-1927)

EDGAR, MARY CAROLINE, teacher and principal; b. Chatham 6 Apr 1873, d/o James Edgar and Isabella Kerr McKnight; unmarried; d. Chatham, 13 May 1927.

Mary Caroline ("Minnie") Edgar was one of three or more teachers in the family of a Chatham blacksmith. She was a student at the Provincial Normal School in 1889-90. In 1906 she reported eight years of teaching experience in Chatham, most of which was as principal of the multi-classroom school on Wellington Street. She was still occupying this position in 1910-11. Later she taught in western Canada for a number of years but returned to Chatham around 1921. She continued teaching until her death in 1927, at age fifty-four.

Edgar was a leader in Presbyterian church and Sunday school work and was education secretary of the Earl of Chatham chapter of the IODE. In the words of the North Shore Leader, she was "held in high esteem by all who knew her."

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[b] census [d] Educ. report 1926-27 / Advance 12 Sep 1889; Educ. reports 1903ff; Leader 20 May 1927


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