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MCINTOSH, JAMES (1859-1940)

MCINTOSH, JAMES, teacher and principal; b. Nova Scotia, 15 Mar 1859; s/o John McIntosh; d. Oct 1940.

James McIntosh, formerly of Wallace, N.S., began his teaching career in the school at Chatham Head in 1876, at age seventeen. He held a 2nd class license in 1877, which he had upgraded to 1st class by 1879, when he was named principal of the superior school at Clifton in Gloucester County. Between 1888 and 1892 he was principal of the West Bathurst superior school. He returned to the Miramichi in January 1893 to be the first principal of the new superior school at Blackville.

McIntosh enjoyed an excellent reputation as a teacher and principal, with pupils and parents, as well as his professional colleagues. In 1894 he delivered a paper on "The Duties of a Principal" to the Teachers' Institute and was elected president of the institute for the ensuing year. In 1897 he accepted the vice-principalship of the grammar school at Chatham, under Philip Cox. His educational work was favorably regarded in Chatham as well, and he attracted notice as one of the town's first fitness enthusiasts. In 1902, when he was past forty, he spent most of his summer holidays "a-wheel," and came back to Chatham on a bicycle in the fall, by way of Richibucto.

In 1904 McIntosh resigned the vice-principalship and returned to his former position at Blackville, as successor to Matthew R. Tuttle. He continued to play a leadership role among the teachers of the county and was re-elected to the presidency of the Teachers' Institute in 1906 and 1907. His second term at Blackville was six years in length, after which he went back to yet another former position, as principal of the superior school at West Bathurst. He subsequently moved to the province of Quebec. He was still living there in 1925, at age sixty-five, and was eighty-one years old at the time of his death.

Sources

[b] census [d] document held by Dr. Frank H. Clarke, Jr / Advance 19 Jan 1893, 11 Oct 1894, 28 Aug 1902; Advocate 19 Nov 1879, 1 Sep 1897, 3 Aug 1904, 3 Jan 1911; Commercial World 28 Sep 1950; World 27 Oct 1906, 26 Oct 1907


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