Mildred Hall
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Mildred Hall was one of the first public school teachers in the Northwest Territories, and a school in Yellowknife is named after her.[1][2] In 1939 Hall became the first teacher in Yellowknife's first school, a one room school so small her first twenty students had two sittings.
A much larger school was named in Hall's honour.[3]
Hall married Josh McMeekan, in 1941.[3] McKeekan was a mining engineer, and journalist, who had founded the Yellowknife Blade. Hall collaborated on the Blade. She had a child, also named Mildred, in 1944.
The Toronto Globe and Mail interviewed Hall, and told readers about her driving dog-teams.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ryan Silke (September 2014). "Yellowknife Education District No. 1 ~ A History of Public Schooling ~". Yellowknife history (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories): pp. 6-9. https://www.yellowknifehistory.com/sites/default/files/school_book_-_complete_for_printing.pdf. Retrieved 2021-06-22.
- ↑ "Old Log School House". Parks Canada. https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=1255. Retrieved 2021-06-22. "In 1939, it was opened as a one-room schoolhouse, and Ms. Mildred Hall became the first teacher in Yellowknife."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "1939 Mildred Hall, 1st School Teacher in Yellowknife". Northwest Territories Timeline. Archived from the original on 2020-08-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20200815053858/https://www.nwttimeline.ca/1925/1939_MildredHall.htm. Retrieved 2021-06-22. "In 1941 Mildred Hall married newspaper editor Jock McMeekan and they had a daughter in 1944."