Mildred Hall

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Mildred Hall
Mildred Hall in 1939
Mildred Hall in 1939
Born 1899-10-23[1]
Iowa[1]
Died May 23, 1974(1974-05-23) (aged 74)[1]
Victoria, BC[1]
Nationality Canada
Other names
  • Mildred Itasca Hall[1]
  • Mildred McMeekan
Occupation teacher, journalist
Known for First public school teacher in Yellowknife
Mildred Hall, the first public school teacher in the NWT, and her students, outside her small one-room schoolhouse.[2]

Mildred Hall was one of the first public school teachers in the Northwest Territories, and a school in Yellowknife is named after her.[2][3] 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.[4]

Hall married Josh McMeekan, in 1941.[4] McKeekan was a mining engineer, and journalist, who had founded the Yellowknife Blade. Hall collaborated on the Blade.

The Toronto Globe and Mail interviewed Hall, and told readers about her driving dog-teams.

She had a child, also named Mildred, in 1944. The pair started to raise Mildred's five year old niece Hélène Acikahte in 1948.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "McMeekan (family)". NWT archives. https://gnwttest.accesstomemory.org/mcmeekan-family. Retrieved 2021-06-23. "She studied at the University of Alberta and became a schoolteacher. She moved to Yellowknife in 1938, and became the first public school teacher in the Northwest Territories." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 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. 
  3. "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." 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "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."