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.[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
- ↑ 1.0 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."
- ↑ 2.0 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.
- ↑ "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."
- ↑ 4.0 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."