Memorable Manitobans: Agnes Sherrard Crickard (1891-1965)

Educator.

Born at St. George, New Brunswick on 22 April 1891, daughter of John and Maggie Crickard, she came to Manitoba where she was the Principal of Grey School (1918-1921), Lindal School (1942-1943), Plumas School (1943-1946), and Pierson School (1946-1947), and worked as a teacher at Transcona School (1922-1938), Brickburn School (1949), MacGregor School (1953), and Erickson School (1957). She died at Montreal, Quebec on 19 June 1965.

Sources:

1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Canada voter lists, Ancestry.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 14 July 1965, page 30.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 12 August 2020

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