Educator, botanist, civil servant.
Born at Birtle on 2 May 1888, youngest of three children of Ada Birch (1855-1924) and Joseph Charles Dudley (1851-1932), she taught school in rural Manitoba, including Basswood School (1918-1924) and Minitonas School (1924-1925). In 1932, she earned an MSc degree from the University of Manitoba, graduating magna cum laude, then obtained a PhD degree in Botany from the University of Minnesota in 1935.
From 1938 to 1950, she did research on allergies with Charles Hutchinson A’Court Walton of the Winnipeg Clinic. She lectured in Botany at the University of Manitoba and Brandon College, and in 1944 she joined the Correspondence Branch of the Manitoba Department of Education, from which she retired in 1962. In 1938, for her work as a botanist, she received the Bronze Medal of the Natural History Society of Manitoba.
She died unmarried at Winnipeg on 8 April 1980. Her papers are at the Archives of Manitoba. Her herbarium specimens formed the basis of the collection at the Plant Sciences Building of the University of Manitoba.
Birth registration [Margaret Gertrude Dudley], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
A View of the Birdtail: A History of the Municipality of Birtle, 1878-1974 by History Committee of the Municipality of Birtle, compiled and edited by Marion W. Abra, 1974, page 276.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 10 April 1980, page 49.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 24 December 2023
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