Educator.
Born at St. Martins, New Brunswick on 24 July 1889, daughter of Emma Jane Mallory and Richard James Foxwell, she attended teacher training in New Brunswick and taught at St. David’s Parish (1911) before moving west. Within Manitoba, she taught at Swan River School (1913-1914), Corrie School (1914-1915), and was Principal of Franklin School (1915-1917). She later married Boulter B. Reid (1893-1987). She died at Calgary, Alberta in 1973 and was buried in the Cremona Old Cemetery at Cremona, Alberta.
Birth registrations, New Brunswick Vital Statistics.
1901 and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Summative half-yearly returns for school districts (A 0051), GR0571, Archives of Manitoba.
Obituary, Calgary Herald, 22 March 1973, page 32.
Obituary [Boulter B. Reid], Calgary Herald, 17 March 1987, page D2.
Ethel Viola Foxwell Reid, FindAGrave.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 8 June 2024
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