Educator, historian.
Born in the Rural Municipal of Montcalm on 25 April 1917, daughter of Kurt Eugene Scheibe (1879-1950) and Franziska Hauta (1878-1943), she became a teacher, serving as the Principal of Pine Creek School (1942-1944), Ridgeville School (1944-1945), and Minto School (1945-1946). She married Nelson Andrew Gilchrist (1911-2005) and they had three children. They retired to Winnipeg in 1967 where she wrote Pages from Ridgeville’s Story, a history of the Ridgeville district. She died at Winnipeg on 20 July 2004.
Birth and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1921 Canada census, Ancestry.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 24 July 2004.
Obituary [Nelson Andrew Gilchrist], Winnipeg Free Press, 20 December 2005.
Through the Years ... Pages From Ridgeville’s History by Emma Gilchrist and Carol Wilkinson, Ridgeville Women’s Institute, 2010.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Alisa Ouellette and Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 11 June 2022
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