Memorable Manitobans: Jane Agnes Nisbet (1902-1959)

Educator.

Born at Stonewall on 21 November 1902, daughter of William J. Nisbet (1878-1936) and Agnes Mary Jessie Beatrice Lillies (?-?), she became a teacher and served as the Principal of Fairfax School (1941-1942), Gunton School (1942-1944), and East Poplar Point School (1944-1949). She later taught at Stonewall School. She died in 1959 and was buried in the Stonewall Cemetery.

Sources:

1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.

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

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 1 February 2018

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