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Esther Mary Reid
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Educator.
Born in Norwood on 1 October 1907, one of four children of Scottish immigrants Wilhelmina A. “Minnie” Cruickshank (1878-1959) and William Alexander Reid (1876-1944), she attended Tache School (1913-1919), King George V School (1919-1921), Tache High School (1921-1924), St. Joseph's Academy (1924-1925), and the Central Normal School (1925-1926). She received a Grade B Teaching Certificate from the latter and upgraded it to Grade A with two years of teaching experience and completing special assignments and exams administered by a school inspector.
She taught at Highview School (1926-1927) and Dundonald School (1927-1928) before returning to the Norwood School Division where she would teach for the next 40 years, at Tache School (1928) and King George V School (1929-1934). She took private French lessons while teaching and spent time in Montreal and Paris to bolster her knowledge. She taught at a Teachers' Training College in Lesotho, Africa for two years. She assembled the memoir 75 Years of Secondary Education in Norwood, 1914 to 1989 (1989).
She was a lifetime member of Norwood United Church.
She died unmarried at Winnipeg on 11 February 1997 and was buried with her family in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Birth registration [Esther Mary Reid], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [William Alexander Reid], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“William A. Reid, early resident of Norwood, dies,” Winnipeg Tribune, 27 November 1944, page 9.
“Mrs. Reid, accident victim, dies,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 August 1959, page 4.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 13 February 1997, page 32.
We thank Margaret Oakes for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 November 2026
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