Educator.
Born at Napinka on 26 July 1909, daughter of Annie Laurie Little (1876-1957) and James Boyd Morrison, she attended Normal School, became a teacher, and was Principal of Rugby School / Rugby High School (1931-1933). On 27 June 1936, she married Kenneth Bradburn Robertson (1908-1970) at Brandon, where they lived for a while. They later moved to Ontario, where she died on 19 June 1997 and was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.
Birth [Edith Winifred Morrison] and marriage registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Lord Mayor’s Fund,” Brandon Sun, 31 January 1941, page 12.
Mount Pleasant Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 10 June 2023
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