Educator.
Born at Baldur on 8 February 1893, daughter of Amelia Jane Playfair (1858-1936) and James Norman Brown (1857-1942), she attended Baldur School and Portage la Prairie Normal School. She taught school in the vicinity of Homewood School was Principal of Fosbery School [Laurier School] (1911-1913) and taught at Gladstone School (1914-1919). Upon joining the Winnipeg School District (WSD), she taught at Ralph Brown School (1920-1929), Wolseley School (1930), and Earl Grey School (1937-1947), and served as an exchange teacher at London, England in the late 1940s before retiring in 1953.
She became employed with J. R. Sutherland Realtors and embarked into the field of real estate sales, one of few women in the field at the time. After a few years in the profession, she returned to the classroom in the Fort Garry School District at General Byng School (1956-1961) and taught evening classes at Technical Vocational High School (?-?) until around 1963 when she fully retired.
She was a member of Knox United Church where she served as a member of the choir, women's study club, and United Church Women. She was a long-standing member of the Winnipeg Poetry Society, Professional Women’s Club of Winnipeg, and Progressive Conservative Association of Manitoba. For many years, she lived at the Ambassador Apartments and at Suite 313 - 2150 Portage Avenue.
She died unmarried at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 18 November 1967 and was buried in the Chapel Lawn Memorial Gardens.
1911 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“Full results of teachers exams [Granted Thirds on Second Class Exam],” Winnipeg Tribune, 30 July 1909, page 3.
Death registrations [Amelia Jane Brown, James Norman Brown], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 21 November 1967, page 28.
Winnipeg estate files (ATG 0025A), #539/68 Elizabeth G. Brown, GR4904, Archives of Manitoba.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 11 February 2024
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