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Janet Louisa May More
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Educator.
Born on the family farm in the RM of Winchester on 3 July 1896, one of two children of Janet Victoria McDougall (1864-1938) and David Donald More (1864-1957), she was educated at Chain Lakes School, Hartney High School, and the University of Manitoba (BA 1961).
She taught at Tilston School (1917-1920), Lauder School (1920-1923), Ninette School (1926) and Dand School (1927) then, in 1928, she became the first Principal of Oakburn Consolidated School, teaching in grades 7 to 11, and remaining there until 1935. She was Principal of Oakner School (1935-1937) and Minto School (1939-1944). She returned to Dand School (1944-1946), taught at Falconer Collegiate (1947-1948), and was at Napinka School (1951-1953). From the late 1950s to 1963, she was a member of the teaching staff of Boissevain Collegiate. In September 1963, she moved to Winnipeg where she was a teacher (1963-1964) and librarian (1964-1967) at Charleswood Collegiate. She retired in June 1967.
She was a member of the Manitoba Educational Association, Manitoba Library Association, Turtle Mountain Teachers’ Association (of which she was first President), Manitoba Teachers’ Society (of which she was made a Life Member), University Women’s Club of Winnipeg, Westworth United Church, and Deloraine Rebekah Lodge. In the early 1970s, she served on the Council of the Manitoba Historical Society.
She died unmarried at her Winnipeg home on 8 May 1986 and was buried in the Hartney Riverside Cemetery. Some of her papers are held at the S. J. McKee Archives.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: More House (RM of Grassland)
Birth and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.
History of the Ninette School by Keith Worden, 1956.
Golden Memories: Dand, Manitoba, Canada by Dand Women’s Institute, 1967.
“Studd speaks at graduation”, Brandon Sun, 29 May 1961, page 11.
Echoes: Oakburn, Manitoba, 1870- 1970 by Oakburn Centennial Committee. Oakburn: The Committee, 1970.
Deloraine Scans a Century 1880-1980: A History of Deloraine and District, page 35.
Reflections of Time: A History of the RM of Albert by RM of Albert History Book, 1984. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5648.A43 Ref]
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 13 May 1986, page 44.
Burial record, Ancestry.
We thank Christy Henry and Gerald R. Brown for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 17 March 2024
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