Music teacher.
Born at Belleville, Ontario on 31 July 1873, daughter of James Blair Robertson (c1833-1917) and Amelia Neilson (c1840-1917), she studied at Portage la Prairie while her father worked there for the Hudson’s Bay Company. She studied music in Toronto with Dr. Edward Fisher, in England with Benno Schonberger, and in New York City with Ernest Hutchinson. She came to Winnipeg in 1900 where she taught music for more than 30 years. She was a member of the Manitoba Registered Music Teachers’ Association (President, two terms), Professional and Business Women’s Club, Women’s Canadian Club, IODE, and Presbyterian church. She died unmarried at the Glendale Nursing Home (209 Mayfair Avenue) on 10 August 1943 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
Death registrations [James Robertson, Amelia Robertson, Mary Laing Robertson], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Well-known music teacher dies Tuesday,” Winnipeg Tribune, 11 August 1943, page 2.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
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