Educator.
Born in the Rural Municipality of the Franklin on 21 October 1895, daughter of Margaret Morrison (1869-1962) and Hamilton George Stewart (1861-1949), she attended Ridgeville School and Central Normal School, and became a schoolteacher. She taught at Fortier School (?-?), Langside School (?-?), Deloraine School (?-?), and Emerson School (1918-1921), and was Principal of Roseisle School (1922), Carroll School (1923-1924), and Lauder School (1924-1926).
On 12 November 1926, she married Norman Clifford McLean (1893-1971) at Emerson and together had two children: Crawford McLean and Norma McLean. She lived at Emerson where she was involved in the local community and was a member of the United Church Womens' Auxiliary and the United Church Womens' Institute. In 1974, she moved to Winnipeg.
She died at the Health Sciences Centre on 18 April 1978 and was buried in the Emerson Cemetery.
Birth registrations [Annie Alice Stewart, Margaret May Stewart], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registrations [Annie Alice Stewart to Norman Clifford McLean], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901, 1906, and 1911 Canada censuses, Automated Genealogy.
Attestation papers, Canadian Expeditionary Force [Norman Clifford McLean], Library and Archives Canada.
“For Grade XII normal entrance exam. Results,” Brandon Daily Sun, 2 August 1922, page 5.
“Liberals meet to reorganize,” Steinbach Carillon, 1 April 1960, page 1.
Obituary [Norman C. McLean], Winnipeg Free Press, 31 August 1971, page 25.
St. Boniface estate file (ATG 0064A), 10774 Norman Clifford McLean, GR5705, Archives of Manitoba.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 21 April 1978, page 34.
Emerson Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 10 October 2026
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