Frank Howard Schofield (1859-1929)

Educator, historian.

Born at Black River, Nova Scotia in April 1859, he was educated at the Horton Academy and at Acadian University (BA, 1882). He taught at Horton Academy, then at the Winnipeg Collegiate Institute, where he was principal from 1899 to 1910. He also taught at Kelvin High School and St. John’s Technical High School. In 1913 he published in three volumes The Story of Manitoba, perhaps the most thorough provincial history produced to that date. He retired in 1919 and moved to Victoria, British Columbia where he died on 10 December 1929.

Sources:

Obituary, BC Vital Statistics.

“Former Winnipeg educationalist dies” Manitoba Free Press, 12 December 1929. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B8]

“Mrs. F. H. Schofield Dies In California” Winnipeg Tribune, 6 February 1943. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B9, page 123]

Profile revised: 16 December 2009

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