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Kathleen Elisabeth Allan Sinclair
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Educator.
Born at St. Boniface on 14 February 1905, younger of two daughters of Emily McAleese (c1879-1967) and James Allan (1872-1970), she taught in one-room rural schools and in Kelty, Scotland before serving 42 years as a teacher in the Norwood School District, starting at Tache School in 1927. She began teaching mathematics and Latin at Norwood Collegiate in 1953 and did so until becoming the Principal of Nelson McIntyre Collegiate in 1966. Three years later, she moved to the Winnipeg School Division. On 5 May 1973, she married James Harold Sinclair (1902-1998). A lifelong member of the Norwood United Church, she died at the Middlechurch Nursing Home on 11 February 1995.
Marriage registration [Emma McAleese, James Allan], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Birth registration [Kathleen Elisabeths Allan], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Grace Aldine Allan weds in pretty home wedding,” Winnipeg Tribune, 13 September 1937, page 5.
“Mr. and Mrs. James Allan,” Winnipeg Free Press, 15 October 1951, page 18.
Obituary [Emily Allan], Winnipeg Free Press, 30 August 1967, page 36.
The Challenge: 1968-1969, Nelson McIntyre Collegiate Yearbook, page 2.
Obituary [James Allan], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 January 1970, page 25.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 15 February 1995, page 28.
Obituary [James Harold Sinclair], Winnipeg Free Press, 14 August 1998, page 19.
We thank Margaret Oakes for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 November 2026
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