Educator.
Born at Winnipeg on 9 September 1912, daughter of Margaret Dickson (1879-1933) and Charles Fredrick George Foot (1873-1927), the family moved from their dairy farm north of the city to a farmstead near Stonewall in 1918. She attended Centre School, graduated grade 12 from Stonewall Collegiate (1930), and enrolled at the Central Normal School (1930). She taught at Rockwood School (1931-1939; Principal 1934-1939) and Balmoral School (1940-1941, 1963-1965), the latter to which she returned after raising a family. On 25 July 1942, she married Walter John Smith (1916-1988) at All Saints Victoria Anglican Church and the couple had two children. She died at the Concordia Hospital on 6 December 2006 and was buried in the Stonewall Cemetery.
Birth [Clara Frances Foot] and marriage [Clara Frances Foot to Walter John Smith] registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registrations [Charles Fredrick George Foot, Margaret Foot], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1931 Canada census, Library and Archives Canada.
“Commencement exercises,” Stonewall Argus, 13 November 1929.
“Stonewall Collegiate Institute [Grade XII],” Stonewall Argus, 18 June 1930, page 4.
“Dept. Examination results,” Stonewall Argus, 30 July 1930, page 5.
“Local and general [Misses Jessie Clark, Clara Foot, and Isabel Fletcher ...],” Stonewall Argus, 10 September 1930, page 1.
“Smith-Foot wedding at All Saints’, Victoria,” Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times, 5 August 1942, page 8.
“Local and general [Born - At Mrs. Brown's Nursing Home ... a son],” Stonewall Argus & Teulon Times, 8 December 1943, page 1.
Obituary [Walter John Smith], Winnipeg Free Press, 19 October 1988, page 50.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 9 December 2006.
Stonewall Cemetery burial transcriptions, FindAGrave.
This page was prepared by Nathan Kramer.
Page revised: 3 September 2025
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