Memorable Manitobans: Mary Ethel Simms (c1895-1947)

Educator.

Born at Bath, New Brunswick around 1895, she came to Manitoba around 1922 and taught at various places in rural Manitoba, including service as Principal of Hazelridge School (1921-1922) and Lindal School (1923-1924), Vice-Principal of Holland School (1924-1925), teacher at the Transcona Central School (1925-1926), and Principal of High Bluff Village School (1927-1928), Mossey River School (1928-1929), Whitemouth School (1929-1930), and Dominion City School (1930-1931). She later moved to Winnipeg where she conducted the Central Kindergarten, from which she retired in 1945. She died unmarried at Winnipeg on 28 April 1947 and was buried in the Brookside Cemetery.

Sources:

Annual Reports of the Manitoba Department of Education, Manitoba Legislative Library.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 28 April 1947, page 8.

We thank Nathan Kramer for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 23 December 2023

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