The youngest of the family, she had a long and interesting career as a school teacher.  She started in a rural school near Grand Valley where she taught eight grades.  In two years she took up teaching in the Township of York, (now the City of York).  In 1935, along with another Toronto teacher, Margaret arranged for an exchange with two Welsh sisters who were teachers in Barry Glamorgan, sa small village in South Wales, seven miles from Cardiff.  This was an exchange arrangement under the British Commonwealth and Empire and she spent the school term of 1935-1936 in Wales, shich created a strong urge to do more travelling.  However, during the war years she had to remain in Canada.  In 1945, she went to Australia via Hawaii and New Zealand, again as an exchange teacher.  This was difficult to arrange as the Australian currency had greatly depreciated and Australian teachers found it virtually impossilbe to come to Canada on exchange and live on the Australian rage of pay.  Margaret finally solved the problem in her case by volunteering to leave $200 from her Canadian salary to help meet the Australian teacher's living expenses.  Subsequently the subsidizing of teachers coming to Canada on exchange became an accepted policy - such funds coming from the League or Canadian Teachers organizations.  

Margaret returned from Australia in 1946 by freighter via West Austrlia and spent one day in Ceylon, which she found so facinating she decided to get to know the East better.  In 1956 she got a year's leave of absence and travelled again by freighter from Montreal to South Africa.  There she took a bus trip from Cape Town to Durban, visited an ostrich farm, Kruger Nationl Park and the Cango Caves.  From Durban she continued by freighter to Mozambique and Zanzibar, staying for three months in Seychelles, a group of 92 volcanic islands.  From there she went to India and stayed five months in Billaspar, twelve miles from Calcutta.  Here she had friends and went to work at the Jackman Memorial Hospital where she assisted with medical social work, helping orphan children.  In August 1957 the Toronto Globe and Mail ran a three column article on her trip to Asia which had a photograph of a very attrative Margaret with six orpan children at Jackman Memorial Hospital.

Margaret retired in 1968 and has kept very busy with Living and Learning in Retirement (L.L.I.T.)  Lectures at Glendon College, York University, as well as Elderhostel Programs across Canada, USA, Britain, Bermuda.  In total she has been to Australia six times, the latest in February 1991 when she went to fulfill a desire to spend her 85th birthday on Manly Beach, Sydney.