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1 CONC The youngest of the family, she had a long and interesting career as a sch
1 CONC ool teacher.  She started in a rural school near Grand Valley where she ta
1 CONC ught eight grades.  In two years she took up teaching in the Township of Y
1 CONC ork, (now the City of York).  In 1935, along with another Toronto teache
1 CONC r, Margaret arranged for an exchange with two Welsh sisters who were teach
1 CONC ers in Barry Glamorgan, sa small village in South Wales, seven miles fr
1 CONC om Cardiff.  This was an exchange arrangement under the British Commonweal
1 CONC th and Empire and she spent the school term of 1935-1936 in Wales, shich c
1 CONC reated a strong urge to do more travelling.  However, during the war yea
1 CONC rs she had to remain in Canada.  In 1945, she went to Australia via Hawa
1 CONC ii and New Zealand, again as an exchange teacher.  This was difficult to a
1 CONC rrange as the Australian currency had greatly depreciated and Australian t
1 CONC eachers found it virtually impossilbe to come to Canada on exchange and li
1 CONC ve on the Australian rage of pay.  Margaret finally solved the probl
1 CONC em in her case by volunteering to leave $200 from her Canadian salary to h
1 CONC elp meet the Australian teacher's living expenses.  Subsequently the subsi
1 CONC dizing of teachers coming to Canada on exchange became an accepted poli
1 CONC cy - such funds coming from the League or Canadian Teachers organization
1 CONC s.
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1 CONT Margaret returned from Australia in 1946 by freighter via West Austrlia a
1 CONC nd spent one day in Ceylon, which she found so facinating she decided to g
1 CONC et to know the East better.  In 1956 she got a year's leave of absence a
1 CONC nd travelled again by freighter from Montreal to South Africa.  There s
1 CONC he took a bus trip from Cape Town to Durban, visited an ostrich farm, Krug
1 CONC er Nationl Park and the Cango Caves.  From Durban she continued by freight
1 CONC er to Mozambique and Zanzibar, staying for three months in Seychelles, a g
1 CONC roup of 92 volcanic islands.  From there she went to India and stayed fi
1 CONC ve months in Billaspar, twelve miles from Calcutta.  Here she had frien
1 CONC ds and went to work at the Jackman Memorial Hospital where she assisted wi
1 CONC th medical social work, helping orphan children.  In August 1957 the Toron
1 CONC to Globe and Mail ran a three column article on her trip to Asia which h
1 CONC ad a photograph of a very attrative Margaret with six orpan children at Ja
1 CONC ckman Memorial Hospital.
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1 CONT Margaret retired in 1968 and has kept very busy with Living and Learni
1 CONC ng in Retirement (L.L.I.T.)  Lectures at Glendon College, York Universit
1 CONC y, as well as Elderhostel Programs across Canada, USA, Britain, Bermud
1 CONC a.  In total she has been to Australia six times, the latest in February 1
1 CONC 991 when she went to fulfill a desire to spend her 85th birthday on Man
1 CONC ly Beach, Sydney.