Teachers to Canada.....

[ladybird]

Does anyone know please if there was some sort of "Scheme" that recruited teachers to go to Canada in the early 1900's. (1910-1925ish)

I have 2 great aunts from Stirling that went - at separate times. The first came back early as she found the winter too cold and was unwell. The second went with a friend around 1920-21 and spent several years there before returning.

Just out of interest Sylvia

[DavidWW]

Does anyone know please if there was some sort of "Scheme" that recruited teachers to go to Canada in the early 1900's. (1910-1925ish)

I have 2 great aunts from Stirling that went - at separate times. The first came back early as she found the winter too cold and was unwell. The second went with a friend around 1920-21 and spent several years there before returning.

Just out of interest Sylvia

Wha kens but see http://www.collectionscanada.ca/bulleti ... -05-e.html ........................

David

[ladybird]

Wow thanks David, that was quick.
Also explains the Manitoba connection

"To quell anti-imperial sentiment, Ney, through his new friendship with Robert Fletcher, Deputy Minister of Education for Manitoba, proposed and carried out a scheme of teacher exchanges. Ney felt that exposing educators to the motherland’s verdant hills and cultural bounty would infuse them with a respect for their British heritage that would in turn be passed along to their students. The program, called Hands Across the Seas, became a great success and continued until the First World War put a stop to trans-Atlantic travel.
After the war, Ney returned to Winnipeg, where his friendship with Robert Fletcher served him well. He became secretary of the newly founded National Council of Education, whose mandate was to unify Canadian education, emphasize Christian values and quash socialist tendencies. Ney also continued his work with Hands Across the Sea, joining forces with the Manitoba Department of Education and renaming the exchange program the Overseas Education League. Despite the future struggles Ney would have in furthering his imperialist agenda, the Overseas Education League was a continuing success. Over 10,000 students and teachers participated in its tours and exchanges by the 1930s."

[rdem]

This was an interesting piece, however, I find it a little ironic that a work on the subject of education by a government department would allow a blatant spelling mistake .

Cyprus:

"Ney became a teacher and traveled to Cypress. At the age of 23, he was promoted to headmaster of the English College of Nicosia."

[ladybird]

Well spotted rdem

I see you have Thomson in your tree, don't suppose you have a Daniel (aka Dane) Thomson b1886 ?

[rdem]

Ladybird:

My Thomsons are from Monymusk, Aberdeenshire with a Jane Thomson born 1805. Don't remember any Daniels, sorry.