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Sylvia's mother was determined that her daughter would be well educated. Sylvia attended local schools, after which she did a quick course in teaching. Teachers were hard to attract as money was better in the munitions factories at the time. She took night and summer school and earned money as a waitress on the side. Eventually Sylvia received her GC6 certificate. She went on to teach for twenty years at the Tatamagouche Regional High School and later the Elementary School in Tatamagouche.

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Plowing on the Millbrook farm
20th century
Mill Brook, Nova Scotia, Canada


Credits:
Sylvia Ross
Pam Gunn