“Grandmother went to U of T – the only one in her family to have gone to university. ”
Interview with Nancy Jones
July 24, 2012
Nancy Jones talks about her grandmother, Helen Kirk, who earned two university degrees and became a French teacher in Kenora and Fort William, Ontario.
In this photo (left), taken around 1908, she is shown with her siblings (Marnie, Mary and Ralph) and their father, George. “She subscribed to Vogue magazine all her life.”