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About Anne Quinlan
- Anne Quinlan (June 7, 1839 – February 18, 1923) was an Irish-born Canadian educator. The daughter of William Quinlan, a shoemaker, and Susan Medill, she was born in County Tipperary and came to Chatham, New Brunswick with her parents while still a child.
- Quinlan was educated there and decided to become a teacher.
- She took a three month program at a training school in St.
- John in 1856 and began teaching in Chatham the following year; she later upgraded her qualifications to a first class teaching certificate.
- In 1862, she began operating a school known as St.
- Michael's Female Academy in the Catholic Temperance Hall.
- When public support for Catholic schools was ended in 1871, the Religious Hospitallers of St.
- Joseph of Montreal were invited to establish a girls' school in Chatham.
- St.
- Michael's Academy was opened in October 1871; Quinlan was effectively in charge of the school during the 1870s and 1880s.
- She also served on the management of the Northumberland County Teachers' Institute.She retired from teaching at the age of 50 due to unspecified health problems.
- In 1896, she was named to the first Board of School Trustees for the town of Chatham, serving until 1900.
- She continued to teach privately from her home and, after 1900, from the Hôtel-Dieu hospital.Quinlan died in Chatham at the age of 83.
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