Millicent Burgess

Millicent Burgess
Born	Millicent Carey 1923 (age 101–102) Bermuda
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	educator

Millicent Carey Burgess (born 1923) is a Canadian educator. She may have been the first black teacher for the Toronto District School Board.^[1]

Biography

The daughter of James and Doris Carey, she worked as a substitute teacher for several years after completing high school. She began studying at Hamilton Teachers' College in Canada in 1950 after receiving a scholarship from the Bermuda government and completed the last two years of her studies at Toronto Teachers' College.^[2]

Burgess then returned to Bermuda and taught for three years. She married Edward Leroy Burgess there in 1954; the couple moved to Canada the following year. She worked as a clerk for Blue Cross in Toronto for one year and then began looking for a teaching position. Burgess was an elementary schoolteacher. During this time, she earned a BA from the University of Toronto by attending night classes.^[2]

She retired in 1989.^[2]

Other roles

• 1958-: member of the Canadian Negro Women's Association (CANEWA), later the Congress of Black Women of Canada^[2]
• 1957-1989: Consultant with the Toronto Board of Education.^[3]

Prizes

• 2012: Recipient of the Reverend Addie Aylestock Award from the Ontario Black History Society^[3]

References

1. "Honour bestowed". Town Crier. February 14, 2012. Archived from the original on February 6, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
2. Hill, Lawrence (1996). Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association, 1951-1976. Dundurn. pp. 74–78. ISBN 1895642183.
3. "Full marks for two quality educators". Royal Gazette. February 6, 2012.