Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison (October 21, 1868 - December 18, 1940) was a Canadian educator and the sixth woman to graduate from Victoria College. She was the first dean of women at Victoria College, Toronto,Jean O’Grady, “ADDISON, MARGARET ELEANOR THEODORA,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed February 3, 2020, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/addison_margaret_eleanor_theodora_16E.html and served as dean of Annesley Hall from 1903 until 1931. Addison graduated from Victoria in 1889 with a BA in modern languages. She was appointed a CBE in 1934. She taught mathematics and chemistry at the Ontario Ladies’ College in

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(1889–1891) before becoming a specialist in French and German at Stratford Collegiate Institute (1892–1900) and Lindsay Collegiate Institute (1901–1903). The Margaret Addison Scholarship for women pursuing postgraduate studies outside Canada was created to recognize her contributions to women in higher education. In 1959 a residence was opened at Victoria College and named after her –

Margaret Addison Hall Victoria University is a federated college of the University of Toronto located at the St. George campus in Downtown Toronto. The school was founded in 1836 by the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada as a nonsectarian literary institution. From ...

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