Marjorie Almstrom
Marjorie Almstrom was a teacher in Port Moody and Chilliwack before she and husband Ed moved to Whitehorse in 1948. Marjorie returned to teaching after Ed died in 1960. She received her M.A. from UBC in 1968 and retired from teaching in 1982. Marjorie was involved with the Yukon Teachers Association and her love of education and appreciation of the Canadian educational system led her to publish A Century of Schooling: Education in the Yukon 1861-1961 in 1991 and “We’ve come a long way” in 1980.1) Marjorie received a Yukon Historical and Museums Association Heritage Award in 1997 for her decades of work researching the first 100 years of modern Yukon education.2)