Graham and Millar Family

E. Maud Graham (1876-1949) was born and raised in Owen Sound, Ontario. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1896, attended Bryn Mawr College, 1896-97, and from there went to Ontario Normal College in Hamilton. Graham worked as a governess and a teacher, eventually serving as principal of the Girl’s High School in Quebec City in 1907. In 1902, Graham was selected to travel to South Africa with 39 other Canadian teachers in order to teach the children of Boar refugees from the South African War of 1899-1902. Graham wrote articles from South Africa for the Montreal Daily Witness, and later developed these articles into her memoir about her experiences: A Canadian Girl in South Africa (1905). In 1908, Graham married Frederick Gourlay Millar (1876-1972), a fellow teacher from Wiarton, Ontario. Millar also attended the University of Toronto, graduating in 1898, and also did post-graduate studies at the University of Marburg in Hesse, Germany. Millar taught at Hamilton Collegiate Institute and was classical master at Boy’s High School in Quebec City. Millar taught in Brantford, Ontario and in Hamilton from 1924-1944, where he became principal of Hamilton’s first High School of Commerce in 1928. Graham and Millar had three children, including Helen Millar (Becker) and Graham Millar.