Haultain, Elsinore

Elsinore Haultain was born in Toronto in 1894. She attended University College, University of Toronto, where she founded a student magazine, the Rebel, in 1916. When she graduated with a B.A. in English and History in 1918, she was awarded a scholarship from the Canadian Reconstruction Association to study the conditions of women's employment in Canada. She received her M.A. from U of T in 1920, and was appointed lecturer in history at the University of Saskatchewan in 1921. From 1933 to 1960, she worked at Ryerson Press where she became Advertising Manager. At the time of her retirement in 1960, she was teaching a course on Biography for the University of Toronto's Extension Department. She died in 1987.