Nova Scotia Archives
Halifax and Its People / 1749-1999
"Grade 1, LeMarchant St. School, 1899, teacher Miss Edith Cunningham"
Edith Cunningham (1875-1929), a Halifax native, taught school at LeMarchant Street until 1917; her elder half-sister, Martha Jane Cunningham (1856-1916), also a schoolteacher, is remembered with affection to this day in Japan, where she was an early Methodist Missionary.
Date: 1899
Reference: Judith Piers Nova Scotia Archives 1980-154