(31 Jan. 1866- 24 April 1933), teacher. Born at Aurora, Ont. Parents: Albert Willson (1840-1895) and his wife, whose name has been given as Jennie Kempshall; gravestone says Sarah Stennett Kempshall (1843-1913). Alberta Willson was educated at Newmarket Public School and Norwood High School. In a teaching career begun in 1889, she taught at Lancaster, Aurora, Stouffville, Ravenshoe and Alexandria. She was principal of Alexandria Public School from Sept. 1906 to June 1931. Her father had also been “for some time” principal of that school (her obituary); Clarence Ostrom mentions him as living in Alexandria in May 1893. Alberta Willson retired in 1931, after 42 years in the teaching profession. (Glengarry News 3 July 1931) It was said that in her quarter-century as principal in Alexandria, few or none of her pupils had ever failed the “entrance,” as the admission examination for high school was called. (Country schools had many such failures, and the students in question had to repeat their last year of school before trying again.) Miss Willson died at her home in Alexandria. She is buried in the Protestant cemetery in Alexandria. She was unmarried.

Standard Freeholder 26 & 28 April 1933, Glengarry News 28 April 1933 * family gravestone, Alexandria * Ostrom 345