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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Faulkner, Dora
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Description area
Dates of existence
1886 - 1976
History
Dora Guille Faulkner was born in 1886, the eldest daughter of George Everett Faulkner, a Nova Scotia politician, businessman and founder of Faulkner and Co. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a BA in 1906 and an MA in 1911. In 1909 she served as the secretary for the Alumnae Society and in 1910 as an editor at the Dalhousie Gazette. In 1926 she taught art and English at Mount Vernon Seminary near Washington, DC. She died in Nova Scotia in 1976.