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Grant, Flora Marjorie
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Marjorie Barber was a Canadian librarian and photographer. Barber's photographs of the University of Waterloo were featured in Kenneth McLaughlin's 1997 book The Unconventional Founding of an Unconventional University and she established Waterloo's Marjorie Barber Entrance Scholarship to aid female students entering first year studies in the Faculty of Engineering.
Born April 12, 1914 on a farm outside of Syndenham Ontario, to Fred and Florabelle (nee Asselstine) Grant. Barber graduated from Queen's University in 1936 and obtained a degree in library science at the University of Toronto in 1937. She worked at the Toronto Public Library until being forced to quit after her first marriage to Flying Officer Acton F. Daunt, who died in combat in World War II.
After taking business courses, Barber worked for Bell Telephone as a guidance counsellor and recruiter, encouraging high school students to work for the company. She met her second husband, widower Bert Barber who was then employed by Union Carbide of Canada, while working for Bell and the couple married in 1947. They moved to Waterloo, Ontario when Bert was hired by the Waterloo College Associate Faculties to co-ordinate the school's engineering co-op program. Drawing on her background in libraries, Barber served on library school boards in Richmond Hill and Waterloo, and championed public school system libraries. Following Bert's death in 1992, Barber relocated to Brockville, Ontario where she died on July 6, 2011.
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Crated November 2023 by DR.
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- "A fascinating storyteller". Waterloo Region Record. August 19, 2011.
- Marjorie Barber - Tribute Archive.
- Marjorie Barber Entrance Scholarship
- Flora Marjorie Grant Barber - Find a Grave