Gordon, Wilhelmina

Born in Winnipeg in 1886, Wilhelmina Gordon was one of Queen's University's first full time female instructors, teaching in the English Department from 1909 until her retirement in 1950. In 1887 the Gordon family moved to Halifax where Miss Gordon attended Halifax Ladies College and Dalhousie University, studying Latin and English Literature. When her father, Daniel Miner Gordon, moved to Kingston to become Principal of Queen's University, Wilhelmina resumed her studies at Queen's University, graduating with a M.A and the medal in English in 1905. Having won a graduate scholarship, Miss Gordon went on to study at Bryn Mawr College, 1905-1906, and spent the summer of 1907 at University of Chicago. By 1909 she was back at Queen's assisting and later teaching in the English department. In 1925 she was made an assistant professor of English and five years later became an associate professor. Miss Gordon also devoted a great deal of time to the Imperial Order of the daughters of the Empire. She died in 1968.