Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Agnes Deans Cameron (1863-1912) excelled in education, journeyed to the Arctic, promoted gender equality, worked as a journalist, and encouraged immigration to western Canada.

Agnes Deans Cameron First Female Principal in British Columbia

When Cameron earned her teacher’s certificate at age 16, she became qualified for a position in any of British Columbia’s public schools. Following brief stints at Victoria’s Angela school for girls, a one-room schoolhouse at Comox, and a Vancouver school, she returned to the Girls’ school as third assistant. A strict disciplinarian, Cameron believed educators should ‘kindle the spark of learning within their students’, and not simply train them for jobs.

After four years as the province’s first female high school teacher, she received an appointment as British Columbia’s first female principal in 1894. It was an amazing accomplishment in that province’s patriarchal system. During that age when people were expected to know their place, Cameron would not “be bound by the parameters of discrimination”, and strongly opposed the school board’s decision to increase wages of male teachers, but not those of female teachers.

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