McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
MacSporran, Maysie Steel
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Description area
Dates of existence
1903-2000
History
Born in 1903, Maysie MacSporran was educated in Montreal at Miss Edgar’s private school and McGill University. She graduated with a B.A. in 1927 and an M.A. in 1930 with a thesis on James McGill. She did further graduate work at Columbia University from 1933-1934. She worked for the Library of Congress in Ottawa from 1930-1932 as the director of a Rockefeller funded microfilm project to copy sources for American history in foreign archives. Later, she worked as a teacher in Miss Edgar’s and Miss Cramp’s private school and became the headmistress. An Honorary Life member of the James McGill Society, this historical society established an annual lecture in her name after her death in 2000.