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282:. Among the items in her platform were "more pay for the soldiers", "mothers' bonus such as obtains in Ontario", and "return to old high license of a liquor law or such a system as Quebec or British Columbia have, whereby the national debt could be liquidated in two years". On this occasion she presented her nomination papers on time but did not have the $ 200 deposit required to file the papers.
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144:, owned orchards and fruit nurseries which grew to be the largest in Canada by 1890. Minnie Bell Sharp later described her childhood and youth as "a glorious life" and her family's home as "a veritable fairyland". She recalled having "an unlimited capacity for hard work" and being "up at daylight packing and shipping apples and plums" during the harvest season.
117:(January 12, 1865 – April 11, 1937) was a Canadian music teacher and businesswoman. From childhood on she was actively involved in her family's orchard and nursery business. She owned and operated music schools in Victoria, British Columbia and Woodstock, New Brunswick. She was the first New Brunswick woman ever to run in a Canadian federal election.
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jail. She was released after she realized that she was not subject to arrest because she was a non-resident, a fact that she learned by reading the New
Brunswick statutes while in jail. The lawyers for the school trustees said that they were unaware of this exemption. She sued the school trustees for $ 2,500 for
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that was owned by Ruth Shaw Adney. At her invitation Mrs. Adney's son Tappan and daughter Mary Ruth visited the Sharp family in New
Brunswick in the summer of 1887. Tappan Adney remained in New Brunswick until the fall of 1889 and returned several times in the following decade. Mary Ruth Adney worked
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Woodstock school district trustees presented her with a bill for back taxes owed by the Sharp orchards. She refused to pay the full amount of the bill, on the grounds that the property's value had declined. She was then arrested and spent 17 days in
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Woodstock in September 1899 she returned to Victoria late in the year. She left for New Brunswick in April 1900 after closing the conservatory. In the same year she opened the Woodstock School of Music, which she ran for the next 20 years. She also led choral groups for adults and children.
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introduced in the United States in 1890, the death in 1892 from tuberculosis of
Francis Peabody Sharp's son Franklin, who had taken over the businesses from his father, and the devastation of the plum orchard by an unusually cold winter in the following year. In order to assist her parents and
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In the general election of 1925, her name appeared on the ballot as an independent candidate. Her nomination papers were filed and a $ 200 deposit was paid by an "agent", Helen McKibbin. She was the first woman ever nominated in a federal election in New
Brunswick. The seat was won by the
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unmarried sister, Minnie Bell Sharp sent money home, and went into debt to do so. She also spent the summer and fall of every year but 1894 and 1895 in New
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method, violin, elocution and languages (French, Italian and German). The conservatory regularly presented student recitals and benefit concerts in which Sharp and other teachers participated.
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with Sharp at the conservatory in Victoria from 1893 to 1896 and Tappan Adney visited the city for five months in 1895.
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458:"The Lady Music Teacher as Entrepreneur: Minnie Sharp and the Victoria Conservatory of Music in the 1890s"
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Risk, Shannon M. (2010). "'The magnitude of my services': Minnie Bell Adney and the women of Woodstock".
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516:. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press. pp. 35–43.
759:. Hackensack, New Jersey. 20 December 1983. p. 25
394:"Francis Peabody Sharp: Canada's first apple breeder"
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