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Leith, Miriam
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Miriam A. Leith graduated from the Macdonald Institute of Guelph in 1962 before going on to graduate school at Aberdeen University. She returned to Guelph in 1963 and enrolled in Extension Education at OAC. Her interest in ‘Eskimos and Indians’ stemmed from a volunteer position she held with the Indian-Eskimo Association at Broughton Island, Northwest Territories, in 1961. When she finished university, Leith went on to work as an adult educator for the Government of Newfoundland until 1970, and later became an adult educator for the Government of the N.W.T. Leith’s research in the N.W.T. entailed an in-depth look at the life of the Indigenous inhabitants of the north during the 1960s and 1970s.