Fonds - Simpson family fonds

Ian Simpson was born in Scotland in 1891 and attended Glasgow University. He served in WW I and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery. He farmed for a year with his brother in Alberta but then trained as a teacher and joined the staff of University School in Victoria. In 1929 he was appointed Headmaster but was replaced in 1932. He founded Glenlyon Preparatory School that September. In 1934 he married Florence Clarke, who took over the domestic and secretarial running of the school. In 1964 he retired as Headmaster and handed control of the school over to his son Hamish. He died in 1969.;Florence Simpson was born in Nova Scotia in 1896 and educated by her father, a Presbyterian Minister. She was Private Secretary to Colonel Ralston, Minister of National Defence, until the fall of Mackenzie King's Government in 1930. She then worked for the Tariff Board. On a holiday to Victoria in 1934 she met Ian Simpson and they were married four months later. She had two children, Hamish, born 1936 and Sally, born a year later. She continued living in Glenlyon School until 1985. She then moved to Edmonton where she died in 1993.;Hamish Simpson was educated at the Universities of British Columbia and Oxford and became Headmaster of Glenlyon Preparatory School in 1964. In 1982 he was appointed Director of the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific. In 1986 he became Headmaster of the Prep School at Upper Canada College, Toronto.