Profile
Minnie Bell Sharp
Music Teacher + Campaigner + Pomologist
Female
Born
Jan 12, 1865
Died
Apr 11, 1937
Minnie Bell Sharp Adney was a Canadian music teacher and political candidate. She was the daughter of Francis Peabody Sharp, a famous Canadian pomologist, and on September 12, 1899 married Edwin Tappan Adney, the Klondike publicist and Malicite ethnographer.… Read More
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Minnie Bell Sharp.
CHILDHOOD
1865
Birth
Born in 1865.
TEENAGE
1883
18 Years Old
Born and reared in Upper Woodstock, NB, Sharp trained in music at New York City beginning about 1883.
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TWENTIES
1893
28 Years Old
After some teaching at New York, Fredericton and Woodstock, in 1893 she purchased the business name and goodwill of the Victoria Conservatory of Music at Victoria, British Columbia, of which she was the principal until 1900.
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THIRTIES
1899
34 Years Old
She was the daughter of Francis Peabody Sharp, a famous Canadian pomologist, and on September 12, 1899 married Edwin Tappan Adney, the Klondike publicist and Malicite ethnographer.
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FIFTIES
1919
54 Years Old
In 1919, the now impoverished and decidedly eccentric Sharp announced her candidacy for the constituency of Victoria—Carleton in the first post-war Canadian federal election.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
1925
60 Years Old
The only time her name appeared on the ballot was the federal campaign of 1925, when she received 84 votes.
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1937
72 Years Old
Died in 1937.
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