Guelph teacher receives Governor General’s History Teaching Award
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Erin Doupe was one of six recipients recognized by Governor General Mary Simon. The winners received an individual prize of $2,500, along with a $1,000 prize for their school.
A First World War high school project has led to a Guelph woman receiving an excellence award in teaching.
Erin Doupe, a teacher at John F. Ross CVI, was honoured in a ceremony earlier this month.
The history project was called The Story of a Soldier, and students wrote short bios on soldiers from Guelph before mailing them to their last known address.
Doupe said the letters were sent throughout the Royal City and around the world and caught the attention of Canada’s Governor General Mary Simon.
“We sent letters fairly far afield,” Doupe said.
“Even though most of our letters went out to Guelph, we had lots of young men that had come to Guelph to enlist and they were actually from other parts of the country, some of them were even from other countries.”
Doupe said over 200 students have been part of this project, which began in 2017.
They sent quite a few letters to England, Ireland and New Zealand, receiving positive feedback along the way.