MacKillop, Doris Hulme

Born at New Waterford, NS and deafened at 2 1/2 from spinal meningitis. Halifax School for the Deaf 11 years, then Centennial College. Worked briefly as a seamstress, then was a houseparent at a school for the deaf for 3 years. Moving to Toronto, she worked 6 years for a clipping service, then left to operate a group home in Georgetown, ON for 11 years with her husband, Donald John MacKillop (also deaf). After his death, she returned to Toronto, becoming head of housekeeping at the Bob Rumball Centre of the Deaf 3 years, then worked with deaf-blind persons at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind 9 years until retirement in 1991. Claimed to be the first deaf person (with Jim Kvarnberg) to have a conversation via a TTY.