Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Prower, Mary Gertrude McMillan
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
- Mary McMillan
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1926-2015
History
Mary Prower (nee McMillan), after graduating high school in Port Hope, continued her ballet training in Toronto at the Boris Volkoff School of Dance and joined the corps de ballet of the Volkoff Canadian Ballet (ca. 1946-1949). She returned to Port Hope and taught ballet from 1950 to ca. 1961. In 1950, the Bluestone house was converted into a ballet school. Mary directed the Bluestone School of Ballet from 1951 to 1954 and later in 1954/55 opened and operated a studio, the Mary McMillan School of Ballet, located at 24 Smith Street.
Places
Port Hope, ON
Toronto, ON