Georgia (called Georgie by her friends) Kirkpatrick was born in Diligent River, near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia on Sept. 18, 1903.  She graduated from Mount Allison University, in Sackville, New Brunswick.  She taught at Shingwauk for three years, until 1926, when her father wrote a letter to the school, asking that she be excused from her duties and sent home to care for her mother, who was dying of cancer.  She returned home immediately, and her mother died a few months later.

She married Perley W. Wright, a pharmacist, and later, mayor, in Parrsboro July 11, 1927, and they had five children.  She was president of the local Red Cross for many years, and was selfless in her devotion to those who suffered during the Depression, and later, to soldiers fighting overseas during WW2.  She occasionally wrote articles for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald.  She and her husband had a house and a cottage in Parrsboro. Her husband died in 1965, and she died February 14, 1984.  The house is now owned by one of her grandsons.  The cottage, on the shore of the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy is enjoyed to this day by her five children, 21 grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren.

Ernest Pine and Georgie ready for the Soo Fair (September 1926)

Georgie was always very proud of her Shingwauk photograph album, now kept by one of her daughters, Carolyn Wright Graham.  She always spoke fondly of the children she'd taught there. She was especially fond of one little boy, Ernest Pine, and often thought lovingly of him.  Her family and many friends recall the great affection she felt for the years she spent at Shingwauk.  She is remembered as a kind, gracious woman, who always saw the goodness and decency in others.