Background
How was born in Ireland in 1848 to Thomas Ferguson How and Catherine J. How and immigrated to Canada in 1849.
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Education
How graduated from Toronto Normal School and began her teaching career in 1871.
Career
lieutenant was in 1879 when How was hired under the direction of Toronto Mayor William Holmes Howland and public school inspector James L. Hughes to helped establish a school for trouble youth that help establish her as an advocate for trouble youth and helping steer youth from trouble as well as steering them away from being handle in the adult court system towards a juvenile justice system. The school she help from was renamed after her in 1912 and she retired from teaching a year later. How died in Toronto in 1915.
Beside Hester How Public School (former Elizabeth Street Public School now demolished and located in what is the east entrance of Hospital for Sick Children), a day care centre at Toronto City Hall (opened 1990) is named after her.
