Kate Henderson was a teacher in a one-room school in Long Creek, Prince Edward Island in the 1880s. Henderson told local painter Robert Harris of a confrontation she had had with school trustees. While they preferred that she teach with traditional methods, she persuaded them of the efficacy of more (at the time) modern teaching techniques. This event inspired Harris to paint “A Meeting of the School Trustees.” The painting is the subject of one of the best “Heritage Minutes” broadcast by the CBC and resides in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.
