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Mhairi Angela de Castro founded
the McEuen Scholarship with her aunt |
The McEuen Scholarship Foundation has been providing
Canadian students with the opportunity to study at St. Andrews
University in Fife, Scotland since 1974.
Mhairi Angela
(nee Fenton-McEuen) de Castro
November 30, 1918 — March 19, 2003
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Mhairi as a child
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Mhairi (pronounced
“varry”) spent her early childhood with her parents in St.
Agathe, Quebec. Following the death of her mother in 1923,
she moved to St. Andrews, Fife, where she lived with her
uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. Stuart McEuen. Shortly thereafter,
her grandfather passed away and the three of them moved
back to Canada. Mhairi attended schools in Montreal and
Ottawa, before finishing her education at a private school
in Scotland.
With the outbreak of World War II, Mhairi
spent a short period in France driving ambulances before
returning to Canada to live with her family. She then spent
much of her time helping her aunt run the Ajax Club for
British sailors in Halifax. The club provided sailors with
private homes to rest in and a place to go to while off-duty.
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Mrs. Stuart McEuen
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By the time the war ended, the Ajax Club
had generated enough funds to create scholarships for 15
young British sailors. The Ajax scholarships provided them
with the opportunity to study at McGill University in Montreal.
The McEuens knew all the scholars well and followed their
progress with great interest. The McEuen home, “Ottir”,
near Mont Tremblant, Quebec was a virtual home away from
home for many of the scholars.
In the late sixties, Mhairi and her aunt
moved to Ottawa. It was there that she met her beloved Henry
de Castro, whom she would later marry. In 1974, Dolly McEuen
and Mhairi, her niece created the McEuen Scholarship for
Canadian students to attend the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
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