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Martha Cartmell

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'''Martha Julia Cartmell''' (1846 – March 20, 1945) was a Canadian [[United Methodist Church|Methodist/United Church]] missionary and educator in [[Japan]]. She founded the [[Toyo Eiwa Jogakuin]] school in 1884.

The daughter of James Cartmell, a stone cutter, and his wife Sarah, she was born in [[Thorold]] and was educated in [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]] and [[Toronto]]. Her mother died when she was five. Cartmell became a missionary and left [[San Francisco]] for Japan in 1882 and established a school for girls two years later. She was forced to resign due to poor health in 1887. She recovered in Canada, working at the General Mission in [[Victoria, British Columbia]] from 1890 to 1892, and returned to [[Tokyo]]. After four more years in Japan, she again returned to Canada in 1896 and worked with Japanese people at the General Mission in Victoria for two more years before retiring for good in 1898.<ref name=niagara/><ref></ref>

In 2013, the alumni association for the Toyo Eiwa school donated cherry trees in her honour to Hamilton and to Thorold.<ref name=niagara></ref>

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[[Category:1846 births]]
[[Category:1945 deaths]]
[[Category:Canadian Methodist missionaries]]
[[Category:Japanese educators]]


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