 Forster, Lucius O'Brien and Farquhar McGillivray Knowles.During the decade of 1900, she worked as a teacher in Whitby at the Ontario Ladies’ College (now Trafalgar Castle School) and at Pickering College in Pickering, Ontario.In 1913, she went to France to continue her studies at the Academie de la Grande Chaumière under Lucien Simon and Émile-René Ménard.