The Life of Edyth Mabel Plommer - Coast Mountain News
My Great Grandmother Mabel Plommer was a school teacher in Bella Coola for a number of years. Mabel Plommer, who her family nicknamed “Mabs,” was born in Vancouver British Columbia on December 18, 1908. Mabel had two siblings, a brother named Bill and a sister named Connie. Mabel got her first job working with children when she was 16, looking after children at their neighbourhood playground in Vancouver. Mabel came to Bella Coola to teach in 1928 in another one room school. She taught in Bella Coola for a year then married Odin Conrad Pedersen. Odin was born in Bella Coola on Sept 11, 1898. He lived in Bella Coola all of his life, and joined the military when he was just 17 to go fight for the allies in WWI. Mabel and Odin bought property in Bella Coola, the exact property my parents live on now. Mabel could not teach anymore because the law did not allow women to teach after they were married. They lived in a small cabin on the farm and Odin kept adding onto it. Their first child Joan Maureen Pedersen (my Grandmother) was born in 1930. Their farm was quite small until Mabel’s father gave them a cow. Source: www.coastmountainnews.com
