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Born into a Quaker family in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Ada Mary (Brown) Courtice (1860-1923) attended Pickering College and the Ontario Ladies College in Whitby. In 1888 she married Andrew Cory Courtice (1857-1908) and had two children. Together with her husband, Courtice operated a private school called Balmy Beach College in Toronto from 1907 to 1917. There she attempted to implement new ideas in education. She was active in the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Toronto Local Council of Women, the National Council of Women of Canada, and women's suffrage advocacy in Toronto. Courtice became the first president of the Toronto Home and School Council in 1916. she was also elected to the Toronto Board of Education and remained there until her defeat in 1921. Courtice also helped to organize the Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations.