| Millicent Burgess | |
| Birth Name: | Millicent Carey |
| Birth Place: | Bermuda |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Occupation: | educator |
Millicent Carey Burgess (born 1923) is a Canadian educator. She may have been the first black teacher for the Toronto District School Board.[1]
The daughter of James and Doris Carey, she worked as a substitute teacher for several years after completing high school. She began studying at Hamilton Teachers' College in Canada in 1950 after receiving a scholarship from the Bermuda government and completed the last two years of her studies at Toronto Teachers' College.[2]
Burgess then returned to Bermuda and taught for three years. She married Edward Leroy Burgess there in 1954; the couple moved to Canada the following year. She worked as a clerk for Blue Cross in Toronto for one year and then began looking for a teaching position. Burgess was an elementary schoolteacher. During this time, she earned a BA from the University of Toronto by attending night classes.[2]
She retired in 1989.[2]