Life and Times Of Portia White
•1917- she sings solos in church at age 6.
•1919- her farther, Reverend White returns from World War 1 and the family moves to Halifax, Nova Scotia •1929- after graduating from high school and briefly attending Dalhousie University, Portia becomes a teacher and she is18. • 1941-Portia gives her first concert in Toronto with the help of Edith Read and the Branksome Hall Alumnae. Portia sings an artist’s contract and resigns as a school teacher.
Singing Toward The Future (the book)p.61