[1][4][5] In 1951 Schofield obtained a Class A teacher's license from Nova Scotia Normal College.
[7] After their honeymoon, the newlyweds moved to Nova Scotia, where Wilfred Schofield spent the winter teaching high school.
The couple spent the summer of 1957 doing field work in the Yukon and then in the autumn moved to North Carolina.
For his textbook Introduction to Bryology (Macmillan, 1985), the Canadian Botanical Association awarded him the George Lawson Medal for 1986.
[8] He collected plants not only in Canada and the mainland USA, but also in Australia, New Zealand,[9] Hawaii, Japan, and Taiwan.