née Hyman. Born January 24, 1943, Montreal, Quebec. Died 1973,
St. Catharines, Ontario. Rosalind graduated with first cass honours Bachelor
of Arts from McGill University, Montreal in 1963.. After her marriage she
continued her education graduating with a Masters from the University of
Rochester, New York, U.S.A. in 1965. The couple returned to Montreal so
Rosalind could continue her studies earning a doctorat in 1971. The
following year the couple were both on faculty at Brock University, St.
Catharines, Ontario where Rosilind was a founding member of the Department
of Economics. The couple adopted a son. In 1972 she took leave
from Brock University and worked with the New Democratic Party (N D P) of
Manitoba as director of economic analysis in the Cabinet Policy Secretariat.
After giving birth to a son in 1973 she fell into a come and died a month
later.
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Agatha Louisa Chapman
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Born May 6, 1907, England. Died October 17, 1963, Montreal,
Quebec. At the end of World War 1 (1914-1918) she immigrated to Canada where
she felt she had a connection with her uncle having been Lieutenant Governor
of Manitoba and her great grandfather had been a Father of Confederation.
Agatha earned her Bachelor of Arts in commerce from the University of
British Columbia where she also went on to earn a Masters degree in 1931.
She started her working career with and insurance company prior to working
with the Bank of Canada starting in 1940. She was one of the first women
economists working for the Bank. In 1942 she was seconded to the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics (now Statistics Canada) to help develop Canada's
national accounts. She soon became one of Canada's leading experts in the
field. She was the only woman attending the firs United Nations
Sub-Committee on National Income Statistics held in 1945. In July 1946 she
was identified as a member of a communist cell transmitting secrets to the
Soviet Union and was suspended from her job. Her trial case was dismissed
for lack of evidence but she was ostracized from the Canadian Civil Service.
She was hired to work at Cambridge University in England on the
recommendation of her former Canadian boss. She authored Wages and
Salaries in the United Kingdom 1920-1938 published by the University.
After three years in England she returned to Canada to live and work in
Montreal where she married. She was never achieved her former prominence as
an economist and sadly jumped to her death from her apartment.
(2022)
Judith Maxwell
Born
July 21, 1943, Kingston, Ontario. Judith attended Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia earning her Bachelor of Commerce
Degree in 1963. She studied at the London School of Economics in
England from 1965-1966. On May 8 1970 she married Anthony Stirling
and the couple have 2 children. She worked as a researcher
with the Combines Investigation Branch of the Federal Department of
Consumer and Corporate Affairs until 1965. She worked as an economist
and writer for the Financial Times of Canada from 1966 through 1972
and then was Director of Policy Studies at the C.D. Howe Institute
until 1980. She worked with the Economic Council of Canada from
1985-1992 prior to becoming Associate Director of the School of
Policy Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston and Executive
Director of Queen’s-University of Ottawa Economic Projects in
1992-1994. She was a member of Ontario Premier’s Council from
1998-1990. She has authored several books the economics and social
role of government. In 1996 she was inducted into the Order of
Canada. She was a founding president of the Canadian Policy Research
Networks until she retired in 2005. She is a member of the Board of
Governors of the Community Foundation of Ottawa and is part of a
group of volunteers working to establish a Citizens Academy of
Ottawa.
(2020)
Sylvia Ostry
SEE - Politicians and Public Servants
Phyllis Marie Ross
3977
née
Gregory.
Born 1903, Rossland, British Columbia. Died April 18,
1988, Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Phyllis graduated
with first class honours in economics and political science from
the University of British Columbia in 1925. She then went to
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. to earn her
Masters in 1927. She would also study at the London School of
Economics, England and the University of Marburg, Germany. In
1928 she married Leonard Hugh Turner in London, England.
The couple had three children. After the death of her husband
when she was just 29 she returned to live with her parents in
Rossland, British Columbia. She soon had a job in Ottawa,
Ontario working as a public servant working with the Canadian
Tariff Board, the Dominion Trade and Industry Commission and the
Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Talented and dedicated as she
was she would only ever receive two-thirds of the salary of a
man in the same working position. For her work in helping
the economy of Canada during World War ll (1939-1945) she was
awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1945
she married Frank Mackenzie Ross, who would serve as
Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia from 1955-1960. From
1951 to 1954 she sat as a member of the Senate of the University
of British Columbia (U B C) and then from 1960 to 1966. In 1961
she became UBC's first woman chancellor. In 1967 she receive the
Medal of Service of the Order of Canada and was later appointed as an
Officer of the Order of Canada. She was also a Dame of the St. John of
Jerusalem and a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Her son John
Napier Wyndham Turner(1929-2020) would become the 17th Prime Minister of
Canada. (2022)
Lise Salvas-Bronsard
3980
Born 1940. Died August 1995. Lise earned a Master of Arts in
economics from Université Laval in 1965 and that same years received a pre
doctoral Canada council grant to study in the humanities social sciences and
fine arts. By 1966 she was working at the Bureau d'amenagemntt de Test du
Québec. She continued her studies in Belgium earning a doctorate at
the Université de Louvain in 1972. She was well published in articles for
journals and boos in the field of economics. Back in Quebec by 1970 she was
working on the faculty of the Université de Montréal teaching economics and
macroeconomics. She worked as a visiting scholar at the Centre for
Operations Research and Economics, Belgium and the Institut national de la
statistique et des études
économique, France. She was a member of the Canadian
Economics Association (C E A), She was an associate editor of the Canadian
Journal of Economics which is bilingual. She married Camille Bronsard and
the couple had two children. (2022)
Margaret Patricia Sinclair
4229
née Pocock. Born February 21, 1950. Died February 21,
2012, Toronto, Ontario. Margaret earned her Bachelor of Arts and her
Master's degrees. She married Larry Sinclair and the couple had five
children. Margaret taught for 15 years and served as vice principal with the
Toronto Catholic District School Board. When her children were grown she
returned to school to earn her Doctorate at the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education (O I S E). She worked at York University as a Professor
in the Math Education Department. Her love of mathematics allowed her
to follow her passion of teaching, researching and publishing. Source:
Obituary, online (accessed 2023)
née Mamanuwartum. Born 1818?, Normandy House Northwest
Territories (Nown Manitoba. Died 1910?, Alberta. Jessie married Henry Bird
Steinhauer, an Ojibwa. They met while he worked as a teacher and interpreter
for the Methodist church at Norway House. Henry would become a Methodist
convert and the first Indigenous ordained Methodist Minister shortly after
the young couple met. The couple had twelve children. In 1855 they
were living in Lac La Biche (now in Alberta) to establish a mission and by
1857 they were in Fish Lake on the Saskatchewan River to establish a
mission.
(2023)
Mabel F. Timlin
3979
Born December 6, 1891, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Died September 19,
1976. After graduating high school Mabel relocated to Saskatchewan to be a
teacher. In 1921 she was hired as a secretary at the University of
Saskatchewan, Regina. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from the U
of S. She had wanted to study economics but was disappointed in the
university courses that were offered. By 1940 she had earned a doctorate in
economics from the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. She returned to
U of S to work as an assistant professor in 1941 and was appointed an
associate professor in 1946.In 1945 through 1956 she earned a Guggenheim
Fellowship. By 1950 she was a full professor becoming the first tenured
woman economics teacher at a Canadian University. In 1951 she was
elected to the Royal Society of Canada. She is best known for her work with
Keynesian theory and in Canadian Immigration policy post World War ll
(1939-1945). Mabel was also the first woman to serve as vice-president from
1953 -1955 and then president 1959-1960 of the Canadian Political Science
Association. In 1959 she worked with a Canada Council Special Senior
Fellowship. In 1967 she was presented with Canada's Centennial Medal. She
was one of the first women and one of only a few Canadian economists to
serve with the executive committee of the American Economic Association. In
1976 she was appointed to the Order of Canada. (2022)
Mathematicians
Agnes Sime
Baxter Hill
née Baxter. Born March 18, 1879, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Died March 9,
1917, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. In 1891 she was the 1st woman to receive a degree
from Dalhousie
University in Mathematics. She also won the Sir William Young Gold Medal for
being the undergraduate with the highest standing of honours student in
mathematics and mathematical physics.
By 1892 she had earned the Master's degree. She earned a fellowship and went
on earning her PhD at Cornell
University, New York, U.S.A. She was the fourth woman to receive a PhD in
Mathematics in North America and the second woman to do so in Canada. August
20 1896 she married Dr. Ross Hill. The couple settled in Lincoln, Nebraska,
U.S.A. where she supported her her husband in his teaching career at the university. The couple had two
daughters. After her death, Ross Hill donated donated funds to Dalhousie to
set up a collection of books in mathematics. In
1988 Dalhousie University dedicated the Agnes Baxter Reading Room in the
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science.
Source: D C B
(2020)
Louise Duffield Cummings
Born November 21, 1870, Hamilton, Ontario. Died
May 9, 1947.
Following her education at the University of Toronto Louise continued her
studies in mathematics on a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania,
the University of Chicago and Bryn Mawr College in the U.S.A. where she
would earn her PhD in mathematics in 1914. She was a full professor at
Vassar from 1902 until her retirement in 1936. She contributed some dozen
research papers in leading mathematics journals during her career. and was a
speaker at international meetings of mathematicians.
(2020)
Katherine Heinrich
née Roderick Born February 21, 1954, Murwillumbah,
New South Wales, Australia. Katherine earned her Bachelor of Mathematics and her PhD at the
University of Newcastle, Australia. She started her teaching career at the University
of Arizona and moved to British Columbia in 1980 to work at Simon Fraser
University. She is active in promoting the importance of mathematics and the
need of numerate citizens and encouraging and supporting women in
mathematics and the sciences. She was Chair of the Education committee of
the Canadian Mathematics Society and moved up to be Vice President in 1993
and President in 1996-1998. She is the author of various reports and
numerous articles in her chosen field. in 1995 she received the Vancouver
YWCA Woman of Distinction Award for Health and Education. In 2005 she
earned the Adrien Puliot Award from the Canadian Mathematical Society.
(2020)
Annie MacKinnon Fitch
Born June 1, 1868, Woodstock, Ontario. Died September 12,
1940, Walton, New York, U.S.A. Annie completed her studies at the masters level at the University of
Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. and continued in her education in mathematics earning a PhD. from
Cornell University, New York, U.S.A. in 1894. Upon graduation she was
awarded the Association of Collegiate Alumnae European Fellowship to study
mathematics a the Gottingen University. Returning from studies in Europe in 1896 she
began her career at Wells College, Aurora, New York, U.S.A., as professor and Registrar. She was
elected to the American Mathematics Society in 1897. She was also a member
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the League of
Women Voters. She devoted time and energy to encouraging women to take a
spirited interest in local, state and national communities.
Source: Biographies of Women Mathematicians.
Online (Accessed 2004) (2020)
Yoshiko Kasahara
Born March 25, 1912, Tokyo, Japan. Died December 6, 1966. In
1950 she received a scholarship to work in post graduate studies at the
University of Texas. She also received an MA in mathematics at the
University of Michigan and worked for her PhD in sociology at the University
of Michigan. Dr Kasahara moved to Canada in 1956 where she joined the
Census Division of Statistics Canada and then the Central Research and
Development Staff. She specialized in demographic research but participated
actively in a large variety of projects. She published numerous
papers, distinctive reports and represented Canada at a number of
international conferences with distinction. The high professional standards
that she applied to her work were also evident in her hobby of photography.
An accomplished linguist she was also a stimulating conversationalist.
(2020)
Cecilia Krieger
Born April 9, 1894, Jaslo, Poland. Died August
17, 1974. Cecelia began her studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, but moved to the
University of Toronto earning her B.A., M.A. and PhD by 1930. She was the
1st woman to earn a Canadian mathematics doctorate. She was a instructor,
lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Toronto retiring only
in 1962. She continued teaching at Upper Canada College, Kingston, Ontario until her death. The
Canadian Mathematical Society now awards the CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize
lectureship for Distinguished Research by Women in Mathematics in honour of
Cecilia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson. She encouraged her students in their
studies in mathematics and engineering and was an active participant in the
Canadian Association of University Women.
(2020)
Cathleen Synge
Morawetz
née Synge. Born May 5, 1923, Toronto, Ontario.
Died August 8, 2017, Greenwich Village, New York, U.S.A. She
began her studies in mathematics by obtaining her B.A. at the University of
Toronto. She continued her studies by earning a master's degree at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946 and she earned her PhD. at New
York University in 1951. She has contributed to several esteemed
scientific associations and was the first woman to belong to the Applied
Mathematics Section of the National Academy of Sciences in the United
States. In 1997 she received the Krieger-Nelson Award from the Canadian
Mathematical Society in recognition of her outstanding research.
Married with four children she has been recognized by the National
Organization for Women for combining a successful career and family. In 2004
she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American
Mathematical Society to recognize the cumulative influence of her total
mathematical work.
(2020)
Evelyn Merle
Nelson
née Roden. Born November 25, 1943, Hamilton, Ontario. Died August 1,
1987. Her parents were Russian immigrants who supported their daughter all
the way through her studies. She began her undergraduate studies at the
University of Toronto in Mathematics-physics-chemistry honours program then
transferred to McMaster University in Hamilton. Shortly after she married
Mort Nelson. She graduated in 1965 at the top of her class and began her
post graduated studies receiving her Master’s degree in 1967 followed in
1970 with a PhD from McMaster. She gave birth to her first child while
writing her thesis which was published in the Canadian Journal ofMathematics. She began a teaching career at McMaster and was promoted to
full professor in 1983. She served as editor of Algebra Universalis. She
also chaired, 1982-1984 the Unit of Computer Science within the mathematics
department at the University. The Canadian Mathematical Society now awards
the CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize for Distinguished Research by Women in
Mathematics in honour of Cecilia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson.Source: Evelyn
M. Nelson ( accessed November 2002.)
(2020)
Nancy Margaret Reid
Born September 17, 1952. Starting out in
computer studies she soon learned that she preferred statistics. She earned
her B.A. from The University of Waterloo, in Ontario, her masters' from the
University of British Columbia and her PhD. from Stanford University,
California, U.S.A. in 1979. She is currently a Professor of Statistics at the
University of Toronto where she has taught since 1986 and served as Chair of
the department from 1997-2002. an elected member of several distinguished
societies and associations in her field she was the winner of the
President's Award of the Committee of Statistical Societies in 1992. The
award recognized outstanding contribution to the profession of statistics.
In 1995 she was the first recipient of the Krieger-Nelson Prize lectureship
for distinguished research by a woman in mathematics. She has produced over
50 journal publications in statistics as well as three major books in the
field. All of this while being an mother of two active children!.
(2020)
