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Events
listed relate to Canadian women with a few extra items added
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This timeline is not all inclusive.
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EVENTS |
1910
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January 1, 1910 -
The Victoria , British Columbia, Local Council of Women hold a mock
parliament which is attended by the Lieutenant Governor and the
Premier of the province. Another mock Parliament was held by the B C
Women's Club in Vanacouver later in the year
January 1910 -
The
Pioneer Political Equality League of Vancouver is formed with the
objective of gaining the vote for women
January 11, 1910
- Agnes Baden Powell, sister of Lord Baden Powell, signs
registration of the first Guide Company in Canada and Girl Guides of Canada holds its 1st meeting
1910 -
The federal Naval Service Bill creates Canada's Navy
March 4, 1910 - The Royal Canadian Navy is formed
May 5, 1910 -
The
British Columbia Political Equity League is formed with the
objective of gaining the vote for women
1910 - October 14, 2016 - Janet Morrison Miller-Murray
(1891-1946) applied to be examined for the Barr in 1910
and was refused because she was a woman. October 14, 2016 she was
proclaimed an honourary lawyer by the Newfoundland and Labrador Law
Society
1910 -
The province of Alberta passes The Married Women’s Relief Act, which authorizes the
Alberta courts to give a widow part of her husband’s estate if
he did not adequately provide for her.
Previously
these women had been left destitute
1910 -
Province of Quebec legislates women textile working hours to fifty
eight (58) hours per week
1910 - Mattie Mayers
(1850-1953) arrives with her husband and 12 other Black
families to settle the 1st Black community in Saskatchewan
1910 - Léonise Valois (1888-1936)
is the 1st woman to publish poetry in the province of Quebec
1910 -
The National Council of Women holds its annual meeting in Halifax,
Nova Scotia stimulating the founding of a local council which soon
fizzled out.
1910 - The National Council of Women goes public in favour
of suffrage
Source: Women in History; a timeline by
Kirsten Smith, Postmedia News March 9, 2011.
1910 - the Business and Professional
Woman's Club is founded in Toronto by Mrs. Helen Parker.
Miss Mary Lean Becomes the 1st President Source:
Business and Professional Women's official website. Accessed May
2013.
1910 - The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen,
established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the
movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal
suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval
by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which
included the 1st three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No
fixed date was selected for the observance
1910 -
Heinz ketchup production begins in Leamington, Ontario
Source: Culinary Journey.
1910 - Georgina Binnie-Clark
(1871-1947) offers to train any woman who wants to learn
farming
November 1910 -
The Political Equality League of Victoria, British Columbia is
formed with Mrs. Gordon Grant as President. The group eventually
merged with the Political Equality League of Vancouver to form a
provincial league
1910 -
Female teachers in the city of Toronto earned $400.00 to $900.00 per
year while male teachers earned $900.00 to $1400.00 per year
Source:
Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
1910 -
The Young Women’s Hebrew Association (YWHA) of Montreal is
established
Births 1910:
1910 - Born Florence Diamond Bean (1910-1993) journalist & active member Women's Institutes internationally
1910 - Born Elizabeth Cordelia 'Corrie' Eaton (1910-2015)
indomitable woman doctor
1910- -Born Helen Kemp Frye (1910-1986) academic
1910 - Born Laure Eva Rièse (1910-1996) 1st woman faculty
member of University of Toronto to earn her PhD 1946
1910 - Born Constance Garner-Short (1910-1959) one of four women
who were 1st lawyers called to the Bar in Quebec
1910 -
Born
Ester
Binder (1910-2007) Social activist & community volunteer in
Manitoba, member of the Order of the Buffalo Hunt
1910 -
Born Doris Buckingham (1910-1988) a stage & radio actress who
created Vancouver's Theatre Under the Stars
1910 - Born Sylvia Gelber (1910-2003)
feminist & Canadian United Nations delegate
1910 -
Born Dorothy Macham (1910-2002) WW veteran nurse and nursing
administrator
1910 -
Born Vera Lysenko (1910-1995), nurse, journalist, & novelist
1910 - Born Jean MacLean Reed (1910- )
nurse & artist from P.E.I.
February 14, 1910 - Born Doris Ogilvie (1919-2012) deputy
judge Juvenile & provincial courts & strong supporter of women's
rights
February 18, 1910 - Isobel Anderson (1910-1999) Deaconess and
leader in the United Church of Canada
February 18, 1910 - Born Joan Miller (1910-1988) actor
March 24, 1911 - Born Simone David-Raymond (1911-2012) social
activist in Montreal
March 24, 1910 - Born
Joy Roberts-White (1910-2013) broadcast journalist who worked
for BBC, CBC, Reuters and CTV
April 12, 1910 - Born Frances Claudet-Johnson (1910-2001)
champion figure skater
May 24, 1910 - Born Marion Elizabeth de Chastelain (1910-2000)
World War ll intelligence officer
June 2, 1910 - Born Florence Isabel 'Jane' Bell (1910-1998)
member of Matchless Six 1926 Olympic Games
June 10, 1910 - Born Alice Elizabeth Jean Lunn (1910-1998)
librarian,1st head of cataloguing at the National Library of Canada
June 14, 1910 -
Born
Lucile Garner Grant (1910-2013) 1st woman hired as a stewardess by
Trans-Canada Airlines
July 7, 1910 - Born Doris Jean McCarthy (1910-2010) acclaimed
artist Order of Ontario
July 19, 1910 -
Born Jean Wilson (1910-1933) North American Indoor speed skating
champion and Olympic team medalist.
August 6, 1910 - Born Rena Lasnier (1910-1991) poet
August 13, 1910 - Born Gwendolyn Ringwood (1910-1984)
Governor General Award winner for outstanding service to Drama
August 19, 1910 - Born Katherine Boehner Hockin (1910-1993)
religious leader & educator United Church of Canada
August 25,
1910 - Born Ethel
Stark (1910-2012) 1st
woman soloist heard on radio
September 1, 1910 - Born Hilda Strike (1910 - 1989 ) Olympic
medalist in 1932
September 15, 1910 - Born Patricia Bloomfield-Holt
(1910-2003) musician & composer
September 15, 1910 - Born Mary MacLennan Lea (1910-2002) first
woman to participate in world rifle shooting
November 6,1911 - Born Dorothy Kate Burnham (1911-2004) author
& museum curator of textiles
November 17, 1910 - Born Margaret MacDonald (1910-1968)
Member of Parliament who filled the seat of her husband
November 26, 1910 - Born Aileen Alethea Meagher (1910-1987)
medal winning track athlete
Deaths 1910:
January 21, 1910 -
Died Ida Labelle (1858-1910) teacher and advocate of
education for girls
February 26, 1910 - Died
Adelaide Hoodless
(1857-1910) social activist & founder of the Women's Institutes.
March 15, 1910 - Died Marjory
McLaren (MacLaren) (1830-1910) volunteer & worker for the
Women's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church of Canada
August 20, 1910 - Died Louisa
Goddard Frothingham-Molson (1827-1910) social activist &
philanthropist
September 29, 1910 - Died
Matilda Edgar (1844-1910) historian |
| 1911 |
1911 - The population of women in Canada is 3, 385,000 or
49.9 % of the population. The number of women self-declared having
been born outside Canada is 614,000
1911 - The average family size, including adults, is 4-8
people
1911 - The number of women participating in the formal, paid
workforce is 366,629 or 13.5% of the paid workforce
1911 - The percentage of university students who are women
is 16.3% of the overall student population
1911 - Maud
Leonora Menten (1879-1960.) is the 1st
Canadian woman to receive her medical doctorate. She received the
degree from the University of Toronto
1911 - Dorthea
Mitchell (1877-1976) becomes the 1st
single woman in Ontario to apply for and be granted title to Crown
Land.
1911 -
The Saskatchewan Deserted Wives’ Maintenance Act
requires husbands to pay support if they deserted their wives or
forced them to leave
March 19, 1911 -
1st international Woman’s Day is observed in Austria,
Denmark, Germany and Switzerland
May 9, 1911 - A pregnant Angelina Napolitano
(1883?-1924?) is convicted of murdering her
abusive husband and sentenced to hang. There was a massive British
and North American wide outburst of protest which caused reduction
of the sentence to life in prison Source: Franca Iacovetta .
Angelina Napolitano , in Dictionary of Canadian Biography.
Online edition ( Accessed July 2005)
June 22, 1911 -
A monument to honour
Laura Secord
(1775-1868) is unveiled at Lundy's Lane, Ontario
Source Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies Canada.
Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977 pg 15
1911 -
The Women's College Hospital and Dispensary is opened with 7 beds
Source: A history of Women's College
(Accessed February 2006)
1911 -
The Proctor and Gamble Company develops hydrogenated vegetable
shortening called Crisco
Source: Culinary Journey. submitted to Famous Canadian
Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario
1911 - The Ontario College of Art is established in Toronto
Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects
http://ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/timeline (accessed February
2006)
1911 -
The New York Electric Exhibition introduces the world to electric
skillets, grills, toasters and waffle irons! Source:
Culinary Journey. submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de
cevito, Cochrane, Ontario
Births 1911:
1911 -
Born Kay Christie (1911-1994) nurse with Royal Canadian Medical
Corps, POW (prisoner of war) in Hong Kong
1911 - Born Doris Horwood (1911-2003) lexicographer
1911 - Born Gertrude 'Trudi' Le Caine (1911-1999) social
activist in Ottawa, Order of Canada
1911 -
Born Helen May McKercher (1911-1985) agricultural education activist
1911 -
Born Florence Isobel Matheson (1911-1992) president National Women's
Institutes
1911 -
Born Rebecca Belle Watson (1911? - 1976) Vancouver, British Columbia
Community Activist
1911 -
Born Rita Laroque Morel (1911-2011) public
servant
1911 - Born Leola Ellen Neal (1911-1995) psychologist
1911 - Born Agnes C. O'Dea (1911-1993) librarian and
bibliographer
January 27, 1911 -
Born Blanche Margaret Meagher (1912-1999)
pioneer Canadian diplomat
February 22, 1911 - Born Betty Edwards Tancock (1911-2009)
medal winning and record setting swimmer
April 3, 1911 - Born Nanette Bordeaux, (1911-1956) actor
April 30, 1911 - Born Kay Smith (1911-2004) poet
May 13, 1912 - Died
Agnes Deans Cameron (1863-1912) teacher, school administrator and
journalist
May 11, 1911 - Born Evelyn Laura Brandon (1911-1998), historian
May 12, 1911 -
Born Dorothy Wetherald Rungeling (1911-2018) pilot & author
June 18, 1911 - Born Evelyn Bowen (1911-1999) , stage actress
who organized and directed the first all Negro dram group in Canada
June 18, 1911 - Born Clare Bernhardt (1911-1993) author and
journalist who composed Canada's Centennial Hymn
June 29, 1911 - Born Katherine De Mille (1911-1995) movie
actor
July 11, 1911 - Born Helen Griffith Wylie Watson (1911-1974)
award winning nurse & officer in the Order of Canada
July 31, 1911 - Born Lyn Harrington (1911-
) children's award winning author.
August 1911 - Born Ruth Haythorn (1911-2010) educator
September 1911 - Born Alice Moulton (1911-1912) librarian
with the University of Toronto
September 1, 1911 - Born Helen Pauline Wattie
(1911-2009) educator
September 28, 1911 - Born Ivy Eastwood Granstrom (1911-2004)
blind athlete
October 15-1911 - Born Anna Gertrude Ingham (1911- )
educator
December 12, 1911 - Born Martha Shepard (1911-2009) librarian
with responsibility of establishing the National Library of
Canada
December 27, 1911 - Born Anna Claudia Russell
(1911-2006) comedienne considered the best in the world in her day |
| 1912 |
1912 - Carrie
Derrick (1862-1941) is the 1st woman in Canada to become a full
professor, a professor of Morphological Botany at McGill University
in Montreal
1912 - The Manitoba Illegitimate Children’s
Act provides that an unwed mother can bring court action against the
alleged father, if her claims are substantiated, he can be forced to
pay support and expenses
January 1, 1912 -
The Manitoba Political Equity League would grow to 1,200 members
including male supporters
1912 - Canadian
Women’s Press Club of Calgary is founded
Source Linda Kay, Sweet Sixteen :the journey that inspired the
Canadian Women’s Press Club (McGill-Queens Press, 2012)
1912 - Anna Minerva Henderson
(1887 -
1987) became the 1st Black Canadian appointed to the permanent
federal civil service
Source: Herstory: The Canadian Women's calendar. 2008
(Saskatoon Women's Calendar Collective / Coteau Books, 2007)
February 1912 - The
British Columbia Legislature, in an attempt to appease women in
their political demands for equality, passes a law that allows
women to be called to the Bar and practice Law in the province.
The British Columbia Act to Remove the Disability So Far as
Relates to the Study and Practice of Law
Source:
SBC 1912.
June 4, 1912 -
The 2nd annual meeting of the Toronto Business
and Professional Women's Club is held boasting of a membership of
200
September 23, 24, & 25,1912 -
The 1st Calgary Stampede takes place. Canadian
Flores Le Due (1883-1951)
wins the World Champion Trick and Fancy Roper,
her 1st of three such titles
1912 -
A Dominion Council is formed to oversee Girl Guides in Canada with
Lady Mary Pellatt (1857-1924)
at the head of the council
1912 -
Mabel Priscilla Penery
French
(1881-1955)
Is the 1st woman lawyer in the
province of British Columbia
Source:
British Columbia Federation of Labour.
http://bcfed.com/issues/women/history
1912 -
The British Columbia Federation of Labour lends its support to the
forces demanding equality and right to vote for women in British
Columbia
1912 -
The Winnipeg Political Equality League is formed in Manitoba. It
would become a powerful and effective organization led by
Lillian Beynon Thomas
(1874-1961).
1912 -
The British Columbia Federation of Labour lends its support to the
forces demanding equality and right to vote for women in British
Columbia
1912 - The Oreo cookie appears for the
1st time on the
market. Yummy!
Source: Culinary Journey. submitted to Famous Canadian
Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario
Births 1912:
1912 -
Born Alexandra 'Alexe' Carter (1912-2002) journalist & author
1912 -
Born Bettie L. Cole (1912 - ?) journalist
1912 -
Born Audrey Burger (1912-1988) Social activist for public housing
1912 -
Born Dorothy Howarth (1912 - ) award winning
journalist with the Toronto Telegram
1912 -
Born Clara Muskat (1912 - ) one of the 1st Jewish
women lawyers in Ontario
1912 -
Born Helen Frances Okuloski (1912-1993) one of the1st women
lawyers in Hamilton, Ontario
January 2, 1912 -
Born Barbara
Lally Pentland, (1912-2000) one of the 1st Canadian composers to use
avant-garde techniques in her music
January 3, 1912 - Born Louise Marguerite Renaude Lapoint
(1912-2002) politician
January 16, 1912 - Born Anne Adamson Campbell (1912-2011) choir
conductor and founder, Order of Canada
March 1, 1912 - Born Janet Cochrane (1912-1994) social
activist for First Nations living in urban centers
March 7,
1912 -
Born Dora Oake Russell (1912-1986) teacher, journalist & community
worker with Girl Guides
March 19, 1912 - Born Margaret Grant Andrew (1912-1982) social
activist for the Arts on Canada's west coast
March 22,
1912 -
Born Agnes Martin (1912-2004) one of the world's foremost abstract
expressionist/minimalist
painter
March 25, 1912 - Born Yoshiko Kasahara (1912-1966) noted
population statistician
May 27, 1912 - Born Marie Therese Goulet (1912-1971) Métis
teacher & author
June 16, 1912 - Born Anne Campbell (1912-2011) award winning
choral conductor
June 29, 1912 - Born Agnes Fontaine (1912-1988) a mother of 15 who
received the Queen Elizabeth Coronation Medal for community services
July 12, 1912 - Born Jagdish Kaur Singh (1912-1991)
businesswoman
August 14, 1912 - Born Hilda May Cameron Young (1912-2001)
Olympic Medal winner in Track and Field in 1936 Olympic Games
August 23, 1912 - Born Jean Bruce Dawson (1912-1999) a nurse by
training she became an artist
August 25, 1912 - Born
Muriel Flexman (1912-2003)
journalist &
1st woman to work at Canadian Press
October 28, 2012 - Born Nancy Lee Tegart (1912-2012) pioneer in
British Columbia
November 12, 1912 - Born
Martha Scarrow (1912-1971)
political member of the C.C.F. Party in Ontario
December 9, 1913 - Born Cynthia Chalk (1913-2018) nature
photographer
Deaths 1912:
February 15, 1912 - Died Annie Linda Hayr-Jack (1839-1912)
Canada's 1st woman professional garden journalist
March 23, 1912 - Died Nancy
Alexander (1824-1912) Black pioneer
May 10, 1912 - Died Frances
Amelia Tupper ( 1826-1912) wife of Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper
(1821-1915)
November 1, 1912 - Died Mabel Barriston ( ? -1912) actor
November 14, 1912 - Died
Edith Sarah Louisa Nordheimer (1847-1912) social
activist and honourary patroness of the I O D E |
| 1913 |
January 1913 - Women in Hamilton, Ontario are allowed
to vote in municipal elections for aldermen and mayor
1913 -
Canada's 1st feature film, Evangeline,
is produced in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects
(accessed February
2006)
February 14,
1913 -
A 10,000 signature petition supporting votes for women was presented
to Premier McBride of British Columba by a delegation of 72 women.
He remained steadfast in his support against votes for women
Source: Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
June 3, 1913 - The Queen
Mary Hospital for Tuberculosis Children, the only hospital in the
world devoted to the treatment of children with this disease, is
opened. In 1924 the Hospital's name is changed to Toronto Hospital
for Consumptives was known commonly as The Weston Sanitarium or
Weston Hospital.
June 1913 -
Mary M. Minty and Marcia J.
Levitt become the 1st women appointed and attached to the
Toronto Police Department
Source: Herstory: Milestones
in the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online
Accessed June 2011.
1913 -The Royal Canadian Academy
"relaxes" it rules that withhold membership from women
Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects
(accessed February
2006)
July
31, 1913 - Alys McKey Bryant,
(1880-1954) an American,
is the 1st woman to pilot an airplane in Canada
when she performs in an exhibition flight for Prince Albert, Duke of
York (future George VI)
1913 – Cecelia Rebecca Green,
Victoria British Columbia is the 1st woman to study law
in British Columbia
1913 -The 1st
degree program in Household Sciences at the University of Toronto.
In 1913. The course grew out of the
1902 Lillian Massey School of Household Science and Art
Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Online (Accessed
January 2013)
1913 - The Methodist
Ladies Aid is formed in Toronto Source: Voices of United Church Women
1962-2002. Edited by Elizabeth Gillan Muir. (Toronto; United
Church of Canada, 2002)
1913 - New Brunswick Women's
Institutes hold their 1st provincial convention Source: New
Brunswick Women's History online. Accessed June 2013.
1913 -
The Equal Franchise League of Edmonton, Alberta is founded
1913 -
The Canadian Ladies Golf Union is formed
1913 -
The 1st women's ice hockey competitions are held in the
Maritimes with the Reds and Blues and the Kananites of Nova Scotia
November 13, 1913 -
In support of the women’s franchise movement the Montreal Herald
allowed women to create the edition of the newspaper and then go out
on the streets to sell copies
Source:
Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
December 31, 1913
- The Ottawa Police Force hires its 1st woman officer
Flora Ann Campbell
(1883-1961)
who mainly to help charged women in court
1913 -
The Ezras Noshem (women’s help) Society of Toronto is founded
1913 – The Friendly League of Jewish Women in
Montreal, Quebec formed a Welcome Club for Jewish women workers
Births 1913:
1913 - Born Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) psychologist
1913 - Born Willa Walker (1913- 2010) author
1913 -
Born Margaret Craig
Eaton Dunn (1913-1988) Director General Canadian Women's Army Corp
1944
1913 - Born Eileen
Tallman Sufrin (1913-1999) social activist who led Eaton's
Employees in an attempt to unionize
January 13, 1913 -
Born Gwethlyn Graham Erichse-Brown (1913-1965) award winning author
January 18, 1913 -
Born Gwethalyn
Graham. (1913-1935) award winning author
February 2, 1913 - Born Mercedes Palomino (1913-2006) actor,
broadcaster & theatre director
March 5, 1913 - Born Evelyn Blankstein (1913-2001) architect
March 10, 1913 - Born Marge Saunders (1913-2010) Olympic
Archer 1972
April 3, 1913 - Born Wilhelmina 'Willa' Walker (1913-2010)
Commanding Officer of the Woman's Division , RCAF
April 9, 1913 - Born Saida Gerrard (1913-2005)
made significant contributions to modern dance in Canada
April 24, 1913 - Born Violet Archer (1913-2000) musician &
award winning composer
April 30, 1913 - Born Edith Margaret Fowke (1913-1996)
folklorist, collector, writer, & teacher
May 3, 1913 - Born Joyce Carmen Barkhouse (1913-2012) poet
May 10, 1913 -
Born Reva Brooks (1913-2004) pioneer photographer
May 24, 1913 -
Born Phyllis Georgie Haslam (1913-1991) social activist with
Elizabeth Fry Society working with female prisoners.
June 15, 1913 -
Born Mary John Sr (1913-2004) Aboriginal leader and activist for
Carrier language
June 24, 1913 -
Born Isobel MacLeod (1913- ) nursing administrator
July 23, 1913 -
Born Erica Deichmann Gregg (1913-1989) potter
July 26, 1913 -
Born Dorothy Corrigan (1913- ) Mayor of Charlottetown,
P.E.I., Order of Canada 1978.
September 3, 1913 - Born
Bronislawa 'Betty' Barban (1913-2013) pianist who became 1st
conductor of the St John Symphony
September 11, 1913 -
Born Hilda Ranscombe (1913-1999) hockey player & member of
Canadian Sport Hall of Fame.
October 9, 1913 -
Born Charlotte Bastien (1913-2005) Librarian & private secretary
to National Librarian Guy Sylvester
November 5, 1913 -
Born Joyce Anne Marriott (1913-1947) poet
November 7, 1913 -
Born Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook (1913-2009) internationally
acclaimed sculptor
November 16, 1913 -
Born Dora de Pédery-Hunt (1913- ) sculptor & designer of
medals
November 17, 1913 -
Born Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook ( 1913- )
international acclaimed sculptor
December 1, 1913 - Born Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) psychologist
December 18, 1913 -
Born Emma Caslor (1913-1977) folksinger & pianist
Deaths 1913:
1913 -
Died Elizabeth Frame (1820-1913) teacher & author
1913 - Died Marion Oliver (1855-1913) one of the 1st
Canadian medical missionaries in India
March 7, 1913 - Died
Pauline Johnson, (1861-1913) Canada's 1st
renowned Aboriginal poet
April 10, 1913 - Died Annie Emma Affleck Thompson (1845-1913)
wife of Prime Minister Sir John Thompson (1845-1894)
April 11, 1913 - Died Amelia Yeomans
(1842-1913) pioneer medical doctor & feminist
May 1, 1913 -
Died
Agnes Dunbar Fitzgibbon Chamberlin (1833-1913) author & painter
October 26, 1913 - Died Ada Borradaile Chipman (1860?-1913)
organized Woman's Art Association for women in 1907 |
| 1914 |
January 28, 1914 - Canadian suffragettes hold a Mock
Parliament at the Walker Theater, Winnipeg, Manitoba, to agitate for
votes for women
1914
-
The
Canadian government initiates the Naturalization Act which
stipulates that a Canadian woman would lose her status as a British
subject if she married a man of another country and she would not
regain her British subject status on the death of her husband. Males
on the other hand did not lose their British subject status if they
married a woman from another country and his wife automatically
became a British subject
Note:
Canadian Citizenship was not enacted until 1947.
1914 - The
Supreme Court in the case Quong-wing vs. the Queen upholds as
Saskatchewan law that prohibits Chinese businesses from hiring
white women
1914 - An Ontario provincial Act to Amend the Factory, Shop, and Office
Building Act prohibits Oriental persons from employing white females (Statutes of Ontario 1914 c. 40)
1914 -
The
Liberal Party of Manitoba adopted an equal franchise policy but even
with the support of the suffragists of Manitoba the Conservative
Part was elected to power in the provincial legislature
1914 - The 1st women's hockey championship for
the province of Ontario was held in in Picton used with permission
1914 - Alice Jane Jamieson
(1860-1949) is appointed by the Government of
British Columbia as judge in juvenile Court. She is the 1st woman in
the British Empire to hold such a position
Sources: Kay Sanderson, 200 Remarkable Alberta Women, (Famous
5 Foundation, 1999) online (accessed July 2015); Alice Jamieson
(accessed July 2015)
1914 -
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union reached a membership of
16,000 across Canada
1914
-
The National Council of Women begins publishing, 1914-1921, the
Monthly Journal with
the purpose to educate women about public issues and the
reforms that were needed, and to provide a forum for discussion by
different women's groups
Source:
Roberts, Barbara.
Reconstructed
World: A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson.
McGill-Queen's Press.
(accessed August 2, 2014).
June
11, 1914 -
The
Suffrage Club in Nova Scotia is established at Mrs. Wright's home to
work on granting women the right to vote throughout the province
August 4, 1914 -
Canada automatically at war with Germany when Britain declares
war, World War 1 begins for Canada. 1914-1918. More than 2500 women serve with the Royal
Canadian Army Medical Corps with the majority serving overseas in
hospitals, on board hospital ships, in several theatres of war and
in combat zones with field ambulance units. It is also the first
time women have organized in a military capacity other than nursing.
Canadian women form paramilitary groups, outfit themselves in
military-style uniforms, and undertake training in small arms,
drill, first aid, and vehicle maintenance in case they are needed as
home guard. Source: National Defense and the Canadian
Armed Forces, Fact sheet. Online (Accessed March 2014)
1914-1918 -
During World War l Black women of Canada formed the Black Cross
Nurses to aid wounded soldiers and work in Black communities
1914-1918 -
During World War l, 3,141 Canadian women went overseas serving close
to the front lines in makeshift hospitals, on board hospital ships,
and in combat zones with filed ambulance units. Nurses who served
were called Nursing Sisters, but because of their blue dress and
white veil uniforms they were nicknamed 'bluebirds'. Over 40 Nursing
sisters lost their lives while in service
1914-1918 - Over 30,000 women worked outside of the
home in munitions factories, Offices and in the countryside on
family farms due to the shortage of make workers
September 29, 1914 - The 1st group of
Canadian nursing sisters, of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, embark
for England and service in World
War I on the Franconia
Source: Canadian Nurses in World War I. Trent
University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit
(accessed
July 22, 2005)
1914 -
The 1st Official Canadian Figure Skating
Championship is held in Ottawa. Figure skating is recognized as a
sport separate from speed skating and the Figure Skating Department
becomes a section of Amateur Skating Association of Canada. The two
main clubs are Minto Skating Club, Ottawa and Earl Grey Skating
Club. Montreal
1914 - Emily Coonan receives the 1st National Gallery travel
grant to study in Europe. She puts a hold on her travel till after
World War l Source: Important Moments in
Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of
British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects (accessed February
2006)
1914 - Georgina Binnie-Clark
(1871-1947) published her work Wheat &
Women describing the discrimination she faced as a single woman
farmer in the Canadian West
1914-1915 -
Annie Langstaff (1887-1975) 1st
woman to receive a degree in Law from McGill University
1914 - The Hebrew
Young Ladies Boot and Shoe Society is founded in Toronto to provide
shoes for the poor and encourage sports among its members. It
disbanded in 1924
Births 1914:
1914 -
Born Ina Caton (1914-2004) 1st woman in Saskatchewan to be
ordained as a deacon & be called to the Anglican priesthood in
Canada
1914 - Born Marianne Linnell (1914-1990, Vancouver politician
was the only woman on the committee for Canada's Centennial
Commission
1914 - Born Laura Banks (1914-1988) TV broadcaster who used the name of
Laura Lindsay
1914 - Born Dorothy Hurst (1914-1997) acclaimed dancer, baton
twirler & teacher
1914 -
Born Judith St John (1914-2007) internationally acclaimed
children's librarian and lecturer in Library Sciences
January 12, 1914 - Born Helen MacKie MacDonald (1914-????)
social activist
January 21, 1914 - Born Josefina Napravilova (1914-2014)
returned children to Czech Republic after World War ll.
February 14, 1914 - Born Ruth Gorman (1914-2002) lawyer and Officer of
the Order of Canada
February 21, 1914 - Born Sister Bernice Cullen ( 1913-2007)
female head
of St. Dunstan's University, P.E.I. in Religious
April 3, 1914 - Born Margaret Fane Rutledge.(1914-2004) pioneer
aviator member of the British Columbia Aviation Hall of Fame
April 13, 1914 - Born Margaret Fane Rutledge (1914-2004)
pioneer aviator on west coast
April 13, 1914 - Born Margaret Weisbord (1914-2011) musician
April 18, 1914 - Born Claire Martin Faucher (1914-2014) author
April 21, 1914 - Born Judith Crawley,(1914-1986) film producer,
director & scriptwriter
April 30,1914 - Born Dorothea Crittenden (1915-
) 1st female deputy minister in Ontario
June 11, 1914 - Born Norma Abernethy (1914-1973) pianist & teacher
June 28, 1914 - Born Elizabeth Le Geyt (1914-2017 ) renowned
Ottawa columnist & birder
June 29, 1914 - Born Thelma Finlayson (1914-2016)
professor emeritus in Biology at the University at Simon Fraser
University
July 6, 1914 - Born Viola Desmond (1914-1965) 1st Black woman
to challenge discrimination successfully in Canada
July 19, 1914 - Born Margaret Allemang (1914-2005) advocate of
Canadian nursing history
July 21, 1914 - Born Myrtle Raivio (1914-1982) Alberta's
first woman guide and outfitter
July 24, 1914 - Born Frances Kathleen Oldman Kelsey
(1914-2015) Doctor who saved the U.S.A from Thalidomide
August 12, 1914 - Born Ruth Lowe-Sandler (1914-1981) pianist
& songwriter I'll never smile again
October 8, 1914 - Born Mary Lile Benham (1914-1991) author & historian
November 23, 1914 - Born Verna Marie Huffman Splane
(1914-2015) acclaimed nurse
December 10, 1914 - Born
Anne ‘Tagish Anne’ Graham (1914-1976) Yukon businesswoman
December 16, 1914 - Born Hanna Spencer (1914-2014) president,
National Women's Council
December 24, 1914 - Born Loreen Rice Lucas (1914-2011) author
Deaths 1914:
1914 - Died
Isabel Mortimer-Green (1888-1914) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 1, 1914 - Died Grace Elizabeth Denison ( -1914)
journalist
known as "Lady Gay'
April 7, 1914 -
Died Edith Eaton (1867-1914) author
October 29, 1914 - Died
Emma Sophia Fiske (1832-1914) active
volunteer & social activist |
| 1915 |
January 28, 1915 -
The Manitoba legislature receives Royal Assent to a bill and
Manitoba women became the 1st in Canada to have the right
to vote in provincial elections
February 1915 - The 2nd group of Canadian nursing
sisters of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, leaves Halifax an
the S.S. Zealand for service in WW I Source: Canadian
Nurses in World War I. Trent University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit
online (accessed
July 22, 2005)
February 26, 1915 - Suffragist Nellie McClung
(1873 -
1951) presents the Alberta provincial legislature with a
petition demanding that women be given the
right to vote. The right was
granted in municipal elections two months later
1915 -
The married women of St John New Brunswick gain the right to vote in
municipal elections
Source:
Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd,
1981.
1915 -
The province of Ontario provides a Mothers Allowance to British
subjects but only if the husband is incapable of supporting the
family. A family must consist of at least 2 children under the age
of 14 still living with her
1915 - The Women's Institutes, founded in 1897 by Adelaide
Hoodless (1857-1910) in Ontario, becomes established in the United
Kingdom
April 1915 - Alberta white women vote in municipal elections for
the 1st time
1915 -
Both Saskatchewan and Alberta provincial governments pass
legislation which ensure that a husband could not sell or take
mortgages on the family property without consent of their spouse
1915 -
The British Columbia legislature passes a law granting white women in the
province the right to run for municipal election, 40 years after
women had been given the right to vote in municipal elections
1915 - Dr. Minerva Ellen Reid
(1872-1957) becomes the 1st Woman doctor
to become a Chief of Surgery in North America
1915 - The Edmonton Grads women's
basketball team is organized. With 502 wins and only 20
losses from 1915-1940 they are Canada' most successful women's
basketball team! Source: Women Warriors
Timeline online
1915 - Mme Annie Macdonald Langstaff studied
law at McGill University, the 1st woman receiving the 1st degree in
law. She is refused entry to the Quebec Bar. She fought the decision
but it came to the necessity of changing the Bar Act which was only
changed on April 29, 1941 Source: Elizabeth Monk BCL '23
by Kathryn Lèger, Montreal Gazette, October 28, 2011.
September 1915 - Margaret Gascoigne
( -1934) opens a school which
would become known as 'The Study' in Montreal with 6 students
December 23, 1915 - The Manitoba Political Equality League
presents two suffrage petitions to Premier Tobias Norris. The first
has 40,000 signatures and the second has 4, 250 signatures
1915 -
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) is receiving 500 letters a week in fan mail.
She earns $4000.00 a week and is reputed to be the highest paid woman in
the world Source:
100 Canadian
women : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forster Toronto, Dundurn
Press, 2004 pg. 206
1915 - The electric "icebox"
is introduced to improve food storage
Source: Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg
13.
1915 - The Corning Company in the
United States introduces Pyrex to the baking
world.
Source: Culinary Journey. submitted to
Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario
1915 - The 1st Boys' and Girls' Clubs
are formed by the Agriculture Rep in the District of Waterloo,
Ontario. In 1952 the name will be changed to 4-H Clubs.
Source: Archives of Ontario.
Births 1915:
1915 - Born Theodosia Mary Dawes Bond-Thornton (1915-2009)
photographer
1915? -
Born
Lucy Qinnuayuak (1915?- ) Inuit artist
1915 -
Born Margaret Millar (1915-1994) mystery writer
1915 - Born Helen Weinzweig (1915-2010) award winning author &
playwright
1915 - Born Mary Jane Wright (1915-2014) 1st woman in Canada to
chair a major psychology department at a university
January 7, 1915 - Born Helen Kathleen Mussallem (1915-2012)
decorated nurse
January 23, 1915 - Born Noel MacDonald Robertson basketball
player, member Canada Sports Hall of Fame
January 26, 1915 - Born Maureen Lormier Roberts (1915-2004)
founder of Canadian Medic Alert Foundation
February 14, 1915 - Born Eileen Valentine Duncan (1915-2008)
businesswoman
April 10, 1915 - Born Margaret Martha Brooks (1915-
)
only
nurse of World War ll named a member (Military Division) of the
Order of the British Empire
April 11, 1915 - Born Agnes Butcher (1915- )
pianist &
teacher.
April 28, 1915 - Born Robina Higgins-Haight (1915-1990) track &
field champions of the 1930's
May 5, 1915 - Born Betty Farrally (1915-1989) dancer &
co-founder of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet
May 16, 1915 -
Born Jean Frances (1916-2011) Canada’s Doll Lady
May 18, 1915 - Born Maria Marrelli (1915-2012) social activist
on behalf of Italian Canadians she was presented with the Italian
Order of Merit
June 3, 1915 - Born Susan Ross (1915-2006) artist, printmaker &
illustrator
June 19, 1915 - Born Elaine Russell (1915-2003) teacher, poet,
and painter in P E I
August 5, 1915 - Born Betty Oliphant (1918-2004) founder of the
National Ballet School of Canada
August 6, 1915 - Born Rina Lasnier, award winning author &
poet
August 15, 1915 - Born Maryvonne Kwendergi / Kendergian
(1915-2011) broadcaster, author, professor, musicologist, & pianist
September 1, 1915 - Born Barbara Smucker (1915-2003) noted
children's author
September 19, 1915 - Born Elizabeth Stern (1915-1980) pioneer medical
researcher credited with early detection of cervical cancer
November 13, 1915 - Born Vera M. Good (1915-2019) executive
producer of TVOntario, Polka Dot Door.
December 10, 1915 - Born Margaret Isobel Drynan (1915-1999)
teacher, composer, organist/choirmaster & writer
Deaths 1915:
May 17, 1915 - Died Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon (1851-1915) founder of
the Canadian Women's Historical Society & author
May 25, 1915 -
Died Louisa Anne Donald Thomson (1844-1915) social activist &
president of National Council of Women
June 27, 1915 - Died Helen
McNicoll (1879-1915) artist
August 4, 1915 - Died Florence Daly Thompson, (1865-1915)
accomplished artist, successful published science researcher, &
librarian
August 30, 1915 - Died
Mabel Phoebe Peters (1861-1914) suffragist & social activist in
education
September 7, 1915
- Died Mary Frances Elizabeth Munro (1866-1915) World War l
Nursing Sister
September 22, 1915 - Died Frances Ester (Hester) How,
(1848-1915) teacher
September 25, 1915 -
Died Jessie Brown Jaggard (1873-1915) World War 1 Nursing
Sister & Matron
November 3, 1915 - Died Lillian Frances Massey Treble
(1854-1915) volunteer & philanthropist
December 29, 1915 - Died Eleanor Jean Thompson (1888-1915)
Nursing Sister World War l |
| 1916 |
1916 - Alexander
Fraser creates the Silver Cross Medal for Mothers who have lost a
child in combat/action. The medal is presented with the name of the
fallen worrier engraved on the back
January 27, 1916 - Manitoba becomes the
1st province in Canada to grant women the right
to vote and to hold provincial office
1916 - The United States hosted an international
hockey tournament in Cleveland, Ohio featuring American and Canadian
women's Teams
1916 -
Canadian Women’s Press Club of Ottawa is Founded
Source Linda Kay, Sweet Sixteen :the journey that inspired the
Canadian Women’s Press Club (McGill-Queens Press, 2012)
March 14, 1916 - Saskatchewan women win the rights to vote and to hold
provincial office
April
14, 1916 -
The
newspaper The British Columbia Federationist
published an editorial asserting that the capitalist, being
desirable of cheap labour, would see that women got the voted to
keep men from getting back their jobs’ [sic when the men returned
from war]
Source: J. Patrick, Direct democracy in Canada. (Dundurn
Press)
April 19, 1916 -
Alberta women win the rights
to vote and to hold provincial office
June 1, 1916 - The Manitoba
Legislature passes the Temperance Act
June 13, 1916 - Emily Murphy (1868-1933) is
the 1st woman appointed magistrate (judge
of a lower court) in the British Empire.
Her 1st day in court was July 1,1916 in Edmonton, Alberta
July 1, 1916 - Newly appointed judge Emily Murphy
(1868-1933), the 1st woman appointed magistrate
in the British Empire, has her first day in court in Edmonton,
Alberta
1916 - Mary Hiester Reid (1834-1921) is the 1st woman to
serve on the executive of the Ontario Society of Artists
Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History
compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British Columbia,
Okanagan Creative Projects(accessed February
2006)
1916 - Chitase Uchida becomes the 1st
Nisei (Japanese) to graduate from a Canadian University. She was
unable to find employment as a teacher except to teach English in
the Nikkei community Source: Japanese Canadian Timeline
(Accessed June 2012)
1916 - The National Research Council is
established to promote scientific and industrial research
1916 -
The electric washing machine replaces hand operated machines to
improve laundry day Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg
13.
September 14, 1916 - The British
Columbia provincial election included a plebiscite on female
suffrage which saw a large majority of voters in favour of the
question
September 15, 1916 - Canadian Madge Watt
(1868-1948) founds 1st Women's
Institute in Great Britain at Llanfair-On-Anglesey. Wales
October 1916 - The CGIT
(Canadian Girls in Training.) publishes it's 1st program outline in a booklet called Canadian Girls in Training --
Suggestions for the Mid-Week Meetings of Sunday School Classes,
Clubs, etc., for Teen-age Girls and it sold for the sum of 5¢.
The booklet was extremely popular with church youth leaders
Source : (accessed January 4,
2005)
1916 - The 1st international women's ice hockey tournament is
held in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. between the Americans and Canadians
Births 1916:
1916 -
Born Ada Bronstein (1916- ) pianist, accompanist & teacher
1916 - Born Molly Chadsey (1916-2014) World War ll
photographic specialist
1916 -
Born Edith Hope Cromwell (1916-2009) Black activist & teacher in
Nova Scotia
1916 -
Born Judith Jasmin (1916-1972) pioneer & accomplished broadcast
journalist
1916
- Born
Clara Kwan-Lim (1916-2001) early graduate nurse of Chinese ancestry
in British Columbia
1916 -
Born
Ellen Neel (1916-1966) carver of totem poles
1916 - Born
Mary 'Minnie' Agnes White (1916-2002) Newfoundland folk musician,
First Lady of the Accordion
January 9, 1916 - Born Thelma Ruck Keene ( 1916-
) businesswoman & author
January 15, 1916- Born J. Margot Brown Chester (1916-2012)
journalist, editor, community volunteer & author
January 28, 1916 - Born Dorothy 'Dottie' Hunter (1916-2005) played with
the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
February 22, 1916 - Born Elizabeth 'Betty' Gardner
Taylor-Campbell (1922-1977) Olympic medial winner in track & field
February 23, 1916 - Born Molly Kool, First registered woman Sea
Captain in North America
March 5, 1916 - Born Phyllis Dewar(1916-1961), swimmer and member of the Canadian
Sports Hall of Fame
April 27, 1916 - Born Myfanwy Pavelic (1916-2007) portrait
artist
May 3, 1916 - Born
Margaret 'Marmie' Perkins Hess (1916-2016) specialist
in Inuit art and aboriginal crafts
May 4, 1916 - Born Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) social activist & foremost urban architect/planner.
June 4, 1916 - Born Shirley Burnham Elliott (1916-2004)
legislative librarian of Nova Scotia & author
June 7, 1916 - Born Barbara Alice West Jefferys Allen
(1916-2014) artist
July 6, 1916 - Born Unity Langford Bainbridge Brewster
(1916-2017) portrait & landscape painter & poet
July 18, 1916 - Born Margaret Wade Labarge (1916-2009)
historian & professor of medieval studies
August 1, 1916 - Born Anne Hébert (1916-2000) award
winning poet, playwright, & novelist
September 1, 1916 - Born Bertha Baumann (1916-2005) leading
nurse in St Boniface, Manitoba
November 8, 1916 - Born June Havoc (1916-2010) vaudeville
entertainer & award winning Broadway director
November 23, 1916 - Born P.K. Page (1916-2010) award winning
author & a artist.
December 5, 1916 - Born Frankie Tillman (1916-2003) social
activist with YWCA
December 9, 1916 - Born Effie Constance Astbury (!916-2008)
Librarian first Director Canadian Bibliographic Centre (National
Library of Canada and later Library and Archives Canada)
December 12, 1916 - Born
Jessie Annie Middleton
(1912-2019) nurse serving in World War ll
December 22, 1916 -
Born Anne Abrametz (1915-2015) social activist for Canada's
Ukrainian culture preservation
Deaths 1916:
February 16, 1916 - Died Charlotte Whitehead Ross
(1843-1916) first woman doctor in
Montreal and in Manitoba
May 15, 1916 - Died Lydia Elizabeth
'Eliza or Lyda' Hall (1864-1916) evangelist with sister, she was
known as a gifted preacher
May 16, 1915 -
Died Kathleen 'Kit' Blake Coleman (1856-1915) pioneer
journalist, 1st woman war correspondent
May 18, 1916 - Died-
Grace Annie Lockhart (1855-1916) 1st
woman to receive a university degree in Canada
June 11, 1916 -
Died Johanna 'Joan' Matheson (1842-1916) one of the 1st
nurses to serve in the Canadian military
July 4, 1916 - Died Elizabeth Secord
(1841-1916) 1st qualified registered physician in the Province of
New Brunswick 1883
November 16, 1916 -
Died Frances Elizabeth Herring (1851-1916) west coast
novelist
December 9, 1916 - Died Adruenna ‘Addie’ Allen Tupper (1870-1916)
World War l Nursing Sister |
| 1917 |
February 22, 1917 -
the
Local Council of Women Halifax present a suffrage petition endorsed
by forty-one women's organizations. When the Liberal Premier ignored
the issue, irate members introduced a private member bill. The
defeat of this bill marked the birth of the Nova Scotia Equal
Franchise League in the spring of 1917
Source: History, Local Council of Women
Halifax
www.lcwhalifax.org
(Accessed January 2016)
March 8, 1917- Russian women
again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and
peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the
women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar
was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women
the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the
Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian
calendar in use elsewhere. THIS DATE WOULD BECOME INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S DAY
1917 - The Canadian government passes
legislation introducing Income tax as a temporary wartime
measure
April 5, 1917-
British Columbia women win the
rights to vote and to hold provincial office (Statutes of British Columbia 1917
c. 23)
April 12, 1917 - Ontario
white women win the rights to vote and hold public office in the
province. (Statutes of Ontario 1917 c. 5)
Spring 1917 -
The Nova Scotia Equal Franchise League is formed with unification
of various women’s groups
May 1917 - The government of British
Columbia is the 1st province to pas Equal Guardianship of Infants
Act which gives mothers equal rights with fathers concerning care,
control, and custody of children
June 7, 1917 - Louise
McKinney (1868-1931) and Roberta MacAdams
(1880-1959) are
the 1st women in Canada elected to a provincial
legislature, in Alberta and the 1st elected to a legislature in the
British Commonwealth
1917 - Jean Ethel MacLachian
(1875-1963) is the
1st person to become a juvenile Court Judge in Saskatchewan and
the 1st woman in Canada to be appointed a justice
of the Peace
July 9, 1917 - Helen Gregory
MacGill (1864-1947) is appointed the
1st woman judge in British Columbia and Canada
Source: British Columbia
Federation of Labour.
http://bcfed.com/issues/women/history
August 1917 - The province of
Ontario has its 1st well baby clinic at the Canadian National
Exhibition. Nurses see 700 mothers and 150 infants in 12 days
September 20, 1917 - The Military Voters Act
extends federal enfranchisement, until the end of the war, to women
in the services and to those women who had close relatives in the
armed services of Canada or Great Britain. In British Columbia
a provincial Military Voters Act
gives
voting rights to British women who are war widows or had sons or
husbands serving overseas. At this time most people born in Canada
were British subjects but this provincial Act did not apply status
Indians nor members of specific minorities. These groups would be
separately enfranchised in later acts of the B.C. provincial
parliament
December 6, 1917 - Over 2000 people are killed and some
9000 injured when a munitions ship explodes in Halifax harbour
December 10, 1917 -
Hannah 'Annie'
Elizabeth Gale
(1876-1970) in 1917 she became one of the 1st woman
in the British Empire and the 1st in Canada to become an alderman
when she is elected in
Calgary, Alberta. Source
Merna Forster, Annie Gale (1876-1970) Heroines.ca (Accessed
May 2015) ; Annie Gale, Alberta Champions Online (Accessed
May 2015) Book: Judith Lishman, Alderman Mrs. Annie Gale
(Ottawa, 1985)
1917 -
35,000 women were employed in munitions factories in Ontario and
Montreal
1917 -
Under the Canadian federal Military Voters Act, nurses in the armed forces are given
the vote
1917 -
Alberta is the 1st province to adopt a minimum wage law
for women
1917 - Alberta passes the Dower Act providing that a
homestead in which a wife has a life interest cannot be disposed of
without her consent
1917
-
The British Columbia government passes legislation to ensure equal
guardianship of children for both husband & wife
1917 -
The British Columbia government enacts a law giving custody of
children if the woman has been deserted by her husband. This is a
direct result of the work of Judge
Helen Gregory MacGill
(1864-1947)
1917 - "Farmerette Camps"
accommodate some 900 women agricultural workers in the Niagara fruit
belt of Ontario
Births 1917:
1917 -
Born Phyllis Burgess (1917-1988) administrator and developer
of nursing strategies for treatment of cancer patients
1917 - Born Elizabeth Miriam Janzen Dreger (1917/1918 - 1979)
social activist
1917 - Born Althea Pearleen Borden Oliver (1917-2008) social
activist for maritime Black women
1917 - Born Beatrice 'Bea' Caroline Rowly (1917-2017) poet
1917 - Born Gladys Taylor (1917-2015) writer, journalist and
publisher
1917 -
Born Beatrice Wickett-Nesbitt (1917-2010) psychologist
who forged the way for others to follow in the profession
January 13, 1917 -
Born Flo Whyard (1917-2012) journalist , editor Whitehorse Star,
MLA and Mayor of Whitehorse, Yukon
January 17, 1917 - Born Isabel Frances Leith Macdonald
(1917-2013) drama teacher
January 21, 1917 - Born Harriet 'Hallie' Jennie Todd Sloan
(1917-2017) military nurse so advocated for the growth of military
nursing.
January 29, 1917 - Born
Marial M. Mosher (1917-2008) academic
February 28, 1917 - Born Philippa Mary Faulkner (1917-2001) artist
March 10, 1917 - Born
Edith Iglauer Hamburger Daly (1917-2019) author
April 1, 1917 - Born Eira 'Babs' Friesen (1917-2008) social
activist
April 4, 1917 - Born
Ayako 'Irene' Uchida (1917-2013) medical researcher who connected
radiation and Downs Syndrome in pregnancy
May 6, 1917 - Born Vicki Bisaro (1917-2017) community
volunteer
May 7, 1917 - Born Olive Bend Little (1917-1987) member of
the American Girls Professional Baseball League
June 5, 1917 - Born Helen Arlene Dahlstrom (1917-
) classical musician
July 9, 1917 - Born Beatrice 'Bea' Caroline Rowley (1917-
) poet who uses pen name R.H. Grenville
August 12, 1917 - Born Hélène Shingles (1917-2009) a dentist who
has received the Order of Canada for her humanitarian efforts
August 21, 1917 - Born Kay Helen McDaniel (1917-2015) played
with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
September 17, 1917 - Born Irma Elizabeth Hacking (1917-2014)
World War l nurse
October 2, 1917 - Born Alma Duncan (1917-2004) artist
October 14, 1917 - Born Isabella Dryden (1917- )
teacher of business & computer skills
November 3, 1917 - Born Marguerite Davis (1917-1995)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
November 19, 1917 - Born Mimi Mitchell Donald (1917-2012)
Canada's most outstanding teacher of the deaf in 20th century
November 27, 1917 - Born Betty Peterson (1917-2018) pacifist
& social activist
November 29, 1917 - Born Nicole Germain (1917-19940 actor on
radio & film in 1940's & 1950's
December 23, 1917 - Born Miriam Dworkin Waddington
(1917-2004) acclaimed poet
Deaths 1917:
January 21, 1917 - Died
Charlotte
Selina "Nina" Bompas (1830-1917) Anglican Church
missionary to the Canadian Northwest
January 21, 2017 - Died
Harriet 'Hallie' Jennie Todd Sloan
(1917-2017) military nurse so advocated for the growth of military
nursing.
February 18, 1917 - Died
Eliza Parks Hegan (1861-1917) one of 1st nurses
trained in New Brunswick
February 20, 1917 - Died
Rebecca 'Rivka' Fox Landsberg (1863-1917)
social activist for Canadian immigrant Jewish families
March 9, 1917 -
Died Agnes Sime Baxter Hill (1879-1917) noted mathematician
March 19, 1917 - Died Agnes Baxter ( 1870-1917) pioneer woman
mathematician
July 30, 1917 - Died Jessie Kerr Lawson, (1838 -1917)
journalist
October 16, 1917 -
Died Minnie Blanche Bishop (1864-1917) poet
October 17, 1917 - Died Florence
Sarah Hall (1864-1917) temperance worker, suffragist, & feminist
November 4, 1917 - Died Teresa Margaret McDonnell (1835-1917)
Sister Therese, pioneer pharmacist & country doctor |
| 1918 |
1918 - White Women
who were 21 and over and not 'Alien born' who met property
requirements of their province earn the right to vote in federal elections
(Statutes of Canada 1918 c. 20)
January 22, 1918 - Mary Ellen Smith
(1863-1933) enters politics after the death of her husband
Ralph Smith ( -1917) becoming the 1st woman in the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. In March 1921 she became
the 1st woman cabinet minister in the British Empire. .
Sources: Vancouver Hall of Fame Online (Accessed November 2012). :
The Canadian Encyclopedia online (Accessed November 2012) ,
Herstory: A Canadian Women's Calendar 2006, Coteau Books, 2005.
January 31, 1918
- The Nova Scotia Equal Franchise League holds its AGM but the
meeting is disolved eary to serve victims of the the December 1917
Halifax Explosion
1918 - 3,141 Nursing
Sisters served in the ranks of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
during World War 1
Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Women in the
Military.
February
28-march 2
1918 -
A Women’s
War Conference was held in Ottawa. Nellie McClung
(1873-1951)
was one of
the attendees. The conference discussed among other things the
continued role of women in the war effort
April 26, 1918 -
With the support of
Premier George Henry Murray (1861-1929), the Assembly of Nova Scotia passes The
Nova Scotia Franchise Act, which gives women the right to vote in
Nova Scotia's provincial elections, the 1st province to do so in
Atlantic Canada. A separate act on that same day gives women the
right to be elected to the provincial legislature
(Statutes
of Nova Scotia 1918 c.2)
May
9, 1918 - Frances Lilian Fish (1888-1975)
is
the 1st Graduate of the 1st women in Law from
Dalhousie University & September 10, 1918 she is the 1st
women called to the Bar in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
May 19, 1918 - Katherine Maude MacDonald
(1893-1918)
is the 1st Canadian nursing sister to die in action. She served
in Brittany France when the area was bombed by German aircraft
May 24, 1918 - The Women’s Franchise Act is passed
permitting all women citizens to vote in federal elections
June 27, 1918 -
The Canadian Hospital Ship Llandovery
Castle, despite being clearly marked as a hospital ship, is
unexpectedly torpedoed by the enemy U-86 (submarine) and sinks.
Among those who perished with the crew were 14 Canadian Nursing
Sisters. Source: Canadian Nurses in World War
I. Trent University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit
(accessed
July 22, 2005)
1918 - a Minimum Wage Act is passed.
Manitoba & British Columbia the 1st provinces in Canada to
introduce
minimum wage
legislation. In 1921, the minimum hourly wage in Manitoba
was $0.25. Up until 1931, the minimum wage only applied to female
workers
August 1918 -
The Canadian National Exhibition hosts its 1st Woman's Day complete
with a parade
1918 -
The Manitoba government passes the Dower Act which allows a wife a
share in the family property
1918 -
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec accepts women medical students
for 1st tim. Source: The Indomitable
Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker, Clarke Irwin, 1974.
1918 - Ontario, Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and British Columbia pass laws making it illegal to
hire White women in Chinese-owned restaurants and laundries
Source: Canadian Chinese
National Council. Moments of Chinese Canadian History. (accessed July 7,
2003)
1918 - the federal minister
of health banns all amateur sports in Canada due to the outbreak of
the flu epidemic from October to late November
1918 -
Roberta Catherine MacAdams
(1880-1959) the second woman elected to the
Alberta legislature in 1917, became in 1918 1st woman in British
Empire to introduce legislation in a parliament
when she brought forward
a bill to incorporate the War Veterans Next of Kin Association Bill.
Source: Our Future, Our Heritage. The Alberta Heritage
Digitization Project. Online (Accessed May 2014) ; Roberta
MacAdams and the New Woman. Alberta’s Women’s Institute. Online
(Accessed May 2014).
1918 -
Mary Ellen Smith
(1861 or 63-1933) becomes British Columbia's 1st woman Member of the
Legislative Assembly
Source: British
Columbia Federation of Labour.
1918 -
Sarah Ramsland (1882-1964) is
the 1st woman elected to the Saskatchewan
legislature
1918 - Mary Mcnulty
(1895-1972) is called to the Bar in Ontario
and becomes the 1st woman to practice law in the city of Ottawa,
Ontario
Source: Diversifying the bar; Law Society of Upper Canada
online accessed January 2013.:: Heritage Mississauga (accessed March
2003)
1918 -
The Women's College Hospital, Toronto has its 1st graduation class
in nursing with 2 graduate.
Source: A history of Women's College
(Accessed February 2006)
1918 -
The Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada
is formed
1918 -
Volunteer women patrols under the auspices
of the YWCA are authorized as an experiment in Toronto, Ontario.
After a short trial they are discontinued
Source: Herstory: Milestones in
the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online Accessed
June 2011.
August 16, 1918 - Almanda
Walker-Marchand (1868-1949) officially
founded the Federation des femmes-française.
The
organization worked to expand participation of French Canadian women
in education, economics, culture and policies becoming national in
scope.
Source: ‘Almanda Marchand (1868-1949)’, Ottawa Raconte-moi
Online (Accessed July 2015)
September 10, 1918 - Frances
Lillian Fish (1888-1975)
is
the 1st woman to graduate Dalhousie University with a Law
Degree. And she was the 1st woman called to the Bar in Nova
Scotia
1918 -
Annette Saint-Amant Frémont
(1892-1928) is the 1st francophone
woman journalist in Saskatchewan
Sources: Herstory, the Canadian Women’s Calendar 2006 Coteau
Books, 2005; Dictionary of Canadian Biography online Accessed April
2013.
1918 - The Canadian Canned
Fruit and Vegetable Act introduces grading scales to commercial food
canning processes
Source: Culinary Journey. submitted to Famous Canadian
Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario
1918 - The
Montreal chapter of the National Jewish Women’s Council is founded
1918 -
World
War l ends with the signing of an armistice at 11 a.m. November 11.
Bernice Furness (1884-1977)
is the only woman journalist accredited to cover the 1919
Peace Treaty Negotiations
Births 1918:
1918 -
Born M. Jean Anderson (1918-2013) nursing director
1918 -
Born Alice Boissonneau (1918-2007) author
1918 -
Born Fern Blodgett (1918-1991) June 13, 1941 became the 1st
Canadian woman to serve in the Merchant Marines
1918 -
Born Jean E. Coolican (1918-2012) volunteer & co-founder of Save the
Children Canada
1918 - Born Sheila Agnes Egoff
(1918-2005) librarian, award winning expert in Children's literature
1918 - Born Joan Bamford Fletcher (1918-1979) lead 2,000 Dutch
civilians to safety in Sumatran jungle
1918 - Born Bernice 'Bunny' Jordan-Whimes (1918-2002) Black jazz
singer in Montreal
1918 - Born Pearl Keenan (1918?- ) Elder of the
Canadian North West
1918 - Born Fern Sunde (1918-1991) 1942 received Norwegian
War medal for war effort, 1st woman to receive this award
January 1, 1918 - Born Frances Bay (1918-2011) actor with star
on Canada's Walk of Fame
January 25, 1918 -
Born Annett ‘Nete’ Vardy (1918- ) Salvation Army Nurse
February 3, 1918 - Born
Isobel Moira Dunbar (1918-1999) ice researcher, 1st woman on Canadian
government icebreakers
March 18, 1918 - Born Ruby Martz (1918-1995) played
with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
April 13, 1918 - Born Thelma Jo Walmsley (1918-1997) played
for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
April 20, 1918 -
Born Mildred Amanda Gottfriedson (1918-1989) 1st First Nations to receive Order of Canada
April 23, 1918 - Born Margaret Avison (1918-2007)
award winning poet. librarian & social worker
April 24, 1918 -
Born Elizabeth Man Borgese (1918-02002) author & expert on
ocean environment
April 30, 1918 -
Born Mary Elizabeth Macdonald (1918-2006) civil servant, Order of
Canada 1980
May 4, 1918 -
Born Lyn Cook (1918 - ) 1st author to have books
for youth published after WW ll
May 11, 1918 -
Born Sheila Branford, (1918- 1984) author of one of the best animal tale,
Incredible Journey
May 28, 1918 -
Died Margaret Lowe (1886-1918) Nursing Sister World War l
May 31, 1918 - Born Margaret Agnes Todd (1918-1919)
champion golfer
June 23, 1918 - Born Norah Urquhart (1918-2009) helped discover
the secret of the Monarch Butterfly
June 25, 1918 - Born Marion Orr (1918-1995) pioneer
aviator and 1st woman to own & operate a flying school in Canada
July 14, 1918 -
Born Grace Hartman (1918-1993) social activist & union member
July 15, 1918 - Born
Brenda Milner (1918-
) internationally acclaimed neurologist
August 13, 1918 - Born Mildred Jeannette Dolson-Cavill
(1918-2004) Olympic medal winning track and field athlete
August 8, 1918 - Born Irma Sophia Council (1918-
) portrait artist & editor
September 2, 1918 -
Born Claire Culhane (1918-1996) a social activist & protestor of war
September 21, 1918 - Born Kathleen 'Kay' Rex (1918-2006)
journalist, historian, & author
September 28,1918 - Born
Frances Morrison (1918-2011)
librarian in Saskatchewan
October 4, 1918 - Born Ella Jean Canfield (1918-2000) 1st woman elected to the
Legislative Assembly, Prince Edward Island
October 16, 1918 -
Born Marianne Bossen (1916-2008) civil servant on the Royal
Commission on the Status of Women
November 11, 1918 -
Born Madelaine Parent (1918-2013) social activist & labour leader
November 12, 1918 - Born Susan Budlovsky (1918-2011) heroine of
Nazi death camps World War ll
November 28, 1918 - Born Fajel 'Faye' Lazebnik Schulman (1918-
) member of polish resistance, photographer during World War ll
December 23, 1918 - Born Dr. Ricky Kanee Schachter (1918-
) leader in her field of dermatology
December 25, 1918 -
Born Mary Noel Balke (1918-2011) journalist, broadcaster, & librarian at Ottawa Public Library
Deaths 1918:
1918 -
Died
Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier
Lamoureaux (1836-1918) pioneer of Northwest Territories & National
Historic Person
1918 - Died
Polly Verner (1837-1918) citizen of Toronto
February 1,
1918 - Died Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) pioneer portrait
photographer
May 19, 1918 - Died Katherine Maud 'Christy' Macdonald
(1893-1918) first Nursing Sister in WW 1 to die in action
May 21, 1918 - Died Gladys Maude Mary "Bob/Bobbie' Wake
(1883-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
May 29, 1918 -
Died Eden Lyal Pringle (1893-1918) youngest Nursing Sister to
die in World War l
May 30, 1918 -
Died Dorothy Yarwood Baldwin (1891-1918) World War l Nursing
Sister killed in action
May 30, 1918 -
Died Agnes MacPherson (1891-1918) World War l Nursing Sister
killed in action
June 27, 1918 - Died Christina Campbell (1877-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Carola Josephine Douglas (1887-1918) World War
l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Alexina Dussault (1882-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Minnie Follette (1884-1918) World War l Nursing
Sister
June 27, 1918 -
Died Margaret Jane ‘Daisy Fortescue (1878-1918) World War l Nursing
SisterJune 27, 1918 - Died Margaret Jane Fortescue (1878-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Margaret Marjory 'Pearl' Fraser (1885-1918)
World War l Nursing Matron
June 27, 1918 - Died Minnie Katharine Gallaher (1880?-1918) World
War l Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Jessie McDiarmid (1880-1918) World War i
Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Mary Agnes McKenzie (1880-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Mae Belle Sampson (1890--1918) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Gladys Irene Sare (1889-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Anna Irene Stamers (1988-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Jean Templeman (1885-1918) World War l Nursing
Sister
June 27, 1918 - Died Rena Maude McLean, (1879-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister
July 12, 1918 -
Died Ada Janet Ross (1867-1918) Nursing Sister
August 26, 1918 - Died Robina 'Ruby' Lizars-Smith (1850-1918) author of historical works
September 14, 1918 - Died Clemetina Fessenden (1843-1918) founder
of the Independent Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.)
October 10, 1918 -
Died Henrietta 'Hetty' Mellett (1883-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister killed in action
October 23, 1918 - Died
Lulu Mae Johnson Eads
(1877?-1918) businesswoman, dance hall performer & hotel
proprietor.
November 4, 1918 -
Died Evelyn Vera McKay (1892-1018) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 26, 1918 - Died
Katherine Bawlf
(1855-1918) social activist
November 29, 1918 -
Died Ainslie St. Clair Dagg (1892-1918) World War l Nursing
Sister
December 12, 1918 -
Died
Lenna Mae Jenner
(!889-1918) nurse serving during World War l
December 31, 1918 - Died
Aileen Powers -Peel (1894-1918) nurse in World War l |
| 1919 |
April 17, 1919 -
The New
Brunswick government pass a law granting the women of New
Brunswick the right to vote but have to wait until 1934 before
having the right to hold political office
Statutes
of New Brunswick 1919 c.63
May 19, 1919 - June 26 1919 -
The
Winnipeg General Strike.
May 20, 1919 - Women of the Yukon Territories gain
the right to vote and to stand for elections
1919 - The Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario is
formed and the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada is formed
June 12, 1919 -
Ladies Day at Victoria Park during the Winnipeg strike. Women
strikers occupied seats of honour near the front of the platform
Source: J.M. Bumstead, "The Role of Women" part of
"1919 the Winnipeg General Strike Reconsidered" in The Beaver
June-July 1994.
1919 -
The
provinces of Quebec and Saskatchewan pass a minimum wage law for
women
1919 -
Saskatchewan & Alberta provincial legislatures pass laws to allow
a wife 1/3 of the estate if the husband had died and there are no
children. The wife received the entire estate if there are no children
June 14, 1919 - The 1st successful
transatlantic flight leaves St. John's Newfoundland
1919 - The Federated Women's Institutes of Canada is
founded
July 1919
-
The federal government presents a further bill granting women the
right to hold federal office, which was overlooked in the
franchise bill of May 24, 1918
1919 - The Canadian Federation of University Women,
is founded. A voluntary, non-profit, self-funded
bilingual organization the CFUW/FCFDU members are active in public
affairs, working to raise the social, economic and legal status of
women, as well as to improve education, the environment, peace,
justice and human rights.
1919 -
The Alberta legislature passes the Mother’s Allowance Act
Source:
Diana
Chown, "An Early Edmonton Club Woman At Work: Lauretta Hughes Kneil,"
Alberta History (2006) 54#2 pp 2-6
1919 –
The Alberta District Nursing Service is founded by the United Farm
Women (UFWA). After provincial legislation assured medical care this
association became obsolete in 1976
1919 -
The Vancouver City Hospital Training School for
Nurses, which admitted it's first class of students in 1899, t
becomes part of the university of the University of British
Columbia, the first such university nursing school in the British
Commonwealth
1919 - Sarah Persis Johnson Darrach
(1886-1974) a World War l nursing sister, is awarded First Class Royal Red Cross by the Prince of Wales
Source: Memorable Manitobans Online (Accessed February 2014)
1919 - Eliza
Ritchie
(1856-1935.) is appointed to the
Dalhousie University board of governors, a 1st for Canadian women
1919 - Violet Irene Guymer
(1885-1995)
earns her diploma as a Funeral Director and
Embalmer
in Manitoba. She is the 1st woman in Canada to graduate in
this course
Source: Quite and undertaking: the story of Violet Guymer,
Canada's firs female licensed funeral director by Elizabeth Lycar
and Lorrie Guymer Hutton, (Kelowna, B.C. : Nip and Tuck Publishing,
1966)
1919 - Alex Gibb (1891-1958)
helps to found Ladies Ontario Basketball Association, she would
serve as President in 1925
Sources: “Queen of the Ice Lanes: the Preston Rivulettes and Women’s
Hockey in Canada 1931-1940” by Carly Adams in Sport History
Review no. 39 pages 1-29 2008; 100 more Canadian Heroines
by Merna Forster Dundurn Press, 2011.
1919 - Zonta International is founded.
“Advancing the status of women worldwide.” Zonta
International, global service organization of executives in business
and the professions, work together, across political and social
boundaries, to advance the status of women worldwide. Zonta members
volunteer their time, talents and money to local and international
service programs as well as scholarship and award programs aimed at
furthering women's education, leadership and youth development
1919 - The Young men’s/Young Women’s Hebrew Association
(now Jewish Community Centres) is founded in Toronto
1919 - Anne of Green Gables is made into a silent film.
Unfortunately the film has been lost but movie stills have survived.
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
did not think the actress who played the part of Anne did not
portrait the character as she had written her
Births 1919:
1919 -
Born Jean Bessie Lumb (1919-2002) 1st Chinese Canadian inducted into
Order of Canada
1919 -
Born Olga Chumak ( 1919-2003) 1st woman
lawyer of Ukrainian heritage in the province of Ontario
1919 -
Born Gladys "Gladdy" Balsillie (1919-1987) businesswoman who was a
burlesque agent
1919 -
Born Jean Bessie Lumb (1919-2002) social activist for the Canadian
Chinese community & Order of Canada
1919 -
Born Mary "Bonnie" Baker (1919?- 2003) member of the All American
Girls Baseball League
1919 -
Born Nancy Lima Dent ( 1919 - ) created a body of over
30 dance works, many are commentary on social issues
1919 - Born Clara 'Dolly' Scott (1919-1991) sideshow
personality
January 1, 1919 - Born Blanche Wisenthal (1919 ---) social
Activist & National President of Hadassah W.I.Z.O.
January 10, 1919 - Born Cassie Eileen Brown (1919-1986)
journalist & author
January 25, 1919 - Born Margaret Elizabeth Cooper (1919-2016)
decoder during World War ll
February 2, 1919 - Born
Dorothy May Copithorn (1919-2013) musician, piano & organ
April 3, 1919 - Born Clairette Oddera (1919-2008) actor,
singer from Quebec
April 6, 1919 - Born Paule Clouthier-Daveluy (1919-
) author of French language books for young readers
April 27, 1919 - Born Ruth Wilson (1919-2001) medal winning
basketball player
May 14 , 1919 - Born Solange Chaput-Rolland (1919-2001)
author, editor, broadcaster & politician
May 22, 1919 - Born Clara McCandless Thomas (1919-
) author & professor
May 24, 1919 - Born F. Marguerite "Peggy" Hill (1919-2012)
medical doctor
May 27, 1919 - Born Francess Georgina Halpenny (1919-2017)
editor & educator
June 13, 1919 - Born Helen Sandiford (1919-1993)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
June 30, 1919 - Born Dora Wasserman (1919-2003) award winning
founder of the Yiddish Theatre of Montreal
July 18, 1919 -
Born Raymonde 'Ray' Bowen (1919-2016) social activist for peace and
women's rights
August 16, 1919 - Born Penny Martineuk Cooke
(1919-2010) played with All American Girls Professional Baseball
League
August 22, 1919 - Born
May 'Billie' Alexandra Hallam (1919-2015) Miss Toronto 1937
August 28, 1919 - Born Hélène Baillargeon-Coté (1919-1997)
entertained children on TV in bilingually well before her time
September 1, 1919 - Born Gladys Davis (1919- )
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
September 3, 1939 - Born Jeannine Guindon (1919-2002) professor
of psychology
September 4, 1919 - Born Bluma Levett Appel (1919-2007) noted
philanthropist
September 11, 1919 - Born Daphne Odjig, (1919-2016) prolific
Aboriginal artist
September 19, 1919 - Born Catherine Mary
Wisnicki.(1919-2014) 1st Canadian woman university graduate in
architecture
November 4, 1919 - Born Simonne Monet-Chartrand (1919-1993)
feminist, unionist & pacifist
November 29, 1919 - Born Ruth Marion Bell (1919-2015) social
activist working for women's right
December 19, 1919 - Born Catherine Mallory Knowles
(1919-2014) librarian
Deaths 1919:
1919 - Died Annie Mackenzie Cleland (1859-1919) indomitable early
Canadian woman doctor
1919 -
Died
Alice Helena Berry
(1868-1919) pioneer businesswoman of Prince Edward Island
1919 - Died Rose de Lima
Lefebre (1862-1919) Sister Vincent pioneer of Canadian Northwest
1919
- Died Joanna E. Wood (d. 1919) author
May 20 1919 - Died
Marion Elizabeth Crerar (1859-1919) social
activist, volunteer, & philanthropist
July 31, 1919 - Died Louise Bennett-Coverley (1919-2006) Miss
Lou, early Black radio and TV personality & journalist who was a
member of the Order of the British Empire
August 8, 1919 - Died
Julia Jane Murray Clark (1857-1919) pioneering social activist for
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