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Events
listed relate to Canadian women with a few extra items added
to give the timeline perspective.
This timeline is not all inclusive.
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EVENTS |
1920
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January 10, 1920 -
Canada joins the
League of Nations
January 12, 1920 -
Constance
E. Hamilton (1862-1945) in
inaugurated as councilor for the City of Toronto. Although she is
the 1st woman elected to such a position. Sadly there are no photographers
to capture the historical event
Source: City of Toronto online
(Accessed 2010) ; “Toronto Pioneer mostly
forgotten” by Mark Mahoney, Toronto Star, March 10, 2007.
1920 - The Canadian Food
and Drug Act protects Canadians against heal hazards and fraud from
sale of food, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices
1920 -
The
province of Ontario passes legislation that seats must be provided
for women in factories so they could sit down during their rest
periods
1920 -
The province of Ontario creates the Division of Maternal & Child
Hygiene and Public Health Nursing
1920 -
The province of Alberta provides legislation granting custody of
children if the woman has been deserted by her husband
1920 - The Nursing Sisters' Association of Canada is
formed in Edmonton, Alberta to help keep World War l Nursing Sisters
in contact with each other.
1920 - Esther
Marjorie Hill (1895-1985) becomes the
1st woman architect in Canada when she graduates from the University of
Toronto
June 29, 1920 - Edith MacTavish Rogers
(1876-1947) becomes the 1st woman elected to the Manitoba
Provincial Legislature
June 1920 -
It is announced that Nellie McClung
(1873-1951)
would be the only Canadian woman appointed to attend the Fifth
Ecumenical Methodist Conference to be held in Britain in 1921
1920 - The Women's Inter-Church Council of Canada holds
the first national interdenominational prayer service in Canada
...the offerings are used to support ecumenical projects that meet
human need in Canada and in developing countries. This was the roots
of the World Day of Prayer Source: Voices of United
Church Women 1962-2002 edited by Elizabeth Gillan Muir
(Toronto: United Church of Canada, 2002)
June 1920 - The Catholic
Women's League is formed in Montreal Source Jean Bannerman
Leading Ladies Canada. Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977 pg
39
July 1, 1920 -
The Dominion Elections Act declares uniform franchise
established and the right for women to be elected to parliament is
made permanent except for minorities and Aboriginal persons
(Statues of Canada C 46 S 38.)
1920 - Genevieve Lipsett-Skinner
(1886-1935) becomes the 1st woman to be a
member of the Canadian Press Gallery in Ottawa
Source: Memorable Manitobans. Online. (Accessed June 2014) ;
“Associates Mourn Noted Journalist.” Montreal Gazette
February 21, 1935 ; Obituary. Winnipeg Tribune January 30,
1935.
1920 - Mary Elizabeth Buckley Laughton
becomes the 1st Canadian woman Lawyer to have a journal article
published. The article Women in Law appeared in Maclean's
Magazine
1920 - Enid Finley Gordon (leads
the way for the University of Toronto to open a two year diploma course in
Physiotherapy Source:
“Love amid the ruins” by Suzanne Evans. Canada’s History
February/March 2013.
1920 - Lady Meredith
donates the winner's cup for the Quebec Ladies Hockey Association.
It is the 1st women's ice hockey trophy for women's ice hockey
competition in Canada
1920 -
Female teachers in the city of Toronto earned $1000.00 - $2000.00
per year while male teachers earned $1625.00 to $2500.00 per year
Source:
Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
1920 - Eaton's Department
Stores open a regional mail order headquarters in Moncton, New
Brunswick. Eaton's mail order business peaks at 60 million dollars!
Source: Before e-commerce: a history of mail order
catalogues
(accessed
December 2004.)
Births 1920:
1920 -
Born Mae Ames (1920- )
stage actor who has kept active with a seniors traveling troop
1920 - Born
Donalda Charron (1886-1967) pioneer union leader & activist
1920 - Born Mary Greyeyes-Reid (1920-2011) the 1st aboriginal
woman in the Canadian Army Corps
1920 -
Born Pearl Keenan (1920-2020) preserved and taught of Tlingit
language
1920 -
Born Josephina Kelleo (1920-1993) artist in Labrador
1920 -
Born Maria 'Mary' Lerullo (1920-2005 ) 1st Italian Canadian woman
real estate broker & tireless worker for new immigrants
1920 -
Born
Mariette 'Mia' Matthes (1920-2010) rural & landscape photographer
1920 -
Born Gabrielle 'Gaby' Pleau (1920- 1st Francophone women to join
Canada's downhill ski team
1920 -
Born Mary L. Richmond (1920-2002) teacher of nursing & nursing
history advocate
1920?- Born Dorothy 'Dodi' Elizabeth Robb (1920?-2012) pioneer
worker in Canadian television
1920 - Born
Mabel Margaret Van Camp(1920-2012) first woman appointed to the
bench of the Supreme Court of Ontario.
January 7, 1920 -
Born Dorothy Maclean (1920-2020) author of spiritual works
January 7, 1920 -
Born Margaret 'Peggy' Anne Wilson Thompson (1920-2014) leading
researcher in the field of muscular dystrophy
January 13, 1920 - Died Lillian Marietta Minnie Phelps
(1859-1920) temperance reformer
February 14, 1920 - Born Dorothy Caley (1920-2012) champion
figure skater
February 21, 1920 - Born Agnes Holmes (1920-2013)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
March 2, 1920 - Born Evelyn Beatrice 'Lynn' Tyrrell
(1920-2013), fashion designer
March 6, 1920 - Born Olive Patricia Dickason (1920-2011) C.M. PhD. D.
Litt. one of Canada' foremost historians of Aboriginal & Métis
Peoples
March 20, 1920 - Born Victoria 'Vickie' Pano/ Panos (1920-1986 )
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
May 6, 1920 - Born Ethel Viola Bieber (1920-1988) national &
provincial swimming champion of the 1930's.
May 7. 1920 - Born
Laddie Dennis (1920-2009) the 1st Canadian
woman to appear on Canadian television.
May 8, 1920 - Born Barbara Howard (1920-2017) track runner,1st Black Canadian to compete internationally
May 9, 1920 - Born Helen Nicol Fox (1920-
) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
May 23, 1920 - Born Pauline Julien (1920-1998) singer &
actress from Quebec
June 2, 1920 - Born Faye Burnham Eccleston (1920-
) champion basketball player
June 17, 1920 - Born Dr. Betty Feniak (1920-2013) home economics
professor University of Manitoba
July 6, 1920 - Born Lynda Adams-Hunt (1920-1997) British
Empire Games medal winning diver
July 6, 1920 - Born Ruth Hammond (1920-2015) pioneer in
public relations
July 9, 1920 - Born Borgny Pearson (1920-2014) journalist &
federal government communications officer
July 26, 1920 - Born Dorothy Davies (1920-2002) actor,
director, & writer
August 3, 1920 - Born Janina 'Jabka' Stykolt Seydegart
(1920-2008) social activist, founding member of the Feminist Party
of Canada.
August 19, 1920 - Born Agnes Benidickson (1920-2007) social
activist & dedicated volunteer, Order of Canada.
September 4, 1920 - Born Catherine Bennett (1920-???) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
September 6, 1920 - Born Wilma Helen Hunley (1920-2012)
politician & 1st woman Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
September 16, 1920 - Born Jean Casselman-Wadds (1920-2011)
1st woman Canadian
delegate to the United Nations
October 7, 1920 - Born Daisy Juror (1920-2012) baseball
player for the All American Girls Baseball League.
October 13, 1920 - Born Joan Honor Austen-Leigh (1920-2001)
author of novels, non-fiction, & plays
October 12, 1920 - Born Ada Davies Calles (1920-???)
champion of the sport of curling.
October 14, 1920 - Born
Martha Ruth Cohen (1920-2015) social activist & philanthropist.
October 17, 1920 - Born Anne Marguerite Squire (1920-2017)
Moderator of the United Church of Canada
October 20, 1920 - Virnetta 'V' Anderson (1920-2006) first
elected Black counsellor in Calgary
November 7, 1920 - Born Georgina 'Ina' Rutherford Hansen (1920-
) Canadian curling champion
November 8, 1920 - Born Felicitas Svejda (1920-2016)
geneticist
Deaths 1920:
February 29, 1920 - Died Amelia Mildred Ross (1856?-1920)
painter & sculptor
March 1, 1920 -
Died Mary Leslie (1842-1920) revered poet
May 12, 1920
- Died Margaret Heggie Smith (1872-1920) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
August 9, 1920 -
Died Elizabeth Carey Murray (1835-1920) social activist in
Halifax
August 5, 1920 -
Died
Ruth McKay (1891-1920)
world War l Nursing Sister
September 5, 1920 -
Died Susan Agnes Bernard Macdonald (1836-1920), Baroness
Macdonald of Earnscliffe, second 2nd wife of Sir John A. Macdonald
December 20, 1920 - Died Marie de
Kerstrat (1841-1920) exhibitor of early silent movies
December 29, 1920 - Died Marie-Eleonore Malvina Gagne
(1837-1920) Mother Saint Raphael of Ursuline order |
| 1921 |
1921 -
17.7% of women, 14 years and older, are employed in the labour force
mainly as office workers Source: Canadian Women's
150: 150 Years of Canadian Women's Accomplishments . Online
(Accessed June 2020)
1921 -
The average life expectancy for women in Canada is 69.2 years
1821 -
The average age of marriage for women is 25.5 years
1921 –
Female public servants, who where usually only hired as temporary
employees, are required to resign their positions upon their
marriage
Source: Margaret Weiers, Envoys Extraordinary: Women of the
Canadian Foreign Service (Toronto: Dundurn, 1995)
February 1, 1921 - Jenny Dill (
- 1941) leaves Halifax to star out on a cross Canada walk with
her husband. They finished their walk in Vancouver June 14, 1921
Source: The Great Hike Suite101.online(accessed May 2005)
March 24,
1921 - Mary
Ellen Smith (1863-1933) is
appointed to the provincial legislative Cabinet in British Columbia.
She was the 1st woman Cabinet minister in the
British Empire Source:
British Columbia Federation of Labour.
March 26, 1921 -
The Bluenose is launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
April 2,
1921 -
The province of British Columbia passes an act granting six weeks
maternity leave and ensures that a woman who leaves work to have a
baby could return to her job without loss of seniority. Prior to
this law women were simply replaced when they left to have a baby
and were on their own to find a new job afterwards
1921 -
British Columbia passes the 1st maternity leave
legislation granting women 6 weeks
leave
December 6, 1921 - Agnes Campbell Macphail. (1890-1954.) She was the only woman elected to the
Canadian parliament in 1921 when women 1st had the right to vote
for parliament. She is the 1st woman to sit in the Canadian Parliament. Other women
who ran for parliament but who were unsuccessful were: Harriet
Dunlop Prenter (1866-????)
1921 - The minimum hourly wage in
Manitoba was $0.25. Up until 1931, the minimum wage only applied to
female workers
1921 - The 1st ladies 5 pin bowling league is stated in Toronto by Marion
Dibble Source: 5-pin Bowline History online (accessed May 2005.
)
1921 - the University of Toronto Women's ice hockey team
defeats McGill University women in the 1st intercollegiate women's
hockey tournament with the University of Toronto ladies winning 11
titles through to 1933 and Queen's University ladies winning two
games
1921 -
The Canadian government publishes and
distributes the Canadian Mother's Book
Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : Women of the Great
Whit North
by Anne Douglas Toronto, McArthur
& co, 2002.
1921 - The Toronto Ladies Athletic Club, the 1st all-women's
multi-sports club in Canada is established by Alexandrine Gibb
(1891-1958)
Source: Status of Women Canada.
Adult fact Sheet Women and sports in Canada: an historical overview.
(Ottawa, 2002)
1921 -The Ezras Noshem (women’s help) Society of
Toronto purchase a building to house the new Mount Sinai Hospital
1921 - Women are 16% of the total number of undergraduate students
enrolled in Canadian universities. Women professors are 15% of the
total number of professors. Source:
Canadian Chronology online (accessed April 28,
2003)
1921 -
Quaker Oats Company introduces quick-cooking oatmeal. It is one of
the 1st convenience foods Source: Culinary Journey.
1921 - A Retired cookware executive from
New York invents a tea kettle that whistles when the water comes to
a boil
(Sorry, not Canadian, but too cute to resist!)
Source: Culinary Journey.
Births 1921:
1921 -
Born Elsie Bear (1921-2002) social activist
1921 -
Born Margaret Bolender (1921-????) teacher & volunteer in
Kitchener-Waterloo area of Ontario
1921 -
Born Francoise Desrochers-Drolet (1921-1998) artist who worked in
ceramics
1921 -
Born Phyllis Anne DuMoulin (1921-2010) pioneer of
social planning programmes & process in Canadian west
1921 -
Born Rosaleen Diana Leslie Dickson (1921-2018) journalist,
publisher, author, & web mistress
1921 - Born Jean Edmonds (1921- ) 1st female
executive in the federal government in 1966
1921
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Born Mae Harman (1921?- 2005) social activist for seniors
1921 - Born Christine Hamilton (1921-1987) social activist in
Hamilton, Ontario
1921 - Born Marie Daria Haust (1921- ) 1st woman
doctor on the Medical Faculty at Queen's University
1921 -
Born Joyce Margaret McCulloch Booker (1921-1991) played piano in the
Brookers Bombshells, a leading dance band in Manitoba
1921 -
Born Geraldine 'Geri' Migicovsky (1921-2014) actor & social
activist who brought '911' service to Ottawa
1921 -
Born Kay Martin Snelgrove (1921-2005) heroine spy & code runner
during World War ll
1921 - Born Jean Spears (1921-2017) war bride & founder of the
England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland & Canada Club for
War Brides
1921 -
Born the commercial figure: Betty Crocker
January 3, 1921 -
Born
Lucella Catherine Ross (1921-2012) played
with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
January 22, 1922 - Born Kathleen 'Kay' Jean
MacRitchie-MacBeth (1922-2018) played basketball with the Edmonton
Grads
January 23, 1921 - Born Margaret Evelyn Prang (1921-2013) pioneer
& innovator in developing concept of family which did not
necessarily include a husband
February 17, 1921 - Born Muriel Eleanor Coben (1921-1979)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
March 5, 1921 - Born Marion Fulton (1921-2013) volunteer, Order
of Canada & member Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame
April 19, 1921 - Born Joan Elinor Portugal (1921-2017) journalist,
author who recorded stories of Canadian war veterans
April 30, 1921 - Born Marion Bell Macrae (1921- ) historical architect &
teacher at the Ontario College of Art
May 24, 1921 - Born Doreen Hall (1921- ) musician
May 29, 1921 - Born Lorna Lucille Bergey (1921-2009) local
historian for Cambridge area in Ontario
June 2, 1921 - Born Mary Frances Fraser (1921-2011) award
winning local historian from Brampton, Ontario
June 6, 1921 - Born Heather B. S.
MacGregor (1921-2013) war bride
June 7, 1921 - Born Andrée Maillet (1921-1995) author
June 8, 1921 - Born Gladys Alexis Smith (1921-1993) early
movie actor
June 14, 1921 - Born Dorothy Annabelle Straton McPhedran (1921-
) 1st woman Inspector of Schools for the Ontario Ministry
of Education
June 20, 1921 - Born June Munro (1921-2010) librarian
June 25, 1921 -
Born Celia Franca (1921-2007) prima ballerina & founding artistic
director of the national Ballet of Canada
June 28, 1921 - Born Helen Frances Gregor (1921-1989) textile
artist
July 4, 1921 - Born Cora Alida deJong Greenway
(1921- ) powerful social force & preservationist of Canadian
Maritime history
July 31, 1921 -
Born Gretta Wong Grant (1921- ) 1st Chinese
Canadian woman lawyer
August 11, 1921 - Born Ellen Burka (1921-2016) sport coach who is a member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
August 13, 1921 - Born Jean Eleanor Stenton Portugal
(1921-2016) journalist & author of stories of our veterans
August 21, 1921 - Born Hilda Patricia Barry (1921-2016)
World War ll decoder
August 26, 1921 - Born Mary Doris "Dodie" Barr (1921-2009)
baseball player in women's league and member of Baseball Hall of
Fame
September 13, 1921 - Born Reva Potashin (1921-2013)
psychologist
September 15, 1921 - Born Purvathi "Pari" Basrur (1921-2012) 1st woman
faculty member to work at the Ontario Veterinary College
September 16, 1921 - Born Ursula Martius Franklin, (1921-2016)
specialist & pioneer in the structure of metals & alloys
October 20, 1921 - Born Kati Rekai (1921-2010) author of
children's books, broadcaster & journalist
November 9, 1921 - Born Pierrette Alaire (1921-2011) opera
singer
November 21, 1921 - Born Doris Anderson (1921-2007)
feminist, social activist & well known journalist, winner of the
Persons Case Award.
November 21, 1921 -
Born Janet Margaret Anderson Perkin (1921-2012) played with the
All American Girls Professional Baseball League
December 4, 1921 - Born Pat Muriel Welsh Patterson (1921-???)
broadcaster, composer, & writer
December 8, 1921 -
Born Edith Josie (1921-2010) journalist from northern Canada who was
known world wide
December 14, 1921
- Born Stella W. Tate (1921-1999) 1st Occupational Therapist in the
Royal Canadian Navy.
December 18, 1921 - Born Betty Lee (1921-2015) pioneer
journalist
December 23, 1921 - Born Margaret Maxwell Callaghan (1921-2019) Member of All American Girls Baseball League of Fame
Deaths 1921:
January 1921 - Died Beatrice LaPalme Issaurel
(1881-1921) internationally acclaimed opera singer
February 9, 1921 - Died Sarah Hanna Roberta Coome
(1837-1921) co-founder of the Anglican Sisterhood of St. John The
Devine, Toronto, Ontario
February 11, 1921 - Died Mercy Anne Coles (1838 -1921)
diarist during pre-confederation Canada
May 23, 1921 - Died Flora Macdonald Denison (1867-1921)
journalist & suffragist & successful Toronto businesswoman
June 18, 1921 -
Died
Alice Theodosia Shaw-Chipman (1832-1921)
teacher in New Brunswick
June 29, 1921 -
Died Annie Gardner Brown (1864-1921) social activist &
volunteer
July 10, 1922 -
Died Amelia Anne Paget (1867-1922) author
October 4, 1921 - Died Mary Augusta Reid (1854-1921) landscape
painter, interiors & murals
October 20, 1921 - Died Philomene Gendron (1840-1921)
religious
Superior of a mission in Campbelton, New Brunswick
October 22, 1921 - Died Alice
Star Tilly (1843-1921) social activist & "Mother of Confederation"
November 10, 1921 - Died Jenny 'Jennie' Trout (1841-1921)
pioneer medical doctor, 1st Canadian woman licensed to practice
medicine in Canada
November 30, 1921 - Died
Charlotte Sarah Canham (1846-1921) Anglican
Church missionary to the Yukon |
| 1922 |
January 16, 1922 - Violet Guymer (1885-1955)
becomes
the 1st woman to be a licensed
Funeral Director in Canada when she is granted her embalmers license in Manitoba.
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)
May
3, 1922 -
Prince Edward Island white women
win the rights to vote and to hold provincial office.
(Statutes of P.E.I. 1922 c. 5)
1922 -
The
province of Manitoba provides legislation granting custody of
children if the woman has been deserted by her husband.
May 12, 1922 -
The Edmonton (Alberta) Commercial Graduates basketball team
played the London (Ontario) Shamrocks to determine the 1st Dominion
of Canada’s women’s basketball championships. The 1st game was
played with Canadian girls rules (6 players on the courts), while
the second game was played with Canadian boys rules (5 players on
the court). The Grads won the 1st game by a score of 41-8, while the
Grads lost the 2nd game by a score of 21-8. By a cumulative score,
the Grads won 49-29, and were awarded the championship. The roster of
this team included: Dorothy and Daisy Johnson, Noel Robertson,
Winnie Martin, Eleanor Mountifield, Nellie Perry, Connie Smith, J.
Percy Page (Head coach)
Source: M. Ann Hall, Immodest and Sensational: 150 Years of Canadian
Women in Sport, p.31, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Toronto,
2008,1922 -
Miriam Green
Ellis (1879-1964) while in Edmonton in
1922 she had financed her own journey to Aklavik, North West
Territories on the edge of the Arctic Ocean and travelled with her
typewriter and camera writing some 40 stories about her travels.
Her photos showed the life of peoples of northern Alberta.
Sources to read: Miriam Green Ellis: Champion of the West.
Edmonton; University of Alberta Press, 2013.
1922 - Alex Gibb
(1891-1958) founds the Canadian Ladies Athletic Club and
serves as the 1st President.
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.
1922 - Dorothy
Dworkin (1889-1976) establishes the
Toronto Jewish Convalescent and Maternity Hospital later named Mount
Sinai Hospital.
Sources: Dorothy Dworkin. Backgrounder. Parks Canada. Online
(Accessed July 2014) :Toronto’s 1st Jewish nurse writes
of early Toronto. April 15, 2013
Online (Accessed July 2014)
December 16, 1922 - The Ladies Ontario Hockey
Association is formed to oversee the development of women's
hockey. Source "Queens of the Ice Lanes: the Preston
Rivulettes and women's hockey in Canada 1931-1940 " by Carly Adams
in Sport History Review 2008 Vol. 39 pages 1-29.
1922 - The Blender is invented but used only for
bartending or for blending malts. It would have to wait until 1936
before it made it appearance as a domestic appliance.
Source: Culinary Journey.
1922 - Dr. Frederick Banding & Dr.
Charles Best along with researcher John. MacLeod & chemist James Collip
discover insulin as a medical application for Diabetes
Births 1922:
1922 -
Born Mira Ashby (1922-2005) doctor working with brain injuries,
Member order of Canada
1922 -
Christine Elizabeth Byquist (1922?-2020) public health nurse
1922 -
Born Corinne Gallant (1922-2018) university professor & devout
feminist
1922 -
Born Madeleine Hinchey (1922-2005) former secretary general to the
National Research Council
1922 -
Born Fredelle Bruser Maynard (1922-1989) writer & journalist who
lived in Cabbagetown, Toronto
1922 -
Born Hanna Newcombe (1922-2011) social activist for peace
1922 -
Born Joan O'Sullivan (1922-2013) Sister of St Joseph, Hamilton,
hospital administrator
1922 -
Born Stella W. Tate (1922-1999) 1st Occupational therapist in
Canadian Navy
January 3, 1922 -
Born Anne Szumigalski (1922-1999) poet & winner of the Governor
General's Award in poetry 1995
January 11, 1922 - Born Mabel McIntosh (1922- ) noted North
American Ornithologist
January 21, 1922 - Born twins Rhona & Rhoda Wurtele (1922-
)Champion swimmers & female athletes of the year 1944.
January 22, 1922 - Born
Laverna Katie Dollimore (1922-2011)
administrative diplomatic aided in saving U.S.A.
Diplomats in the Iranian crisis November 4, 1979.
February 22, 1922 - Born Julianna Rita Dusanko (1922-2003)
played in the All American Girls Professional Baseball
League
February 25, 1922 - Born Molly Reilly (1922-1980) the 1st
Canadian woman to be a corporate pilot
March 24, 1922 - Born Onna White (1924-2005) award winning
dancer and choreographer
March 27, 1922 - Born
Simma Holt (1922-2015)
the 1st
Jewish woman elected to a seat in House of Commons Ottawa
April 6, 1922 - Born Nancy Mackay (1922-2016) medal
winning sprinter in 1948 Olympic Games
April 9, 1922 - Born Mary Rose Thacker-Temple (1922-1983) Canadian and
North American champion figure skater
April 15, 1922 - Born Lorraine McAllister (1922-1984) a singer
& actor on the West coast.
April 18, 1922 - Born Elizabeth Hillman Waterston (1922-
) an educator, author & critic
April 26, 1922 - Born Jeanne Sauvé,(1922-1993) a journalist &
politician, 1st woman Speaker of the House of Commons & 1st
woman Governor General of Canada
May 5, 1922 - Born
Kit McDermott (1922-2010) teen spy for Dutch resistance
World War ll, journalist and publisher
May 27, 1922 - Born Margaret Becklake (1922- ) an
academic & epidemiologist
May 29, 1922 - Born Eleanor Coerr (1929-2010) foreign
correspondent & author perhaps best known for her book, Sadako
and the 1000 Cranes
June 11, 1922 - Born
Grace Jean Sutherland
Boggs (1922-2014) civil servant with National Gallery of Canada.
July 20, 1922 - Born Simone
Eileen Roach (1922-2016) a nun, & nursing educator
July 23, 1922 - Born Jenny Whitehead Pile (1922-2004) World War
ll photographer
August 2, 1922 - Born Phyllis Ruth Blakeley (1922-1986)
historian & archivist
August 11, 1922 - Born Mavis Gallant (1922-2014) author &
playwright, Companion of Order of Canada
August 26, 1922 - Born Elizabeth "Betty" Brewster (1926-2012)
poet
September 1, 1922 - Born Yvonne De Carlo (1922-2007) actress best known for the
TV show, The Munsters
September 4, 1922 - Born Elizabeth Selena James (1922-2019)
opera singer, teacher, & coach
September 5, 1922 - Born Francoise Aubut-Pratte (1922-1984)
renowned organist and educator
September 8, 1922 - Born E. Margaret
Fulton (1922-2014) renowned feminist of her era
October 18, 1922 - Born Mildred Marion McAuley
(1922-2006) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball
League
November 3, 1922 - Born Bernice Thurman Hunter (1922-2002)
author of books for children set in Toronto
November 6, 1922 - Born
Bertha Cook-Jones (1922-2014)
social activist for equality for Métis women
November 10, 1922 - Born Constance Elizabeth Beresford-Howe
(1922-2016) author of short stories & novels
November 11, 1922 - Born Tillie Taylor (1922-2011) a lawyer & social
worker
November 13, 1922 - Born Madeleine Louise Helene
Sherwood (1922-2016) the 1st woman to direct a short film for the
American Film Institute
November 19, 1922 - Born Louise Brown (1922-2003) medal
winning tennis player.
December 2, 1922 - Born Joan Maclagan (1922- )
acclaimed judge in figure skating
December 9, 1922 - Born Margaret 'Peggy' Letty Gillard Colonello
(1922-2020) acclaimed golfer
December 27, 1922 - Born Alice Mary Sidgwick (1922-2014)
medical doctor & choir master
Deaths 1922:
1922- Died
Amelia Etta Hall Johnson (1858-1922) Black author & poet
1922 - Died
Marjorie Lowry Christie Picktall (1883-1922) a poet & short story
writer
March 22, 1922 -
Died Amelia Etta Johnston (1858-1922) early North American Black
author
April 19, 1922- Died
Marjorie Lowry Christie Picktall
(1883-1922) poet
May 16, 1922 - Died
Winona Margaret Dixon (1884-1922) a
pacifist & social activist for women's & family rights
July 3, 1922 - Died Charlotte
Mont Brock Schreiber (1834-1922) artist and 1st woman book
illustrator in Canada
July 22, 1922 - Died Sara Jeanette Duncan (1862-1922) a
journalist & author of some 20 books
August 20, 1922 - Died Emma Graham (? - 1922) a
journalist & author
October 20, 1922 - Died
Margaret Lucas (1860-1922) a pioneer in northwest
Canada
November 8, 1922 - Died Jane Elizabeth MacDonald (1864-1922)
an author & poet.
December 10, 1922 - Died Bertha
Rosenthal 1849-1922) leading woman in the Ottawa Area
December 26, 1922 - Died Margaret Vallance Taylor, Lady
Taylor (1840-1922) social activist |
| 1923 |
February 10,1923 - Winnifred Blair
(1903-1983)
of Saint John, New Brunswick, becomes the1rst "Miss
Canada at the Montreal Winter Fair Source: The Fairest Girl by David Goss in
The Beaver Feb./March 2003 vol. 83.1 pg. 29
March 8, 1923 - Winnifred Blair
(1903-1983), Miss Canada, is
the 1st woman to sit on the 'floor', of a Canadian parliament
when she attends the opening of the New Brunswick Legislature,
sitting just off to the side of the 'Throne'
Source: The Fairest Girl by David Goss in The Beaver Feb./March
2003 vol. 83.1 pg. 29
1923 -
The province of Ontario provides legislation granting custody of
children if the woman has been deserted by her husband
1923 -
British Columbia government changes the ‘Women’s and Girl’s
Protection Act’ removing all references to Chinese employers,
leaving to the discretion of police officials whether white women
were allowed to work in restaurants and laundries. The Act was
repealed in 1968
Source: SBC 1923 c. 76; SBC 1968 C.58
1923 - Asayo Murakami
(1898-2002)
a picture bride who arrives in Vancouver, British Columbia
Source: Heroines.ca.
1923 - Marguerite Michaud
(1903-1982)
becomes the 1st woman of Acadian descent to
receive a university degree
Source:
Herstory: The Canadian Women’s Calendar 2012.
1923 - Helen Beatrice Palen
(1865-1971)
Is appointed
the Deputy Registrar of the Ontario Securities Commission and went
on to be the 1st woman Registrar of the Supreme Court of
Ontario
Source: Diversifying the bar; Law Society of Upper Canada
online accessed January 2013.:
1923 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
(1874-1942) is the 1st Canadian
woman to become a member of the Royal Society of Arts & Letters
1923 - The
class at the Royal College of Dental Surgeons is the largest to date
and includes 6 women students
1923 - Kellogg's develops the
1st "Test Kitchen". GRRRREAT!
Births 1923:
1923 - Born Jean E. Caine (1923-2014)
broadcaster in Ontario
1923 - Born Catherine Norah McCarthy-Kirby (1923-
) champion figure skater
1923 -
Born Mary Hrenchuk Pankiw (1923 - )
Woman of Distinction Award, Winnipeg YWCA, an academic & educator
1923 -
Born Janet Lang Boland (1923- ) second woman to become a
judge in 1972 in County Court
1923 -
Born Jeanne Brault Laurin (1923-2012) 1st woman mechanic in Canada
1923 -
Born Laura Legg (1923-2010) who in 1975 is the 1st woman bencher of
the Law Society of Ontario
1923 - Born Jacqueline Shumiatcher (1923-
) social activist and community volunteer in Regina, Saskatchewan
1923 - Born Jean
Southworth (1923-2008) pioneer newspaper journalist, & musician
January 4, 1923 -
Born Verna Isabel Margaret Freeman (1923-2002) music teacher, clown
palliative care worker
February 3, 1923 -
Born Helen Lawrence Buckley (1923-2009) economist & writer
February 3, 1923 - Born Alice Robitaille/Alys Robi
(1923-2011) well known Quebec singer
February 22, 1923 - Jean Petrona Angus (1923-2013) Deaconess &
leader in the United Church of Canada
February 22, 1923 - Born Anne Deyotte (1923- )
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
March 2, 1923 - Born Ghitta Caiserman-Roth (1923-2005)
renowned award winning artist
March 3, 1923 - Born Madeleine Arbour (1923- )
artist & interior designer
March 13, 1923 - Born Helen Callaghan (1923-1992) Played with
the All American Girls Professional Baseball League Fame
March 14, 1923 -
Died
Amelia ‘Minnie’ Johnston Weatherbe (1837-1923) poet
April 13, 1923 - Born Elsie Cressman (1923-2012) Order of
Ontario for work in midwifery
April 25, 1923 -
Born Melissa Hayden, internally renowned prima ballerina
May 5, 1923 - Born Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923-2017) award
winning mathematician
June 29, 1923 - Born Beverly Witter Du Gas (1923-2012) nurse
June 30, 1923 - Born Edna Lenora Perry (1923-2020) Anglican
Priest
July 10, 1923 - Born Suzanne Cloutier (1923-2003) actor
July 13, 1923 - Born Hélène Brodeur (1923-2010) educator &
award winning author
July 20, 1923 - Born Flora Minnie Leone Bagnall (1923-2017)
award winning teacher & provincial politician
August 1, 1923 - Born Yvonne Valleau Wildman (1923-
) member RCAF
September 18, 1923 - Born Bertha Wilson, (1923-2007) 1st woman
appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada
September 23, 1923 - Born Elsie Doreen Wingrove Earl (1923-2016) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
September 27, 1923 - Born Jocelyne Binet (1923-1968) composer,
pianist, teacher
September 30, 1923 - Born Thérése Gouin Decarie (1923-
) professor of psychology & author
October 9, 1923 - Born Andrée Desautels
(1923- ) musician, Musicologist, and music teacher
October 28, 1923 - Born Thelma Josephine Hundeby
(1923-2001) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball
League
October 31, 1923 - Born Lorna van Mossel (1923-2014) Social
Activist who worked with new immigrants
November 11, 1923 - Born Mary Irene Patricia
Jolliffe (1923-2014) press agent for the arts
November 30, 1923 - Born Gloria Violet Barwell-Kay (1923-2007)
Registered Nurse & collector of nursing caps
December 5, 1923 - Born Ruth Miriam Goldbloom (1923-2012) the
force behind the development of Pier 21 Museum in Halifax, Nova
Scotia
Deaths 1923:
1923 -
Died
Ada May Courtice (1860-1923) founder of the Home & School
Movement
February 11, 1923 -
Died Susanna Maxwell (1805-1923) Black pioneer of Toronto
February 11, 1923 -
Born Marjory 'Marj' McGillivray Gilles (1923-2020) journalist
February 28, 1923 -
Died Marion Stirling (1846-1923) social
activist, medical doctor, & missionary
April 15, 1924 -
Died Lady Mary Pellatt (1857-1924) 1st Commissioner of Girl
Guides in Canada
May 2, 1923 - Died by hanging Filumena 'Florence' Constanzo
Lassandro (1900-1923) convicted murderer, only
woman hanged in Alberta
May 7, 1923 - Died Florence Carlyle (1864-1923) outstanding
portrait artist
June 6, 1923 -
Died Margaret Fox Jenkins (1843-1923) west coast activist
August 24, 1923 - Died
Ada Mary Brown Courtice (1860-1923) social activist &
teacher, founder of Home & School Association
September 15, 1923 -
Died Marie Beatrice Herminie Vidal (1868-1923) World War l
Nursing Sister
October 8, 1923 - Died Gertrude Moffatt (1884-1923) poet
October 9, 1923 - Died Lily Dougall (1868-1923) novelist &
religious writer
November 2, 1923 - Died Minnie Caroline Forsyth-Grant (
-1923) author
December 4, 1923 - Died Edna May Williston Sexton (1880-1923)
social activist |
| 1924 |
1924
- Phyllis Munday (1894-1990.)
and Annette Buck
become the 1st women to reach the summit of Mount Robson, the highest
peak in the Canadian Rockies
January 26, 1924 - An Order-in Council
mandates the use of the Canadian Red ensign on Canadian Government
buildings outside Canada. It is is the first officially allowed use
of the Red Ensign flag on land, although it has been used
unofficially for many years
January 29-31, 1924 - Cecil Eustace Smith
(1908-1997)
a 15 year old figure
skater, is the 1st Canadian woman to represent Canada in an Olympic
Games. She skated in both the ladies individual
and in the pairs events. at the 1st official Olympic Winter Games,
Chamonix, France Source: Status of Women Canada.
Adult fact Sheet Women and sports in Canada: an historical overview.
(Ottawa, 2002)
1924 - Angelina Napolitano
(1883?- ????) is released from Kingston
Penitentiary after serving some 12 years of a life sentence for
killing her abusive husband in 1911. She had originally be sentenced
to hang but British and North American wide protests got the
original sentence changes. She dropped from site once out of prison
March 8, 1924 - Canada
celebrates International Women's Day for the 1st time
1924 - The Canadian Council of Jewish Women is formed
independent of the National Jewish Council of Women out of the
United States
1924 - The Ontario Ministry of
Health takes over public health nursing
1924 - Frozen foods are invented by Clarence Birdseye Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg
14.
April 1, 1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force
is formed
1924 - The University of Toronto and the University of
Western Ontario, London begin offering courses in Public
Health Nursing
1924 - The Popsicle is Patented. Slurrrrrrp!
Births 1924:
1924 -
Born May Kearney (1924?-1999) professional figure skater
1924 - Born
Lillian McGregor (1924-2012) the 1st Elder in residence at the University of
Toronto and the 1st Aboriginal woman awarded an
honorary doctorate
1924 - Born Stella Avura Panarites (1924-1986)
the 1st woman lawyer of Greek heritage in Ontario
1924 -
Born
Mary Clark Payne (1924- ) medical missionary with the
United Church of Canada
1924 -
Born Lucille Johnstone (1924-2004) volunteer, social worker, &
entrepreneur
January 1, 1924 - Born Clara Balinsky (1924-2006) volunteer at
local, provincial, national & international levels on behalf of the
Canadian Jewish community
January 1, 1924 - Born Arleene 'Johnnie' Johnson Noga (1924-2017)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
January 10, 1924 -
Born Ludmilla
Chairiaeff Riga (1924-1996) founder of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
January 20, 1924 - Born Marcelle Ferron (1924-2001)
member of a group of artists known as Les Automatistes
January 29, 1924 - Born Lois Catherine Marshall (1924-1997)
international opera singer
February 2, 1924 - Born Geneviève Salbaing (1922-2016)
co-founder of Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
February 19, 1924 - Born Suzanne Eon (1924-1994) synchronized
swimming coach
March 1, 1924 - Born Anne Kahane (1926- )
international prize winning sculptor
March 11, 1924 - Born Eva Von Gencsy (1924-2013) founder of Les
Ballets Jazz de Montreal
March 16, 1924 - Born Phyllis 'Pat' Grosskurth (1924-2015)
author & 1st female professor in English Department, University of
Toronto
March 23, 1924 - Born Amy Louise Marsland (1924-2013)
journalist
March 28 1924 - Born Claire Gagnier (1924- )
opera singer & actor
April 4, 1924 - Born Sarla Bedi (1924-2013) 1st woman to be
registered as a Hindu priest in Ontario
May 14, 1924 - Born Sonia 'Toni' Esmée Florence d'Artois
(1924-2014) secret agent during World War ll
May 16, 1924 - Born
Died Marion Adams Macpherson (1924-1998) Foreign
Service Officer
May 28, 1924 - Born
Lily Rosebush (1924-2013) pioneer worker against drunk drivers.
June 2, 1924 - Born June Callwood (1924-2007) author &
officer of the Order of Canada
June 13, 1924 - Born Blossom Temkin Wigdor (1924 -
) psychologist
July 31, 1924 - Born Bette Stephenson (1924-2019) 1st woman
president Canadian Medical Association
August 22, 1924 - Born Francess Marie Gage (1924-2017)
acclaimed sculptor
August 28, 1924 - Born Pat Holden Collins (1924-2011) one of the
world's 1st women photo journalists
September 8, 1924 - Born Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain
(1924-2016) 1st woman appointed to the Quebec provincial cabinet
September 17, 1924 - Born Jennifer Dickson (1924- )
photographer & print maker
November 11, 1924 - Born Evelyn Moroz Wawryshyn (1924 -
) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
November 22, 1924 - Born Anne Anna/Annabelle Jane Thompson
McFarlane (1924-1983) played with the All American Girls
Professional Baseball League
December 20, 1924 - Born Judy Verlyn LaMarsh (1924-1980)
Liberal Politician, & Doyenne of Canada's Centennial celebrations
1967
December 30, 1924 - Born Yvonne Brill (1924-2013) award winning,
pioneering engineer, & space scientist & inventor
Deaths 1924:
January 24, 1924 -
Died Ellen Mary Knox (1858-1924) founding principal of Havergal
Ladies College, Toronto, Ontario
March 2, 1924- Died Adeline Margaret Teskey (1853-1924) author
March 20, 1924 - Died Sara Anne McLagan (1855-1924)
1st Canadian woman newspaper editor
May 1924 -
Died
Margaret "Miggsy" Graham (1870-1924)
journalist
August 12, 1924 - Died Matilda Moore Churchill (1840-1924)
missionary to India from Baptist church
September 7, 1925 -
Died Mary Catherine English (1877-1925) World War l Nursing
Sister
September 28, 1925 - Died Louisa Townsend-Mallandaine
(1831-1925) 'Ship-Bride' & pioneer in British Columbia
November 24, 1924 - Died Blanche Lucile Macdonald (1853-1924)
author |
1925
|
April 13, 1925 - Newfoundland white women won the rights to vote and to hold
provincial office
1925 -
The Federal Divorce Law allows women to obtain a
divorce on the same grounds as men, simple adultery.
Previous to this woman had to prove
'Bestiality" on the part of their husband.
June 10,1925 -
The United Church of Canada is formed with
the unification of the Methodist Church, the Congregationalist
Church and some of the Presbyterian Churches. At the time of church
union, the Women's Association of the United Church of Canada is
formed with a mandate to assist the pastor in his work, to have
genera oversight of the furnishing of the manse, to assist in the
socials and welfare work of the congregation, to raise money for
local church purposes and to promote a spirit of goodwill and
Christian fellowship through out congregations Source:
Voices of the United Church Women 1962-2002 Edited by Elizabeth
Gillan Muir (Toronto: United Church of Canada, 2002)
1925 -
The
Pioneer Women, a Labor Zionist group branches into Canada from the
United States. Its main goals are to raise funds for the support of
working people’s institutions in the land of Israel and to sponsor
the Habonim Youth Movement in Canada
September 1925 - Alex Gibb
(1891-1958)
helps write the constitution of the Women's
Amateur Athletic Union.
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.
December 7, 1925 -
The Women's Amateur Athletic
Foundation of Canada is founded.
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.
Births 1925:
1925 -
Born Dorothy Harley Eber (1925- ) author
1925 - Born Elisapee Ishulutag (1925-2018) Inuit artist
1925 - Born Janet Leys Shaw Mactavish (1925-1972) architect
1925 - Born Mary Majka (1925- ) Canadian Maritimes
naturalist.
February 10, 1925 - Born Mary Elizabeth Bayer (1921-2005)
pioneer of daytime television programming in Manitoba
March 13, 1925 - Born Susan Douglas Rubes
(1925-2013) an actress with a long distinguished career on stage, TV
and film. inducted into the Order of Canada.
February 20, 1926 - Born Muriel Kovitz (1926- )
businesswoman and Chancellor of University of Calgary
March 10, 1925 - Born Jacqueline Park (1925-2018) author
April 1, 1925 - Born Tobie Thelma Steinhouse,
artist and printmaker.
April 9, 1925 - Born
Goldie 'Red' Burns
(1925-2013)
academic, enthusiastic teacher
April 16, 1925 -
Born
Jeannine Lock (1925-2012) award winning
journalist, broadcaster and producer.
May 9, 1925 -
Born Pamela Ann McDougall (1925-2015) 1st
Foreign Service Officer appointed as Deputy Minister level of
federal government
May 14, 1925 -
Born Rose Eleanor Milne (1925-2014) sculptor
May 14,
1925 - Born June Rowlands (1925-2017) 1st woman to be mayor of
Toronto.
June 10, 1925 -
Born Francoise Sullivan (1925- )
renowned artist.
June 21,
1925 -
Born Mildred 'Millie' Sarah Maria Tremblay (1925-2014)
award winning poet.
July 20, 1925 - Born Alice Mildred Heap (1925-2012) social
activist & pacifist.
July 25, 1925 - Born Charmion King (1925-2007) actor o stage,
radi0, TV, & film
July 25, 1925 - Born Patsy Rodgers-Henderson (1925-2020) first
Queen of the Calgary Stampede
August 22, 1925 - Born Terry Donahue (1925- ) played
with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
October 5, 1925 - Born Dorothy Charlotte Johnson (1925-2017) National President
of the Women's Institutes and community volunteer.
October 26,1925 -
Born Lena "Lee" Delmonico (1925-2012) played with the All American
Girls Professional Baseball League.
November 22, 1925 -
Born Dormer M. Ellis (1925- ) acclaimed engineer.
December 10, 1925 -
Born Mary Kustra (1925-1999) played with the All American Girls
Professional Baseball League
December 10, 1925 -
Born Margaret 'Maggie" Glenesk Beal Morris (1925-2014) radio and TV
personality and Bell telephone voice.
December 29, 1925 -
Born Coleen Tibaudeau (1929-2012) poet
Deaths 1925:
1925 - Died
Georgea Powell (1857-1925)
Headed the first group of nurses to the Yukon in 1898
1925 - Died
Josephine Dandurand (1862-1925) journalist who used the pen name
"Josette"
1925 -
Died Dr Lenora King (1851-1925)
1st doctor to serve in China, she was made a Mandarin by the
Chinese.
January 4, 1925 - Died Ellen 'Nellie' Cashman (1845?-1925)
businesswoman
March 2, 1925
- Died Josephine Herélle-Henriette
Marchand-Dandurand (1861-1925) 1st woman to edit a French language
periodical in Canada.
April 3, 1925 - Died
Jane Stafford (1842-1925) pioneer of the Canadian North West
April 27, 1925 -
Died Norah Mary Holland (1876-1925) poet
April 27, 1925 -
Died
Katherine Angelina Hughes (1876-1925) journalist one of the
16 founders of the Canadian Womens Press Club in 1904 & 1st
provincial archivist of Alberta.
May 28, 1925 - Died
Roberta Elizabeth Tilton
(1837-1925) social activist with the Women's Christian Temperance
Union
July 16, 1925 - Died Wilhelmina 'Minnie' Smith (1849-1925)
social activist and community volunteer
November 20, 1925 - Died Clara
Morrison (1848-1925), stage actress known as the "Queen of the
Melodramas"
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| 1926 |
November 18, 1926 -
The Balfour Commission declares all
British dominions as autonomous and equal in status
1926 -
Women over 25 years of age in the colony of Newfoundland gain the
right to vote while men of 21 were allowed to vote
1926 -
Mlle Thais Frémont founds the Conservative Women's
Association for Quebec City
1926 -
The memorial in honour of nursing sisters of World War I,
located in the Hall of Honour, centre block Parliament Buildings,
Ottawa is unveiled Source: Canadian Nurses in World War I. Trent
University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit
online (accessed
July 22, 2005)
1926 - The Women's Amateur Athletic Federation
(WAAF)
of Canada is formed Source: Status
of Women Canada. Adult fact Sheet Women
and sports in Canada: an historical overview. (Ottawa, 2002)
1926 - Lela Brooks,(1908- )
a speed
skater, wins the world title Saint John New
Brunswick…Canada’s 1st woman to be a world
champion.
1926 -
Dr. Allie Vibert Douglas
(1894-1988)
is the 1st woman in Canada to graduate with a PhD in astrophysics
Source: Historical figures in Astronomy by Carmen Rush,
Royal Astronomy Society of Canada
/
(accessed
July 28, 2005)
1926 - Dr. Mattie Rotenberg
(1897-1989) is the 1st woman and 1st
Jew to earn a PhD in Physics at the University of Toronto
Sources:
Mattie Levi Rotenberg by Nessa Rapoport. We Remember, Jewish
Women’s Archives. Online Accessed December 2012.
1926 -
Four new vitamins are identified by the mid 1920's
1926 -
Cod Liver Oil is recommended for children as a supplement for vitamin
D. It is administered in a liquid form and has its original fish
flavour, no "taste good" flavorings are added. Shudddder!
Births 1926:
1926 -
Born Margaret Beckman (1926-2008) internationally acclaimed modern
pioneer in Library Science
1926 -
Born Patricia Jenkins Blondal (1926-1959) broadcast journalist,
journalist & novelist
1926 -
Born Nadine Hunt (1926-1993) 1st woman to lead a labour federation
in Canada
1926 -
Born Dr Ellen Signe McLean (1926-2012) president of Associated
Country Women of the World
1926 -
Born Jean Roberts (1926-2012) stage actor
1926 -
Born June Rose Schofield (1926- 2002) played with the All American
Girls Professional Baseball League
1926 -
Born Evelyn Shapiro (1926-2010) health administrator
January 1, 1926 -
Born Phyllis Fay Gotlieb (1926-2009) poet
January 4,
1926 -
Born Betty Kennedy (1926-2017) well known radio & television
personality, appointed to the senate in 2000
February 3, 1926 - Born Winnie Roach-Leuszler (1926-2004)
acclaimed international swimmer who was the 1st Canadian woman to
swim the English Channel
March 1, 1924 - Born Anne Kahane (1924- ) sculptor
March 9, 1926 - Born Flavia Elliott Redelmeier (1926-
) social volunteer
March 17, 1926 - Born Marjory Shedd (1926-2008) champion
badminton player who also excelled in volleyball and basketball
April 9, 1926 - Born Mary Isobel Eady (1926-2011) women's
rights advocate & unionist
April 29, 1926 - Born Gene Anne 'Jan' Turner (!926-2012)
physician
May 13, 1926 - Born Joy Dorothy Coghill-Thorne (1926-2017) actor
& promoter of theatre arts
May 18, 1926 -
Born Joanna Miller (1926-2012) well known award
winning peace activist
May 25, 1926 - Born Phyllis Fay Gotlieb,(1926-2009)
author
June 3, 1926 - Born Flora MacDonald (1926-2015) politician and
1st woman to hold a major cabinet post as secretary of State for
External Affairs
June 21, 1926 - Born Dorothy 'Dee' Anne Read (1926-2004) an
avid ski enthusiast and coach
July 14, 1926 - Born Doreen Hume (1926- ) operatic
soprano
July 18 , 1926 - Born Margaret Lawrence (1926-1987) award
winning author
July 23, 1926 - Born Erminie Cohen (1926-2019) social activist
& Senator from New Brunswick
July 26, 1926 - Born Erminie Cohen (1926- ) respected businesswoman recognized with an award from the United
Nations & Senator
August 3, 1926 - Born Christine Lorna Beckett (1926-2016) member of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
August 9, 1926 - Born Mabel M. DeWare (1926- ) appointed to the Canadian
Senate 1990.
August 27, 1926 - Born Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi (1926
-2107) singer & CBC TV personality
August 31, 1926 - Born Elaine Anna Fildes (1926-
) Champion tennis player
September 22, 1926 - Born Angela Elizabeth Davis (1926-1994)
teacher, professor, historian & art consultant
November 9, 1926 - Born Mary Louise Morrison (1926-
) acclaimed soprano & Officer of the Order of Canada
November 26, 1926 - Born Rose Fleury (1926 - )
renowned
Métis genealogist
December 29, 1926 - Born Verna Marguerite 'Marg' Osborne
(1926-1977) singer of country, folk & gospel with Don Messer's
Jubilee.
Deaths 1926:
1926 -
Died Julia Smith Winder (1846-1926) pioneer of the Canadian
North West
March 31, 1926 -
Died
Jemima Bray (1858-1926) pioneer in
Canadian northwest
March 31,
1926 - Died Janet Carnochan (1839-1926)
teacher & historian
June 8, 1926 - Died
Eliza Ann McIntosh Reid (1841-1926) social
activist
November 29, 1926 - Died Sarah Anne Riddle (1888-1926) World
War L Nursing Sister
December 4, 1926 - Died
Marie Jeanne Antoinette Antctil (1875-1926) educator
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| 1927 |
February 7, 1927 -
Queen's University ice hockey goaltender, Elizabeth ‘Bessie’
Graham
(1905-1989)
,
donned a wire fencing mask to protect herself against shots to the
face and became the 1st goalie to wear a mask (32 years before
Jacques Plante set the standard for all future goalies)
1927 - The 1st coast-to-coast radio network broadcast
celebrations of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation
1927 -
L’Alliance Canadienne pour le vote des femmes du Québec
is formed led by Idola Saint-Jean
(1880-1945)
is formed as is the League for Women’s Rights led by Thérèse
Casgrain
(1896-1931).
1927 - Mary Travers (La Bolduc)
(1894-1941) is asked to sing to replace an ailing colleague at an
event. The audience appreciated her talent and she
began an successful singing career.
Source : 100 Canadian heroines : Famous and
forgotten faces by Merna Forester. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2004.
1927 - Everyday an average of 4 Canadian women
die from childbirth.
1927 - the 1st Quebec provincial bill to give women in
the province the right to vote is introduced but defeated in the
Quebec Legislature. Source: Herstory 2008: The
Canadian Women's Calendar (Coteau Books, 2007)
1927 - Girl Guide Leader Christina Riepsamen
baked cookies as a fund raiser. Who knew that Girl Guide cookies
would become a lasting symbol.
1927 - Mazo de La Roche (1897-1961) publishes her
1st novel and begins a series called
Jelna
1927 -
The
Calgary Current Events Club is founded and rapidly gains popularity
with professional women of the city. In 1929 the group changed its
name to the Calgary Business and Professional Women's Club (BPW)
Births 1927:
1927 -
Born Margaret Jean Gee (1927-1995) ist Chinese-Canadian woman
lawyer in British Columbia
1927 -
Born Fran Herman (1927- ) pioneer of music
therapy to help disabled people
1927 - Born June Kander (1927-2004) educator &
humanitarian
1927 - Born Mary Patricia Weaver (1927-2018) 1st woman lawyer
to be a partner in a law firm in Northern Ontario
January 10 1927 - Born Gisele Mackenzie (1927-2005)
accomplished violinist, singer & star of TV & movies
January 15, 1927 - Born Gretta Chambers (1927-2017) university
leader, columnist, broadcaster, & 1st woman chancellor of McGill
University
January 24, 1927 - Born Phyllis Lambert (1927- )
accomplished architect & founder of the Canadian Centre for
Architecture
January 27, 1927 - Born Edith Firth (1927-2005) librarian,
bibliographer & author
February 14, 1927 - Born Lois Maxwell (1927-2007) actor who was
Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films
February 15, 1927 - Born Marketa Gotz-Stankiewicz (1927-
) award winning educator.
April 7, 1927 - Born Elsie Dorothy Knowles,
internationally acclaimed water colour artist
April 8, 1927- Born Lois Miriam Wilson, (1924 - ) 1st
woman president Canadian Council of Churches & 1st woman Moderator
of the United Church of Canada
April 1927 - Born Phyllis Webb (1927- ) prolific
poet
April 25, 1927 - Born Frances Hyland (1927-2004) acclaimed
actor of stage, film, & TV
April 29, 1927 - Born Aideen Nicholson (1927-
) Member of Parliament of Canada
April 30, 1927- Born Marie Warder (1927-2014),journalist
& author of 24 books
May 2, 1927 - Born Budge Wilson (1927- ) award winning author
May 7, 1927 - Born Sally Crooks (1927-2011) Well respected
educator
May 9, 1927 - Born Audrey Hines Daniels (1927- )
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
May 26, 1927 - Born Elizabeth "Betty" Ann Berthiaume Wicken
(1927-2011) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball
League
June 1, 1927 - Born Barbara Kathleen Buchner (1927-2011)
medical researcher in virology, hepatitis and radioimmunoassay
June 25, 1927 - Born Patricia Bates (1927- )
highly innovative artist
July 3, 1927 - Born Thérèse Renaud(1927-2005),
author, poet, & painter
July 22, 1927 - Born Dorothy Dearborn (1927 - )
well known New Brunswick journalist & author
August 8, 1927 - Born Eleanor Callow (1927- )
"Squirt" played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball
League
August 21, 1927 - Born
Helen Dacey Wilson (1927-2015) author,
broadcaster & civil servant
September 20, 1927 - Born Helen Huston (1927 - )
missionary to India and China, holds the Order of Canada
September 26, 1927 - Born Monique Correveau (1927-1976) award
winning author of French language books for children
September 27, 1927 - Born Genevieve 'Gene' George McFaul
(1927-2002) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball
League
September 28, 1927 - Born Yolande "Yoyo" Schick (1927-2006)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
October 3, 1927 - Born Ashevak Kenojuak,(1927-2013) Inuit
artist famous for her native prints
December 7, 1927 - Born Jean Pare (1927- )
author of Company's Coming Cookbooks
December 12, 1927 - Born Doreen Paterson Reitsma (1927-2000) one of
the 1st women to join the Women's Division of the Royal Canadian
Navy
Deaths 1927:
January 16, 1927 - Died
Jeannie Isabelle Dow (1870-1927) Presbyterian
medical missionary in China
January 24, 1927 - Died Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927) author,
biographer & poet.
January 27, 1927- Died Margaret Smith Polson Murray (1844-1927)
social activist & founder of the Independent Order of the Daughters
of the Empire.
July 2, 1927- Died Annie Rothwell Christie (1837- 1927) author
July 24, 1927 -
Died Gertrude Elizabeth 'Nora' Livingston (1848-1927) pioneer &
founding Superintendant Montreal General Hospital School for Nurses
August 27, 1927
- Died Flora Madeline Shaw (1864-1927) pioneer in nursing education
November 7, 1927 -
Died Christina 'Tena' May Stewart (1881-1927) World War l
Nursing Sister
November 19, 1927 - Died
Agnes Mary Scott (1863-1927) journalist, 'Amaryllis'. 'The
Marchinist’ |
| 1928 |
March 14, 1928 -
The "Famous Five", Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby,
Henrietta Muir Edwards and Louise McKinney,
ask the Supreme
Court of Canada if the word "person" in Section 24 of the British
North America Act included persons that were female
March 28, 1928 -
Chatelaine
Magazine is published for the 1st time
1928 - Eileen Vollick (1908-1968) of Hamilton, Ontario becomes the 1st
Canadian woman to earn a private pilot's license
1928 - Alice Maude Dyer (1879-1963) becomes the first
registered pharmacist in Prince Edward Island
1928 - Anna Dexter takes to the radio in Halifax as
Canada's 1st female radio broadcaster
April 24, 1928 - The
Supreme Court of Canada unanimously decides in the famous "Persons
Case" that women were not "persons" who could hold public office as
Canadian senators. (In 1929 the British Privy Council will reverse
this decision)
1928 -
The Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act comes into force. It is not
repealed until 1972. 2, 822 people are sterilized up to 1972. Many
of the operations were illegal under the act itself
1928 - Mona and Agnes Harrigan
stood firm and became the 1st
women guides in Canada National Parks Service.
Source: Harrigan Sisters by Frances Rooney Section15.ca
accessed June 2009.
1928 - Rose-Anna Vachon
(1870?-1948)
begins baking individual
snake cakes that she will name for her sons, Joe-Louis.
1928 - Women are allowed to
compete in the modern Olympic Games for the first time.
Canada sends a team that brings back gold medals!!
Births 1928:
1928 - Born Rhoda Pendleton Baxter (1928-2012) singer
1928 - Born Mira Godard Bennett (1928-2010) business woman & art
gallery owner
1928 - Born Jean Cuthand Goodwill (1928-1997) 1st Aboriginal
women in Saskatchewan to graduate in nursing
1928 - Born Norma Eloise West Linder (1928- ) author
1928 - Born Magda Pennington (1928-2012) architect noted for her
design of houses
1928 - Born Twyla Elizabeth "Tees" Hendry (1928-1997) social activist
1928 - Born Therese Champagne (1928-2007) educator
1928 - Born Theresa Helen McNeil (1928-2009) ONS 1st woman in
Canada appointed High Sherriff (Annapolis County Nova Scotia)
January 5, 1928 - Born Elizabeth Joan Smith (1928-2016)
Ontario politician & cabinet minister
January 7, 1928
- Born Jenny Belzberg (1928 - ) philanthropist
January 31, 1928 - Born Gathie Falk (1928- )
artist working in multimedia
February 22, 1928 - Born Shirley Theresa Dysart (1928-2016)
1st woman to serves as interim leader of opposition in New Brunswick
February 26, 1928 -
Born Monique Leyrac (1928-2019)1st great
international star from French Canada
March 3, 1928 - Born Diane Foster (1928- ) medal
winning sprinter in 1948 Olympic Games
March 12, 1928 - Born Therese Lavoie-Roux (1928-2009)
politician who served in Quebec & in the Senate of Canada
March 13, 1928 - Born Susan Douglas Rubes (1928-2013) actor
March 19. 1928 - Born Betty Roodish Goodwin
(1928-2008) artist
April 21, 1928 - Born Joan Weir (1928- )
author of novels for youth
May 9, 1928 - Born Barbara Ann Scott (1928-2012) winner
of Canada's 1st gold medal in ladies figure skating in the 1948
Olympics
May 23, 1928 - Born Pauline Julien (1928-1998) actor, singer, &
songwriter
May 30, 1928 - Born Margaret Joan Chalmers (1928-2016)
activist for the arts
June 12, 1928 - Born Shizuye Takashima (1928- )
author & illustrator
June 21, 1928 - Born Hana Veverka Brabenec (1928-
) champion tennis player in Czechoslovakia, coach and masters
champion in Canada
June 24, 1928 - Born Belle Shenkman (1928-1995) promoter of the
arts
July 5, 1928 - Born Patricia 'Pat' Macken-Smart (1928-
) champion tennis player
July 18, 1928 - Born Nora A. Cebotarev (1928-2007) professor & renowned
sociologist
August 17, 1928 - Born Jennie Huie (1928-2009) academic
August 27, 1928 - Born Jeanne Renaud (1928- )
introduced modern dance in Quebec
October3,1928 -
Born Judith Winifred Taylor Mappin (1928-2014) renowned bookstore
owner Montreal
October 31, 1928 - Born Diane Foster, (1928- )
accomplished television actor
November 6, 1928 - Born Lois Etherington Betteridge (1928-2020)
acclaimed sculptor
December 4, 1928 - Born Marianne Florence Scott (1928-
) 1st woman to be appointed as National Librarian
Deaths 1928:
1928 - Died Margaret Blair Gordon (1861-1928) Indomitable
early Canadian woman doctor
1928 -
Died Rosa Portlock (1839-1928) author
1928 - Died
Sally Elizabeth/Eliza Wood (1857-1928) photographer in Knowlton,
Quebec
January 29, 1928 -
Died Dora Asta Walters-Truemner (1894-1928) World War l
Nursing Sister
February 22, 1928 - Died Marion Fraser (1877-1928)
pioneer hockey player
February 23, 1928 - Died Fannie/Fanny McNeil (1869-1928) social
activist and suffragette in Newfoundland
March 4, 1928 - Died Victoria Grace Blackburn (1865-1928) journalist
&
noted drama critic
May 2, 1928 - Died
Marie-Louise-Joséphine-Ester-Eliza Marmette (1870- 1928) pioneer
journalist
August 4, 1928 - Died Annette Saint-Amant Frémont
(1892-1928) 1st francophone woman journalist in Saskatchewan
August 15, 1928 - Died Isabel Ecclestone MacKay (1875-1928)
author, poet & playwright
September 18, 1928 - Died
Kate Reed (1856-1928) 1st Canadian woman who worked as
a professional decorator
October 4, 1928 - Died Elizabeth Annie
McGillivray Knowles (1866-1928) nature study artist |
| 1929 |
April 24, 1929 -
The Supreme Court of Canada decides to say "NO" In 1928 women's
right advocates appealed to the Supreme Court to clarify whether or
not the word "persons" in the British North America Act included
women. The women then took the case to the British Privy Council.
The women became known as the Famous Five; Emily Murphy, Henrietta
Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Irene Parlby
October 18, 1929 - The British Privy
Council reverses the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in the
"Persons Case" and Canadian women become
"Persons" with all rights accorded
to the definition of persons including the right to sit in the
Senate of Canada
1929 - The Overseas Nursing Sisters' Association is
formed in Montreal
1929 - Helen Irene Battle (1903-1994)
is the 1st Canadian women to earn a PhD in Marine Biology and
goes on to teach for over 50 years earning awards and honours for
her research and teachings.
Sources: Canadian Encyclopedia Online. (accessed June 2010;
University of Western Ontario, A part of our History: Helen Irene
Battle. (accessed July 2015)
1929 - Agnes Macphail (1890-1954)
is sent to Geneva, Switzerland as Canada's 1st woman delegate to the
League of Nations
1929 -
Annie Epstein Baker (1908-2005) may
have been the 1st Jewish woman called to the Bar in Ontario
Source
Diversifying the Bar: Lawyers make history. Online Accessed
May 2013.
1929 -
Edith Louise Patterson
(1891-1980) in
1929 was appointed a judge in the juvenile court and became the 1st
woman to be a member of the Law Society of British Columbia
Source: Diversifying the bar; Law Society of Upper Canada
online accessed January 2013.:
1929 -
Fewer than 4% of Canadian women work outside the home.
Source: The Timechart
of Canadian history by Meredith Macardle (2004)
1929 - Canadian
Girl Guide Cookies are now being sold at National Headquarters, and
by 1936 they are sold across the nation
1929 - Sophie Strubs
( -1949) husband trades a barrel of her homemade pickles
for food during the Great Depression. A family pickle business is
born Source: I know That Name by Mark Kearney &
Randy Roy (Toronto: Hounslow, 2002)
1929 -
The
Calgary Business and Professional Women's Club (BPW) is established
from the former Calgary Current Events Club that was founded 2 years
before
1924 - Ada Mackenzie
(1891-1973)
forms the 1st all women golf club in Toronto, Ontario
Births 1929:
1929 -
Born Hilary Corbett (1929-2004) costume designer for
theatre and television
1929 -
Born Patricia Claxton (1929- ) translator
1929
- Born Jeannine Guillevin Wood (1929-2009) acclaimed
businesswoman
1929 -
Born Shirley M. Stinson, (1929 - ) nursing teacher,
researcher &
administrator
1929 - Born Dorothy Turcotte (1929- ) journalist,
author, & family historian
1929 - Born Ernestine van Merle (1929-2006) social activist
January 4, 1929 - Born Marion Loretta Reid (1929- )
1st woman to be appointed Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward
Island ( 1990)
January 30, 1929 - Born Dr. Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929-1996)
international renowned medical doctor
February 8, 1929 - Born Thelma Chalifoux (1929-
) Aboriginal member of Canadian
Senate appointed 1997
February 12, 1929 - Born Marion Dewar (1929-2008) politician who was a
mayor of Ottawa & social activist
March 24, 1929 - Born Marianna O'Gallagher (1929-2010)
historian & author of Irish Canadian history
March 26, 1929 - Born Virginia Luella 'Ginger' Byfield
(1929-2014) journalist & editor
March 31, 1929 - Born Irene Marie Strong-Watler (1929-
) record setting Canadian swimmer
April 17, 1929 -
Born Margaret ‘Peggy’ McKercher (1929- ) social activist
April 29, 1929 - Born Doris Elsie Guyatt (1929-2012) politician
& acclaimed civil servant
May 10, 1929 - Born Antonine Maillet, (1929- ) novelist &
supreme storyteller
May 11, 1929 - Born
Inger Hansen (1929-2013) Justice in Ontario Court of Justice
May 22, 1929 - Born Doris Witiuk (1929-2014) played
with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
May 29, 1929 - Born Flora Velma Abbott (1929-1987)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
May 29, 1929 - Born Fernande Chiocchio (1929 - )
Mezzo-soprano, pianist, & teacher
June 9, 1929 - Born Louise Maheux-Forcier (1929-2015) award
winning novelist
June 10, 1929 - Born Pearl McGonigal (1929- ) 1st
woman to be Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
June 18, 1929 - Born Eva Kushner (1929- )
University Professor & President of Victoria University
June 26, 1929 - Born Dorothy Betz (1929-2007) she served
with a lifelong career in aboriginal law and community service.
August 3, 1929 - Born Eleanor Joan "Dusty" Miller (1929-2012)
theatre administrator.
August 15, 1929 - Born Dorothy Muriel Wylie (1929-2015) nurse
& educator
August 21, 1929 - Born Jeannine Vanier (1929- ) musician,
organist & composer
August 26, 1929 - Born Madeleine Bernier (1929 - )
pianist & accompanist
September 4, 1929 - Born Joyce Marguerite Brennan (1929-2011)
1st woman elected to Smith Falls, Ontario Town Council
September 10, 1929 - Born Mimi Matte (1929- ) artist of popular
works unique in their image.
October 18, 1929 - Born Violet Pauline King Henry
(1919-19982) 1st Black woman lawyer in Canada
December 17, 1929 - Born Frances Dafoe-Mellick (1929-2016) figure skater, the 1st Canadian to win World
Pairs event
Deaths 1929:
1929 - Died
Eliza Victoria
Hardisty (1849-1929) pioneer of the Canadian Northwest
January 29, 1929 - Died
Evelyn Jane Tanner Burns (1890-1961) Politician, & civil servant,
municipal official Rosser Manitoba for 48 years
March 8, 1929
- Died Mary Fortune (1851-1929) Titanic survivor
May 10, 1929 - Died Aletta Elise Marty (1865-1929) Canada's
1st woman inspector of schools & author
August 6, 1929 - Died
Mary MacLane (1881-1929) author, actor &
screenwriter
December 7, 1929 - Died
Sibella Annie Barrington
(1867-1929) pioneer nurse in Canada's Maritimes
December 24, 1929 - Died Adaline
Augusta 'Ada' Marean-Hughes (1848-1929) 1st woman hired by the
Toronto Board of Education
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