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EVENTS |
| 1850 |
1850 - Mary Bibb
(1820-1877) and her husband Henry
Bibb (1815-1854) flee from the
U.S.A. to Canada. In 2002 they are declared National Historic
Persons
Source: Historic Sites and Monuments Board. Online
accessed June 2012.
1850 -
Women in Canada West (Ontario) obtain the right to vote for
school trustees if they own property, regardless of marital status
Source: Women in History; a timeline by
Kirsten Smith, Postmedia News March 9, 2011. : Source: History of
Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation online accessed April
20131850 - The essential
structure of a capitalist economy i.e. employers hire workers on a
short term basis, existed in Canada. Employers needed a surplus pool
of labour so they used women, as well as immigrants, children, &
displaced land workers to fill positions
Births
1850:
1850 - Born Isabel Julia Askew (1850-1905) 'ship-bride' &
pioneer of British Columbia
1850 - Born Grace Sarah Hall Fletcher (1850?-1907) businesswoman and
social activist
1850 - Born Martha 'Mattie' Jane Warner (1850-1953) Black
pioneer of Saskatchewan
1850 - Born
Frances ‘Fanny’ Dalrymple Redmond (1850-1932) early nursing
administrator
1850 - Born Olive Blewett Ross
(1850-1934) pioneer of Canadian northwest
February 4, 1850- Born Kate Weldon (1850-1903) a pioneer
telegrapher in Alberta
April 3, 1850 - Born Zina Young Williams Card (1850-1931) one
of the founders of Cardston, Alberta
December 25, 1850 - Born Isabella Valency Crawford (1850-1887)
considered Canada's 1st important lady poet
Deaths 1850:
January 17, 1850 -
Died Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe (1762-1850) artist & diarist
in Upper Canada
January 20, 1850 - Died Ann Kirby Macaulay (1770-1850) a
loyalist, she came to Canada and became a successful business woman
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1851
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1851 -
Women are officially excluded from voting in all Canadian
legislative elections in British North America
1851 - Mary Ann Shadd
(1823-1893)
forms the Anti-Slavery Society in
Toronto
1851 -
It is a criminal offence for a woman to
obtain an abortion in Nova Scotia
1851
- The Nova Scotia Franchise Act specifically
prohibits women from having the right to vote in elections
1851 - Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913),
a
conductor on the famous escape route for slaves to Canada called the
Underground Railroad came north to St.
Catherines, Ontario. This courageous woman made 19 trips back to
the South, to help people who had been enslaved to escape to freedom
Source : Cool Chronology online (accessed
July 2005)
January 1851-
Mary Bibb
(1820-1877)
co-published
the newspaper The Fugitive Voice beginning in 1851. Mary is
credited with being the 1st Black woman journalist in Canada. Later
her sister-in-law Mary Shadd Cary would become the 1st Black woman
publisher of a newspaper. In 2002 she and her husband were declared
National Historic Persons Sources:
Section15.ca ; Merna Forster 100 more Canadian Heroines;
Famous and Forgotten Faces (Toronto; Dundurn Press, 2011.
April 6, 1851 -
The Canadian Postal Service is transferred from British control. The
uniform postal rate is three pence. It will not be until 1960 until a
named famous Canadian woman appears on a Canadian stamp
April 7, 1851 -
The Nova Scotia Franchise Act prohibits women from voting by adding
the word 'male' to voting requirements
April 23 1851 -
Canada issues its 1st postage stamp but it will be 110 years before
the image of an unidentified Canadian woman appears on a Canadian
stamp
September 11, 1851
- Mary Bib
(1820-1817)
and Henry Bibb
(1815-1854)
play a key role in organizing the North American Coloured Convention
held in Toronto, Ontario
Source 100 more Canadian Heroines by Merna Forster Dundurn
press 2011.
Births 1851:
1851 - Born Dr Lenora King
(1851-1925) 1st doctor to serve in China, she was made a Mandarin by
the Chinese
April 1851 - Born Emily Evelyn Dickson (1851-1896) indomitable
early woman doctor
May 11 , 1851- Born Emily Ann McCausland Cummings (1851-1930)
journalist & 1st woman to receive an honorary degree from a Canadian
University
May 12, 1851 - Born Mary Fortune (1851-1929) Titanic survivor
May 26, 1851 - Born Annie Robertson Logan (1851-1933) author &
historian
June 18, 1851- Born Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon (1851-1915) founder
of the Canadian Women's Historical Society & author
December 23, 1851 - Born Frances Elizabeth Herring (1851-1916)
west coast novelist
Deaths 1851:
July 24, 1851- Died Nancy McTavish Leblanc (1790-1851) aboriginal
name Matooskie, a. Métis pioneer of western Canada fur trade era
July 25, 1851- Died Martha Merrifield
(1781-1851) pioneer of Eardley, Quebec
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| 1852 |
1852 - The Prince Edward Island Free Education Act is passed
and is the first piece of legislation in British North America to
make school attendance free
1852
- Susanna
Moodie (1803-1885)
publishes her book Roughing It In The Bush
Births 1852:
1852 - Born Amelia F. R. Gordon (1852-1932) social activist
1852 - Born Elizabeth McDougall Young (1852- 945) pioneer of the
Canadian North West
September 4, 1852 -
Born Rozelle Victoria Funnell (1852-1913) indomitable early woman
doctor
October 11,1852 -
Born Mary Isabella Macleod
(1852-1933) pioneer of western Canada
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| 1853 |
March 24, 1853 - The Provincial
Freeman (newspaper) is founded by
Mary Ann Shadd
(1823-1893) & her brother Isaac Shadd.
Mary Ann is the 1st Black woman in North America to publish a
newspaper & the 1st female publisher in Canada to advocate for Black
rights
June 17, 1853 - Jane Sym
(1825-1890) marries Alexander Mackenzie
(1822-1892), 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
Births 1853:
1853 - Born
Blanche Lucile Macdonald (1853-1924) author
1853 -
Born Adeline Margaret Teskey (1853-1924) author
January 4, 1853 - Born Ella Bertha Marvin Hatheway
(1853-1931) suffragette in New Brunswick
March 6, 1853 - Born Marguerite 'Lulu' Tibaudeau Lamonthe
(1853-????) social activist
April
1853 - Born Marion Oliver (1853-1913) one of the 1st Canadian
medical missionaries in India
June 13-1853 - Born Sara /Sarah Mickle (1853-1939) local
historian in Toronto, Ontario
June 23, 1853 - Born Alexandra Helen Hargrave (1853-1932)
pioneer of the Canadian North West
August 26, 1853 - Born Alice Jones (1853-1933) one of Canada's
leading authors for her era
Deaths 1853:
March 21, 1853 - Frances Ramsay Simpson (1812-1853) Lady
Simpson, for whom Fort Frances was named after she visited the site
September 18, 1853 - Died Ann Vickery Robins (1799/1800-1853)
iterate preacher with the Bible Christians sect of the Methodist
church
October 23, 1853 - Eliza Ann Chipman (1807-1853) diarist &
teacher
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| 1854 |
July 2,
1854 - A train carrying Norwegian Immigrants arrives in
Sandwich
(Windsor, Ontario). The immigrants have Cholera. Margaret Arnold McEwan
(1812-1883) helps out at danger
to her own health. The railway presents her with a gold watch for
her benevolence
Source: “The Yellow Brick Question” by Elaine Weeks. Times Magazine.
Online (Accessed November 2012)
November
1854 - Abigail Becker
(1830-1905) is paramount in saving
lives of the master and six men of
the crew of the schooner Conductor, sunk off Long Point Island,
Ontario. Her storey is now largely forgotten
1854 - In New Brunswick someone who procured a
miscarriage was liable to 14 years in prison
1854 - Wesleyan Academy, Sackville, New Brunswick opens
its 1st classes in art and music especially for women
Source: Important moments in Canadian History ( accessed May 2002)
Births 1854:
1854 -
Born
Edith Jessie Archibald (1854-1936) social
activist for women's rights. A National Historic Person of Canada
1854 -
Born Annie Crisp Bond (1854-1943) nurse & philanthropist
1854 -
Born Mary Ann Gyves (1854-1941) Aboriginal pioneer in British
Columbia
1854 -
Born Grace Louise Reynolds Calder (1854-1924) Nurse who taught
Nightingale System in Canadian West
1854 -
Born Grace Elizabeth Dennison (1854-1914) journalist known as
'Lady Gay'
1854 -
Born Kate 'Fanny' Partridge (1854-1931) Yukon pioneer
1854 -
Born Mary Augusta Reid (1854-1921) landscape painter,
interiors & murals
1854 -
Born Ellen Elizabeth Spragge (1854-1932) free lance journalist
March 2, 1854 - Born Lillian
Frances Treble (1854-1915) volunteer & philanthropist
September 15, 1854 - Born Maria Heathfield Pollard-Grant
(1854-1937) social activist, suffragist, and school trustee.
September 19, 1854 - Born Dorothy Elizabeth Chambers
(1854-1979) Ontario pioneer farmer
September 20, 1854 - Born Sarah Ann Lawyer (1854-1938)
indomitable early woman doctor
who served in Boer War
October 31, 1854 - Born Geraldine Moody (1854-1945) pioneering
photographer
November 22, 1854 - Born Huldah S. McMullen Rockwell
(1854-1904) social activist with the Women's Christian Temperance
Union
Deaths 1854:
July 22, 1854 - Died Marie Amable Viger
(1778-1854) social activist
September 18, 1854 -
Died
Letitia Hargrave (1813-1854) a pioneer of
the fur trading era
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| 1855 |
January 1, 1855 - Ottawa in incorporated as a city
1885 - White women of Canada's Northwest territories are
only allowed to vote or run for office as school trustees
1855 - Emmaline Shadd,
sister to Mary Ann Shadd
(1823-1893), a Black student,
received top honours, 1st prize and a 1st class teaching
certificate from the Toronto Normal School
(teacher's college).
Source: Black History
Month
onlone (accessed May 2005)
October 20, 1855 -
Toronto, Upper Canada
(Ontario)
becomes the new capital city of Canada
Births 1855:
1855?
- Born Julia Washington Berry (1855?-????) toll keeper
1855 - Born Lucy Faris (1855-1924) philanthropist
1855 - Born Elizabeth Gibson (185501942) first superintendent
of nurses Galt Hospital, Ontario
1855 - Born Lovisa McDougal (1855-1943) pioneer of Canadian
North West
1855 - Born Sara Anne McLagan (1855-1924) the 1st Canadian woman
newspaper editor
April
1853 - Born Marion Oliver (1855-1913) one of the 1st Canadian
medical missionaries in India
January 9, 1855 - Born Katherine Bawlf (1855-1918) social
activist
February 22, 1855 - Born Grace
Annie Lockhart (1855-1916) the 1st woman to receive a university
degree in Canada
April 3, 1855 -
Born Anna Maria McPhee (1855-1947) early woman doctor
April 8, 1855 - Born Frances Jones Bannerman (1855-1944) artist
and poet
April 11, 1855 - Born Margaret O'Hara (1855-1940) indomitable
early woman doctor
April 27, 1855 -
Born Margaret Purdie Symington (1855-1909) indomitable early
woman doctor
June 1, 1855 - Born Helga Steinvor Baldvinsdotir (1855- 1941)
penname 'Undine', author, & poet
July 28, 1855/6 - Born Margaret Ruttan Scott (1855/6-1931)
social activist
September 15, 1855 - Born Mary Ann Casey Abbott (1855-1931)
wife of 1st licensed physician in Canada
November 18, 1855 -
Born Susan Reynolds Crease (1855-1947) artist & diarist
December 14, 1854 - Born Mary Ellen Macnab
(1854-1939) social activist and poet
December 20, 1855 - Born Mary Ann Doak (1855-1948)
pioneer of Canadian North West
Deaths 1855:
July 15, 1855 - Died Marianne Creedon,
Sister Mary Frances of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy,
Ireland (1811-1855)
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| 1856 |
April
16, 1856 -
the 1st discovery of gold in British Columbia.
All gold is declared property of the crown
Births
1856:
1856
- Born Juliette Rose Anne 'Dollie' Belanger
(1856-1942) activist and pioneer of Northeastern Ontario
1856 - Born Dorothy Dworkin (1856-1976) nurse,
businesswoman, & a founder of Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto
1856 -
Born Victoria Sarah Ernst (1856-1940) early woman doctor in Nova
Scotia
1856 -
Born Katie McVicar (1856-1886) union leader
1856 -
Born Amelia Mildred Ross (1856?-1920) painter & sculptor
1856 -
Born Kate Yeigh
(1856-1906) journalist & author
January 4, 1856 - Born Elizabeth Robb Beatty (1856-1939) World
War l Nursing Sister
February 17, 1856 -
Born Emily ‘Emma’ Arabella Stark-Clarke (1856-1890) first Black
teacher Vancouver Island
February 20, 1856 - Born Kathleen 'Kit' Blake Coleman
(1856-1915) pioneer journalist, 1st woman war correspondent
February 27,1856 - Born Emma Sophia Baker (1856-1943) psychologist,
one of two 1st women to receive a PhD from a Canadian University
May 20, 1856 -
Born Eliza Ritchie, (1856-1935)
probably
the first Canadian woman to receive her doctor of letters
July 6, 1856 - Born Kate Simpson Hayes (1856-1945) journalist &
one of founders of Canadian Women's Press Club
July 22, 1856 - Born Janet Murray (18561940) Indomitable early
woman doctor
August 5, 1856 - Born Caroline Louise Josephine Wells
(1856-1939) first woman dentist in Canada
August 26, 1956 -
Died Mary Lillian Cameron (1894-1956) World War l Nursing
Sister
September 16, 1856 - Born Kate Reed (1856-1928) 1st Canadian
woman who worked as a professional decorator
October 4, 1856 - Born Florence Roseltha Howey (1856-1936)
pioneer in Sudbury, Ontario
November 1856 - Born Anna Burgess Durie (1856-1933) poet
November 8, 1856 -
Born Mary Louise Agar (1856-1931) indomitable early woman doctor
December 19, 1856 - Born Elizabeth Fulton Parker
(1856-1944) social activist |
| 1857 |
1857 -
The British
Matrimonial Causes Act, adopted in the provinces of Canada East and
Canada West, makes divorce
possible for women on the grounds of
adultery
Source: History of Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation
online accessed April 2013
July 10, 1857
-
The British parliament passes and act putt Canada on the decimal
currency system
1857 - Dr.
James Miranda Stuart Barry (1795-1865) is posted to Canada where (s)he becomes
well respected for his fight to provide cleaner hospital facilities
and better food for the working soldiers. It would not be
until death, when the body was being prepared for burial that it
would be discovered that the renowned doctor was indeed a woman! It
must have cause a stir in the Victorian society to have had the
1st “woman” doctor in the British Army!!!
June 10 1857 - Canada legally declared the decimal
(dollar) system of currency to be effective as of December 31, 1857
at midnight
1857 -
McGill Normal School (teachers' college) opens with Mary McCraken at
the head
December 12, 1857
- Queen
Victoria (1819-1901) chooses Ottawa as capitol
city of Canada
Births 1857:
1857 -
Born Henrietta Anne Constantine (1857-1934) amateur
photographer of life in the Canadian west
1857 - Born Mary Ella Dignam (1857-1938) feminist, artist, founder
of the Women's Art Association of Canada
1857 - Born Ida Lynd (1857-1943) early
Canadian woman doctor
1857 -
Born Sophia Bethena Jones (1857-1932) Black physician
1857 -
Born Georgea Powell (1857-1925) headed the 1st group of nurses to
the Yukon in 1898
1857 - Born Rosetta Amos Richardson (1857-1953) early Black woman
entrepreneur
1857- Born Mary Hewitt Smart-Shenstone (1857-1945) cultural
activist in Toronto
1857 -
Born Sally Elizabeth/Eliza Wood (1857-1928) photographer in
Knowlton, Quebec
January 14, 1857 -
Born Alice Matilda Freeman (1857-1936) journalist known as
'Stella' & 'Faith Fenton'
February 4, 1857 -
Born Elizabeth Rebecca Gray (1857-1925) indomitable early woman
doctor
February 27, 1857 -
Born Adelaide Hoodless (1857-1910) social activist & founder of
the International Women's Institutes & Victoria Order of Nurses
April 16, 1857 - Born Lady Mary Pellatt (1857-1924) 1st
Commissioner of Girl Guides in Canada
April 17, 1857 -
Born
Anna Louise Pickering (1857-1948)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 26, 1857 - Born Agnes Elizabeth Wetherald (1857-1940)
freelance journalist
May 11, 1857 - Born Mary Henderson Flett Dickson (1857-1940)
cultural activist in Toronto
July 1857 - Born Carrie Jenkins Harris (1857-1903) novelist
July 27, 1857- Born Dr. Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1957- 1943)
Mount Pleasant, Canada West 1st woman to graduate in medicine from a
Canadian university
August 1, 1857 -
Born Jessie Amelia Birnie (1857-1935) indomitable early woman doctor
October 4, 1857 - Born Mary Spencer (1857-1938) photographer in
British Columbia
November 1, 1857 - Born Julia Jane Murray Clark (1857-1919)
pioneering social activist for child welfare
December 1857 - Born Jane Flett McKay (1857-1947) pioneer of
the Canadian North West
December 21, 1857 - Born Marie LeGallo, Marie de Sainte
Elisabeth, (1857-1939) Superior General of Daughters of Jesus
December 28, 1857 - Born Jane Flett-Mackay/Mckay (1857-1947)
nurse and acting surgeon in Peace River area of Alberta
Deaths 1857:
1857 - Died Charlotte Small (1786-1857) pioneer
January 13, 1857 - Died Elizabeth Dart Eynon (1792-1857)
itinerate preacher in Upper Canada
December 28, 1857 - Died Isabel Macdonald (? -1857) wife of
Sir J. A. Macdonald (1815-1891), 1st Prime minister of Canada
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| 1858 |
January 27, 1858 -
It is officially announced that Queen Victoria
(1819-1901)
has chosen Ottawa as the capital city of Canada. (at
that time Canada consisted of Upper and Lower Canada now the
provinces of Ontario and Quebec)
April 7, 1858 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
(1825-1868), one of the Fathers of Confederation, is
assassinated
April 26, 1858 - The 1st Black Californians arrive by ship in
Victoria, British Columbia on the
invitation of James Douglas (1803-1877), the
governor of British Columbia. By summer's end, more than 800
Black settlers had arrived. While government legislation suggested
that equality prevailed, in truth, convention and little enforcement
allowed acceptance to give way to segregation Source:
Historica; Black History - Timeline
. online
July 1, 1858 - The first Canadian coins are minted
including a 1 cent coin, 5 cent coin called a nickel, a ten cent
coin called a dime, and a 20 cent coin.
1858 - The 1st child care centres are organized in
Quebec by the Grey Nuns
1858 -
Female teachers with little experience teaching
the lower grades at school earn $170.00 a year in Toronto while male
teachers earn $520.00 per year
Source:
Janet Ray, Towards
Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
December 20, 1858 -
The maple
leaf is 1st used as a symbol of Canada
Births 1858:
1858 -
Born Mary Ellen Birties (1858-1943)
early
graduate nurse, Member of the Order
of the British Empire (OBE).
1858 - Born Friselda Caisse (1858-1948) local social activist
in Ontario
1858 -
Born Mary Elizabeth Crowley (1858-1869) 1st female in Canada to
have a monument erected in her honour
1858 - Born Gertrude E. Cutts (1858-1941) well known artist of
her era
1858 - Born Jane 'Jennie' Donnelly-Curry/ie (1858-1916)
member of the famous Black Donnelly family
1858 - Born Amelia Etta Hall Johnson (1858-1922) early North
American Black author
& poet
1858 - Born Margaret 'Maggie' Helen Elwood-McCrady (1858-????)
early figure skater
1858 - Born Elizabeth Ferguson McKellop (1858-1938) pioneer
of Canadian North West
January 1, 1858 - Born Jemima Bray (1858-1926), pioneer in
Canadian North West
March 22, 1858 - Born Agnes Buchanan McIntyre - Whiddon
(1858-1912) nurse & police matron
April 16, 1858 - Born Lily Dougall (1868-1923) novelist &
religious writer
May 1858 - Born Bridget Donnelly (1858-1880) member of the
famous Black Donnelly family
June 29, 1858 -
Born Letitia Sirrs (1858-1943) indomitable early woman doctor
July 16, 1858 - Born Partial Edith Fanny Kirk (1858-1953)
water colour landscape artist
September 10, 1858 - Born Ida Labelle (1858-1910) teacher and
advocate of education for girls
September 17, 1858 - Born Maria-Clara Dorimène Roy-Desjardins
(1856-1932) businesswoman & banker of Desjardins
October 4, 1858 - Born Ellen Mary Knox (1858-1924) founding
principal of Havergal Ladies College, Toronto, Ontario
October 4, 1867 -
Born Mary Spencer (1857-1931) early photographer in British Columbia
December 10, 1858 - Born Margaret Ridley Charlton (1858-1931)
educated as a librarian, she became an author of books for children
December 25, 1858 - Born Harriet 'Hattie' Amelia Davis
(1858-1901) indomitable early woman doctor
December 29, 1858 - Born Jean Newton McIlwraith (1858-1938)
author, editor, & journalist
Deaths 1858:
1858 -
Died Mary Whitmore Hoople (1757-1858) pioneer woman known as the
'Medicine Maid' & 'Granny Hoople', she used natural remedies to help the sick
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| 1859 |
1859 -
The legislature of the province of
Canada passes an Act to Secure to Married Women Certain Rights of
Property grants married women with certain property rights in
Canada.
Women may own property but they require the agreement of their husband
to sell property. Source: History of Women's Rights, Nellie
McClung Foundation online accessed April 2013
Births 1859:
1859 - Born
Annie Mackenzie Cleland (1859-1919)
indomitable early Canadian woman doctor
1859 - Born
Martha Jane Hample (1859-1927) social activist & businesswoman
1859 -
Born
Susie Frances Harrison
(1858-1935) used the pen name 'Seranus' and wrote novels & poetry.
1859 - Born
Jean Newton McIlwraith (1959-1938) author
1859 - Born Alice Ravenhill (1859-1954) social activist
1859 - Born Clara Ryan (18591946) indomitable early woman
doctor
January 18, 1859 -
Born Elizabeth Smith-Shortt. (1859-1949)
pioneer women doctor
February 12, 1859? - Born Augusta Louisa Robinson Houston
(1859/-1935) acclaimed Mezzo Soprano
March 31, 1859 - Born Alice Ravenhill (1859-1954) social
activist & author
April 1, 1859 - Born Ada Florence Kinton (1859-1905) Poet &
member of Salvation Army
April 11, 1859 - Born Agnes Dennis (1859-1949) social activist
May 18, 1859 -
Born Alice Constantineau (1859-1933) indomitable early woman
doctor
June 1, 1859 - Born Lillian Marietta Minnie Phelps (1859-1920)
temperance reformer
June 17, 1859 - Born Elizabeth 'Bessie' Maud Egan (1859?-1937)
social activist for the disadvantaged and police women
September 2, 1859 - Born Georgina Alexandrina Newhall
(1859-1932) journalist & poet
September 8, 1859 - Born Marion Elizabeth Crerar (1859-1919)
social activist, volunteer & philanthropist
October 13, 1859 - Born Clara Jennings Melville Hays
(1859-1955) Titanic survivor
October 13, 1859 -
Born Adruenna ‘Addie’ Allen Tupper (1859-1916) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
November 30, 1859 - Born Alma Isobell Sebastapol Balaclava
Forbes Hodder (1859-1942) Alberta pioneer
December 4, 1859 - Born Anne Cecelia Spofford (1859-1938)
author and social activist
December 25, 1859
- Born Annie Mackenzie Cleland (1859-1949) indomitable early woman
doctor
Deaths 1859:
June 14, 1859 - Died Sophia Sims Dalton(1785?-
1859) the 1st woman to run a newspaper, The Patriot, in
Toronto, Ontario
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| 1860 |
February 29, 1860 -
Mrs. Kwong Lee
arrives in Victoria, British Columbia, the 1st Chinese woman to come
to Canada
Source: Jin Guo: Voices of Chinese Canadian Women by
The Chinese Canadian National Council, Toronto : Toronto Women's
Press, 1992 pg. 18.
December 1860 - Harriet Tubman
(1820?-1913)
leader her last group of escaping slaves from Maryland, U.S.A.
to safety in Canada Source: 100 Canadian Heroines :
Famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forester. Toronto : Dundurn Press,
2004. pg 267.
Births 1860:
1860 -
Born Mary Richmond Kerr Austin (1860-1942) cultural activist
1860 -
Born Helena Jane Coleman (1880-1953) author & poet
1860 -
Born Mary Newton (1860- ???)
1st lay nurse in Edmonton, Alberta
1860 -
Born Katherine Elizabeth Wallis (1860-1957) a sculptor who was
decorated by Britain and France for her nursing efforts in World War
l
January 4, 1860 -
Born Elizabeth Atherton (1860-1933) indomitable early lady
doctor
February 6, 1860 - Born Henriette Saint-Jacques
(1860-1946) journalist & author of several books
March 10, 1860 - Born Sydney Strickland Tully (1860-1911)
acclaimed artist of landscapes & portraits
March 26, 1860 - Born Emily Spencer Kirby (18601938) journalist
and social activist
April 7, 1860 - Born Sara Forbes (1860-1902) one of four 1st
nurses who served in the Boer War, South Africa
April 28, 1860 - Born Helena Jane Coleman (1860-1953)
journalist & novelist
June 7, 1860 - Born Helen Elizabeth Reynolds Ryan (1860-1947)
1st woman doctor in Northern Ontario
June 11, 1869 - Born
Ada Borradaile Chipman (1860?-1913)
organized Woman's Art Association for women in 1907
June 18, 1860 - Born Laura Muntz Lyall (1860-1930) artist
June 18, 1860 - Born Janet Weir (1860-1932) indomitable early
woman doctor
July 14, 1860 - Born Alice Jane Jamieson (1860-1949)
1st woman in the British Empire appointed as judge in
juvenile court
August 29, 1860 - Born Margaret Lucas (1860-1922) pioneer in
North West Canada
November 4, 1860 - Born Ada Mary Brown Courtice (1860-1923)
social activist & teacher, founder of Home & School
Association
November 26, 1860 - Born Alice Ashworth Townley (1860-1941)
Vancouver social activist, author, & journalist
December 17, 1860 - Born Lady Grace Julia Parker Drummond
(1860-1942) social activist
Deaths1860:
1860 -
Died Margaret McLaughlin (1775? - 1860) pioneer of the Canadian
North West
1860 -
Died Ann Cuthbert Fleming ( ? - 1860) teacher, poet & author
1860 -
Died Ann Harvey (1811-1860) heroine who risked her life to save people
from floundering ships off Newfoundland
February 5, 1860 - Died Harriet Powel (1815?- 860) escaped
slave who used the underground railroad
March 17, 1860 - Died
Anna Brownell Jameson, (1794-1860) author
May 1860 - Died Marie-Henriette LeJeune Ross 'Granny
Ross' (1762-1860) pioneer settler, scientist & medical practitioner
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| 1861 |
1861 -
The population of Canada is 1,396,000
May 25,1861 -
Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds
(1841-1898) joins the Union Army
to serve as Frank Thompson, nurse and Union spy
in the American Civil War
September 19, 1861 -
The Wesleyan Ladies College is opened on King St.
in Hamilton, Ontario in the former Anglo-American Hotel. It is both
a day and boarding school and offers courses in literature, music,
art and modern languages
Births 1861:
1861 - Born Louise Armaindo (1861-1906) world champion high
wheel bicycle rider
1861 -
Born Marion Coutts Carson (1861-1950) social activist in Alberta
1861 -
Born Marie Rose Delorme - Smith (1861-1960) Métis pioneer
1861 -
Born Harriett Armine Gosling (1861-1942) social activist,
community volunteer & suffragette
1861 -
Born Eliza Parks Hegan (1861-1917) one of 1st nurses trained in
New Brunswick
1861 -
Born Cécile Laberge (1861-1948) journalist & one of the founders
of the Canadian Women's Press Club. 1904
1861 - Born Armine Nutting-Gosling (1861-1942) social activist
1861 -
Born Annie Louisa Prat (1861-1960) Nova Scotia artist
1861 -
Born Georgina Fane Pope (1862-1938) The Florence Nightingale of
Prince Edward Island and 1st Matron of the Canadian Army Medical
Corp
1861 -
Born Sadie O. Prince (1861-1905) poet
1861 -
Born
Mary Townsend Schaffer (1861-1939)
historian & author
January 14, 1861 - Born Margaret Blair Gordon (1861-1928)
indomitable early Canadian woman doctor
January 15, 1861 - Born Marguerite Riel (1861-1886) wife of
Louis David Riel
March 1861 - Born Marion Gillen (1861-1900) indomitable early
woman doctor
March 10, 1861 - Born Pauline Johnson, (1861-1913) Canada's 1st
renowned native poet
April 5, 1861 - Born Minna Keen (1861-1943) pioneer
photographer
April 13, 1861 - Born Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947)
author of the 1st Canadian book to sell a million copies
April 18, 1861 - Born Jessie Winnifred Hogg (1861-1915) author
& entrepreneur
April 18, 1861 - Born Isabella 'Belle' Clarke Lougheed (1861-1936) political
life & doyenne of Calgary, Alberta
May 9, 1861 -
Born Marion Young Coutts Curson (1861-1950) activist in Calgary
May 10, 1861 - Born Jane 'Jennie' Stewart Bloomfield
(1861-1950) indomitable early woman doctor
June 2, 1861 - Born Emma Casgrain (1861-1934) 1st woman dentist
in Quebec
June 12, 1861 - Born Mabel Phoebe Peters (1861-1914) suffragist
& social activist in education
June 23, 1861 - Born Lilian Yoemans (1861-1942) first woman
doctor in Winnipeg
July 15, 1861 - Born Alice Maud
Ardagh (1861-1936) novelist & poet
September 18, 1861 - Born E. Cora Hind, (1861-1942) 1st woman
journalist in the Canadian west & women's rights activist
September 21, 1861 - Born Alice Skimmen McGilivray
(1861-1912) indomitable woman doctor
September 27 - 1861 - Born Charlotte Susan Wood (1861-1939)
first Silver Cross Mother, 1936
October 4, 1861 - Born Mary Townsend Schaffer Warren (1861-1939)
19th century explorer in Canadian North West
October 9, 1861 - Born Agnes Douglas Craine (1861-1937) doctor
who founded Craine Chair in Biochemistry at Queen's University
October 11, 1861 - Born Mary Ellen Smith (1861-1933) 1st woman
appointed Cabinet Minister in the British Empire
November 19, 1861 - Born Victoria Belcourt Callihoo
(1861-1966) Métis historian
November 24, 1861 - Born Clarissa 'Clara' Archibald Dennis
(1881-1958) photographer in Nova Scotia
December 5, 1861 - Born Josephine Herélle-Henriette
Marchand-Dandurand (1861-1925) 1st woman to edit a French language
periodical in Canada
Deaths 1861:
October 10, 1861 - Died Sophia Thomas Mason (1822-1861)
translated 1st Cree Language Bible
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September 18, 1862 -
The 'Bride-ship' Tynemouth arrives in British Columbia bringing
60 single women from England to become wives to the predominantly
male population. The arrangements had been made by the Columbia
Emigration Society working with the Anglican Church.
1862 -
Mount
Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, accepts the
1st woman student at a
Canadian university.
1862 - Catherine Schubert
(1835-1918) and her husband join a group of prospectors heading to the
Caribou Gold fields. Catherine was 4 months pregnant when she and
her husband began their overland trek across the prairies and the
Rocky Mountains with their other 3 children ages 5,3, & 1. Source: Archives of British Columbia. Catherine
O'Hare Schubert (accessed May 20, 2005)
Births 1862:
1862 -
Born Lily Adams Beck
(1862?-1931) author
1862 - Born Hazel Boswell (1862-1929) author
1862 -
Born Josephine Dandurand (1862-1925) journalist who used the penname
'Josette'
1862 -
Born Sara Jeanette Duncan ( 1862-1922) journalist &
author of some 20 books
1862 - Born Eva Jeannette Fisher (1862- ?) an indomitable early woman doctor
1862 - Born Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon
(1862-1933) journalist who used the penname 'Lally Bernard'
1862 - Born - Constance Easton Hamilton (1862-1945) 1st
woman in Canada elected to serve in a large metropolitan area
1862?- Born Christina Haas (1862?-1938) businesswoman in
Victoria, B C
1862 - Born Rose de Lima Lefebre (1862-1919) Sister Vincent,
pioneer of Canadian North West
1862 - Born Christine Pilon (1862-1959) pioneer of the North
West rebellion in Manitoba
1862 - Born Wilhelmina 'Minnie' Strait (1862- 1928) medical
missionary
January 4, 1862 - Born Janet Chisholm Lee (1862-1940) worked
with Adelaide Hoodless to establish Women's Institutes
January 7, 1862 -
Born Helen MacMurchy (1862-1953) the 1st woman doctor to
intern at Toronto General Hospital
January 14, 1862 - Born Carrie
Derick, (1862-1941)
1st woman in Canada to become a full
professor
January 30, 1862 - Born
Caroline Sophia Brown (1862-1936) indomitable early woman doctor
March 7, 1862 - Born Clara Jane Demorest (1862-1912)
indomitable early woman doctor
April 9, 1862 -
Born Ellen Ann Sherratt (1862-1943) early woman doctor
April 24, 1862 - Born Virginia Virna Sheard (1862-1943) poet
and fiction writer
June 11, 1862 - Born Eva Jeannette Fisher
(1862-1958)
June 16, 1862 - Born Roberta Beatrice 'Bertha' Boyd-LeRoy
(1862-1944) heroine
June 18, 1862 - Born Minnie Julia Beatrice Campbell
(1862-1952) social activist & prominent volunteer.
June 27, 1862 - Born May Irwin
(1862-1938.) stage performer & star of a pioneering one
minute movie by Thomas Edison.
September 5, 1862 - Born Christina Patrick (1862-1933)
indomitable early woman doctor
September 21, 1862 - Born Mary Meager Southcott (1862-1943)
nurse & person of National Historic Significance
November 4, 1862 - Born Jean Blewett (1862-1934) journalist,
novelist & poet.
November 13, 1862 -
Born
Isabella Mary Davidson (1862-1914) indomitable early woman doctor
December 1862 - Born Edith Emma Coe-Warren (1862-1934) first
teacher in Lethbridge, Alberta
December 16, 1862 - Born Lucinda Graham (1862-1994) medical
missionary
Deaths 1862:
1862 - Died Catherine Fraser
(1790-1862) wife of famous explorer Simon Fraser
May 7, 1862
- Died Mary Ann Soper (1796-1862) itinerate Methodist
preacher in Upper Canada
May 9, 1862 -
Died Mary
(Maria) Elizabeth Alexowina Muir (1785-1862) heroine of the war of
1812
August 14, 1862 -
Died Susanne Connolly (La
Sauvagess of Suzanne Pas de Nom) 1788-1862) pioneer & only woman
who's legal marriage claim rose to the supreme court
August 19, 1862 - Died
Catherine Fraser (1790-1862) pioneer wife of explorer Simon Fraser
who died one day earlier
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Births
1863:
1863 -
Born Dr. Jennie Wildman (1863-1953)
established the Department of Gynecology at the Women’s College
Hospital
1863 -
Born Bertha Carr-Harris (1863-1949) author
1863? - Born Hattie Hatchett (1863/-1958) Black Composer
1863 - Born Anna Jane Henry (1863-1942) indomitable early
woman doctor & medical missionary
1863 - Born Harriet Oliver (1863-1943) pioneer of western
Canada & political wife.
January 22, 1863 - Born
Isabel McConville (1863-1947) indomitable early woman doctor
February 26, 1863 - Born Robertine Barry (1863-1910) pioneer feminist lecturer & writer, considered
the 1st woman journalist in French Canada.
May 11, 1863 - Born Dorthea 'Dora' Farmcomb
(1863-1938) author & poet
May 14, 1863 - Born Emilie Leblanc-Carrier (1863-1935)
suffragette & social activist
May 19, 1863 - Born Bertha Hannah Wright Carr-Harris
(1863-1949) author & social activist
June 1863 - Born
Mary Christine Bein Buchannan (1863-1935) medical missionary
June 9, 1863 - Born Ricca Allen (1863-1942) stage & film
actor
July 23, 1863 - Born Teresa Mary Gowanlock, (1863-1899) pioneer
settler of Canadian North West.
July 26, 1863 - Born Nettie St. George Skimin (1863-1906)
indomitable early woman doctor
August 28, 1863 - Born Margaret Amanda Flemming (1863-1941)
indomitable early woman doctor
September 3, 1863 -
Born Sarah Amelia 'Minnie' Brown (1863-1937) indomitable
early lady doctor
October 11, 1863 - Born
Mary Ellen Smith
(1863-1933.)
1st woman elected to British Columbia Legislature
& 1st woman appointed to a
Cabinet in the British Empire.
October 21, 1883 - Born Ellanore Parker
(1883-1965) World War l Nursing Sister, inventor, and author
October 23, 1863 - Born
Margaret Mackeller (1863-1941)
indomitable early lady doctor.
November 6, 1863 - Born Anna Eleniak (1863-1935) Ukrainian
pioneer in Alberta
December 12, 1863 - Born
Agnes Mary Scott (1863-1927) journalist, 'Amaryllis'. 'The
Marchinist"
December 20, 1863 -
Born Agnes Deans Cameron (1863-1912) teacher, school
administrator and journalist
December 21, 1863 - Born Rebecca 'Rivka' Fox Landsberg
(1863-1917) social activist for Canadian immigrant Jewish families.
Deaths 1863:
1863 - Died Rhoda Ann Page (1826-1863) author.
March 13, 1863 - Died Helen Mar Johnson
(1834-1863) poet (Death sometimes recorded as 1862)
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1864 -
The
Yorkville Archery Cub, Toronto, is established as the 1st in Canada.
1864 - John Torrance (1786-1870) a Montreal businessman,
establishes the Elizabeth Torrance Gold Medal, in memory of his
wife Elizabeth (Fisher) Torrance
(1794-1862), at McGill University, Montreal, and is presented to the
student with the highest standing throughout B C L degree.
Source: McGill University (accessed June 2013)
1864 - College Saint Joseph, Memramcook, New Brunswick
becomes the first Francophone degree granting institution in the
Canadian Maritimes
October 14, 1864 - Governor General Lord Monck hosts a
ball in the Parliament Buildings in Quebec providing entertainment
for those who were attending the Quebec Conference which led to the
Canadian Confederation in 1867. Source:
Anne McDonald, Mercy Coles of PEI in Canada’s History , August
–September 2014.
Births 1864:
1864 - Born Florence Carlyle (1864-1923)
outstanding portrait artist
1864 -
Born Lavina Clark (1864-1905)
Methodist missionary to Canadian North West
1864 -
Born Mary Alexander Bell Eastlake (1864-1951)
artist
1864 -
Born Rosalind Goforth (1864-1942) author
1864 - Born Lydia Elizabeth 'Eliza or Lyda' Hall (1864-1916)
evangelist who with sister, was known as a gifted preacher
1864 - Born Sara Mary Lynch-Stanton (1864-1953) western Canadian
pioneer & artist
1864 - Born Annie Grey McDougall (1864-????) photographer
1864 - Born Mary Helen McKean Malcolmson (1864-1935) established
1st Canadian Girl Guide Company
1864 - Born Annie Midlige (1864-1947) fur trader and Pioneer in
eastern Quebec
January 7, 1864 - Born Helen Gregory McGill, (1864-1947) 1st
woman to be appointed a judge of juvenile court in her region
January 15, 1864 - Born Flora Madeline Shaw (1864-1927) pioneer
in nursing education
February 17, 1864 - Born Jane Elizabeth MacDonald (1864-1922)
author & poet
February 20, 1864 - Born Kathleen “Kit” Coleman, (1864-1915) the world’s 1st
woman war correspondent (during the Spanish
American War.)
February 25, 1864 -
Born Jessie Ann Ellen McLeay Millner (1864-1945) pioneer
March 22, 1864 -
Born Elizabeth Mabel Henderson (1864-1911) indomitable early woman
doctor
April 21, 1864 - Born Nellie Cora Greenwood-Andrews (1864-1958)
social activist & Saskatchewan suffragist
May 6, 1864 - Born Florence Rosalind Goforth (1864-1942) 1st
Presbyterian Missionary to China with her husband
May 7, 1864 -
Born Isa May Ballantyne (1864-1929) photographer
May 11,
1864 - Born Mary Alfretta "Retta" Gifford Kilborn (1864-1942)
Methodist medical missionary in China
May 28, 1864 - Born
Elizabeth Mitchell (1864-1912) indomitable early woman doctor
May 31,1864 - Born Caroline 'Carrie' Eleanor Wilkinson
(1864-1949) poet
July 1864 - Born Amy Florence Scott (1864-1934) early Black
settler in British Columbia
July 14, 1864 - Born Amanda Matilda Nilsson (1864-1940)
pioneer in Canadian North West
July 29 1864 - Born
Annie Gardner Brown (1864-1921) social activist & volunteer
August 7, 1864 - Born
Josephine Crease (1864-1947) Artist on Vancouver Island
September 25, 1864 - Born Amanda Maria Shaw (1864-1941) poet
October 2, 1864 - Born Margaret Jane "Nellie Bryant
(1864/5?-1947) early woman photographer, possible the 1st to use dry
plates in a camera
October 8, 1864 -
Born Katherine Skead-Bell (1864 1954) community activist
October 11, 1864 - Born Annie Ella Higbee (1864 -1965)
indomitable early Canadian woman doctor
October 15, 1864 - Born Florence Sarah Hall
(1864-1917) temperance worker, suffragist, & feminist
December 4, 1864 - Born Ada Alfaretta Funnell
(1864-1904) indomitable early woman doctor
December 27, 1864 - Born Minnie Blanche Bishop
(1864-1917) poet
Deaths 1864:
April 5, 1864 - Died Marie
Rosalie Cadron (1794-1864) Sister Marie De La Nativité, pioneer social
worker
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April 1, 1865 -
'Baie du Ha! Ha!' Quebec, the 1st Canadian April Fool's Day on
record celebrated by British troops and militia at Fort Poisson
d'avril.
1865 - American abolitionist and
writer Benjamin Drew, conducted research in Canada in the 1850s and
interviewed many former slaves about the Black refugee experience. In
1865 he published an interview with an elderly woman named Sophia Pooley who claimed to have been one of Joseph Brant's slaves and the
"1st Black girl in Upper Canada." Source: Historica:
Black History; Timeline
(Accessed March
2007)
Births 1865:
1865 - Born Annie Charlotte Dalton (1865-1938)
author
1865? -
Born Marcella Dafoe (1865?-1944) social activist
1865 -
Born Sarah Evelyn 'Sadie' Drysdale (1865-1951) teacher in South
African Boer War
1865 - Born Marie Vitaline Dudemaine (1865-1933) Sister Mary
Anastase.
1865 - Born Ann 'Annie' Lowden Gordon (1865-1941) pioneer in
British Columbia
1865 -
Born Helen Beatrice Palen (1865-1971)
the 1st woman
Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ontario.
1865 - Born Virna Sheard (1865-1943) poet & short storey writer.
1865 -
Born
Emily Poynton Weaver (1865-1943) historian & author.
February 13, 1865 - Born Hattie Walker (1865-1943) social
activist
April 17, 1865 - Born Victoria Grace Blackburn (1865-1928)
journalist, editor & novelist
June 6, 1865 - Born Annie Lapp (1865-1978) indomitable woman
doctor
June 11, 1865 -
Born Margaret Eaton (1865-????) World War l Nursing Sister
July 2, 1865 - Born Lily Osman Adams (1865-1945) painter
October 9, 1865 - Born Elizabeth Ann Ashfield Woodburn
(1865-1945) artist in Saint John
December 9,1865 - Born Annie Charlotte Dalton (1865-1938) a poet who
was inducted into the Order of the British Empire (OBE)..
Deaths 1865:
1865 - Died James Miranda Stuart Barry (1795-1865) the 1st “woman” doctor in the British
Army!!!
1865 - Died Marguerite Vincent
Lawinonkie (1783-1865) native artist in needlework, moccasin making
& snowshoe making
1865? - Died
Priscilla Miller (1789?-1865?) pioneer of Grey Co.,
Ontario
August 4,1865 -
Died Florence Daly Thompson, (1865-1915)
accomplished artist, successful and published science researcher &
librarian.
September 26, 1865 - Catherine Sonego Sutton
(1824-1865) Nahnebahwequat, Indigenous writer
October 8 1865 - Died Belinda Molony (1781-1865)
Sister Mary Xavier of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
established girls school in Newfoundland
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Births
1866:
1866 -
Born Agnes Lockhart Hughes (1866-1942) journalist & poet
1866 -
Born
Aletta Elise Marty
(1865-1929) Canada's 1st woman inspector of schools & author
1866 - Born Elizabeth Annie McGillivray Knowles (1866-1928)
painter
1866 - Born Catherine 'Kate' Motherwell (1866-1952) educator
1866 - Born Laura Rose Stephen (1866-1963) Canada's 1st
dairying instructor
January 1, 1866 - Born Mary Frances
Elizabeth Munro (1866-1915) World War l Nursing Sister
January 6, 1866 - Born Elizabeth Matheson (1866-1958) early doctor in Manitoba who practiced for 50 years.
January 8, 1866 - Born Elizabeth Annie McGillivray Knowles (1866-1928)
nature study artist.
February 1866 - Born Nettie Marjorie Ogilivie-Oughton
(1866-1927) indomitable early woman doctor
February 3, 1866 - Born
Alice Amelia Chown (1866-1949) suffragist & author.
February 24, 1866 -
Born Martha Louise Black (1866-1957),
adventurer & politician, considered
to be the First Lady of the Yukon.
March 14, 1866 - Born Daisy Amelia Hulse Roberts Wright
(1866-1951) poet
March 16, 1866 - Born Margaret Benedictsson (1866-1956) social
activist & journalist
March 19, 1866 - Born Catherine Edith Brown (1866-????) one of
the first woman grads at University of Toronto
March 31, 1866 - Born Melita Aiken (1866-1945) painter
April 3, 1866 - Born Georgina Ann Stirling (1866-1935) opera
singer.
April 7, 1866 - Born Harriet Irene Dunlop Prenter (1866-1939)
a pacifist & one of 1st women to run in a Canadian federal election
April 9. 1866 - Born Melanie Blondeau (1866-1992) Native artist
May 9, 1866 - Born Emma Bliss (1866-1959) Titanic survivor
May 10, 1866 - Born Constance Fairbanks-Pier (1866-1939)
journalist, poet, & editor
May 15, 1866 - Born Jane Christina Willey (1866-1943) first
woman qualified pharmacist in Saskatchewan
May 31, 1866 - Born Sophia Margaretta Hensley (1866-1946)
author, lecturer & social activist who wrote under male pen names.
June 1866 - Born Dorthea Agnes Jane Ore (1866-1946)
indomitable early woman doctor
June 28, 1866 -
Born Rose Pringle (1866-1947) early woman doctor
July 25, 1866 -
Born Elizabeth Embury (1866-1945) indomitable early women doctor, a
founder of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada
August 1866 - Born Christina Murray (1866-1947) social activist
in Saskatchewan
August 29, 1866 - Born Agnes Maria Turnbull (1866-1907)
Presbyterian medical missionary in India awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind
medal for services.
October 15, 1866 - Born Laura Lemon
(1866-1924) composer
October 22, 1866 -
Born Minnie Grace Green (1866-1933) indomitable early woman doctor
Deaths 1866:
January 13, 1866 - Died
Mary Love (1806-1866) 1st Canadian born artist to
have works lithographed (drawn to stone for printing and
reproduction)
July 9, 1866 - Died Susan Sibbald (1783-1866) pioneer &
diarist.
August 1, 1866 - Died
Marie Louise Dorval (1797-1866) a nun & Mother Superior
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February 16,1867 - Sir John A. Macdonald (1815- 1891)
marries Susan Agnes Bernard, (1836-1920)
the
sister of his personal secretary.
July
1, 1867 - Confederation of Canadian Provinces.
1867 -
Laws concerning prostitution are consolidated into
the Criminal Code of Canada
1867 - Divorce laws become a federal jurisdiction
1867 - Dr. Emily Stowe
(1831-1903)
graduates in medicine from New York
State University, but is not legally allowed to practice in Canada
until 1880.
Source: History of Women's Rights, Nellie
McClung Foundation online accessed April 2013
October 23, 1867 - 72 men are summoned
by Royal Proclamation to serve as the 1st members of the Canadian
Senate. It would not be until 1930 before a woman is appointed to
the Canadian Senate.
1867 - Susannah Oland
(1798-1886) 1st brews a batch of
brown October Ale in her backyard in Nova Scotia and a
family brewery that would become known for Moose Head Beer was
born.
Births 1867:
1867 -
Born
Died Deborah Hurcomb (1867-1907) Nursing Sister in the second Boer
War, South Africa
1867 - Born Flora
Macdonald Denison (1867-1921) journalist & suffragist & successful Toronto businesswoman.
1867 -
Born Kate MacMillan (1867-1922) medical missionary
1867 -
Born Edith Eaton (1867-1914) author.
1967 -
Born Marie Elizabeth Van Haarlem (1867-1945) nurse
February 26,
1867 - Born Helena Walker (1867-1963) 1st woman elected as
alderman in Regina Saskatchewan
March 6, 1867 -
Born Jessica Donalda Bell Dunlap (1867-1946) philanthropist & cattle
breeder
March 13, 1867 -
Born Effie Charlotte Storer (1867-1951) 1st woman journalist in the
North West Territories
March 31, 1867 -
Born Ada MacLeod (1867-1932) author & historian
April 4, 1867 -
Born
Victoria Cartier (1867-1955)
pianist, organist & teacher.
May 1, 1867 -
Born
Harriet Dick (1867-1957) social activist & politician
July 15, 1867 -
Born Thirza Jane Nolan (1867-1948) western pioneer rancher
July 15, 1867 -
Born Amelia Anne Paget (1867-1922) author
July 19, 1867 -
Born Margaret Lillian Foster (1867-1941) indomitable early
woman doctor
August 11, 1867 -
Born Ada Janet Ross (1867-1918) Nursing Sister
August 15, 1867 -
Born Marie Albertina Wallace (1867-1967) Black pioneer in British
Columbia
September 12, 1867 -
Born Mary 'Molly' Mackenzie-Smith (18671955) doctor & medical
missionary
October 14, 1867 -
Born Lucy Ann Gordon (1867-1955) nurse & midwife P E I
October 19, 1867 -
Born
Marie Gerin-Lajoie
(1867-1945) champion of women's rights in Quebec.
November 21, 1867 -
Born Alice Ann Holling (1867-1955) suffragist
November 30, 1867 - Born Annie Jones (1867-1933) indomitable
early woman doctor
December 4, 1867 - Born Sibella Annie Barrington (1867-1929)
pioneer nurse in Canada's Maritimes.
December 28, 1867 - Born Joanna Ellen 'Nellie' Wood (1867- 1927)
highly acclaimed author of her day
Deaths 1867:
November 28, 1867 - Died Julia Catherine Hart (1796-1867)
author who wrote the 1st work of
fiction by a native born Canadian to be published in
Canada
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| 1868 |
1868 -
Sisters
Susanna Moodie
(1803-1885)
and Catherine Parr Traill,
(1802-1899)
in order to earn money to
live on by publishing their book: Canadian Wild Flowers.
1868 -
The Hebrew Ladies' Sick and benevolent Society
(later known as the Montefiore Hebrew Benevolent
Society) is founded in Toronto, Ontario.
Source. Jewish Women's Archives: Jewish Women, a
comprehensive historical Encyclopedia. online (accessed July 2011)
Births 1868:
1868 - Born Annie Mackinnon Fitch (1868-1940) noted
mathematician.
1868 -
Born
Margaret Alexandra
Shea (1863-1949) 1st woman to be a professional nurse in
Newfoundland.
1868 - Born Minnie Sophia Prat (1868-1901) book binder
1868 -
Born Suzanna 'Susie' Carson Rijnhart-Moyers (1868-1908)
January 9, 1868 - Born Irene Parlby (1868-1965) one of
the "Famous Five" who worked on the Persons Case 1929
January 13, 1868
- Born Mary Leila Randall-Morris (1868-1912) early woman doctor
January 16, 1868 - Born Octavia Grace England (1868- ) 1st
woman to be valedictorian at McGill University.
January 18, 1868 - Born Christine Margaret Lighthall
Henderson (1868-1968) poet
January 28, 1868 -
Born Elizabeth Hurdon ((1868-1941) medical doctor holding the
Order of the British Empire
February 1868 - Born
Susanna ‘Susie’ Carson-Moyes (1868-1908) medical missionary
February 12, 1868 - Born
Jessie Georgina Sime (1868-1958) author
February 23, 1868 - Born Mary Sollace Saxe (1868-1942)
librarian Westmont Public Library, author & playwright.
March 14, 1868 - Born Emily Murphy (1868-1933) 1st woman appointed magistrate (judge
of a lower court) in the British Empire.
May 1868 - Born
Annie Belle Alguire (1880-1950) physician, poet, & song writer
May 10, 1868 - Born Ethel Beatrice Street-Langton
(1868?-1946) cultural activist
June 1868 -
Born Elizabeth Constance Harper (1868-1958) poet
June 1, 1868
- Born Annie MacKinnon Fitch (1868-1940) noted mathematician
June 5, 1868- Born Margaret 'Madge' Watt (1868-1948) founder
of Women's Institutes in Great Britain
June 9, 1868 - Born Jean Cowie-Harry (1888-1982) World War 1
Nursing Sister
August 6, 1868 - Born Marie Beatrice Herminie Vidal (1868-1923)
World War l Nursing Sister
August 8, 1868 - Born Julia Willmothe Henshaw (1868-1937)
botanist, journalist & novelist.
August 10, 1868 -
Born Alice Helena Berry (1868-1919) pioneer businesswoman of
Prince Edward Island.
August 14, 1868 - Born Margaret Johnston (1868-1947) indomitable
early woman doctor
August 17, 1868 -
Born Susanna Hamilton (1868-1947) indomitable early woman doctor
September 22, 1868 -
Born
Louise McKinney (1868-1931) one of the two 1st women elected to a
provincial legislature & member of the 'Famous 5' who worked on the
Persons Case.
October 21, 1868 - Born Margaret Eleonore Theodora Addison
(1868-1940) dean of women Victoria College, University of Toronto
November 4, 1868 - Born Dorothy Sproule (1868-1963) poet.
November 9, 1868 - Born Marie Dressler 9Leila Marie Koerber)
(1868-1934) academy award winning actor
November 16, 1868 - Born Almanda Walker-Marchand (1868-1949)
founder Federation des femmes-française.
Deaths 1868:
March 21, 1868 - Died Diana Bayley
(1789?-1868) firs Canadian resident to publish children's literature
March 29, 1868 - Died Henrietta Feller
(1800-1868) founder of the protestant mission at Grande-Ligne,
Quebec
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1869 - Manitoba joins the Dominion of
Canada
1869 -
A clause in
Section 6 of the Act for Gradual Enfranchisement of Indians states
that " any Indian woman marrying other than an Indian shall cease to
be an Indian, as will be the children of such
marriage."
1869 - The Canadian Act
Respecting Offences Against the Person lists the sentence for rape
to remain as death. However the sentence was usually commuted to
something such as banishment for life from an area
1869 -
Abortion and dissemination
of information about birth control is made illegal, under threat of
life imprisonment. The
prohibition of abortions remains in the Canadian Criminal code until
1969. Any woman who procured a miscarriage for herself is
liable to imprisonment for two yeas. Source : A History of Abortion in Canada
online
(accessed July 30, 2003) The Roman Catholic
Church begins considering abortion equivalent to murder and
excommunicates those who procure an abortion
1869 -
The federal Act Respecting Offences Against the
Person stated that a woman found guilty of unlawfully causeing
herself to miscarry and for anyone who aided hers could be sentences
time from one day to life imprisonment
April 9, 1869 - The Hudson Bay
Company cedes its territory to Canada
May 1, 1869 -
The Grey Nuns open St. Mary's Academy, Winnipeg, to
educate English Speaking Catholics in the Red River area
1869 -
An Ontario Law requires all doctors wishing to practice medicine in
the province to obtain a license from the Council of the College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Any doctor who had graduated in
the United States had to attend a session of lectures at an Ontario
medical school. Since women were not accepted at any Ontario medical
schools, Doctors like Emily Stowe
(1831-1903)
simply practiced without a license.
Source:
Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
Births 1869:
1869 -
Born Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1869-1937) botanist, novelist
& WW l Veteran.
January 21, 1869 -
Born Died Mary Jane 'Jennie' Hill Mitchell (1869-1956) doctor &
medical missionary
January 21, 1869 - Born Emma Maud Lampman (1869-1910) first
woman to work in a permanent position on Parliament Hill, Ottawa
February 11, 1869 - Born Frederica
Wilson (1869-1935) World War l Matron of Nursing
March 4, 1869 - Born Annie Marion MacLean (1869-1934) academic,
one of first to receive a PhD in Sociology in North America
March 14, 1899 - Born Fannie/Fanny
McNeil (1869-1928) social activist, suffragette, &
candidate for election in Newfoundland
March 18, 1869 - Born Maud Abbott (1869-1940)
internationally acclaimed medical doctor who specialized in the study
of heart disease.
May 17, 1869 - Born Margaret Morrison Ross
(1869-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 8, 1869 - Born Sara "Sadie" Ann Stringer (1869-1955) Anglican Church Missionary to the Canadian North
West
May 2, 1869 - Born Julia Arthur (1869-1950) international stage
actor & movie star.
May 30, 1869 - Born Florence C.
Casler (1869-1954) developer and builder
June 27, 1869 - Born Emma
Goldman (1869-1940) social activist & anarchist writer
July 25, 1869 -
Born Margaret Ann Gould (1869-1947) indomitable early woman
doctor
October 15, 1869 -
Born Margaret Stirling Wallace (1859-1963) physician, medical
missionary
October 30, 1869 -
Born Mary Jane McDonnell (1869-1946) early woman doctor
November 5, 1869 - Born Clara Mary Olding-Hebb (18691921) early
woman doctor
November 14, 1869 - Born Mary Ardcronie "Ard'' Mackenzie
(1869-1948) nursing professor
December 11, 1869 - Born Helen
Richmond Young Reid (1869-1941) social activist
Deaths 1869:
1869 - Died Mary Elizabeth Crowley (1858-1869) 1st female in
Canada to have a monument erected in her honour
|
| 1870 |
1870 -
The 1st woman is employed in the federal
public service as deputy matron in Kingston Penitentiary.
1870 -
Female teachers
in Toronto earn $220.00 to $400.00 per year depending on experience
while male teachers earn $500.00 to $700.00 per year.
Source:
Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights,
Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
May 12, 1870 -
The Manitoba Act receives Royal Assent creating the new province of
Manitoba
1870 - Agnes
Blizzard establishes the 1st Canadian Young Women's Christian Association
(YWCA) in Saint John, New Brunswick. Source: History of the YWCA
1870 -
Frances Anne Hopkins shows 16 works at the
Art Association of Montreal. It is the largest showing from any one
woman to this date. Source: Important Moments in
Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects (accessed February
2006)
July 5, 1870 - Annie Emma
Affleck (1845-1913)
marries future Prime Minister John Sparrow David Thompson
(1845-1894) at the Bishop's
Palace, Portland Maine, U.S.A.
Sources: “Obituary”, The Toronto Evening Telegram, April 11,
1913. ; “Annie Emma Affleck”, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
1911-1920, vol. XIV Online Accessed April 2013.
1870 -
The 1st public monument erected to a
Canadian woman is dedicated in Pugwash, Nova Scotia by the
provincial legislature.
The Crowley Memorial
commemorates the heroic death of Mary Elizabeth Crowley
(1858-1869)
who died
October 15,1869, aged 12 years after having rescued her younger
brother and sister from the flames of her parent's home.
July 15, 1870
- Rupert’s Land is purchased to extend Canada to the Rocky Mountains
and establish the Northwest Territories. The land was purchased from
the Hudson’s Bay Co. for 3000,000 pounds. Manitoba becomes the fifth
Canadian province
Births 1870:
1870 - Born Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942) 1st woman
photojournalist in North America
1870 -
Born Susan Mellett Bowen (1870-1962) Anglican Church missionary to the
Canadian North West.
1870 -
Born Jane Constance Cook (1870-1951) Aboriginal rights activist in
British Columbia
1870 -
Born Louise Duffield Cummings (1870-1947) renowned mathematician.
1870 -
Born Evelyn Durand (1870-1900) poet
1870 -
Born
Irene Gurney Evans (1870?-1951) cultural activist
1870 - Born Antoinette Gerin-Lajoie (1870-1945) social activist
1870 -
Born Margaret 'Miggsy' Graham (1870-1924) journalist one
of the founders of the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC)
1870 - Born Lalia Halfkenny (1870-1897) first Black Canadian
to attend post secondary school in New Brunswick
1870 - Born Lillian Margaret Hendrie (1870-1952) teacher & author.
1870 -
Born
Mabel Annesley Johnston
(1870-1945) author
1870 - Born Katherine 'Kate' Joanne Mackay-MacKenzie
(1870-1925) early woman doctor
1870's - Born Matilda 'Tilly' Mays (1970's - 1909) social
activist
1870 - Born Rose-Anna Vachon (1870?-
1948) baker & businesswoman
1870 - Born Alice Wilson (1870-1948) businesswoman of the
Gatineau & Outaouais
January 19, 1870 -
Born Hannah Emily Reid (1870-1955) early woman doctor
February 4, 1870 - Born Janet Wishart Carter (1870-1953)
renowned educator in Ontario.
March 18, 1870 - Born Agnes Baxter (1870-1917) pioneer woman
mathematician.
March 29, 1870 - Born Marie--Louise-Joséphine-Ester-Eliza
Marmette (1870- 1928) pioneer journalist
April 15, 1870 -
Born Mina Hubbard-Ellis (1870-1956) Labrador adventurer, explorer, &
National Historic Person
June 25, 1870 - Born Jeannie Isabelle Dow (1870-1927)
Presbyterian medical missionary in China.
September 24, 1870 - Born
Jessie Anne Morrice (1870-1949) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 2, 1870 - Born Alice Hollingsworth Webster
(1870-1954) early promoter of Women's Institutes and local
archaeologist
October 13, 1870 -
Born Adruenna ‘Addie’ Allen Tupper (1870-1916) World War l Nursing
Sister
October 15, 1870 -
Born Alison Jamieson (1870-1911) indomitable early woman doctor
November 21, 1870
- Born Louise Duffield Cummings (1870-1947) noted mathematician
|
| 1871 |
1871 - More than 50% of the light manufacturing workforce
I.E. shoemaking, printing, & tobacco are women
& children
June 17, 1871 - Canadian
Anna Swan (1846-1888), the world's
tallest woman, marries Martin Van Buren Bates
(1837-1919), world's tallest man, in London, England
July
20, 1871 - British Columbia joins Confederation
1871 - The Census of Canada states that Montreal's
workforce is 42% women and children and 34% in Toronto
1871 - The Ontario School Act, very progressive for its
time, provides free school for both boys and girls
Source: The Timechart history of Canada by Meredith Macardle (2004)
1871 - The Manitoba Act Respecting Married Women allows
women to keep ownership of property, but any wages made must go to
her spouse unless he is judged cruel or insane
Source: History of Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation
online accessed April 2013
May 10, 1871 - the Montreal Ladies
Educational Association is founded with
Anne Molson as President. They had honorary male
members and a male treasurer. Their main goal was to have women
accepted as students at McGill College
Births 1871:
1871 - Born Mabel Cawthra-Adamson (1871-1943) potter, artist
& organizer
1871 -
Born Augusta Edith Ariss (1871-1952) Registered Nurse &
Deaconess, Methodist Church, founder Grand Falls Montana, U.S.A.
Nursing School
1871 -
Born Julie C. Cadegan (1871?-1918) volunteer pandemic nurse
1871 -
Born Antoinette Gérin-Lajoie (1871-1945) journalist,
one of the founders of Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC) in 1904
1871 -
Born Annie Hollis (1871-1941) feminist & journalist
1871 -
Born Isabelle Maud Hill (1879-1936) pioneering nurse in
British Columbia
1871 - Born Anna "Annie" Jamieson (1871-1952) education activist
1871 - Born Mildred Ware (1871-1905) pioneer rancher in Canadian
west
January 20, 1871 -
Born Sarah Schilstra (1871-1942) doctor who served in World War 1
January 25, 1871 - Born Pearle Smith Chute (1871-1948) 1st woman doctor to intern in
Canada & became a medical Missionary to India
January 31, 1871 - Born Marie
Arzélie Éva Circé-Côté (1871-1949) journalist, playwright, 1st
Librarian for Montreal
February 1871 - Born Agnes Christina Laut (1871-1936) a
journalist & author who ventured into political commentary
February 11, 1871 - Born Agnes Christina Laut (1871-1936)
novelist, biographer & North American historian
March 14, 1871 -
Born Susannah 'Susan' Grant (1871-1970) medical missionary
April 8, 1871 -
Born Carrie 'Birdie' Holmes MacGillivray (1871-1949) painter &
author
April 16, 1871 -
Born
Marjorie Elizabeth Ward (1871-1939) indomitable early woman doctor
April 19, 1871 -
Born Gertrude Winnifred Hulet (1871-1933) physician &
medical missionary
April 25, 1871 - Born Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947) journalist & farmer
May 14, 1871 - Born Marion Osborne (1871-1931) poet, playwright
& author
June 3, 1871 - Born Clara Emily Anderson (1871-1958) playwright
July 2, 1871 - Born Wilhelmina 'Mina' Alexander (1871-1961)
painter
July 7, 1871 - Born Mathilde Masse (1871-1950) second Quebec
woman to become a doctor
August 1, 1871 - Born Annie Lewisa Laird (1871-1939) domestic
science professor at University of Toronto
August 19, 1871 - Born Elizabeth McMaster (1871-1956) doctor &
medical missionary
October 5, 1871 - Born Margaret Ethel Fraser (1871-1962)
indomitable early woman doctor
October 30, 1871- Born Minerva Ellen Reid
(1872-1957) medical doctor, Chief of Surgery Women's College Hospital,
Toronto
November 1871 - Born Annie Grant Hill Ridout (1871-1965) early
doctor & dentist
November 1871 -
Born Edith 'Daisy' Campbell (1871-1951) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 13, 1871 - Born Pearl Hart (1871-1955) woman
stagecoach robber
December 1871 - Born Mary Walker Dobson (1871-1955) teacher
who received
King’s Coronation Medal
1937
December 4, 1871 -
Born Mary Emily MacLeod More (1871-1960) World War l
correspondent
December 12, 1871 -
Born Edith 'Daisy'
Campbell (1871-1951) Nursing Sister and Matron World War l
December 14, 1871
- Born Rose Mary Louise Henderson (1871-1937) Montreal social
activist
Deaths: 1871;
January 17, 1871 -
Died
Mary Teresa McGee (1847-1871) 'Mother of
Confederation'
April 9, 1871 -
Died Marie Anne Marcelle Mallett/Maille/Maillet (1805-1871)
September 14, 1871 - Died Elizabeth Speed Beaven, (? - 1871)
author
November 10, 1871 - Died Caroline
Hayward (1819?-1871) painter & poet
|
| 1872 |
1872 -
The Married Women’s Property Act of Ontario gives a married woman the right to her own wage
earnings free from her husband’s control
Source: History of Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation
online accessed April 2013
1872
-
Women with
dependant children who have no husband may have homestead land in
accordance with the Public Lands of the Dominion
Statutes
1872 -
The 1st women's prison, for girls over 16
years, in Canada is opened in Toronto, Ontario, the Andrew Mercer
Reformatory. It
will be closed in 1969 after controversial allegations of torture,
beatings, and experimental drugs and medical procedures were
investigated
July 14, 1872 - Trade Unions are legalized in Canada
1872 - Dr. James R. Inch Principal of the Mount Allison
Ladies College declares at the commence ceremony that bachelor and
master degrees would be awarded by Mount Allison College without
discrimination of sex. By May 1875 Grace Annie Lockhart
(1855-1916) became the 1st woman in the British Empire to receive a
Bachelor of Arts.
Births 1872:
1872 - Born Kathleen Barrett Blanchard (1872-1954) music
historian
1872 - Born Mabel Frances Hersey (1872-1943) nurse & member of
the Order of the British Empire
1872 - Born Belinda Mulrooney (1872-1967) Klondike
businesswoman
1872 - Born Anna M. Tilley (1872-1952) social worker, O B E
January 6, 1872 -
Born Bertha Maud Maria Weston Price (1872-1955) author of
legends of Quebec & poet
January 6, 1872 -
Born Emilie Tremblay (1872-1949) pioneer of
the Yukon & 1st white woman to climb the Chilkoot trail in 1894
January 8, 1872 - Born Elsie Redford (1872-1967) philanthropist
January 26, 1872 -
Born Edith Rayside (1872-1950) World War l Matron-in-Chief of Nursing Sisters, O B E
March 16, 1872 - Born Sara Corning (1872-1969) a nurse &
heroine who save 5000 Armenian children in 1922.
March 20, 1872 - Born Janet Hall
(1872-1950) indomitable early woman doctor
Spring 1872 - Born Ida
Madeline 'Mattie' Gunterman (1872-1945) amateur photographer
May 12, 1872 -
Born Margaret
Heggie Smith (1872-1920) World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 1872 -
Born
Annie Ross (1872-1966) early woman doctor
August 18, 1872 -
Born Jemima MacKenzie (1872-1957) doctor & medical missionary
August 27, 1872 -
Born Mary Ether MacGregor
(1872-1961) novelist in south western Ontario
September 14, 1872 -
Born Abbie Mary Lyon Sharman
(1872-1957) author, poet, & playwright
October 2, 1872 - Born Marie
Laurent dit Poirier-Laflamme (1872-1964) Quebec businesswoman
October 8, 1872 - Born
Agnes A. McDougall (1872-1919) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 2, 1872 - Born
Lucetta Martha Morden (1872-1956) indomitable early woman doctor
Deaths 1873:
1872 - Died Charlotte deGrassi (1823-1872) heroine of the
1937 rebellion in Upper Canada
July 15,1872 - Died Mary Eliza
Herbert (1832-1872) 1st woman editor & publisher of a magazine in
Nova Scotia
October 24, 1872 - Died
Frances Stewart (1794-1872) pioneer diarist & letter writer
December 1, 1872 -
Died Sophie Shaw (1792-1872) fiancée of Sir Isaac Brock (1769-1812)
|
| 1873 |
1873 -
The British Columbia provincial government passes legislation
granting all the women of British Columbia the right to vote
in municipal elections but they were still not allowed to run for
election
1873 -
YWCA = Young Woman's Christian Association is established in
Toronto Source: History of the YWCA Online
March 1, 1873 - E. Remington & Sons begin producing
typewriters
April 30, 1873 - Tookoolito (1838-1876)
is rescued as one of 19 survivors of 6 1/2 months on a ice flow in the
Canadian arctic (the survivors had been separated from their ship the
Polaris)
May 23,1873 - Northwest Mounted Police are formed.
In 1904 it becomes the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
July 1, 1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes the seventh
Canadian province
October 20, 1873 - Prince Edward Island enters Confederation
Births 1873:
1873 - Born Gladys Lillian Boyd (1873-1970) medical endocrine
specialist
1873 - Born Margaret Lewis (1873-1941) social activist for women
factory workers
1873 - Born Belinda Mulrooney (1873?-1967?) astute Yukon
businesswoman
1873 - Born Mary Barrett Speechly (1873-1968) social activist & member Women's Institutes
February 11,
1873 - Born Mary Riter Hamilton (1873-1954) artist of World War
l European battlefields
February 20, 1873 - Born Isabella Smith Wood (1873-1954)
indomitable early woman doctor
February 27, 1873 -
Born Sarah Ann ‘Annie’ Gray Caswell (1873-1954) journalist &
novelist
March 1, 1873 -
Born Mary May 'Minnie' Campbell (1873-1948) indomitable early
lady doctor
May 8, 1873 -
Born Daisy Mary Moore Macklin (1873-1925) early woman
doctor & medical missionary
May 6, 1873 - Born Henrietta Tuzo Wilson (1873-1955) The 1st Canadian
born woman mountaineer.
May 20,1873 - Born
Henrietta Hancock Britton (1873-1963) painter & teacher
May 22, 1873 - Born Anna 'Annie' Ermatinger Fraser (1873-
1930) World War l Nursing Sister
May 31, 1873 - Born Nance Ann Rodger Chenoweth (1873-1954)
indomitable early woman doctor
June 2,
1873 - Born Mary Helen Irwin Rutnam (1873-1962) medical
missionary in Ceylon who established the Women's Institute in Ceylon
June 13, 1873 - Born Jean Adair (1873-1953) movie actor
June 23, 1873 - Born Minerva Margaret Greenaway (1873-1906)
early woman doctor
July 9, 1873 - Born Annie Norman Hennigar-Sanford (1873-1950)
early woman rural doctor in Nova Scotia
July 17, 1873 -
Born Leonora Herrington (1873-1960) World War l Nursing Sister
August 27, 1873 - Born Maud Allan (1873-1956) pioneer of modern
dance
September 3, 1873 - Born Harriett Macmillan Cockburn
(1873-1948) early doctor serving in Syria in World War 1
September 17, 1873 -
Born Nonie Winnifred Milburn (1873-1963) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 5, 1873 - Born Mary Hagen Conquest (1873-1955) 'The Red
Cross Lady' of Alberta
October 20, 1873 - Born Nellie McClung (1873-1851) author
& social activist
Deaths 1873:
1873 - Died Matilda Davis (1820-1873) pioneer educator
1973 - Died
Margaret Jane Riddle-Corrigan (1879-1973) World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 29, 1873 - Died Hortense Globensky Prevost (1804-1873)
heroine
June 20, 1873 -
Died Ellen Kyle Noel (1815-1873) author
November 14, 1873 - Died Rebecca Gibbs (1808-1873) considered
first Black female Canadian poet
|
| 1874 |
1874
- Russian
Mennonites (Anabaptists) start to arrive in Manitoba from various
Russian colonies.
1874 - The Young Women's
Christian Association (Y W C A) is established in Montreal Source: History of the YWCA online
July 26, 1874 -
Alexander Graham Bell
(1847-1922) discloses the
invention of the telephone to his family in Brantford, Ontario
1874 - The Women's Christian Temperance Union
(W C T U) is founded in Owen Sound, Ontario Source: History of
Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation online accessed April
2013
1874 - The Ontario Ladies College is opened in
Whitby, Ontario
1874 - The 1st Canadian nurses training school opens at the
General and Marine Hospital in St. Catherines, Ontario
1874 - Jane Flett McKay (1857-1947),
marries Dr. William Morrison Mckay who is considered Alberta's 1st
resident doctor and she becomes a medical assistant to her husband. Source: Kay Saunderson, 200 Remarkable Alberta Women, (Famous
Five Foundation, 1999)
December 10, 1874 -
Elizabeth Jennet McMaster
(1847-1903)
established a fund to
set up a children's hospital in Toronto.
Births 1874:
1874 -
Born Martha Wyman Brown-Shaw (1874-1948) early woman doctor
1874 -
Born Elizabeth Rebecca Laird (1874-1969) a
physics teacher & college administrator who after she retired she
became a researcher
1874 - Born Clara Brett
Martin (1874-1923) the 1st woman admitted to the profession of law
in the British Empire
January 14, 1874 -
Born Mary Gamble Bryson (1874-1940) indomitable early woman doctor
March 6, 1874 -
Born Mary Tryhosa Kinley-Ingrham (1874-1949) librarian, poet, &
playwright
March 31, 1874 -
Born Ethel Blanche Ridley (1874-1949) World War 1 Nursing Matron
April 23, 1874 -
Born Jean Matheson (1874-1938) World War 1 Nursing Sister
May 4, 1874 -
Born Annie Davis (1874-1919) indomitable early woman doctor
May 28, 1874 -
Born Mary Ellen ‘Minnie' Affleck (Wolfe) (1874 1956) nurse who
served in Boer War in South Africa
July 7, 1874 - Born Mae/Mary Isobel Lovejoy (1874-1957) Yukon
gold rush businesswoman
August 10, 1874 - Born Arabelle "Belle" Frances Patchen
(1874-1952) northwestern pioneer
September 17, 1874 - Born Margaret Anne Lewis (1874-1941)
social activist for working women
October 2, 1874 - Born Alice Edith Isaacson (1874-????) World
War l Nursing Sister, diarist & amateur photographer
October 28, 1874 - Born Ada Almira Brown-Reid (1874-1948)
journalist in Outaouais, Quebec
November 3,1874 - Born Florence Livesay (1874-1953) journalist
& poet
December 16, 1874 - Born Nellie Langford Rowell
(1874-1968) social activist & philanthropist
Deaths 1874:
October 31, 1874 - Died Albine
Gadbois (1830-1874) Sister Marie d'Bonsecoues, founder & director of
the Institution des sourdes-muettes de Montreal
December 6, 1874 - Died Isabella Binney Cogswell
(1819-1874) humanitarian & philanthropist
|
| 1875 |
1875
- The Supreme Court of
Canada is established
May 25, 1875 - Grace Annie
Lockhart (1855-1916) graduates from
Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, becoming the 1st
woman in the British Empire to earn a university degree
1875 -
Charlotte Whitehead Ross
(1843-1916) is the 1st woman to practice medicine in Montreal (she is not licensed)
Source: Government of Manitoba. Status of Women. Women working for
Healthy Communities by Ada Ducas et all October 2001. Online. Accessed December 2011
1875 - Dr. Jennie Trout
(1841-1921)
returns from a medical school in the U.S.A. with her medical degree in
her hand. She is the 1st woman licensed
to practice medicine in Canada
1875
- Married women’s property
legislation is passed in Manitoba
1875 - Elizabeth Barrett (
-1888) arrives in Alberta. She is the 1st professional
teacher in Alberta Source:
200 remarkable Alberta women. Online (Accessed October 2014)
1875 - Henrietta Muir Edwards
(1849-1931) & her sister open the
Working Girl's Association in
Montreal. It offers a boarding house, a reading room, classes &
meal services
1875 -
The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is established in
Halifax, Nova Scotia and Quebec City, Quebec Source: History of the YWCA online
Births1875:
1875 - Born Elizabeth Cameron (1875-1959) social activist
1875 -
Born Belle Choné-Oliver (1875-1947) an indomitable lady medical
missionary
1875 -
Born Eva Maude Powley (1875- ) the 2nd woman in
Ontario to be called to the bar & become a lawyer
1875 -
Born Helen Armstrong (1875-1947) feminist, only woman leader in
Winnipeg general strike
1875 -
Born Mae Garnett (1875?-1984) one of the 1st women general news
reporters in western Canada
1875 -
Born Eleanor 'Ella' Johnson (1875-1950) Journalist & 1st woman
taxi driver in British Columbia
1875 -
Born Jean Ethel MacLachian (1875-1963) 1st person to be a
Saskatchewan Juvenile Court Judge
1875 -
Born Margaret Stovel-McWilliams (1875-1952) historian & feminist
1875 -
Born
Winnifred Eaton (1875-1964) Onoto Watanna 1st known author of
Asian descent to be published in America
1875 -
Born
Alice Mary Schneider (1875-1962) pioneer of Northern Ontario
1875 -
Born Margaret May McWilliams, (1875-1952) author &
founder of the Canadian Federation of University Women
January 31, 1875 - Born Grace Helen Mowat (1875-1964) author
& playwright
February 1875 - Born Elizabeth 'Elsie' Montizambert
(1875-1964) World War l correspondent
February 2, 1875 -
Born Clara McLeod (1875-1954) World War l Nursing Sister
February 9, 1875 - Born Agnes Balfour Davis (1875-194?) World
War l Nursing Sister
February 15, 1875 - Born Annie Harvie Ross Foster (1875-1974)
nurse turned author & journalist
February 25, 1875 - Born Edith Berkeley (1875-1963) world authority on
the classification of marine worms & noted botanist.
April 19,
1875 -
Born
Mabel Louise Hannington (1875-1966) early woman medical
missionary in China & medical inspector of schools in New
Brunswick
May 14, 1875 -
Born Sarah Ellen Garbutt (1875-1917) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
June 2, 1875 - Born Laura May Hubley (1875-1964) World War 1
nursing matron
June 5, 1875 - Born Clara Cynthia Benson (1875-1964) professor
of food chemistry and promoter of university women's athletics
August 16, 1875 - Born Fanny Helen Leech Felker-Faucault
(1875-1955) pianist in British Columbia until the 1940's
September 2, 1875 - Born Isabel Constance Mary Stanley (Lady
Stanley) (1875-1963) daughter of Governor-General Lord Stanley &
great proponent of sport of Hockey
September 11, 1875 - Born Caroline Helena Armington
(1875-1939) artist of etchings
October 2, 1875 -
Born Edith Effie Lumsden (1875-1954) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 5, 1875 - Born Anne-Marie Gleason (1875-1943)
pioneer journalist known mainly as "Madeleine"
November 12, 1875 - Born Mary Maude Bowman (1875-1944) social
activists for the arts
November 15, 1875 - Born Josephine A. Daphinee (1875-1977) founder
of the Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women
November 25, 1875 - Born Isabel Ecclestone MacKay (1875-1928)
author, poet & playwright
December 27, 1875 - Born Marie Jeanne Antoinette
Antctil (1875-1926) educator
Deaths 1875:
October 25, 1875 - Died Maria Miller
(1813-1875)
artist of wild flowers
October 28, 1875 - Died Mary Frances Ann Morris Miller
(1813-1875) 1st professional woman artist in Nova Scotia
December 14, 1875 - Died
Marie-Anne
Lagemodiére,
(1780-1875.) one of the 1st white women
to visit such outposts as Red River & Fort Edmonton |
| 1876 |
February 17, 1876 - The 1st meeting of the Women's Foreign Mission
Society of the Presbyterian Church is held in Toronto, Ontario
1876 - Emily Stowe
(1831-1903) establishes the Toronto Women's
Literacy Club, the first suffrage group in Canada
1876 -
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) invents
the telephone. He answered the telephone with 'Hoy Hoy' rather
than hello.
July 1, 1876 -
The Intercolonial Rail Road linking central Canada and the
Maritimes is completed
November 1, 1876 - Canada's first suffrage club,
the Toronto Women's Literary Club, is founded by Dr. Emily Howard
Stowe (1831-1903) and
her daughter, Dr Augusta Stowe-Gullen.
(1857-1943)
1876 -
A British common law ruling attests that women are persons in
matters of pains and penalties, but are not persons in matters of
rights & privileges.
Source: History of Women's Rights,
Nellie McClung Foundation online accessed April 2013
Births 1876:
1876 - Born Ella Emma Dunn (1876-1981) Black entrepreneur
1876 - Born E. Maud Graham (1876-1949) teacher in South
African Boer War & author
January 10, 1876 - Born Minnie Katherine
Gallaher (1876-1918) World War 1 Nursing Sister died at sea
January 10, 1876 - Born Norah Mary Holland, (1876-1925)
a well-respected author & poet
January 16, 1876?
- Born Minnie Katherine Gallaher (1876 or 1880-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister, died at sea
March 1876 - Born Margaret Parks (1876-1955) indomitable early
woman doctor
April 1, 1876 - Born Harriet Tremaine Meiklejohn (1876-1952)
World War l Nursing Sister & acclaimed nursing administrator
April 11, 1876 - Born Maud King Brown (1876- )
World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 3,1876 - Born Margaret Anglin (1876-1958) daughter of
the Speaker of the House, Ottawa, she was born in
the speaker's chambers
April 26, 1876 - Born Edith MacTavish Rogers (1876-1947) 1st
woman elected to the Manitoba Legislature (1920)
June 2, 1876 - Born Mary Elizabeth Crawford (1876-1953)
indomitable lady doctor
June 21, 1876 - Born Mabel Clint (1876-1939) author & World War
l Nursing Sister
July 12, 1876 - Born Harriet Brooks-Pritcher (1876-1933)
nuclear physicist
July 13, 1876 - Born Ethel Mary Babbit (1876-1969) medal
winning tennis player
October 4, 1876 - Born Kathleen 'Kate' Eloise Rockwell (
1876?-1957) 'Klondike Kate, Queen of the Klondike'
November 12, 1876 - Born Katherine Angelina Hughes
(1876-1925) one of the 16 founders of the Canadian Womens
Press Club in 1904 & 1st provincial archivist of Alberta
December 14, 1876 -
Born Clara May Hood-Morrison (1876-1948) World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 29, 1876 - Born Hannah (Annie) Elizabeth Gale
(1876-1970) in 1917 1st woman in the British Empire
to become an alderman
Deaths 1876:
1876 - Died Catherine McPherson (1789?-1876) pioneer settler of
the Red River settlement
April 5, 1876 - Died Elizabeth Bruyère (1818-1876) founder of
the Grey Nuns of Ottawa & founder of schools and hospitals in Ottawa
April 11, 1876 - Born Maud King Brown (1876-????) World War l
Nursing Sister
December 31, 1876 - Died
Tookoolito (1838-1876) Inuit interpreter & life skills teacher to
Artic explorers. She is a National Historic Person |
| 1877 |
1877 -
The University of Manitoba is created. It is the oldest university
in western Canada
1877 - The great fire of Saint John, New Brunswick leaves
15,000 people homeless
1877 - Dr. Emily Stowe (1831-1903)
establishes the Women's Literacy Club, primarily a
consciousness-raising group which is the forerunner of the women's
suffrage organizations
1877 - Onésime Dorval (1845-1932) is
the 1st trained teacher to arrive in the Red River Settlement Source: Directory of
Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada
(accessed July 2005)
1877 - Dr Lenora King
(1851-1925)
sails for Shanghai, the 1st Canadian
Doctor to serve in China,
some 60 years before Dr. Norman Bethune
Source: Merna Forster, 100 Canadian women: familiar
and forgotten Faces ( Dundurn, 2004)
June 20, 1877 -
The first commercial telephone in Canada is installed
in Hamilton, Ontario
1877 -
The Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society is founded in
Montreal, Quebec
Source. Jewish Women's Archives: Jewish Women, a
comprehensive historical Encyclopedia. online (accessed July 2011)
1877 -
The 1st commercial telephone in Canada is installed in Hamilton,
Ontario
Births 1877:
1877 - Born Alice Marion Curtis (1877-1964) social activist in
Home & school associations
1877 - Born Grace Annie Lamby Dainty (1877-1974) public health
nurse, Lethbridge, Alberta
1877 - Born Lorrie Alfreda Dunnington-Grubb
(1877-1945) pioneer in the profession of landscape architecture
1877 - Born Lulu Mae Johnson Eads (1877?-1918) businesswoman,
dance hall performer and hotel proprietor.
1877 - Born Marion Fraser (1877-1928) pioneer hockey player
1877 - Born Dr. Rowena Grace Douglas Hume (1877-1966)
indomitable woman doctor
1877 - Born Marcelle Hémond-Lacoste (1877- )
one of the four women to be 1called to the Bar in Quebec
1877 - Born
Dr. Frances Gertrude McGill (1877-1959)
early Canadian medical criminal forensic investigator
1877 -
Born Dorthea Mitchell (1877-1976) early filmmaker & businesswoman
1877 -
Born Edith Rice-McKenney (1877-1965) nurse, librarian &
businesswoman
1877 -
Born Isabel Skelton (1877-1956) respected historian & author
1877 - Born Olive Christina Stark (18771927) pioneer aviator
& passenger
January 12, 1877
- Born Maud Emily Austin (1877-????) World War l Nursing Sister.
January 12, 1877 - Born Maude Pettit Hill-Beaton (1877-1959)
journalist who used pen name 'Videre'
February 6, 1877 -
Born Annie Coulter (1877-1934) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 27, 1877 -
Born Mary Ethel Morrison (1877-1954) World War l Nursing Sister
April 2, 1877 -
Born Georgina Cecelia Mary White (1877-1944) journalist know as
Bride Broder
April 23, 1877
- Born Lucinda McNeil Patterson (1877-1935) early woman doctor &
medical missionary
May 16, 1877 - Born Ida Virginia Barclay (1877-1935)
businesswoman & owner of ski resort, one of the 1st to offer ski
trails
May 17, 1877 - Born Mary Catherine English (1877-1925) World
War l Nursing Sister
June 1, 1877 - Born Dorthea Mitchell (1877-1976) amateur
filmmaker, actor, director, screenwriter & author
June 10, 1877 - Born Eva Finkelstein Abremovich (1877-1953)
in 1897 she graduated as one of the 1st Jewish persons from Manitoba
College
June 14, 1877 - Born Rowena Grace Douglas Hume (1877-1966)
physician
July 31, 1877 - Born Dame Alfreda Jean Attrill (1877-1970)
Nursing Sister World War l, Dame of Grace, St John Ambulance
August 4, 1887 - Born Florence Maud O'Donnell-Piers (1877-1958)
early woman doctor & medical missionary
August 13, 1877 - Born Jeanne Lydia Branda, Sister Marie
Thomas d'Aquin (1877-1963) religious leader & poet
August 16, 1877
- Born Evelyn Frances Winnifred Fuller (1877-1949) businesswoman
August 17, 1877 -
Born Christina Campbell (1877-1918) World War l Nursing Sister died
at sea
August 21, 1877 - Born Sophia Mary Hoerner (1877-????) World
War 1 Nursing Matron
August 31, -1877 - Born Margaret Bemister (1877-1894) author
October 3, 1877 - Born Jane 'Jean' Thompson-Stevenson
(1877-1960) journalist & poet
October 9, 1877 -
Born Jane Elizabeth Brown (1877-????) World War l Nursing Sister
December 1, 1877 - Born Sarah 'Allie' Brock Brick
(1877-1947) pioneer in Canadian North West
December 7, 1877 - Born Constance Lindsay Skinner (1877-1939)
journalist, poet, author & historian
December 14, 1877 - Born Jessica Ann MacBean (1877-1945)
medical missionary
December 19, 1877 - Born Jean McWilliam-Macdonald (1877-1969)
activist for women's rights & pensions
Deaths1877:
1877 - Died Mary Elizabeth Bibb (1820-1877) the 1st black
woman journalist in Canada.
She is a National Historic Person |
| 1878 |
1878 - Félicité Angers
(1845-1924) is the pen name of Laure
Conan, author of nine novels of French Canadian Life. She is
the 1st French Canadian female novelist
1878 - Charlotte Whitehead Ross
(1843-1916) is the 1st woman to practice medicine in Manitoba (she
is not licensed)
Source: Government of Manitoba. Status of Women. Women working for
Healthy Communities by Ada Ducas et all October 2001. Online
(Accessed December 2011)
1878 -
The women of Anshe Sholom Congregation in Hamilton,
Ontario establish the Deborah Ladies AidSource. Jewish Women's Archives: Jewish Women, a
comprehensive historical Encyclopedia. online (accessed July 2011)
July 15, 1878 -
The 1st telephone exchange in the British Empire in
opened by the Hamilton District Company in Hamilton, Ontario
Births 1878:
1878 - Born
Margaret Jane ‘Daisy Fortescue (1878-1918) World War l Nursing
Sister
1878 - Born Amelia Beers Garvin (1878-1956)
journalist & editor
1878 - Born Florence Harvey (1878-1968) member of Canada's Golf
Hall of Fame
1878 -
Born Annie May Jackson-Kelcher (1878-1959) first woman in Canada hired
as a police officer
1878 -
Born Madge MacBeth (1878-1965) multimedia author with over 20 novels
to her credit
1878 - Born Mary Isabel Ross Pinkham (1878-1964)
social activist & volunteer
January 12, 1878 - Born Dr. Margaret Ellen Douglass
(1878-1950) doctor & medical administrator in Manitoba
January 18, 1878 - Born Irma LeVasseur (1878-1964) the 1st
woman to practice medicine in the province of Quebec& pioneer in
pediatrics
January 23, 1878 - Born Minnie Alice McDonald (1878-1954)
indomitable early woman doctor
February 10, 1878 - Born Jane "Jennie" Smillie Robertson
(1878-1981) an indomitable lady doctor perhaps 1st woman doctor to
perform surgery in Canada.
March 13, 1878 -
Born Laura Beatrice Berton (1878-1967) author
April 15, 1878 -
Born Emma Murton (1878-1960) World War 1 Nursing Sister
May 4, 1878
- Born Edith May Allison (1878-1933) World War 1 Nursing Sister
June 7, 1878 -
Born Lady Elsie Elizabeth Allardyce (1878-1962) founder of Girl Guides
in Newfoundland
June 26, 1878 - Born Margaret Campbell McGilvary (1878-1947)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 27, 1878 - Born Béatrice La Palme Issaurel (1878-1921)
acclaimed international opera singer
July 29, 1878 - Born Mabel Bruce-Evans (1878-1951) World War
l Nursing Sister
August 11, 1878 -
Born Ada Janet Ross (1878-1918) World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 30, 1878 - Born Clara Hopper (1878-1959) poet
October 24, 1878 - Born Nellie Lyle Pattinson
(1878-1953) educator
October 27, 1878 - Born Muriel Shirecliffe Parker
Ellis-Sliven (1887-1965) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 30, 1878 -
Born Elizabeth Bell Ross (1878-1953) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 31, 1878 - Born Josephine 'Josie' Angeline MacDonald
(1878-19??) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 10, 1878 - Born Florence Lyle Harvey (1878-1968)
champion golfer
November 18, 1878 - Born Margaret May McAlpine
(1878-1955) indomitable early woman doctor
November 28, 1878 -
Born Margaret May McAlpine (1878-1955) indomitable early woman
doctor
December 11, 1878 - Born Olive Maude Wease (1878-1948)
indomitable early woman doctor |
| 1879 |
1879 -
July 1 officially becomes a statutory holiday called Dominion Day
August 1879 -
Sarah Anne Lovell,
an unmarried teenager, is found dead. It is
discovered that she had been pregnant and has been a patient of
Dr.
Emily Stowe (1831-1903). Dr. Stowe is arrested for providing
medications in May 1879 to Sarah that couple allegedly cause the
abortion of the foetus. Abortion was against Canadian law.
Dr. Stowe is acquitted at trial in an Ontario County Court
1879 - Eliza Maria Campbell
(1844-1910) gains a divorce after proving she had
been falsly accused of adultery by her husband. The Act of
Parliament granted her alimony and custody of their child 42 Vic Ch
79 1879. This proved to be a turning point in divorce law for women.
Her tombstone reads 'I did not committ
Adultery"
1879 - Lucy
Margaret Baker
(1835-1909) is the first
Presbyterian Woman missionary to minister to the aboriginal
population when she goes to Prince Albert in the Canadian North West
(now Saskatchewan)
1879
- Typewriters are 1st introduced in Canada
Source: Jean Bannerman, Leading Ladies of Canada (Belleville,
Mika Publishing, 1977);
Births
1879:
1879 - Born Alice Maude Dyer (1879-1963) first woman
pharmacist in Prince Edward Island
1879 - Born Flora Eaton (1879-1970)
socialite & philanthropist
1879 - Born Miriam Green Ellis (1879-1964) celebrated
journalist in the Canadian prairies
1879 - Born Helena Rose Gutteridge (1879-1960) 1st woman
elected to Vancouver City Council
1879 - Born Lucille Hunter (1879-1972) Yukon pioneer
1879 - Born Ethel Johns (1879-1968) nurse & nursing
educator
1879 - Born Mary Adelaide Dawson Snider (1879-1932) early
journalist & a founder of Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC)
1879 - Born Anna Sprott (1879-1961) founder of West
Coast Radio School & Vancouver alderman
1879 -
Born Ethel Johns, (1879-1968) nurse, teacher & administrator
1879 - Born Mary Letitia Lamb (1879-1960) missionary to
China
1879 - Born Caroline Emmy McNeill (1879-1948) first Dean of
women at Queen's University
1879 -
Born Gertrude Balmer Watt (1873-1963) journalist
January 15, 1879 - Born Catherine DeNully Fraser
(1879-1980) World War 1 Nursing Sister
January 18, 1879 - Born Alice Helen Collins (1879-1955)
poet & composer
February 1, 1879 -
Born Norma Turina Walker Elsey (1879-1968) World War l Nursing Sister
February 5, 1879 -
Born
Ether Seath (1879-1963) artist
February 7, 1878 -
Born Celestine Geen-Steele (1878-1972) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
March 9, 1879 -
Born Annie Johnston (1879-1965) World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 18, 1879 - Born Agnes Sime Baxter Hill (1879-1917) noted
mathematician
March 20, 1879 - Born
Maud Leonora Menten (1879-1960) the 1st Canadian woman to receive
her medical doctorate
April 8, 1879 - Born Helena Rose Gutteridge (1879-1960) social
activist
April 18, 1879 - Born Margaret Connolly (1879-????) World War
1 Nursing Sister
May 14, 1879 - Born Margaret Allison Roy (1879-????) World War
L Nursing Sister
May 19, 1879 - Born Idola Saint-Jean (1879-1945) journalist &
social activist
June 2, 1879 - Born Laura May Hubley (1879-1964) World War l
Nursing Matron
June 14, 1879 - Born Rena Maude McLean, (1879-1918) a nursing
sister of World War l
July 1, 1879 - Born Alice Stuart Massey (1879-1950) author &
wife of a Governor General
July 12, 1879 - Born Elizabeth Russell (1879-????) one of four
nurses sent to South Africa & Boer War
August 1,1879 - Born Eva Tanguay (1879-1947) vaudevillian and movie
star who in 1912 was the highest paid woman actor in the US.
August 4, 1879 - Born Florence McPhedran (1879-1934) World
War l correspondent
August 9, 1879 - Born Arthamise Fortin (1879-1953) pioneer of
Northern Ontario
August 10, 1879 -
Born Stella Messenger-Pearson (1879-1932) early woman doctor in Nova
Scotia
August 19, 1879 - Born Margaret Jane Riddle-Corrigan
(1879-1973) World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 1879 - Born Bertha Lewis (1879-1935) poet
September 11, 1879 - Born Mary Edith Tyrrel (1879-1945) founder
of Women's Association of Mining Industry in Canada
September 23, 1879 - Born Henriette Tassé (1879-1964)
journalist & author
October 31, 1879 - Born Constance Winnifred Travers Sweatman
(1879-1964) author, playwright, & poet
November 2, 1879 - Born Ada Bessie Teetgen (1879-1957)
author
November 26, 1879 - Born Sarah Evelyn Florence 'Flora' Eaton
(1879-1990) philanthropist
December 7, 1879 - Born Alma Frances McCollum (1879-1906) poet
& composer
December 14, 1879 - Born Helen McNicoll (1879-1915) artist
Deaths 1879:
September 20, 1879 - Died Rosanna Eleanora Leprohn (1829-1879)
novelist & poet |
| 1880 |
June 24, 1880 - The song O Canada is
played for the first time at a skater's pavilion in Quebec City
July 16,
1880 - The Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario finally gave in and and recognized a woman's
qualifications to to practice medicine. Emily Stowe (1831-1903)
is finally granted license to practice medicine in Toronto even
though she has been practicing medicine for years
1880 - The Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons at Kingston, Ontario, forerunner to the Queen's University
Faculty of Medicine, was one of the first university level
institutions in Canada to admit women. Three years later however,
the handful of women it had enrolled were forced out of the program.
1880 - Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) teaches English and Bookkeeping
Source: Jean Bannerman, Leading Ladies of Canada (Belleville,
Mika Publishing, 1977);
1880 - 1905 - The Ontario
Industrial Refuge for Girls houses young female offenders under the
age of 16
1880 - Toronto Women's
Reformatory is built on King St. near Dufferin St.
Source: Gretta Wong, Grant Canada's First Chinese
Canadian Lawyer by Constance Backhouse, accessed January 2013.
Births 1880:
1880 - Born Louise Alexander (1880-1946) artist
1880 - Born Queenie Fairchild (18180-1925) author
1880 - Born Lily J. Laverstok (1880?-1969) west coast theatre impresario
1880 - Born Alice Massey (1880-1950) Wife of Governor General
Vincent Massey
1880 - Born Mary Adelaide Dawson Snider (1880-1932)
journalist
1880 - Born Mary Matilda 'Tildy' Windslow (1880-1963) first
Black woman to graduated from University of New Brunswick
January 1, 1880? - Born
Minnie Katherine Gallaher (1876 or 1880-1918) World War l Nursing
Sister, died at sea
January 27, 1880 - Born Ernestine Campagne (1880-1919) World
War l Nursing Sister
February 4, 1880 - Died
Bridget Donnelly (1858-1880) member of the famous Black Donnelly
family
February 4, 1880 -
Died Johanna Donnelly (1823-1880) mother of the famous Black
Donnelly family
March 14, 1880 - Born
Irene Currie Love (1880-1945) journalist & one of
founders of the Canadian Women's Press Club
April 14, 1880 -
Born Jessie Mabel McDiarmid (1880-1918) World War 1 Nursing
Sister died at sea
April 28, 1880
- Born Mary Agnes McKenzie (1880-1918) World War l Nursing Sister,
died at sea
April 28, 1880 - Born Vivian Tremaine (1889-1948) World War 1
Nursing Matron
May 3, 1880 - Born Millie Isaacs (1880-1955) business woman &
community activist in Saint John
May 10, 1880 - Born Ada Lizzie Law (1880-????) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 25, 1880 -
Born Edna May Williston Sexton
(1880-1923) social activist
June 20, 1880 - Born Jessie Macdonald (1880-????) World War 1
Nursing Sister and nurse during Halifax explosion
June 30, 1880 -
Born Idella ‘Dell’ Gertrude MacGregor (1880-1947) World War 1
Nursing Sister
July 3, 1880 - Born Elizabeth 'Bessie' Marguerite Miller
(1880-1948) author
July 21, 1880 - Born Roberta Catherine MacAdams (1880-1959)
in 1918 1st woman in British Empire to introduce legislation in a
parliament
August 14, 1880 -
Born Jessie Mabel McDiarmid (1880-1918) World War l Nursing Sister,
died at sea
August 28, 1880 - Born Mabel Helen Taylor-Lucas (1880-1951)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 8, 1880 - Born Mabel Aileen Cassidy-Mortimore
(1880-1966) early woman doctor & medical missionary
September 14, 1880 - Born Susan Emma Kilpatrick (1880-????)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 16, 1880 -
Born Annie Forrest (1880-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 28, 1880 -
Born Edith Deason (1880-1967) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 29, 1880 -
Born Caroline Beuill McLenaghan (1880-????) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
November 30, 1888 - Born Matilda Allyn (1880-1944) medical
missionary in India
December 4, 1880 - Born
Florence Eleanor Bennett (1880-1959) indomitable early woman doctor
December 9, 1880 - Born Jean Dickson Lyall (1880-1964) World
War 1 Nursing Sister |
| 1881 |
1881 -
The 1st Canadian Assembly of Knights of Labour is formed in
Hamilton, Ontario. The Knights organize skilled & unskilled workers
both male and female, & are the forerunner of the industrial unions
1881 -
Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia passes a regulation allowing women
to be admitted to Medical College
Source: The
Indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker, Clarke-Irwin, 1974.
1881-
Female teachers in
Toronto earn $200.00 to $600.00 per year depending on experience
while male teachers earn $750.00 to $1100.00
Source:
Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights,
Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
1881
- The Women's Missionary Society is formed by the
women of the Methodist Churches of Canada
1881 - The Ottawa Rideau Tennis Club stages the
1st tournament for women only. The rules of dress
included ground length skirt, long leaves, high neck blouse and nipped
waist. These of course would be worn over a corset and multi layers of
underskirts!
Source: Women playing Tennis
(accessed
July 2005)
April 30, 1881 - Robertine
Barry had a front page article in the newspaper La Patrie making her
the 1st full time female employee of a newspaper in
Quebec
Source Linda Kay, Sweet Sixteen :the journey that inspired the
Canadian Women’s Press Club (McGill-Queens Press, 2012
Births 1881:
1881 - Born Eliza Perley Brison (1881-1974) psychiatrist
1881 - Born Clara Dennis (1881-1958) pioneer photographer of
life in Nova Scotia
1881 - Born Elizabeth "Betsey" Flaherty (1881?-1968)
pioneer woman pilot
1881 - Born Irene Currie Love (1881-1945) journalist & one
of the founders of the Canadian Women's Press Club (CWPC).
1881 - Born Jane Megarry (1881-1958) nursing medical missionary
1881 -
Born Mabel Priscilla Penery French (1881-1955) 1st woman lawyer in
New Brunswick.
1881 -
Born Beatrice LaPalme (1881-1921) opera singer
1881? - Born Sarah Reitman (1881?-1950) businesswoman and
co-founder of Reitmans clothing stores
March 15, 1881
- Born Margaret Grace Burkholder (1881-1973) author,
journalist, poet, & local historian
April 17, 1881 - Born Caroline 'Carol/Carrie' Cassidy Cole
Manchee (1871-1921) author of children's novels
April 18, 1881 - Born Agnes Florien Forneri (1881-1918) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
May 2, 1881 - Born Mary MacLane (1881-1929) author, actor &
screenwriter
May 25, 1881 - Born Christina 'Tena' May Stewart (1881-1927)
World War l Nursing Sister
May 29, 1881- Born Bertha Mabel Dunham (1881-1957)
librarian, local historian & author of works for young readers.
June 12, 1881 -
Born Mabel Phoebe Peters (1881-1914) founder of playgrounds in
Canada
June 15, 1881
- Born Grace Brown Waters (1881-1972) World War 1 Nursing Sister
June 22, 1881 -
Born Olive Ethelwyn McMillan-Butler (1881-????) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
August 11, 1881 - Born Alice Boyd (1881-1972) World War l
Nursing Sister
August 25, 1881 - Born Maria Vogt (1881-1961) nurse
August 26, 1881 - Born Alice Wilson (1881-1964) paleontologist,
& 1st woman elected as fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada
September 4,1881 - Born Isabella Preston, (1881-1965) 1st
professional hybridist in Canada
September 6, 1881 - Born Hughena Dickson Elliott McCorquodale
(1881-1961) journalist & editor of the High River Times,
Alberta
September 18, 1881 -
Born Mary Bernadette McCarthy (1881-1955) indomitable early
woman doctor
September 27, 1881 - Born Beatrice Mary MacDonald (1881-1968)
most decorated woman in U.S. army during World War l
October 11, 1881 - Born Louise Jean Brand (1881-1972) World War
l Nursing Sister
October 16, 1881 - Born
Edna Estella 'Stell' MacLaughin (1881-1976) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
October 17, 1881 - Born Inga Johnson (1881-1948) World War l
Nursing Sister
October 18, 1881 - Born Dr.
Elizabeth Bagshaw (1881-1982) operated the 1st Canadian family
planning clinic in Canada
October 29, 1881 -
Born Lilly Naomi Gray (1881-1967) World War l Nursing Sister
November 1881 - Born Gertrude Childs (1881-1957) social
worker awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 1934.
November 4,1881- Born Gena Brancombe (1881-1977) composer, choir
conductor, teacher & pianist.
November 15, 1881 - Born Elizabeth Perley Brison (1881-1974)
psychiatrist
November 17, 1881 - Born Alice Mary Cooper (1881 -????) World
War l Nursing Sister
November 20, 1881 - Born Stella May Jenkins (1881-1954) World
War l Nursing Sister
November 24, 1881 - Born Clarissa 'Clara' Archibald Dennis
(1881-1958) photographer, journalist & author
November 24, 1881 - Born Florence Wyle (1881-1968) a sculptor
who made several Canadian War Memorials and is represented in
numerous art galleries
November 30, 1881 - Born Alice Torr (1881-1970) World War l
Nursing Sister
December 19, 1881 - Born Isabelle McTavish (1881-1953)
Presbyterian medical missionary to China
December 20, 1881 - Born Harriet 'Hattie' Brydon (1881-1962)
World War l Nursing Sister
|
| 1882 |
January
1, 1882 -
The Ontario legislature
passes and act which allows single women who owned property to vote on Municipal by-laws.
Source:
Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights,
Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
1882 - A movement was formed in Quebec to encourage
teaching of household sciences with consideration for the
establishment of a school of domestic sciences in Roberval, Quebec
Source: Dictionary of
Canadian Biography Toronto; University of Toronto/Laval
Université, 2005 vol. 15 1921-1930 p. 21-24.
1882 - The
Toronto Labour Council supports the principle of equal pay for equal
work. Leonora Barry (1849-1923), the
American general investigator of the Women's Work for the
Knights of Labour, comes to Toronto to investigate the working
conditions of women and help organize them
1882 - Women shoemakers in Toronto, with the support of
male unionists, go on strike against 5 factories
1882 - Carsley's, a department store in Montreal, Quebec,
introduces the 1st mail-order catalogue in Canada Source: Before e-commerce:
A history of mail order catalogues
Accessed December 2004.
1882 -The Toronto Women
Shoemakers Strike for union recognition, uniform wages and wage
advances is the 1st major strike of women workers in the city Source:
.History of Women's Rights, Nellie
McClung Foundation online accessed April 2013
1882 - Elizabeth Armstrong Forbes (1859-1912)
begins etching in Point Aven, France Source: Important
Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects
(accessed February
2006)
1882 - The electric cooking range is
invented by Canadian Thomas Ahern
(1855-1938)
Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg
13.
Births 1882:
1882 - Born Louise Bowman (1882-1944) poet
1882 - Born Jean Isabel Gunn 1882-1941) Director &
Superintendent of Nurses, Toronto General Hospital
1882 - Born Elsie Holloway (1882-1971) portrait photographer,
Newfoundland
1882 - Born Nellie Yip Quong (1882-1949) social activist for
Chinese immigrants in British Columbia
1882 - Born Christina West Thom (1882-1940) Public Health
Nurse
January 17, 1882 -
Born Louise Bowman (1882-1944) poet
January 28, 1882 - Born Meta Holt (1882-1954) Nursing Sister
World War l
January 30, 1882 - Born Edith Harriette Marion Powell
(1882-1971) World War l Nursing Sister
February 23, 1882 - Born Pauline Douglas Ballock (1882-????)
World War l Nursing Sister
March 2, 1882 - Born Barbara McCallum Hanley (1882-1959) first
woman mayor of a town in Canada
March 25, 1882 - Born Alexina Dussault (1882-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister, died at sea
March 28, 1882 -
Born Georgina Lilian Crawford (1882-1959) Indomitable early
woman doctor
April 5, 1882 - Born Hilda Mary Slayter (1882-1965) a
survivor of the Titanic
April 21, 1882 - Born Mabel Barrison (Eva Maud Farrance)
(1882-1976) actor
June 8, 1882 - Born Edith Anne Liddy (1882-1961) indomitable
early woman doctor
June 14, 1882 - Born Olga Alexandrova Kulikovsky
(1882-1960) Grand Duchess Olga Romanov of Russia eloped lived as a farmer
June 20, 1882 - Born Clara 'Claire' Pauline Milledge McIntosh
(1882-1958) poet & playwright
July 19, 1882 - Born
Sarah
Ramsland (1882-1964) 1st woman elected to the
Saskatchewan legislature
August 9, 1882 - Born Margaret Tait (1882-1932) World War l
Nursing Sister
August 24, 1882 - Born Isabel McKinnon (1882-1961) World War l
Nursing Sister
September 17, 1882 - Born Mary Elizabeth Scott-Williams
(1882-1986) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 10, 1892 - Born Marie-Alice Dumont (1892-1985) Quebec
photographer & businesswoman
October 29, 1882 - Born Helen Shackleton - Brietzcke (1882-1962)
poet
November 12, 1882 - Born Margaret Wilhelmina MacRae
(1882-1962)
November 18, 1882 - Born
Frances Gertrude McGill (1882-1959) 1st woman forensic pathologist
in Canada
December 2, 1882 - Born Mary Foster Bliss (1882-1971) World
War l Nursing Sister
December 13, 1882-
Born Regina Mary "Polly" Rowell Craig (1882-1965) pioneer Land
owner in Regina, Saskatchewan
Deaths 1882:
March 18, 1882 - Died Amelia Harris (1798-1882) diarist
May 5, 1882 -
Died Annie Mountain (1823-1882) author
June 17, 1882 -
Died Adeline Boardman Todd (1815-1882) author of stories for
children
October 23, 1882 -
Died Margaret Sophia Cameron (1832-1882) her body travelled
over 8,000 miles to be buried
|
| 1883 |
February 9, 1883 - The 1st public library opens in
Guelph, Ontario Source: Database Canada by Bob
Bowman (Toronto; Holt, 1967)
1883 - Sir John A. Macdonald (1815-1891)
introduces an unsuccessful parliamentary bill that includes the
granting of Dominion franchise to unmarried women and widows
possessing the required property qualifications Source:
History
of Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation online accessed April
2013
March 1, 1883 - The Toronto Women's Literary Club
becomes The Canadian Women's Suffrage
Association (CWSA). It works mainly in Ontario
June 1883 - Elizabeth Secord
(1841-1916) becomes the 1st qualified registered physician in the
Province of New Brunswick Sources:
Obituary, reprinted on the Hartt Family Website accessed 2010. ; New Brunswick Women’s History
Online accessed 2010.
1883 -
Protesting male
students of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, apply pressure to
hve female medical student expelled. Queen's did not accept female
medical students again until 1943.
1883 - Manitoba Medical College is established and accepts
women students from the start
Source: The indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker,
Clarke Irwin, 1974.
July 21,
1883 -
First group of girls arrives in Canada under
Barnardo Homes own organization on board, 'Sardinian'.
They are part of the Home Children who come to
Canada
Source British Home Children In Canada
compiled by Lori Oschefski. Online Accessed July 2014 includes
photo.
1883 - Dr.
Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857- 1943) is the
1st woman to graduate in medicine from a
Canadian university at Victoria College, Cobourg,
Ontario.
1883 - The Toronto Women's
Literary Club becomes the Toronto Women's
Suffrage Association Source: History of Women's Rights, Nellie
McClung Foundation online accessed April 2013
1883 -
The Montreal Branch of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union (WCTU) is formed
1883
- Mary Shadd Cary (1823- 1893 .) is the 1st Black woman in North America who is an editor of a
newspaper when she establishes the "Provincial
Freeman" a weekly paper designed to cover the lives of Canadian
blacks and promote the cause of black refugees to Canada
1883 - The Methodist Home for Chinese Girls opens in
Victoria, British Columbia. It's goal is to help those girls
escaping prostitution, slavery or marriage contracts Source: Canadian Chinese
National Council. Moments of Chinese Canadian History.
(accessed July 7,
2003)
1883 - The Louisa Street School in Toronto
opens the 1st kindergarten established as part of a public school. Ada Marean is the
1st teacher of a class of 80 children. She had 7 teacher trainees
assisting with the class.
Source: Canadian Chronology
(accessed April 28,
2003)
October 1, 1883 - The Toronto Women's Medical
College, the 1st medical school in Canada for women, is opened
The school will last until a merger with the Ontario
Women's Medical College in 1895.Source: A history of Women's College (accessed
February 2006)
1883 - The General Training School for Nurses is
established at Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario. It is the thirs
School of nursing in Canada
October 2, 1883 - Dr Jennie Trout (1841-1921)
establishes at Queens University at Kingston, Ontario a
women's medical college.
The school will last until the 1895 merger with the Toronto Women's
Medical College Source: Canadian Milestones.
online (accessed October 2, 2000)
Births 1883 :
1883 -
Born Eliza May Balmer (1883-1915) one of the first women at the
University of Toronto
1883 - Born Flora Ann Campbell (1883-1961) 1st policewoman hired by
Ottawa Police Force
1883 - Born Mary L. Fraser (1883-1975?) author
and folklorist
1883 - Born Flores (Florence) La Due
(1883-1951) World Champion Trick & Fancy Roper, rancher
1883 - Born Nora M. Duncan (1883-1946) a western Canadian poet
& radio
host.
1883 - Born Kathryn Agnes McCloskey (!883-1975) pioneer civil
servant in Canadian External Affairs Department
1883 - Born Angeline Napolitano (1883-1924?) after severe
abuse from her husband she became the convicted murderer of her
husband
January 21, 1883 - Born Lillian Langstaff (1883-1978) early
indomitable woman doctor
March 6, 1883 -
Born Mary Irene Burns-Thomas (1883-1966) World War 1
Nursing Sister
March 24,
1883 -
Born
Dorothy Campbell Hurd
Howe (1883-1946) one of the most successful lady golfers of the 20th
century
April 15, 1883 - Born Isobel Mary Watts (1883-1973) Nursing
Sister in World War l
April 18, 1883 - Born Jessie Isabel Meighen (1883-1985) wife
of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen (1874-1960)
April 28, 1883 - Born Ada Benvie (1883-1971) World War l
Nursing Sister
August 18, 1883 - Born Ethel Annie Bennett (1883-1959) World
War l Nursing Sister
August 19, 1883 -
Born Flora Lawford-Nesbitt (1883-1961) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
September 14, 1883 - Born Marjorie Lowry Christie Picktall
(1883-1922) poet & short story writer
September 22, 1883 - Born Mary White-Murdock (1883-1961) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
September 23, 1883 - Born Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon
(1883-1961) Titanic survivor
October 5, 1883 - Born Donalda James Dickie (1883-1972) educator
& author of school text books
October 6, 1883 - Born Margaret Furness Macleod (1883-1977)
Haiku poet
October 20, 1883 - Born
Lizzy Ramsay Aikman (1883-1931) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 21, 1883 - Born Henrietta 'Hetty' Mellett (1883-1918)
World War l Nursing Sister killed in action
October 21, 1883 - Born Elleanore Jane Parker (1883-????) World
War l Nursing Sister & author
October 24, 1883 - Born Henrietta "Hetty' Millett (1883-1918)
World War l Nursing Sister died at sea
October 30, 1883 - Born Lizzy Ramsay Aikman (1883-1931) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
November 19, 1883 - Born Zenora 'Nora' Rose Hendrix (1883-1984) Black pioneer of Vancouver and
grandmother to Jimi Hendrix
November 22, 1883 - Born Jessie Margaret Gent-Newton (1883-1967)
World War ! Nursing Sister
December 13, 1883 - Born Gladys Maude Mary 'Bob/Bobbie' Wake
(1883-1918) World War i Nursing Sister
December 20, 1883 - Born Kathleen 'Kate' Creighton Starr Rice (1883-1963) pioneer
prospector. Member Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
December 29, 1883 - Born Laura Emma Jamieson (1883-1964)
British Columbia Juvenile court judge, city alderman & Member
of Legislature
Deaths 1883:
April 25, 1883 - Died Margaret Arnold McEwan (1812-1883)
heroine of the cholera epidemic in Sandwich July 1854
December 27, 1883 - Died Sara Riel (1848-1883) 1st Métis Grey
Nun from Red River District
|
| 1884 |
January 1, 1884 -
An Act of the Ontario government allows unmarried
white women, widows,
& women land owners to
vote in municipal elections
1884 - Married women’s property legislation is passed in
Nova Scotia
March 5, 1884 - The Ontario
provincial legislature passes a provision to admit women to the
University of Toronto
1884 - The Acadian national flag is
adopted
1884 - Ontario Married Women's Property
Act grants married women the right to own
property, deal with it and sell it without consulting her
husband Source: .History
of Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation online accessed
April 2013
1884 -
The Ontario Factory Work Act limits the
work age for young women to begin at 14 which is two years after
boys who may begin to work in factories at 12 years of age. They
were limited to a 10 hour work day or 60 hours a week. The Act also
provides efficient sanitary conditions, seats for sales clerks, and
prohibits women from working in and around mines
1884 -
Ruth Boles, of New Brunswick, a destitute widow was
auctioned off after the death of her husband for $72.00. It was a
custom to auction off old, disabled or unemployed poor to the lowest
bidder who was then paid the bid amount for the pauper's food and
lodging for a year. Source: And Justice I shall have:
Women and Legal Rights [New Brunswick] online (accessed 2022)
1884 -
After a large grant to educate women from Donald
Smith, Lord Strathcona, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec opens
its doors to female students
1884 - Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) begins classes in
phonography (Shorthand)
Source: Jean Bannerman,
Leading Ladies of Canada (Belleville,
Mika Publishing, 1977);
1884 - Elizabeth Robb Beatty
(? - ?) became the 1st woman medical missionary for the Presbyterian
Church of Canada. She would build the 1st women's Hospital in
Central India
Source:
The Indomitable Women Doctors, by Carlotta Hacker.
(Toronto: Clarke & Irwin, 1974)
August 1884 - T.
Eaton Co. of Toronto, issues its 1st "Wishing book" which is
distributed to visitors at the Toronto Exhibition. Timothy Eaton
declares that the catalogue is destined to go wherever the maple
leaf grows Source: Before
e-commerce : a history of mail order catalogues
(accessed
December 2004)
September 8, 1884 - Sarah Hannah Roberta
Coome (1837-1921)
co-founded
the Anglican Sisterhood of St. John The Devine, Toronto, Ontario
September 20, 1884 - Maria Louisa Angwin
(1849-1898) became the 1st licensed
woman medical doctor in Nova Scotia
Sources:
The Indomitable Women Doctors by Carlotta Hacker
(Toronto: Clarke & Irwin, 1974) ; The Dictionary of Canadian
Biography Online (Accessed April 2014)
October 6, 1884 - The first three women students enter the
University of Toronto without access to the reading room, a
residence or the library catalogue. There were no women's washrooms
on campus
1884 -
Montreal pharmacist Marcellus
Gilmore Edson patented peanut butter which he milled roasted peanuts
between two heated surfaces. He then mixed sugar into the paste to
create a thicker product with the consistency like butter, lard, or
ointment
Births 1884:
1884 - Born Frances Marion Beyton (1884-1951) in 1912 is
the 1st full-time women's editor of the Grain Grower's Guide
1884 -
Born Thyrza Young Burkett (1884-1954) artist & playwright
1884 -
Born Beatrice Sifton
Nasmyth Furniss (1884-1977) one of only four Canadian women
allowed behind the Lines in WW l France
1884 - Born Amy
Monica Hopkins (1894-1974) rancher in Alberta & letter writer
1884 - Born Martha 'Mona' Isabel Loder (1884-1963) Nursing
Sister World War l, 1st nurse to register for war in Newfoundland
1884 - Born Margaret Watkins (1884-1969) early woman
commercial photographer
January 15, 1884 - Born Eleanor
Rivington-Downs (1884-1970) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 22, 1894 - Born Dora Asta Walters-Truemner (1894-1928)
World War l Nursing Sister
March 1, 1884 - Born Jane
Barnes Wisdom !884-1975) pioneer social worker
March 2, 1884 - Born Ellie Elizabeth Love (1884-1963) World War
l Nursing Sister
March 5, 1884 - Born Olive Maud
Coad (1884-1974) World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 26, 1884 -
Born Ethel Frances Upton (1884-1949) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
March 27, 1884 - Born Gertrude Frazee (1884-1980) World War l
Nursing Sister
May 12, 1884 - Born Florence Bloy (1884-????) World War L
Nursing Sister
May 13, 1884 - Born Gertrude
Moffatt (1884-1923) poet
May 21, 1884 - Born Francis Marion Beynon
(1884-1951) journalist, feminist & social reformer
May 30,
1884 - Born Hilda Corelli (1884-1963) World War l Nursing
Sister
June 1, 1884 - Born Kathleen Panton (1884-????) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 10, 1884 - Born Winona Margaret Dixon (1884-1922)
pacifist & social activist for women's & family rights
June 20, 1884 - Born Florence Helena Upton-Corlett
(1884-1973) World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 10 1884 - Born Hazel Kilburn Palmer (1884-1957) early
hockey player in New Brunswick
July 14, 1884 - Born Helen Luttrell Brydon (1884-1956) World
War l Nursing Sister
July 21, 1884 - Born Sadie Saint/St Germain (1884-1903) World
War l Nursing Sister
September 14, 1884 - Born Nellie
Josephine Enright (1884-1947) World War l & World War ll Nursing
Matron
September 19, 1884 - Born Maude
Stappleford (1884-1962) social activist
September 22, 1884 -
Born Alba Elizabeth Andrew (1884-1949) World War l Nursing
Sister
September 23, 1884 - Born Ruth Adelaide McClelland-Moody
(1884-1966) World War l Nursing Sister
September 24, 1884 -
Born Mary Agnes Best (1884-1968) World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 28, 1884 - Born Isabel Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd
(1884-1938) World War l Nursing Sister
September 30, 1884 - Born Sadie
Iveson (1884-1951) teacher in Ontario
October 10, 1884 - Born Ethel Thedora Paynter-McKay (1884-1981)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 8, 1884 - Born Margaret Watkins (1884-1969) commercial
photographer
November 11, 1884 - Born Minnie Follette (1884-1918) World
War l Nursing Sister, died at sea
December 4, 1884 - Born
Jessica Sara Smith Cooper (1884-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 23, 1884 - Born Jean Houston (1884-1959) World War
l Nursing Sister
December 24, 1884 -
Born Bessie Maud Hanna (1884-1921) World War 1 Nursing Sister
Deaths 1884:
1884 - Died Marie Louise Arseneault
(1800-1884) medicine woman & light keeper
1884 - Died Harriet Louise Bowell (1828-1884) wife of Prime
Minister Mackenzie Bowell (1823-1917)
May 9, 1884 - Died
Augusta Baldwin/Baldwyn
(1822-1884) poet
December 4, 1884 -
Died Elizabeth Newell Lockerby - Bacon (1831-1884) poet
|
| 1885 |
January 1, 1885 -
The Canadian Electoral Franchise Act comes into effect limiting
the vote to 'Male person[s]'
January 1, 1886 -
A New Brunswick act grants unmarried white women who own
property the right to vote in municipal elections
March 11, 1885 - Jenny
Kidd Trout
(1841-1921) became the 1st Canadian woman
licensed to practice medicine in Canada
1885 -
The Dominion Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is formed
with Letitia Youmans (1827-1896) as president
March 26 - May 12, 1885 -
Women serve as members of the military force but only as nurses tending
to wounded in the North-West Rebellion.
Their tour of duty lasted four weeks. 12 Nursing Sisters were
awarded the Campaign Medal for service
May 12, 1885 - Loretta Miller
becomes the 1st woman to serve in the Canadian military when she
arrives at a Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Field hospital during the North
West Rebellion. She is soon joined by nurses such as Hannah
Grier Coomes of Toronto. In total 12 nurses would serve in
the North West Rebellion
1885 -
An attempt was made to include women in the ‘Dominion
Franchise Act’ but was not successful. The Act restricted the right
to vote to men and specifically excluded any person of Asian
descent, women, idiots, lunatics
and criminals.
A man can vote if he or his wife own property but she is responsible
for her own property tax
July 3 1885 - The Saskatoon Field Hospital is
decommissioned. It is the 1st Field Hospital to formally employ
nurses to serve in the military. For the 1st time female nurses are
recognized for their contribution in the Military and it is the 1st
time that the Red Cross symbol is used in Canada when nurses used on
their armbands
November 7, 1885 - The last spike of the transcontinental
railroad is hammered into place
1885 - Nursing
Sisters returning to Toronto after serving in the Northwest
Rebellion at the military hospital in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
establish St Hon House, the City's 1st women's surgical hospital
November
16, 1885 - Louis Riel (1844-1885) is
hanged in Regina for his part in leading a rebellion
1885 -
John Waters (1829-1910),
a member of the Ontario Provincial Legislature 1879-1894, introduces
a woman’s suffrage bill, one of several such unsuccessful bills
introduced to the Ontario Legislature in the late 1880’s
1885 - In Alberta, unmarried women who own property are
granted the right to vote and hold office in school matters
Source: .History
of Women's Rights, Nellie McClung Foundation online accessed
April 2013
1885 -
The Legislature of British Columbia is
presented with the 1st petition to grant women the
right to vote
1885 - The 1st Bill to give single white women with property
the vote is defeated in New Brunswick
1885 - The Women's Teachers' Association of Toronto is
formed Source: Canadian Chronology (accessed April 28,
2003)
1885 -
Ice dancing to the Viennese waltzes makes its 1st
appearance in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Births 1885:
1885 -
Born Rosemonde Desjardins (1885-1940) Quebec singer
1865 -
Born Alice Maud Dunning Grant (1865-1946) is the 1st woman to
receive a masters degree from Acadia University
1885 - Born Margaret Adele Keeling Fairley (1885-1968) author
1885 - Born Rachel Goldbloom (1885?-1931) community activist
& philanthropist
1885 -
Born Violet Irene Guymer (1885-1955) 1st woman licensed funeral
director in Canada
1885 - Born Ida Lewis Siegel (1885-1962) social activist in
the Toronto Jewish community
1885 - Born Louise Lucas (1885-1973) Mother of the C C F
1885 - Born Ida Steinberg (1885-1942) business woman whose
family built an international business
1885 - Born Elizabeth A. Warner (1885-????) author of cookbooks,
some from the company called Purity Flour
1885 - Born Mary Matilda 'Tillie/Tilly' Winslow-MacAlpine
(1885-1963) the 1st Black woman to graduated from a Canadian
university
January 4, 1885 - Born Jessie Agnes Anne Clark (1885-1987) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
January 4, 1885 - Born Grace Ellen Hewson Knight (1885-1974)
4th woman to be called to the bar (lawyer) in Ontario 1908
January 23, 1885 - Born Dora Ridout Hood (1885-1974) book dealer of
Canadiana
February 4, 1885 - Born Cairine Wilson (1885-1962)
The 1st woman appointed to the Canadian Senate
February 14, 1885 - Born Florence Katherine Whittick-McKean
(1885-(1966) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 14, 1885 - Born Katherine Ross Queen (1885-1934) social
activist in labour movement
February 22, 1895 - Born Virginia K. Copping Norton Kemp
(1895-1957) Lady Kemp, social activist & volunteer
March 3, 1885 - Born Emma May Turner (1885-????) World War 1
Nursing Sister
March 5, 1885 - Born Jean Urquhart-Laing (1885-????) World War 1
Nursing Sister
March 13, 1885 - Born
Emma Mary Turner (1885-1966) World War l Nursing Sister
March 16, 1895 - Born Gladys Walker (1895-1982) early aviator
March 20, 1885 - Born Margaret Marjory 'Pearl' Fraser (1885-1918)
World War l Nursing Matron, died at sea
March 25, 1885 - Born Emily Coonan (1885-1971) artist
March 26, 1885 - Born Daisy Louise Saunders (1885-1969) poet
May 29, 1885 - Born Esther Marjorie Hill, (1895-1985) 1st
Canadian woman to become a graduate architect.
June 1, 1885 - Born Althea Moody (1885-1930) Anglican nun and
missionary in Canadian northwest
June 6,
1885 -
Born Lillian Freiman (1885-1940)
in 1934 she became the 1st Canadian Jew to be awarded the Order of
the British Empire (OBE).
June 16, 1885 - Born Jean Templeman (1885-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister, died at sea
June 26, 1885 -
Born Ida Hattie May Ferguson (1885-1981) World War 1 Nursing
Sister, Crois de Guerre
July 29, 1885 -
Born Janet McClung (1885-1962) World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 31, 1885 - Born Beatrice Maude Bradshaw (1885-1972) a
well respected teacher & administrator in Manitoba.
August 6, 1885 - Born Anne Canning (1885-????) World War l
Nursing Sister
August 12, 1885 - Born Beatrice Nasmyth-Furniss (1885-1977)
World War 1 correspondent
September 2, 1885 - Born Robina 'Ruby' Elizabeth Stewart-Burris
(1885-1980) World War l Nursing Sister
September 4, 1885 - Born Mary Lisetta Mae Cobbe-Heyer
(1885-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 14, 1885 - Born Mary Lee Edward (1885-1980)
physician who was given Croix de Guerre for service on front lines
in WW!
September 18, 1895 - Born Mary Ellouise Black (1895-1989)
weaver, occupational therapist, teacher, artist of tapestry &
textile arts
September 20, 1885 - Born Eva Gauthier, (1885-1958)
internationally acclaimed mezzo soprano
September 25, 1885 - Born Marie-Anne Duperreault (1885-1976)
journalist
October 17, 1885 - Born Jessie Isobel Smith (1885-1958( World
War 1 Nursing Sister
November 3, 1885 - Born Lilian Gibson Spence (1885-1965)
nursing Sister World War l, awarded the Croix de guerre
November 5, 1885 - Born Lola Bell (1885-1957) World War l
Nursing Sister
Deaths 1885:
1885 - Died Cornelia deGrassi (1825-1885) heroine of the 1837
rebellion in Upper Canada
1885 - Died Sister Zoe Leblanc-Emery
(1826-1885) religious pioneer of the Canadian North West
March 24, 1885 - Died
Susannah Woodhouse Oland (1818-1885) businesswoman in beer industry
May 13, 1885 - Died Born Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885) poet & writer of
children's novels set in Canada
July 13, 1885 - Died Mary Lyle Tucker (1797-1885) itinerate
preacher in Upper Canada
September 1, 1885 -
Died Marie Fisbach (1806-1885) Sr. Marie de Sacré-Coeur,
founder of Sisters of the Good Shepherd
September 12, 1985 -
Died
Minnie Pearl McBride-Neelin (1891-1985) World War 1 Nursing Sister
|
| 1886 |
1886 -
After receiving six petitions the New Brunswick provincial legislature
grants unmarried women who are property owners the right to vote in
municipal elections
Source:
Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
1886
- Married women’s property legislation is passed in
the Northwest Territories
September 1886 - Mary Ella Dignam
(1860-1938) organizes a
group of young artists in Toronto. They meet to work together
in painting, drawing, modeling and sketching from still life and
living models. This group would be the basis for the future
(1907) Women's Art Association of Canada Source Since
1886. Women's Art Association of Canada - History
(accessed July 2011)
October 7, 1886 - Marion Oliver
(1855-1913) one of the 1st Canadian medical
missionaries in India, set sail from Canada on her 1st trip to India
1886 -
May Irwin (1862-1938)
is the star of pioneering one
minute movie by Thomas Edison
(1847-1931), the famous inventor, called The
Kiss. It was the
1st kiss of the movies!!! It was considered scandalous by early movie audiences and
the clergy! It is considered to be the 1st moving picture to ever
be shown in Canada!
1886 - The Canadian Pacific Railway publishes the
results of its survey of 400 women in Manitoba in a 50-page pamphlet
entitled What women Say of the Canadian Northwest.
Source: Dave McIntosh "Go west young woman" in The
Beaver December 1992-January 1993
1886 - The 1st known women's lacrosse game is played.
Births 1886:
1886
-
Born Donalda Charron (1886-1967) early women's union
leader
1886 - Born Emma Eliza Dempsey (1886-1962) first woman mayor of
Cochrane, Ontario
1886 - Born Genevieve Elsie Alice Lipsett-Skinner (1886-1935)
1st woman journalist in Canadian Press Gallery
1886 - Born Mabel Morin (1886-1916) died in fire at parliament
January 5, 1886 - Born Emily Blanche Luscumbe (1886-1972) poet
January 8, 1886 - Born Elizabeth Jane Bulloch Adams (1886-
) pioneer farmer in Manitoba
January 26, 1886 - Born Margaret Lowe (1886-1918) Nursing
Sister World War l
February 5, 1882 - Born Louise Newcombe (1882-1972) World War 1
Nursing Sister
February 8, 1886 - Born Sarah Persis Johnson Darrach
(1886-1974) World War l Nursing Sister, Matron, Order of
the British Empire (OBE).
February 9, 1886 - Born Mary Jamison-Pepper
(1886-1982) World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 27, 1886 - Born Angélina Berthiaume-Du Tremblay
(1886-1976) businesswoman in newspaper business
May 16, 1886 - Born Lylia Miller Drummond-Plunkett (1886-1961)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
May 31, 1886 - Born Sophia Marguerite Hensley (1886-1946) poet &
author
June 19, 1886
- Born Beatrice Constance Peterson Redpath (1886-1937) poet
July 1, 1886 -
Born Ethel Hurlbatt (1886-1934) a life dedicated to promotion of
women’s education
July 4, 1886 - Born Alma Naomi Dancey-Casgrain (1886-????) World
War l Nursing Sister
July 9, 1886 - Born Christina C. Fredericton (1886-1918) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
July 13, 1886 -
Born
Ida Georgina Denmark-MacNutt (1886-1969) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 2, 1886 - Born Dorothy MacLeod Penner Cotton (1886-1977) World War 1 Nursing
Matron
August 2, 1886 -
Born Amy Clare Giffin (1886-1932) author & poet
August 7, 1886 -
Born Bertha Dymond (1866-1931) indomitable early woman doctor
August 14, 1886 -
Born Matilda Ethel Green (1886-1918) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 20, 1886 -
Born Miriam Eastman Baker (1886-1918) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
August 29, 1886 -
Born Donalda Charron (1886-1967) pioneer union leader & activist
September 10, 1886 - Born Eva Bradley (1886-1965) World War
l Nursing Sister
September 20, 1886 - Born Beatrice 'Bea' Mary Embree
(1886-1958) author
September 30, 1886 - Born Janet Lillian Brydon (1886-1982)
medical missionary
October 10, 1886 - Born Jane 'Jessie' Stark-Hall (1886-1939)
early student at University of Toronto
October 11, 1886 - Born Gertrude Seton Usborne (1886-1960)
World War l Nursing Sister
October 18, 1886 - Born Thais Frémont (1886-1963) social activist
October 22, 1886 - Born Jeanne St Laurent (1886-1966) wife of
Prime Minister Louis St Laurent 1882-1973).
October 25, 1886 -
Born Nora Birkett-Rose (1886-1962) World War l Nursing Sister
October 31, 1886 -
Born Jean Cairns (1886-1982) 5th woman to be called to
the bar (Lawyer) in Ontario
November 11, 1886 - Born Agnes McKeague (1886-1964) World
War l Nursing Sister
November 14, 1886 - Born Emilie Musgrave Boswell (1886-1955)
early journalist with the Winnipeg Tribune
December 6, 1886 - Born Catherine Nichols Gunn (1886-1979)
World War l Nursing Sister & Public Health Nurse, Calgary
December 18, 1886 - Born Violet Pooley Sweeny (1886-1965)
champion west coast golfer
December 21, 1886 - Born Alice Mary Jones-Holt (1886?-1970)
Nursing Sister World War l
December 24, 1886 - Born Mary Jones-Holt (1886-1970) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
Deaths 1886:
1886 -
Died Mary Christianne Morris (1804?-1886) respected native artist &
model
May 4, 1886 - Died
Eliza Lanesford Cushing (1794-1886) author, playwright, & poet
May 24, 1886 -
Died Marguerite Riel (1861-1886) wife of Louis David Riel
May 31, 1896 -
Died Augusta Charlotte Fraser (1849-1896) author
June 18, 1886 - Died Katie McVicar (1856-1886) union leader
October 1, 1886 - Died Madeleine Dumont (1840-1886) pioneer &
heroine
October 4, 1886 - Died Mary McKenzie (1796-1886) early pioneer of the
Canadian North West
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| 1887 |
January 1, 1887 -
a Manitoba act grants white women property owners the right to vote
in municipal elections
June 3, 1887 - Zina Card
(1850-1931) arrives at Lee's Creek (Cardston) Alberta with
ten families to establish a settlement of members of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
Source:
Aunt Zina; the life of Zina Young Williams Card.
Church History. (accessed September 2014)
1887 -
The Manitoba Legislature passes a law that allows both married &
single women who own property the right to vote in municipal
elections but women are not eligible for municipal office until
1917
1887 - Yo Shishido becomes the 1st Japanese Issei
woman to settle in Canada. She settles with her husband Washiji Oya
a store proprietor on Powell St., Vancouver, British Columbia Source: Japanese Canadian Timeline (accessed June 2012)
1887 -
Anna Harriett Leonowens (1834-1915)
organizes an exhibit of art in Halifax, Nova Scotia that will
eventually lead to the establishment of the Victoria School of Ar.
Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History
compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects
(accessed February
2006)
Births 1887:
1887 -
Born
Margaret Helen Brown (1887 - 1978) author & editor who shared her talents as a
missionary
1887 - Born Hortense
Crompton Gordon (1887-1961) artist & teacher
1887 - Born Anna Minerva Henderson (1887-????) in 1912 the
1st Black Canadian appointed to permanent federal civil service
1887 - Born Annie Langstaff (1887-1975) 1st woman to receive a
degree in Law from McGill University in 1914-1915
1887 - Born Lillian Beatrice Love-Knapp (1887-1990) prospector
in the porcupine, Ontario
1887 - Born Kathleen Jean Munn (1887-1974) artist
January 1, 1887 - Born Clara Hoffer (1887-1975) Outstanding
farmer & community leader
January 5, 1887 - Born Maude Annie Andrews (1887-1960) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
January 17, 1887 - Born Millie Gamble (1887-1986) amateur
photographer
January 27, 1887 - Born
Mabel Hilda Allison-Fetterly (1887-1976) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 6, 1887 - Born Annie Coulter (1887-1934) World War l
Nursing Sister
February 7, 1887 - Born Mary Elizabeth Brehaut (1887-1975)
historian
February 7, 1887 - Born
Mary Graham-Archibald (1887-1984) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 23, 1887 - Born Tilly Rolston (1887-1953)
1st woman in Canada
to hold a specific provincial cabinet portfolio
March 17, 1887 - Born Lillian Helena Smith (1887-1983) 1st
hired trained children's librarian
April 7, 1887 -
Born Carola Josephine Douglas (1887-1918) World War l Nursing
Sister, died at sea
April 21, 1887- Born Eliza May Stewart (1887-1989) World War I
Nursing sister
April 29, 1887 - Born Dorothy Webb-Cummings (1887-1963) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
May 21, 1887 - Born Grace Jean Conner-McKenzie (1887-1974) World
War l Nursing Sister
May 25, 1887
- Born Margaret Robertson (1887-1958) World War l Nursing Sister
June 9, 1887 - Born Katherine Pinkerton (1887-1967) author of
books about wilderness living in Northern Ontario
June 15, 1887 -
Born Ellen ‘Nellie’ Fulton (1887-1960) author
June 28, 1887 - Born Ada Victoria Cuddy-Morgan (1887-1964) World
War l Nursing Sister
July 2, 1887 - Born Marie-Rose Turcot (1887-1977) author &
journalist
July 11, 1887 - Born Kathleen "Kit" Adeline Martin Cowaret
(1887- 1958) Anglican Church Missionary to the Canadian North West
July 16, 1887 - Born Kathleen Wilhelmina Ellis (1887-1968)
nurse & nursing author.
July 27, 1887 - Born Margaret Ellen Sullivan-Chapman (1887-????)
World War l Nursing Sister
July 31 1887 -
Born Alfreda Jenness Attrill (18871970) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 17, 1887 -
Born Annie Julia Hood-Moorehead (1887-1979) World War 1
Nursing Sister
September 1, 1887 - Born Ruby Gordon Peterkin-Mckay (1887-1961)
Nursing Sister World War l
September 4, 1887- Born Laura Adelaide Gamble (1887-1939?)
Nursing Sister in World War 1
September 9, 1887 - Born Beatrice McNair (1887-????) Nursing
Sister World War l
September 12, 1887 -
Born Annie Agnes Forbes (1887-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 26, 1887 - Born Irene Pearl Courtice-Lambert
(1887-1963) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 14, 1887 - Born Ida Marion Davidson (1887-1963)
playwright of historical plays
October 14, 1887 - Born Frances Loring (1887-1968) artist &
sculptor, co-founder of the Sculptors Society of Canada.
October 17, 1887 - Born Kateryna Antonovych (1887-1975)
artist
October 28, 1887 - Born Alice Lucy Bodkin (1887-1962) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
November 12, 1887 -
Born Elizabeth Muriel McGregor-Baker (1887-1987) World War 1
Nursing Sister
November 19, 1887 - Born Sybil Johnson-Dunfield (1887-1973)
nursing sister World War l.
December 8, 1887 - Born Mary Shaw (1887-1965) World War l
Nursing Sister
December 17, 1887 - Born Mildred 'Millie' Gamble (1887-1986)
Early photographer in Prince Edward Island
Deaths 1887:
January 19, 1887 - Died
Julia Annie Holmes (1838-1897) feminist, mountaineer, & journalist
February 12, 1887 - Died Isabella
Valency Crawford (1850-1887) considered Canada's 1st important lady
poet
October 2, 1887 - Died Mary McConnell-Conroy (1816-1887)
pioneer businesswoman of the Gatineau, Ontario
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| 1888 |
March 25, 1888 - April 1, 1888 -
The International Council of Women (I C W) is formed in
Washington, DC, U.S.A. with representatives from 9 countries
including Canada in attendance. The I C W works for the common cause
of advocating human rights for women.
1888 - Unmarried women in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, gain
the right to vote in municipal elections
1888 - Harriet Brooks
(1876-1933) begins research as
Canada’s 1st woman
nuclear physicist.
1888 - Octavia Grace Ritchie
- England
(1868-1948)
is one of the first female students
accepted at McGill University, Montreal and she becomes the 1st woman valedictorian at McGill University.
1888 - Richard Sears of the USA is selling so
much in catalogue orders in Canada that an office is opened in Toronto.
Source: Before e-commerce : a
history of mail order catalogues (accessed December 2004)
1888 - Moulton Ladies' College, named for
Susan Moulton McMaster, is opened in Hamilton, Ontario.
It served for 66 years. The buildings were sold and demolished in the
mid 1950"s
Births 1888:
1888 -
Born René M. Caisse (1888-1978) a nurse who developed ESSIAC what she
thought was a cure to some cancers.
1888 -
Born Elsie 'Muriel' Ashdown Claxton (1888-1937) public health nurse
1888 -
Born Lizzie Cyr (1888?-???) the woman who energized the Famous Five
and the Persons Case of 1929.
1888 -
Born Frances Lillian Fish (1888-1975)
the 1st woman to graduate
Dalhousie University with a Law Degree & she the 1st woman
called to the Bar in Nova Scotia.
1888 -
Born Margaret Miriam Griffin-Napier-Dowell (1888-???? public health
nurse
1888 - Born Maisie Hurley (1888-1964) founder of the
1st native
newspaper, The Native Voice
1888 - Born Anne 'Annie' Sutherland Cavers (1881-1971)
nursing Instructor
January 15, 1888 -
Born Anna Irene Stamers (1888-1918) World War l Nursing Sister, died
at sea
January 20, 1888 -
Born Ethel Davis Wilson (1888-1980) acclaimed author.
February 8, 1888 -
Born Ada Jane Fairlina Kent (1888-1969) musician & composer.
February 18, 1888
- Born Ann Maria Williams-Rawson (1888-1967) World War l Nursing
Sister
February 22, 1888 -
Born Ann/Annie Baillie (1888-1942) World War l Nursing Sister
February 25, 1888 -
Born Ethel Matilda Chapman (1888-1976) home sciences journalist in
Ottawa, Ontario.
March 2, 1888
- Born Helen Woolson (1888-1973) World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 10, 1888 -
Born Harriett ‘Hattie’ Olive Stacey (1888-1971) World War l Nursing
Sister
March 11, 1888 -
Born Jean Alexandrina MacDonald (1888-1969) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
March 12, 1888 -
Born Ethel Eva Cutler-Jackson (1888-1966) world War 1 nurse
with American Red Cross
March 15,1888 -
Born Constance Mary Evans (1888-????) romance novelist.
March 27, 1988 -
Born Charlotte 'Lottie' Urquhart-Seys (1888-1987) World War l
Nursing Sister
April 6, 1888 - Born Alice Muriel Mills (1888-????) World War 1
Nursing Sister & pandemic nurse
April 28, 1888 - Born Maude Walker (1888-1977) World War l
Nursing Sister
April 30, 1888 - Born Bertha Thorsteinson-Thomson (1888-1975)
World War l Nursing Sister
May 17, 1888- Born Lillian Pidgeon (1888-????) World War 1
Nursing Sister
June 4, 1888 - Born Margaret Madge Rose Robertson Watt
(1888-1948) instrumental at establishing the Women's Institutes in
England.
June 9, 1888 -
Born Isabel Mortimer-Green (1888-1914) World War 1 Nursing Sister
June 19, 1888 -
Born Ada Annie Rae-Arthur (1888-1985) pioneer botanist known as
Cougar Annie.
June 22, 1888 -
Born Alice Theodora 'Dora' Oliver (1888-1986) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 29, 1888 - Born Elizabeth Odell (1888-1971) World War 1
Nursing Sister
July 3, 1888 - Born Christina Margaret Johnston/Johnson-Berry
(1888-1973) World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 8,1888 - Born
Evelyn Bolduc, (1888-1939) translator & author.
July 17, 1888 - Born Jessie Winnifred Cochrane-Coombe
(1888-1961) World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 31, 1888 - Born Hattie May Mastin-McLennan (1888-1968)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 3,
1888 -
Born Margaret Teresa Lally 'Ma' Murray (1888-1982) newspaper editor,
owner & journalist
August 3, 1888 - Born
Christina Irene Parker (1888-1964) World War l Nursing Sister
August 13, 1888
- Born Christina Irene Parker (1888-1964) World War l Nursing Sister
August 17, 1888 -
Born Ruby Lorena Galloway (1888-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 17, 1888 -
Born Annie Bertha Hamilton (1888-1977) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 29, 1888 - Born
Evelyn Emily Hall-Patterson (1888-1977) World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 2, 1888 - Born Dorothy Stevens (1888-1966) portrait &
figure painter.
September 4, 1888 -
Born Mary Houston (1888-1970) World War l Nursing Sister
September 26, 1888 - Born Mabel Aileen Mortimore (1888-1966)
doctor & medical missionary
September 27,1888 -
Born Constance Eleda Brewster (1888-1988) a well respected
nursing administrator in Hamilton, Ontario.
September 29, 1888 -
Born Gertrude Langoria English (18881980) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 9, 1888 -
Born Margaret Howe (1888-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 11, 1888 - Born Grace Irene Harriott-Tickell
(1888-1966) World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 11, 1888 - Born
Léonise Valois
(1888-1936) 1st woman to publish poetry in Quebec & journalist
October 18, 1888 - Born Cora
Taylor Casselman (1888-1964) first Liberal Party woman MP and first
woman speaker of the House
October 23, 1888 -
Born Edith M. Ross (1888-1932) early woman doctor
November 4, 1888 - Born Violet Alice Dryvynsyde (1888-1969) educator who opened her own school & published books.
December 2, 1888 - Born
Eleanor Jean Thompson
(1888-1915) Nursing Sister World War l
December 4, 1888 - Born Sarah Anne Riddle (1888-1926) World War
L Nursing Sister
December 29, 1888 -
Born Jane Chisholm (1888-1976) World War l Nursing Sister
December 30, 1888 - Born Sadie Ferguson-Hook (1888-1965)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
Deaths 1888:
1888 -
Died Elizabeth Barrett ( -1888) 1st professional teacher
in Alberta.
January 7, 1888 -
Died
Harriet Annie Wilkins (1829-1888) teacher & author.
March 16, 1888 -
Died Frances Carpenter Curtis - Boucherat (1817-1888)
ship bride
August 5 1888 -
Died Anna Swan (1846-1888) in her
day she was the tallest woman in the world some 228 cm (7'6")
|
| 1889 |
February 1, 1889
-
The Canadian Women's Suffrage Association becomes The Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association
in hopes of encouraging a national suffrage movement
1889 - Eliza
Ritchie.
(1856-1935). receives her Ph.D.
Cornell University U.S.A.,
probably 1st Canadian woman to receive her doctor of
letters.
September 25, 1889 - Laura Bond (1889-1940) marries
Robert Laird Bordon (1854-1937) future Prime Minister of Canada.
1889 -
The Royal Victoria College for women opens in Montreal.
Source: The Timechart history of Canada by Meredith Macardle (2004)
1889 - Isobel Stanley (1875-1963),
daughter of Governor General Lord Stanley of Preston, is one of the
1st women hockey players in Canada. Her Government House hockey team
played the Rideau Ladies team in what may be the 1st women's hockey game on the ice rink at Rideau Hall,
Residence of the Governor General of Canada.
1889 -
Mary Ellen Birtles (1858-1943) is one of the 1st three
graduates of the nurse training programme at the Winnipeg
General Hospital.
Source: Memorable Manitobans. Profile by Gordon Goldsborough
Online (Accessed December 2011)
Births 1889:
1889 -
Born Bertha Ogilvie
Archibald (1889-1984) first woman pharmacist in Nova Scotia
1889 -
Born Beatrice Agnes Bickley - Stroyan (1889-1992) World War l
Nursing Sister
1889 -
Born Florence Bray (1889-1916) died in fire at parliament
1889 -
Born Kate Livingston Cumming (1889-1971) Canadian artist
1889 - Born Dorothy Dworkin (1889-1976) established the Toronto
Jewish Convalescent & Maternity Hospital later named Mount Sinai
Hospital
1889 - Born Clara Winnifred Fritz (1889-1974) first researcher,
timberpathogist
1889 - Born Hermina
Rose Fraser (1902-1979) author
1889 - Born Laure Gaudreault (1889-1975 Union Activist
1889 - Born Gertrude 'Gert' Menzies Harding (1889-1977) militant
suffragette
1889 - Born Dorothy Jenkins (1889-1973) Canadian figure skating
champion
1889 - Born Rosalind Mabel Long-Simpson (1899-1992) World War l
Nursing Sister
1889 - Born Anna Judson Rossborough Mair (1889-1963) nurse &
administrator, winner of King George V Jubilee Medal
1989 - Born Josephine 'Jo' Belle Peters (1989-1952) early public
health nurse
January 1, 1889 - Born Olga Myers-Finlay (1889-????) World War
l Nursing Sister
January 8, 1889 - Born Martha Mary Edith Timlick (1889-1961)
World War l Nursing Sister
January 13, 1889 - Born Blanche Lamontagne (1889-1958) poet with
a library, a road and a mountain named for her.
January 15, 1889 - Born
Susan 'Susie' Mae Elliott (1889-1965) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 2, 1889 - Born Isabella Sinclair-Trotter (1889-1987)
World War l Nursing Sister
February 12, 1889 -
Born Maydell ‘Mary’ Della Palmer (1889-????) early teacher in
Alberta
February 27, 1889 -
Born Ella 'Dora 'Sheri' Sherritt-Burley (1889-1984) World War
1 Nursing Sister
April 1, 1889 - Born
Margaret Eileen Stuart Underhill (1889-1988) badminton player &
member of the British Columbia Sport Hall of Fame
April 14, 1889 - Born Besha 'Bessie' Starkman Tobin (1889-1930)
mob boss
April 18, 1889 -
Born Margaret Connolly (1889-1926?) World War l Nursing Sister
April 18, 1889 - Born Susan Olivia Poole (1889-1975) inventor of
the Jolly Jumper
March 9, 1889 - Born
Rebecca 'Ruby' Cornette-Kidd (1889-1973)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 22, 1889 - Born Sadie A. Knowles (1889-1984) acclaimed
children's librarian in Ontario
May 3, 1889 - Born Amabel Reeves King (1889-1979) writer, poet,
and editor
May 17, 1889 -
Born Rebecca Helen McEachen (1889-1918) World War 1 Nursing Sister
May 23, 1889 - Born Mary Susanne Edgar (1889-1973) youth
leader & camp founder and director
May 28, 1889 - Born Kathleen Frances Daly (1889-1994)
artist known for her paintings of Montagnais & her landscapes
June 6, 1889 -
Born Gladys Irene Sare (1889-1918) World War l Nursing Sister, died
at sea
June 10, 1889 - Born Lillian Lynch (1889-1965) World War l
Nursing Sister
June 11, 1889 - Born Jean Kathleen Boyce-Fisher (1889-1965)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
June 24, 1889 - Born Robertina Lee-Thompson (1889-1963) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
July 8, 1889 - Born Phoebe Florence Miller (1889-1979) author of
poems and greeting card verse from Newfoundland
July 21, 1889 -
Born Mary Winnifred ‘Winnie’ McKeen (1889-1976) poet
July
22,
1889 - Born Vera Lillian Parsons (1889-1973) 1st woman to be a
criminal defence lawyer in Ontario & the 1st woman lawyer to appear
before a judge 7 jury in Canada
August 4, 1889 -
Born Katherine' Kate' Clare Montgomery (1889-1955) World War l Nursing Sister
August 13, 1889 -
Born Alice Charlotte Malhiot - Rose (1889-1968) architect
August 15, 1889 -
Born Marie-Claire Daveluy (1889-1968) librarian, historian &
novelist
September 6, 1889 -
Born Muriel Marguerite Fell (1889-1941) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
September 22, 1889 - Born Clara Sophia Gillies (1889-1971) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
October 2, 1889 - Born Berthe Chaures-Louard (1889-1968) social
activist with cooperative movement in Quebec
October 2, 1889 - Born Clara Flos Jewell Williams (1889-1970)
author
October 8, 1889 - Born Annie Almira Anderson-Dickson
(1889-1989) early woman doctor
October 13, 1889 - Born Evelyn Mary Ashton-Simister
(1889-1971) World War l Nursing Sister
October 16, 1889 - Born Pauline Frechette-Handfield (1889-1943)
poet
October 18, 1889 - Born Edith Alma Graham (1889-1959) World War
1 Nursing Sister
October 25, 1889 - Born Laure Gaudreault (1889-1975) a social
activist, educator & journalist who organized Quebec rural teachers
October 28, 1889 - Born Juliette Beliveau (1889-1975) French
language actor of stage, TV, & movies
October 28, 1889 -
Born Helen Lauder Fowlds-Marryat (1889-1965) World War l Nursing
Sister
October 28, 1889 -
Born
Isabella Flora Frid (1889-1987) World War l Nurse with the American
Red Cross
November 2, 1889 -
Born Emily Abalinda Parker (1889-1970) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
November 8, 1889 - Born Myrtle MacKinnon (1889-1981) milner,
businesswoman, & matron of a home for unwed girls in Toronto
November 17, 1889 - Born Lenna Mae Jenner (!889-1918) nurse
serving during World War l
November 26, 1889 - Born Laura Bordon (1889-1940) wife of
Prime Minister Robert Laird Bordon (1854-1937).
November 28, 1889 - Born Edith Deason
(1889-1967) World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 18, 1889 -
Born Nellie Grace Rogers (1889-1918) World War 1
Nursing Sister
Deaths 1889:
May 11, 1889 - Died
Sydna Edmonia Robella Francis
(1815-1889) Black pioneer, abolitionist & suffragist
May 14, 1889 -
Died
Harriet Vaughn Cheney (1796-1889) author & poet
July 1, 1889 -
Died Mary Teresa Dease (1820-1889) Superior-general of
the Institute of Blessed virgin Mary in America
August 22, 1890 -
Died Isabel Graham Findlayson (1811-1890) diarist
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| 1890 |
January 1, 1890 -
An act of the Manitoba Legislature comes into effect allowing
white women property owners the right to vote and allows white women
the right to be school trustees
January 25, 1890 -
Female nurses in the military are accredited as Lieutenants with
pay and allowance of that rank.
April 1, 1890 -
The 1st students arrive at the new Montreal General
Hospital School for Nurses, the 1st such school in the province of
Quebec and the second in Canada
1890 -
Canadian Icelandic women, who had the right to vote
back in Iceland, are led
Margaret Benedictsson
(1866-1956) ,
to start the 1st suffrage movement in the west.
1890 - Isobel Stanley, Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy
(1875-1963), Lord Stanley's daughter, is
photographed playing hockey in the 1st recorded image on film of a
woman involved in the sport. Lord Stanley (1841-1908), then Governor General of
Canada, would donate a silver cup that would become known as the
Stanley Cup.
June 4, 1890 - Medicine Hat General Hospital is opened.
Grace Louise Reynolds (later Calder) is the 1st Matron.
The hospital is the 1st of its kind between Winnipeg and British
Columbia.
Source:
Kay Saunderson, 200 Remarkable Alberta Women, (Famous Five
Foundation, 1999).
June 12-13, 1890 - The
1st
convention of the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association
was held in Toronto. Noted American Susan B. Anthony attended as a
guest.
1890 - Dr Anna McFee,
a medical student at the Women's medical
School in Toronto starts a clinic for women to come to see women
physicians.
Source: A history of Women's
college
(accessed
February 2006)
1890 - Mary Ella Dignam (1860-1938)
of Toronto
formalizes her artists group set up in 1886 into the Women's Art
Club. Yet another step into establishing the Women's Art Association
of Canada (1907) Source: Since 1886. Women's Art
Association of Canada - History
( accessed July 2011.
)
October 1, 1890 -
The Association for the Advancement of Women from the
U.S.A. holds a convention in Toronto
1890 - The earliest known photograph of women playing
hockey is taken at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, with Lady Isobel Stanley
Lady Isobel Gathorne-Hardy, (1875-1963) playing with a group of women.
Source: Women's Hockey - History of
Hockey ( accessed June 2011. )
November 26, 1890 -
a young Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
has her 1st poem published just before her 16th birthday in the
Charlottetown Daily Patriot.
1890 - The Women's Art Society is established in
Montréal
1890 - The Women's Art Club of Toronto becomes the
Women's Art Association.
1890 - The Canadian Queen : a magazine of fashion,
art, literature etc (1890-1892) is 1st published in Toronto.
Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects (accessed February
2006)
Births 1890:
1890 - Born Agnes Bertha Alfred (1890?-1992?) Indigenous crafter
& storyteller
1890 - Born Agnes Marion Miller Ayer (1890-1940) artist & social
activist from Newfoundland
1890 - Born Edith Hallett Bethune
(1890-1970) photographer
1890? - Born Dorothy Greensmith (1890?-1951) lawyer, King's
Council
1890 - Born Mary Elizabeth Laughton (1890?- ) is the
7th woman called to the Bar in Ontario in1912
1890 - Born Gladys Reeves (1890-1974) early Edmonton
photographer
1890 - Born Mildred Valley Thornton (1890-1967) artist who
captured Canadian Native life on the prairies & the west coast.
1890 - Born Marion Myrtle Upton
(1890-1974) first woman to become a mayor in New Brunswick
January 1, 1890 - Born Florence Lawrence, (1890-1938)
acknowledged as world's 1st movie
star.
January 24, 1890 - Born Olive Gertrude Stewart (1890-1940)
World War l Nursing Sister
February 1890 - Born Louise Elizabeth Manny ( 890-1970) New
Brunswick historian & activist.
February 2, 1890 - Born Agnes Marion Ayre (1890-1940)
painter, author, amateur botanist & activist
February 2, 1890
- Born Ella Pearl Hopgood (1890-1957) early physician and
psychiatrist in Nova Scotia
February 5, 1890 - Born Anna Yonker(1890-1944) social
activist &
leading philanthropist
February 26, 1890 - Born Winnifred Dawson (1890-1972) World
War l Nursing Sister
March 6, 1890 - Born Winifred Vernon Godard (1890-1975) World
War l Nursing Sister
March 15, 1890 - Born Ethel Isobel Stewart-Morley (1890-????)
World War l Nursing Sister
March 20, 1890 - Born Ethel Kirk Grayson (1890-1980) novelist
March 24, 1890 - Born Agnes Macphail (1890-1954) a founder of the
Elizabeth Fry Society, she was 1st woman elected to the Canadian
parliament.
March 27, 1890 - Born Edwina Chamier (1890-1981) Olympic alpine
skier
April 1, 1890 - Born Myra Bennett (1890-1990) nurse in
Newfoundland & Labrador, Order of the British Empire (O B E)
April 13, 1890 - Born Mary Louise Foreman (1890-????) World War
1 Nursing Sister
April 20, 1890 - Born Jessie Middleton Sedgewick-Roman
(1890-1958) World War l Nursing Sister
May 1890 - Born Evelyn Jane Tanner Burns (1890-1961) politician
& civil servant, municipal official Rosser Manitoba for 48 years.
May 3, 1891 - Born Agnes Foley Dick (1891-????) World War 1
Nursing Sister
May 7, 1890 -
Born Olive Marie Campbell-Menzies (1890-1989) World War 1
Nursing Sister
June 3, 1890 - Born Gertrude Ryckman (1890-????) World War 1
nurse who served with the American Red Cross
June 5, 1890 - Born Mae Belle Sampson (1890-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister, died at sea
June 14, 1890 - Born Irene Louise Sharpe (1890-1952) World War 1
Nursing Sister
June 20, 1890 - Born Marian Lucille Skillen-Stoneham (1890-1987)
World War l Nursing Sister
July 23, 1890 - Born Lillian Gertrude Halladay (1890-1969) World
War l Nursing Sister
July 29, 1890 - Born Ruby Belle Dickie (1890-1981) World War l
Nursing Sister
August 8, 1890 - Born Lillian Florence Kier-Roberts (1890-1982)
World War l Nursing Sister
August 13, 1890? - Born Marie Alice 'Ayls' charlotte Mailhot /
Malhiot Ross (1890?-1968) first Canadian woman architect
August 28. 1890 - Born Wilhelmina Smith (1890-1967) World War l
Nursing Sister
September 14, 1890 - Born Grace Errol Bolton (1890-1919) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
September 20, 1890 - Born Lillias Adelaide Morden-Cavanah
(1890-1976) World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 20, 1890 - Born Kathleen Parlow (1890-1963)
international violinist.
September 21, 1890 - Born Anne Wilkinson (1890-1961) author,
biographer &
poet.
September 22, 1890 - Born Anna Bernice Kilbourne-Cowell
(1891-1951) World War l Nursing Sister
September 29, 1891 - Born Anne 'Anna' Hicks (1891-????) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
October 2, 1890 - Born Theresa Frances Cherrier (1890-1961)
first woman lawyer in Hamilton, ON
October 8, 1890 - Born Winifred Dobson Schurman (1890-1977)
World War l Nursing Sister
October 9, 1890 - Born Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) founder of
the Four Square Gospel Church.
October 23, 1890 - Born Alice Evelyn Thorn-Morrison
(1890-1952) medical doctor and businesswoman
November 11, 1890 - Born Cecilia Clara Ellen Jowitt (1890-1983)
home child & registered nurse
November 19, 1890 - Born Annie Fisher Mitchell (1890-????)
World War l Nursing Sister
November 19, 1890 - Born Elizabeth Catherine Shalla
(1890-1978) diarist in Renfrew County Ontario, in 1st Polish
settlement.
November 23, 1890 -
Born Elizabeth Matilda Melvin-Symondson (1890-1967) World War 1
Nursing Sister
December 9, 1890 - Born Laura Salverson (1890-1970) award
winning author.
December 13, 1890 - Born Violet Walker-Stewart (1890-1971)
World War l Nursing Sister
December 23, 1890 - Born Isabella 'Belle' Mary Abbott-Plummer
(1890-1955) painter
Deaths 1890:
1890 -
Died Elizabeth Jane "Eliza" Barnes, (1800?-1893) 'Granny Barnes' a
well known clairvoyant
1890 -
Died Mary Jane Lawson (1828 -1890), poet & historian.
January 8, 1890 - Died
Amelia Connolly (1812-1890) Métis wife of Governor of Vancouver,
nurse & midwife
July 31, 1890 - Born
Emily ‘Emma’ Arabella Stark-Clarke (1856-1890) first Black teacher
Vancouver Island
August 17, 1890 - Died
Verna Marguerite 'Marg' Osborne (1926-1977) singer of country, folk
& gospel with Don Messer's Jubilee
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| 1891 |
1891 -
41% of women in the labour force are employed as domestics. The
most common occupations for women were all traditional homemaker
type jobs such as servants, dressmakers, seamstresses etc.
February 11, 1891 -
The 1st newspaper account of a game between two unnamed women's
hockey teams appears in the Ottawa Citizen Newspaper. The game took
place in Ottawa and is now regarded as the start of Women's Hockey
ice hockey. Source
Female
Hockey
(Accessed January 2012). Used with permission.
1891 -
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union officially
endorses the suffrage cause.
March 18, 1891 -
The Newfoundland Women's Christian Temperance
Union (WCTU) presents a petition to the government to grant white
women municipal rights to vote. The legislature defeats the
franchise vote
1891 - Clara Martin
(1874- 1923) applies to
be a student at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto but is refused
since she is not considered a 'person' under the British North
America Act. Clara would go on to become the first woman lawyer in
the British Empire
1891
- Robertine Barry (1863-1910) A well known personality in Montreal
society and a pioneer feminist lecturer and writer joins the
staff of the weekly newspaper La Patrie. She is considered
the 1st woman journalist in French Canada.
1891 - Octavia Grace Ritchie
(married name
England) (1868-1948)
is the 1st woman to receive a medical degree in the
province of Quebec.
She attended Bishop's University.
1891 - The 1st women's golf clubs are formed
at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, the Royal Quebec Golf Club and
the Toronto Golf Club.
1891 -
The Royal Jubilee Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia opens a
School of Nursing that will stay in service until 1982
1891 - The first nursing school in Nova Scotia, The
Victoria General Hospital School of nursing, opens in Halifax
Births 1891:
1891 - Born Kate
Aitken (1891-1971) journalist, author, radio & TV Personality,
lecturer
1891 - Born Gertrude Alford (1891-1975) early woman lawyer
1891 -
Born Grace Bagnato (1891-1950) 1st Italian Canadian woman
to become a court interpreter
1891 -
Born Ethel Mary Bennett (1891-1988)
award winning writer of historical novels
1891 - Born Grace Blue (1891-1992) educator
1891 -
Born Laura Denton Duff (1891- ?? ) co-founder Women's Law
Association
1891 -
Born Alexandrine Gibb (1891-1958) pioneer woman sports journalist
for women's sports
1891 - Born Frances Hawkins (1891-1979) teacher in Japan and
for World War ll Japanese Canadian in inductee camps
1891 -
Born Edna Lena Moore (1891-????) World War l Nursing Sister
1891 - Born
Myrtle Philip (1891-1986) businesswoman & pioneer ski lodge owner
1891 - Born Edith Louise Patterson (1891-1980) 1929, appointed
judge in the juvenile court. 1st woman member of the Law Society of
British Columbia
1891 -
Born Marion Leane Smith-Walls (1891-1957) the only Australian
indigenous nurse in WW 1 to serve for Canada
January 4, 1891 -
Born Frances Marion Whitaker (1891-????) World War l Nursing
Sister & Public Health Nurse
January 23, 1891 -
Born Cora Bell Ahrens (1891-1964) teacher,
lecturer & pianist
February 7, 1891 - Born
Carolin Graham Green (1891-1922) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 16, 1891 -
Born Vera Harrison Prindle-Chappell (1891-1967) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
February 18, 1891
- Born Minnie Pearl McBride-Neelin (1891-1985) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
February 22, 1891 -
Born Annie Mabel Foster (1891-1949) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
March 1, 1891 - Born Leocadie-Romaine Gascoin / Sister Marie des Sept-Douleurs
March 3, 1891 - Born Ivy Griffiths-Randall (1891-1963) World War
1 Nursing Sister
March 8, 1891 - Born Agnes MacPherson (1891-1918) World War l
Nursing Sister killed in action
March 31, 1891 - Born Ivy Griffiths (1891-1963) World War l
Nursing Sister
April 3, 1891 - Born Hannah Jennings Bradshaw (1891-1984) World
War l Nursing Sister
April 29, 1891 - Born Florence Durrell Clark (1891-1977) musician
& composer
May 15, 1891 -
Born Frances Beatrice Taylor (1891-1979) journalist, poet, &
playwright
May 20, 1891 -
Born Mary Alice Dafoe (1891-1983) community activist
May 25, 1891 -
Born Winnifred Isabelle Stinson-Kedward (1891-1937) World War L
Nursing Sister
May 28, 1891 - Born Edith Alberta Gallagher (1891-1972) Nursing
Sister World War l
June 16, 1891- Born Sarah Margaret Armor
Robertson
(1891-1948) artist who was one of the top painters of her day
June 21, 1891 - Born Victoria Faulkner (1891-1981) social
activist
June 22, 1891 -
Born Olive Ethelwyn McMillan-Butler (1891-????) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
July 2, 1891 - Born
Marguerite Merle Lazier-Tyrer (1891-1975) World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 5, 1891 -
Born Agnes Estelle Alpaugh (1891-1918) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
July 9, 1891 - Born Winnifred Marion
Simpson-Lewis (1891-1976) World War l Nursing Sister
July 18, 1891 - Born Ethlyn Trapp (1891-1972)
1st
woman president of the National Cancer Institute of Canada
July 22, 1891 - Born Isabelle Atkinson (1891-1968) feminist,
journalist President of the Canadian Consumers Association
August 3, 1891 - Born Louise Elizabeth Buckley-Jones
(1891-1986) public health nurse
August 5, 1891 - Born Maida Doras Parlow French-Knowles
(1891-1977) author & biographer
August 7, 1981 - Born Jean Cowan (1891-1971) World War l
Nursing Sister
September 26, 1891 - Born Blanche Olive Lavallée-Trudeau
(1891-1969) World War l Nursing Sister
October 3, 1891 - Born Laura Blanche McCain (1891-1982)
volunteer & social activist in New Brunswick.
October 10, 1891 - Born Dorothy Yarwood Baldwin (1891-1918)
World War l Nursing Sister killed in action
October 11, 1891 - Born Eva Catherine Ault-Buels (1891-1984)
pioneer ladies ice hockey player know as 'Queen of the Ice'
October 14, 1891 - Born Dorothy Stevens McIlwraith (1891-1976)
editor of Weird Tales
November 2, 1891 - Born Anna Selick-Raginsky (1891-1981) social
activist in the Canadian Zionist movement
November 5, 1891 -
Born Jessie Florence Reinholdt-Himmelman (1891-1963) World War l
Nursing Sister
November 12, 1891 -
Born Janet Morrison Miller-Murray (1891-1946) early applicant for
the Barr in Newfoundland
November 15, 1891 -
Born Winnifred Ehlers-Keighley (1891-1978) nurse
November 18, 1891 -
Born Jessie Gertrude Macey (1891-1967) World War l Nursing Sister
November 23, 1891 - Born Ruth Ester McKay (1891-1920) world War l
Nursing Sister
November 26, 1891 - Born Katherine McMillan Martin (1891-1955)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 5, 1891 - Born Florence Irene Inman (1891-1936) first
woman Senator from P E I
December 6, 1891 - Born Mabel F. Timlin (1891-1976) economist
December 19, 1891 - Born Gertrude Walker (1891-1972) World War
1 nurse who served with the American Red Cross
December 23, 1891 - Born Stella Irene Boyd (1891-1945)
entertainer, contralto & vocal teacher in Manitoba
December 24, 1891- Born Margaret Frances Taylor-Aikens
(1891-1983) World War l Nursing Sister
Deaths 1891:
April 24, 1891 -
Died Rebecca Agatha Armour Thompson (1845-1891) novelist
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| 1892 |
1892 - The federal
government changes the sentence for rape to life imprisonment or
death. Usually such sentences were commuted
1892 - Quebec’s Conservative premier, Charles-E. Boucher of
Boucherville, spearheaded the passing of legislation granting
single, land-owning women and windows the right to vote in municipal
and school elections so long as they did not run for office
themselves
1892 -
The Ontario Mines Act prohibits women from working
in and around mines
1892 -
The Ontario provincial Legislative Assembly passes an
act granting women access to law schools
1892 -
The unmarried women in Summerside, Prince Edward Island gain the
right to vote in municipal elections
March 2, 1892 - Mildred Lewis Ware
(1871-1905) and ex American
slave James Ware (1854-1905) are married. The couple will be pioneer ranchers in Alberta and raise
nine children
May 28, 1892 - Marie Dressler
(1868-1934) makes her New York City, U.S.A. singing debut in the comic
opera, The Robber of the Rhine. The Comedienne, born
in Coburg, Ontario would win an academy award for her acting talents
1892 -
Three women are elected to the Toronto Schools Board, Dr.
Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857-1943),
Mrs. J .A. Harrison and Mrs. Mary McDonnell
1892 - Harriet Faxton Clarke (????) is
the 1st woman to graduate from the Manitoba Medical College
August 29, 1892 -
The world's 1st electrically cooked meal was served
in Ottawa
Source: Ottawa Citizen
February 6, 2005 pg. E2.
Thomas Ahearn (1855-1938) became the
1st person in the
world to cook an entire meal using electricity. he made Saginaw trout,
potato croquettes, sugar-cured ham, lamb cutlets, stuffed loin of
veal, strawberry puffs, chocolate cake and apple pie. He served his
meal to VIP journalists at Ottawa's Windsor Hotel.
Source: Electric oven by Richard E. J. Wood. The Beaver,
Oct/nor 2007 pg 10. No doubt he had some help
cooking all this!!! D. Monroe
1892 - An organized all female ice hockey game is played
in Barrie, Ontario. Research reveals a description of just one game
in that community during the year and that game actually featured
women playing men dressed as women. (I wonder how they enjoyed
playing in long skirts?) Source: (accessed January 2012). Used with permission.
1892 -
The Canadian Lawn Tennis Association (Tennis Canada) establishes a
'Ladies draw' as part of the National Tennis Championships
Source: Women playing Tennis
, Cool Women online (Accessed
July 2005)
1892 - A women's Art Club is
established in London Ontario
Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects
(accessed February
2006)
1892 -
Annie Thompson
(1845-1913), wife of Prime
Minister Sir John Thompson (1845-1894)
was a sincere and busy host to Ottawa members of parliament. When
the family could no longer afford a staff cook prior to him becoming
Prime Minister, Annie prepared meals for dinner parties hosting some
250 people in this year alone!
Sources: “Obituary”, The Toronto Evening Telegram, April 11,
1913. ; “Annie Emma Affleck”, Dictionary of Canadian Biography
1911-1920, vol. XIV Online Accessed April 2013.
Births 1892:
1892 -
Born Elizabeth Elsie Harvey (1892-1983) social activist
1892 -
Born Katharine McLennan (1892-1975) historian passionate
about the restoration of the settlement of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia
1892 -
Born Nellie Margaret Lewis (1892-1956) teacher & author
1892? - Born Margaret Allan Thatcher (1892/-1987) public health
nurse
1892 - Born Elizabeth Hope Thurrott (1892-1980) doctor & medical
missionary
January 15, 1892 - Born
Mary Olivia Wilson (1892-1981) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 5, 1892 -
Born Ainslie St. Clair Dagg (1892-1918) World War l Nursing
Sister
February 6, 1892 -
Born Eva Louise Boyden (1892-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 7, 1892 -
Born Elizabeth Kilpatrick (1892-1969) pioneer psychiatrist
February 21, 1892 -
Born Winnifred Estella Bamback (1892-1969) award winning author &
harpist
February 25, 1892
- Born Doris Crummy-Harrison (1892-????) World War l Nursing Sister
March 5, 1892 -
Born Pauline Donalda ( real name Pauline Lightstone) (1882-1970)
internationally renowned opera singer
March 16, 1892 - Born Gladys A. Bunn (1892-1987) piano
teacher & artist.
March 19, 1892 - Born Jeanne Chevalier (1892-1984) Champion
figure skater in pairs & singles
Spring 1892 - Born Ida Madeleine 'Mattie' Gunterman
(1882-1945) early photographer in British Columbia
April 9, 1892 - Born Marion Belle Harvie (1892-1981) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
April 9, 1882 - Born Lulu Jenny Hastey-Kidd (1892-1931)
married World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 14, 1892 - Born Cornelia Lucinda Wood (1892-1985)
Alberta provincial politician
May 19, 1892 - Born Katherine Ethelwynne 'Ethel' Gray-Borden
(1892-1975) World War l Nursing Sister
June 8, 1892 -
Born Stella Johnstone-Pollexfen (1892-1976) World War l Nursing
Sister
June 22, 1892 -
Born Haru Moriyama (1892-1987) Japanese picture bride
June 29, 1892 -
Born Gertrude Ethel Comerford-Durling (1892-1954) World War 1
Nursing Sister
July 1, 1892 - Born Annette Saint-Amant Frémont (1892-1928)
1st francophone woman journalist in Saskatchewan.
July 25, 1892 - Born Florence Fernet-Martel (1892-1986)
social activist, educator & Quebec feminist
July 28, 1892 -
Born Jean Isobel 'Jennie' Drummond-Field (1892-1985) World War l
Nursing Sister
August 12, 1892 -
Born Renee Millard White (1892-????) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 13, 1892 -
Born Jessie Helen Weir-Short (1892-1960) World War l Nursing Sister
August 14, 1892 - Born Gertrude Petty-Donaldson (1892-1919)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 3, 1892 - Born Molly Priscood Dingle (1892-1983)
educator
September 24, 1892 - Born Evelyn Vera McKay (1892-1018) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
September 24, 1892 - Born Gladys Hope Sewell-Ross (1892-1933)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 27, 1892 - Born Gladys Elizabeth Matheson Crim
(1892-1968) respected nurse on Canadian prairies.
October 1, 1892
- Born Jessie Mary Forshaw-Byron (1892-1958) public health nurse
October 10, 1892
- Born Marie-Alice Dumont (1892-1985) professional photographer in
Eastern Quebec
October 18, 1892 - Born Helen Bell Milborn (1892-1986)
physician & pioneer in study of breast cancer
October 25, 1892 -
Born Nell Shipman (1892-1970) award winning
actor, author, screenwriter, director, & producer
November 1892 - Born Evelyn Verrall McKay (1892-1918) World War
l Nursing Sister
November 23, 1892 - Born Annie Beatrice Sheppard (1892-????)
World War l Nursing Sister
November 24, 1892 - Born Alpha Isabella Hodgins (1892-
) award winning law student
November 24, 1892 - Born Evelyn Verra McKay (1892-1918) World
War 1 Nursing Sister died serving in France
November 29, 1892 - Born Helen Mary Kendall (1892-1982)
Nursing Sister World War 1 & ll
December 4, 1892 - Born Belle Grace Brown (1892-????)World War
l Nursing Sister
December 16, 1892 - Born Wallace Peeples (1892-????) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
December 28, 1892 - Born Marguerita 'Rita' Spencer
(1892-1993) musician & composer
Deaths 1892:
1892 -
Died Ellen Ross ( - 1892) author
February 1892 - Died
Nancy Lester (1810-1892) Black pioneer in
British Columbia
April 28, 1892 - Died
Mary Macdonald-Leech (1837-1892) Bride ship pioneer of British
Columbia
May 28, 1892 - Died Mary Elizabeth Jane Muchall (1841-1892) poet,
journalist & writer of short stories
June 9, 1892 - Died
Emily Brit Aberington-Teague (1844-1892) ship bride
August 18, 1892 - Died Catherine McLennan
(1837-1892) west coast social activist
November 20, 1892 - Died
Martha Hamm Lewis (1831-1892) 1st woman to become a teacher in New
Brunswick
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| 1893 |
February 9, 1893 - A 'Mock Parliament' is
held in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
It
featured a female government discussing the
possibility of giving men the vote was staged at the Bijoux Theatre,
Winnipeg, Manitoba. 'Premier' Amelia Yeomans (1842-1913) presided
with such notables as Nellie McClung (1873-1951) & E. Cora Hind
(1861-1942) on stage.
It is one of four "Mock Parliaments' to be held in that
province
1893 - Clara
Martin (1874- 1923) previously
refused entry into Osgoode Hall Law School since she was not
considered a 'person' under the British North America Act attends
law at Osgoode Hall. Clara would go on to become the first woman
lawyer in the British Empire
October 20, 1893 - Caroline Louise Josephine Wells
(1877-1939) is the 1st woman to
graduate and gain certification from the Royal College of Dental
Surgeons. Dr. Wells was a distinguished
practitioner for 36 years. She was the 1st dentist in Canada to work
entirely in hospital dentistry
October 27, 1893 - Lady Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of
Aberdeen and
Tweedsmuir, (1857-1939) wife of the Canadian Governor General, chairs the
organizational meeting of the National Council of
Women in Canada
1893 -
John Waters
(1829-1910), a member of the
Ontario Provincial Legislature 1879-1894, once again introduces a
woman’s suffrage bill, it is just 1 of several such unsuccessful
bills introduced to the Ontario Legislature through the late 1880’s
and into the 1890’s
1893 -
Sir John Morison Gibson creates the Act for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children which is the forerunner of the Ontario
Children's Aid Society
1893 - 1964 -
The Ontario Female Refugee Act allowed an person to bring before a
judge any female under the age of 21 who was considered
‘unmanageable’ or ‘incorrigible’ ( including unwed mothers) so that
the individual’s fate could be determined. (i.e. that she should
become committed to an institution or not)
1893 -
Edith Archibald
(1854-1936) and others made the
1st official attempt to have a suffrage bill for women property
holders passed in Nova Scotia. The bill was passed by the Nova
Scotia Province House, but quashed by Attorney General James
Wilberforce Longley (1849-1942).
Longley opposed unions and female emancipation for the 20 years he
was in office
1893 - The Foreign Missionary Society of the Church of
England in Canada is formed and gives priority to 'Indian Work'
Fall 1893 -
The Women's Art Club, originally established in Toronto by Mary Dignam
(1860-1938) becomes affiliated with the National Council of
Women in Canada Source: Women's Hockey - History of
Hockey, online (accessed June 2011)
December 7,
1983 -
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) becomes
a national organization
1893 - The Nova Scotia House of
Assembly refuses a suffrage bill for women property holders
1893 -
1893-
Josephine Herélle-Henriette
Marchand-Dandurand
(1861-1925) is the
1st woman to edit a French language
periodical in Canada
1893 - Robert Simpson's, a Toronto based department
store, introduces a full mail-order catalogue Source:
Before e-commerce : a history of mail order catalogues
online (accessed
December 2004)
Births 1893:
1893 - Born Azilda Belanger (1893-1942) pioneer of Northern
Ontario & educator
1893 - Born Lillie Fern Bowman (1893-1969) Saskatchewan
politician
1893 - Born Mabel Hanway (1893-1968) social activist & pacifist
1893 - Born Violet Keene (1893-1987) acclaimed portrait
photographer
1893 - Born Louise M. Saunders (1893-1969) first woman lawyer in
Newfoundland
1893 - Born Pearl Steen (1893-1988) social activist, President
of National Council of Women 1964-1967
1893 - Born Ruby Wigle (1893-????) one of the 1st
women town solicitors in Ontario in Preston 1931-1933
January 16, 1893 - Born Nancy Helena Columbia Palmer (1893-1959)
Inuit actress, director and screenwriter
January 18, 1893 - Katherine Maud MacDonald (1893-1918) 1st
World War 1 Nursing Sister to die in the war
March 14, 1893 - Born Ray/Rae Lewis A. K. E. Ray/Rae Levinsky
(1893-1954) performer, poet, & scriptwriter
April 4, 1893 -
Born Evelyn Grace Galloway-Richards (1893-1987) World War l
Nursing Sister
April 13, 1893 -
Born Margaret Ann Whitfield-Lough (1893-1986) World War l Nursing
Sister
April 16, 1893 - Born Germaine
Gévremont (1893-1968) French language journalist & novelist
April 18, 1893 -
Born Margaret 'Maggie' McCullough (1893-????) World War l Nursing
Sister
June 28, 1893 -
Born Eleanor Christopherson (1893-1965) Nursing Sister World War l
July 23, 1893 -
Born Lillian Foster (1893-1963) fashion editor Toronto Telegram
July 25, 1893 -
Born Jessie Robina Gilchrist-MacDonald (1893-1992) World War
1 Nursing Sister
August 4,1893 - Born Gladys Muriel Porter (1893-1967) 1st woman
elected to the Nova Scotia Provincial Legislature
August 14, 1893 - Born Marjorie Douglas Weir (1893-192??)
journalist & poet
August 22, 1893 - Born Elizabeth "Bonnie" Bjarnarson (1893-1979) nurse awarded the Manitoba Good Citizenship Award for
meritorious service
September 3, 1893 - Born Dr. Norma Ford Walker (1893-1968) well
known medical researcher of childhood diseases
September 4, 1893 - Born Ethel Bayliss-Large (1893-1971)
World War l Nursing Sister
September 4, 1893 - Born Eden Lyal Pringle (1893-1918)
youngest Nursing Sister to die in World War l
September 30, 1893 - Born Elizabeth McPhail-Steele (1893-????)
world war l Nursing Sister
October 15, 1893 - Born Margaret Rae Morrison Lucklock
(1893-1972) o of the 1st two women elected to the Ontario Provincial
Legislature 1943
October 26, 1893 - Born Alice Frances Stevenson (1893-????)
World War l Nursing Sister
November 19, 1893 - Born Bertha Samson-Beck (1893-1958)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 5, 1893 - Born Beatrice Eugene Bradshaw (1893-1945)
World War l Nursing Sister
Deaths 1893:
1893 - Died
Frances Tweedie Milne
(1848-1893) diarist in Ontario
March 1893 - Died
Natawista-Iksana. Medicine Snake
Woman. (1824?-1893) healer
March 30,1893 - Died Jane
Mackenzie (1825-1893) wife of Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie
(1822-1892)
May 10, 1893 -
Died Ann Langdon (1804-1893) pioneer in Upper Canada
June 5, 1893 - Died Mary Ann
Shadd Cary (1823-1893) 1st free Black woman in North America to edit
a newspaper
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| 1894 |
1894 -
The North
West Territories allows unmarried women to vote in municipal
elections but not to hold office
April 4, 1894 -
The New Brunswick Women’s Enfranchisement
Association, a branch of the Dominion Association, is formed with
Mrs. Edward Manning as President
Source:
Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
August
30, 1894 -
the 1st executive committee of the newly formed Local
Council of Women Halifax meets at the Nova Scotia Government House.
Emma Macintosh served as the 1st president and
Anna
Leonowens
(1831-1915)
as
the secretary. Enfranchisement was the issue
1894 - Miss Hamilton is the 1st woman graduate from the
Halifax Medical College as a medical doctor. Source:
Lucy Maud Montgomery 'A girl's place at Dalhousie College"
Halifax Herald, April 1896.
November 1,
1894 - Dr. Amelia Yeomans (1881-1968)
is president of the Manitoba Equal Franchise Club, the 1st
English-speaking suffrage group formed west of Ontario
1894
- Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947.) writes Beautiful Joe, a story of
an abused dog, winning a competition sponsored by the American
Humane Society. The book becomes the first Canadian book to
sell more than 1,000,000 copies. It is translated into more than 14
different languages
1894- Emilie
Tremblay (1872-1949)
pioneer of the Yukon and 1st white woman
to climb the Chilkoot trail in 1894
1894 - The 1st female club hockey team called the
Love-Me-Nots is formed at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
1894 - YWCA in Hamilton, Ontario, opens a
School of Domestic Science, the first of its
kind in Canada. Adelaide Hoodless ( 1857-1910.)
and the Hamilton YWCA are instrumental in
having the subject of domestic science incorporated into the Ontario
provincial school system Source:
History of the YWCA
YWCA
online
1894 - College girls began to play hockey at McGill
University Source: Women's Hockey - History of
Hockey (accessed June 2011)
Ladies who are students at Queens
University, Kingston, Ontario form a hockey team frowned upon by the
Archbishop at Queen's. They originally
called themselves the Love-Me-Nots but the following year they
changed their name to the Morning Glories.
Source: "Old time hockey rebels : The Love-Me-Nots
of Queen's University" by Dirk
Hoag. On the Forecheck Online accessed
January 2013.
1894 - Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon founds the
Canadian Women's Historical Society of Toronto
1894 -
Robert Simpson Co. store in Toronto is destroyed by fire Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanogan Creative Projects
online (accessed February
2006)
Births 1894:
1894 - Born Lillian Alice Chace (1894-1987) indomitable
early woman doctor
1894 - Born Vega Dawson (1894-1988) Order of the British
Empire (O B E) for war services
1894 - Born Allie Vibert Douglas (1894-1988) Dean of
Women, Queen's University & international lecturer in astronomy
1894 - Born Georgina
Flemming (1894-1918) nurse who died helping with influenza in
Boston, Massauchetts, U.S.A.
1894 - Born Phyllis Munday
(1894-1990)
mountaineer & early Girl
Guide organizer
1894 - Born Aileen Powers - Peel (1894-1918) nurse in World War
l
1894 - Born Jessie Boyd Scriver (1894-2000) first pediatric
doctor in Montreal
1894 - Born Mona Gordon Wilson (1894-1981) known as the
Florence Nightingale of St. John's, Newfoundland
1894 -
Born
Alice Lillian Wright (1894-2000) nurse who
fought for better working conditions
January 21, 1894 -
Born Kathleen Shields Perrin - Helliwell (1894-1980) World War 1
Nursing Sister
January 30, 1894 -
Born Louise de Kiriline
Lawrence (1894-1992) nurse & acclaimed ornithologist
February 11, 1894 - Born Pearl Brannick Patterson Ackeroyd
(1894-1952) teacher
February 16, 1894 - Born Florence Jessie Murray (1894-1975) Presbyterian
medical missionary in Asia who was decorated by King of Denmark for
her service
March 27, 1895 -
Born Sadie Mildred Grimm - Cruikshanke (1895-1970) motorcycle racer
April 9, 1894 -
Born Cecilia Krieger (1894-1974) noted mathematician
April 24, 1894 - Born Jean Matheson (1894-1938) World War l
Nursing Matron
May 6, 1894 - Born Helen Alice Kinnear (1894-1970) 1st woman to
plead a case before the Supreme Court of Canada
May 16, 1894 - Born Muriel Lee - Monroe (1894-1970) lawyer
May 23, 1894 - Born Kathryn/Katherine Dorothy Ross (1894-1967)
World War l Nursing Sister
May 29, 1894 - Born Beatrice Lillie (1894-1989) outstanding
comedic actor known as the funniest woman in the world
June 4, 1894 - Born Mary Travers (La Bolduc)
(1894-1941) popular vocalist & composer of her era
July 28, 1894 - Born Margaret Vitaline Foster - Harston
(1894-1990) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 1894 - Born Lovedy Josephine Campeau - Scott (1894-1980)
first woman lawyer in Essex county, ON
August 9, 1894 - Born Cyrpra Cecelia Krieger (1894-1974)
mathematician
September 2, 1894 - Born Marjorie MacDonnell (1894-1936) World
War l Nursing Sister
September 5, 1894 - Born Lydia Emélie Gruchy (1894-1992) in
1936 she became 1st woman ordained as a minister in the United
Church of Canada
September 8, 1894 - Born Pauline Boutal 1894-1992) artist &
theatre designer/director
September 20, 1894 -
Born Florence Spalding Hardy McConney (1894-1981) specialist in
internal medicine
October 6, 1894 - Born Janet R. McClure Kilborn (1894-1945)
early woman doctor and professor in China
October 24, 1894 - Born Mary Ester Slee Ritchie - McLean
(1894-????) World War l Nursing Sister
November 30, 1894 - Born Anna Petch-Beatty (1894-???) World War
L Nursing Sister
December 8, 1894 - Born Mary Lillian Cameron (1894-1956) World
War l Nursing Sister
December 15, 1894 - Born Allie Vibert Douglas (1894-1988)
1st woman in Canada to graduate with a PhD in astrophysics
Deaths 1894:
March 3, 1894 - Died
Margaret Bemister (1877-1894) author
July 27, 1894 - Died Louisa Annie
Murray (1818-1894) author
|
| 1895 |
1895 -
The Yukon becomes a provisional district separate from the
Northwest Territories
1895 - New Brunswick passes the Married Women's
Property Act which grants a married woman full control of her own
property as if she were a single woman
March 1, 1895 -
A suffrage association is formed in Halifax, Nova
Scotia. It is
short lived and not heard from after its initial inauguration
Source:
Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto,
Grolier Ltd, 1981.
1895 - The Toronto School
Board will not hire married women nor women over 30 years of age
Source: Canadian Chronology (accessed April 28,
2003)
1895 - Helen Mary 'Marie' Grant
(1843-1907) of British Columbia is appointed
as the 1st women school trustee in Canada
1895 -
The Law Society of Upper Canada admits women as
barristers
1895 - A loaf of bread costs 5
cents and fabric sold for 25 cents a yard
1895 - Pearl Smith Chute
(1975-????) is the 1st woman doctor to intern
in Canada. She marries and becomes a Medical Missionary to India
Source: The Indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker,
Clarke Irwin, 1974).
1895 - The Toronto Camera
Club debates opening it membership to women. Women were finally
accepted as members. Most other camera clubs in Canada were already
accepting women as members Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects (accessed February
2006)
November 19, 1895 -
The Women's Canadian Historical Society of
Toronto is organized and is incorporated February 14, 1896
1895 -
Some women teachers in Toronto while riding bicycles to school
chose to wear bloomers…long loose trousers gathered tightly at the
ankle and worn under a short skirt. This initiated the Toronto
Bloomer Scandal when a school board member made a motion to
report the names of all female teachers who wore such male attire.
The motion was defeated!!! Source:
Janet Ray, Towards
Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
1895 - The Women's Medical College, Toronto
& the Kingston Women's Medical College form the Ontario Medical
College for Women (1895-1905)
Source: A
history of Women's College (Accessed
February 2006)
1895 -
A suffrage association is formed in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, but is short lived &
not heard from after its initial inauguration
Source:
Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd,
1981.
1895 - The Roberts Simpson Co. rebuilds its
store that was destroyed by fire. The new store is built with a
"fireproof" frame of concrete-clad steel Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects
(accessed February
2006)
March 1895 - Maria Pollard-Grant
(1854-1937) is appointed
the 1st woman school trustee for the City of Victoria and for
British Columbia Source:
British Columbia Federation of Labour.
November 19, 1895 - The Women's
Canadian Historical Society of Toronto is organized
Births 1895:
1895 - Born Marguerite Martha Allan
(1895-1942) amateur dramatist
1895 - Born Margaret Iris
Duley (1895-1968) 1st woman author to be recognized outside province
of Newfoundland
1895 - Born Winnifred Flemming (1895-1918) nurse who died
helping with influenza in Boston, Massauchetts, U.S.A.
1895 - Born Emma Gendron (18951952) journalist, playwright,
screenwriter, & author
1895 - Born Nellie Hall-Humpherson (1895-1976) suffragette
1895 - Born Pearl
McCarthy, (1895-1964) journalist and art critic
1895 -
Born Marjorie McKenzie (1895-1957) one of the 1st women to become
a Foreign Service Officer in Canada
1895 -
Born Mary McNulty (1895-1972) 1st woman to practice Law in the
city of Ottawa, & was involved in Peel County, Ontario politics
1895 - Born
Marjorie Beatrice Moberly (1895-1916) World War 1 Nursing Sister
1895 -
Born Bertha Oxner (1895-1960) educator in Saskatchewan
1895 -
Born Marie S. Penny (1895-1970) businesswoman in Newfoundland
1895 -
Born Rosa L. Shaw (1895-1981) journalist
1895 -
Born Dora Olive Thompson (1895-1934) author of books for young
readers
1895 -
Born Ester Isabelle Clark Wright (1895-1990) Maritime academic
1895 - Born Wanda Wyatt
(1895-1998) social activist & volunteer
January 12, 1895 -
Born Wilhelmina MacKenzie-Livingstone (1895-1972) Public Health
Nurse
January 27, 1895 -
Born Ida May Snelgrove-Elliot l Elliott (1895-1985) nurse
February 4, 1895 - Born Cairine Wilson (1895-1962) 1st woman appointed to the Canadian
Senate
February 14, 1895 - Born Florence Katherine Whittick-McKeen
(1895-1960) World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 3, 1895 -
Born Bertha Evelyn McDonald (1895-1973) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
March 10, 1895 -
Born Margaret Helen McGill (1895-1976) World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 18, 1895 - Born Grace MacLennan Grant Campbell
(1895-1963) award winning novelist
March 22, 1895 - Born Arrabelle MacKenzie-McCallum (1895-1984)
first paediatric dentist in Canada
April 10, 1895 - Born Vera Cynthia McCluskie-Clayton (1895-????)
World War l Nursing Sister
May 14, 1895 - Born Hilda May James-Grossick (1895-1976) World
War l Nursing Sister
May 15, 1895 - Born Elsie Bell Gardner (1895-1994) author of the
Maxie books for girls in the 1930's & 1940's
May 26, 1895 - Born Dorothy Steeves (1895-1978) social
activist & Member of British Columbia Legislature 1934-1945
May 29, 1895 - Born
Esther Marjorie Hill (1895-1985) 1st woman architect in Canada
June 7, 1895 - Born Lida Bell Pearson Sturdy (1895-1987)
on November 3, 1921 became the 1st woman lawyer in Preston Ontario
with her own practice.
June 20, 1895 - Born Elizabeth Pauline MacCallum
(1895-1985), diplomat
July 10, 1895 - Born Alexandra Birkiukova (189501967)
architect
July 24, 1895 - Born Clara Armstrong (1895-1983) poet
August 3, 1895 - Born Margaret Grace McBean-Hayward (1895-1987)
World War l Nursing Sister
August 25, 1895 - Born Elizabeth 'Liz' Cruickshank
(1895-1989) 'Liz Roly' OBE, journalist
September 1895 - Born Faustina Adelaide Kelly-Cook
(1895-1979) a Physician & tireless volunteer
September 1, 1895 - Born Aileen Isabel Silk - Bicknell
(1895-1943) Early woman lawyer in Ontario
October 5, 1895 - Born Katherine May Oliver (1895-????)
World War l Nursing Sister
November 6, 1895 - Born Isabel Jaffares-Gibb (1895-1951)
World War l Nursing Sister
Deaths 1895:
1895 - Died "Ruthie" Lucie Blackburn (1804-1895) escaped
slave & person of national historic significance
1895 - Died Amelia Clothilda Jennings (????-1895) poet & novelist
February 12, 1895 - Died Joanna Harrington, Sister Mary
Benedicta (1845-1895) Mother Superior of her convent
September 1895 - Died Amelia Clotilda Jennings (1830-1895)
poet
|
| 1896 |
1896 -
Married women of Prince Edward Island gain the right to own property
and enter into contracts
February 18, 1896 -
The local Women’s Christian Temperance Union, with
the help of the Women’s Equality Association,
staged a satirical mock parliament, in which an all-female
parliament debated whether men should be granted the right to vote.
The event took place in Toronto’s Allen Gardens with
Dr. Emily Stowe
(1831-1903)
playing the role of the Premier and her daughter
Augusta Stowe
(1857-1943)
playing the role of the provincial
attorney general.
March 6, 1896 -
Queen's University ,Kingston, Ontario, women's hockey team, The
Morning Glories defeat the Blues and Blacks of the Ladies College
with a score of 2-1. This is perhaps the 1st college
women's hockey game. Women's ice hockey teams are also formed at
McGill University and in the Ottawa Valley
.Source "Old Time
Hockey Rebels: the Love-Me-Littles of Queen's University." by Dirk
Hoag. On The Forecheck On line (Accessed January 2013)
April 23, 1896 - The National Sanitarium Association holds
it inaugural meeting in Toronto, Ontario.
1896 - The Saint John Association of the Advancement of
Women in New Brunswick hosts the US based Advancement of Women
Convention
1896 - The 1st Home Economics courses in Canadian Public
Schools begin in Hamilton, Ontario after intensive lobbying of the
National Council of Women in Canada Source: Herstory: the Canadian Women's
Calendar (Silver anniversary edition) 2000. Coteau Books, 1999
page 30.
August 16, 1896 - Gold is discovered in the
Canadian Klondike
1896 -
Lillian Frances Massey
(married name Treble)
(1854-1915)
started the Kitchen Garden at the Fed Victor Mission , Toronto.
offering gardening along with cooking and sewing classes for youth
from the surrounding slums
Source: D C B Online (accessed
January 2013)
1886 - Mary Dignam (1857-1938)
arranges for 16 women artists to hand paint the Canadian state
dinner service to be used at Rideau Hall Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects online (accessed February
2006)
1896 - Hannah Maynard (1834-1918)
becomes an official photographer for the Victoria Police Department Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects
online (accessed February
2006)
1896 - Johnson and Johnson Company introduces
the world's 1st disposable sanitary napkin pad, however this 1st
introduction is a market failure because modesty prohibits people
from talking about the product Source: Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas :
women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and
Co., 2002.
1896 -
The Hudson Bay Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba
publishes their 1st mail-order catalogue
Source: Before e-commerce : a history of mail
order catalogues (accessed
December 2004)
1896 -
Motion pictures are 1st shown in Canada in the city of
Montreal.
Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art
History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects (accessed February
2006)
Births 1896:
1896 -
Born Nora Bateson (1896-1956) librarian
& professor at McGill University
1896 -
Born Aileen Isabel Bicknell (1896-1943) early
Canadian woman lawyer
1896 - Born Adeline Elizabeth Browning (1896-1950) social
activist & one of first women to run for St. John's town council
1896 - Born Marjorie Freeman Campbell (1896-1975) author, local
historian, & crime writer
1896 - Born
Margaret Rebecca Chase-Collins (1896-1977) physician
1896 - Born Julia Crawford (1896-1968) artist & teacher
1896 - Born Sarah (Nini) Fischer (1896-1975) internationally
renowned soprano, honorary member of the Royal College of Music
in London, England
1896 - Born Jane Gray (1896-1984) early radio broadcaster.
1896 - Born Jean Hall (1896-1982) architect
1896 - Born Prudence Heward (1896-1947) acclaimed figure
painter
1896 - Born Anna Hicks (1896-1982) Member of the
Agricultural Hall of Fame
1896 - Born Lilias Torrance Newton (1896-1980) artist
1896 - Born Kathleen May Redman Strange (1896-1968) author
February 11, 1896 - Born Rebecca 'Becky' Buhay (1896-1953)
radical political organizer
February 11, 1896 -
Born Frederica Wilson (1896-1935) World War l Nursing Sister
February 23, 1896 - Born Adeline Ruth Boswell (1896-1979) music
teacher & historian she restored the Boswell homestead in PEI
as a community resource
March 7, 1896 - Born Ada / Aida Maud Boyer McAnn Flemming
(1896- 1994) social activist, writer, teacher & animal welfare
advocate
March 8, 1896 - Born Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975)
social activist, politician, & 1st woman to become mayor of a large urban
centre in Canada (Ottawa)
April 12, 1896 -
Born Emily Alexander Stewart-Buckly (1886-1971) World War 1
Nursing Sister
May 4, 1896 - Born Bessie 'Betty' Mitchell (1896-1976) theatre
director
July 5, 1896 - Born Mary Eileen Abbott (1896-1980) Manitoba
community volunteer
July 10, 1896 - Born Thérèse Casgrain (1896-1981) social activist,
feminist & 1st individual Canadian woman to appear on Canadian
money
( $50.00 bill 2004)
July 27, 1896 - Born Anne Douglas Savage (1896-1971) pioneer
educator & artist
August 5, 1896 - Born
Gwendda
Dorothy Owen Davies (1896-1988) concert pianist & teacher of music
August 15, 1896 - Born Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1896 1985) founder of Madonna House, Cumbermere, Ontario.
October 2, 1896 - Born Jessie Louise Beattie (1896-1895) poet
& novelist member of the City
of Cambridge (Ontario) Hall of Fame
November 3, 1896 - Born Madeleine Alberta Fritz (1896-1990)
paleontologist.
November 23, 1896 - Born Bessie T. Pullan-Singer (1896-
???) physician, perhaps 1st Jewish woman doctor in Canada
November 24, 1886 - Born Hortense Crompton Gordon (1886-1961)
early Canadian abstract artist
December 15, 1896 - Born Margaret Bannerman (1896-1976) actor
of stage and movies
December 17, 1896 - Born Enid Finley Gordon (!896-1974) pioneer
of physiotherapy being recognized as a profession
Deaths 1896:
January 1896 - Died
Elise L’Hereux- Benoit dit Livernois (1827- 1896) pioneer
professional photographer
May 31, 1896 -
Died Augusta Charlotte Fraser (1849-1896) author
August 15, 1896 - Died
Emily Evelyn Dickson (1851-1896) indomitable early woman doctor
September 10, 1896 - Died Kate
M. Buckland (1826?-1896) stage actor
October 27, 1896 - Died Marcella McFarland (1844-1896)
Alberta Pioneer
|
| 1897 |
January 29, 1897 - Lady Aberdeen, Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of
Aberdeen and
Temair, (1857-1939) established he Victorian Order of Nurses to serve
sparsely populated communities
February 1897 - Lady Aberdeen proposes the Victoria Order
of Nurses (V O N). The Ontario Medical Association considers it a
fad and impractical
February 2, 1897 - Clara Brett Martin (1874-1923)
becomes the 1st woman admitted to the Bar in Ontario making her the
1st female lawyer in Canada and the 1st woman to enter the
profession of law in the British Empire
February 19, 1897 - The 1st Women's Institute meets at
Stoney Creek, Ontario. Within a few years the movement spread across
Canada and around the world
June 1897 -
The National Council of women holds its annual
meeting in Halifax. Lady Aberdeen,
Ishbel Maria Gordon, Marchioness of
Aberdeen and
Temair,
(1857-1939) and American
suffragist Mary Wright Sewell were among the women who made
presentations at the event
Source: History, Local Council of Women
Halifax
www.lcwhalifax.org
(Accessed January 2016)
1897 -
Medola de Sola founded the National Council of Jewish Women in
Toronto. It is the oldest Jewish women's organization in Canada
1897 -
The
Ontario School Act is amended permitting School Boards to provide
elementary grade instruction for children from five years of age and
permission to offer kindergarten for three to five year olds. The
Act also included kindergarten as a teaching specialty in Normal
Schools (Teacher’s colleges) in Toronto and Ottawa1897 -
Artist and portrait painter
Sophie Pemberton
(1869-1959) is the 1st Canadian to receive the Prix Julian
from the Académie Julian in Paris, France
1897 - Woodward's, a large department store in
Vancouver issues 1st mail-order catalogue
Source: Before e-commerce : a
history of mail order catalogues
(accessed December 2004)
1897 - Hannah Maynard
(1834-1918)
becomes an official photographer for the Victoria, British
Columbia Police Department
Source: Important moments in
Canadian history
(accessed May 2002)
October 1897 - The
Ewart Missionary Training Home for Presbyterian Women Missionaries
is opened in Toronto, Ontario in the former home of Catherine
Ewart (1818-1897)
Births 1897:
1897 -
Born Ruth Addison (1897-2005) 1st woman
appointed as member of the Civil Service Commission
1897 - Born Katherine Banham (1897-1995) 1st woman to earn a PhD
from the University of Montreal
1897 - Born Helen Dorothy Beales (1897-1991) artist & educator
1897 - Born Margaret Bennie (1897-1988) former president of the
Federation of Women Teachers Association, educator of note
1897 - Born Victoria Chung (Cheung) (1897-1966) Canadian
medical doctor who helped modernize medicine in China
1897 - Born Alix Goolden (1897-1988) founder of Victoria
Conservatory of Music
1897 - Born Vera Cryderman (1897-1969) accomplished artist who
worked in several medium helped establish Visual Arts in colleges
1897? -
Born Vera Alexandra
Robinson - Cartwright (1897?-1979) early Canadian law librarian
1897 - Born Muriel Victoria Roscoe
(1897-1990) educator at Acadia University & McGill University
1897 - Born Mattie Rotenberg (1897-
989) in 1926 she was 1st woman & 1st Jew to earn a PhD in physics
at the University of Toronto
1897 - Born Gladys Verona Taylor - Whatmough (1897-????) lawyer
January 15, 1897 - Born Mazo de la Roche
(1879-1961)
author of the famous Jelna series
February 19, 1897-Born Elizabet 'Lizzie' von Rummel (1897-1980)
businesswoman, environmentalist & mountaineer
February 25, 1898 - Born Camille Bernard (1090-1984) opera
singer
March 9, 1897 - Born Nora Frances Henderson (1897-1949) 1st
woman elected to Hamilton, Ontario's city council
April 6, 1897 - Born Judith Robinson (1897-1981) acclaimed
journalist
May 6, 1897 - Born Gertrude May Hall (1897-1960) nurse &
nursing director
May 18, 1897 - Born Blondwen Davies (1897-1966) author &
historical researcher
June 22, 1897 - Born Anna Gertrude Lawson Cheney (1897-1985)
portrait painter & the 1st medical artist in British Columbia
July 4, 1897 - Born Regina Seiden - Goldberg (1897-1991)
rancher
August 6, 1897 - Emily Elizabeth Beavan
(1897- ??) author, poet, & teacher
September 5, 1897 - Born Phebe Kristen Christianson-Thompson
(1897-????) doctor & medical magazine editor
September 5, 1897 - Born Alexa Stirling Fraser (1897-1977)
Canadian golfing champion
September 24, 1898 - Born Claire Adams (1898-1978) silent film
actor
December 4, 1897 - Born Beatrice Janet Trew (1897-1976) social
activist & politician
December 11, 1897 - Born Alice Elizabeth Wilson (18971934) poet
December 16, 1897 - Born Dorothy Bruce Garbutt (1897-1988) journalist
& historian, host of the CBC program Houses I Have Known
Deaths 1897:
1897 -
Died
Lalia Halfkenny (1870-1897) first Black
Canadian to attend post secondary school in New Brunswick
May 7, 1897 - Died
Catherine Seaton (1818-1897) artist
June 17, 1897 - Died Jane Ann
Saunders-Nesbit (1844-1897) 'Ship-bride and businesswoman in British
Columbia
November 2, 1897 - Died Flora Amelia Ross (1842-1897) early
Métis nurse and early administrator |
| 1898 |
1898 -
In
Ottawa and Toronto, Ontario normal schools (Teacher's Colleges)
include courses so that women teachers have knowledge of the
educational value of Domestic Sciences (Home Economics)
Source: Herstory: the Canadian Women's Calendar
2000 (Silver anniversary edition) . Coteau Books, 1999 page 30.
April 30, 1898 - The May Court Club is
founded in Ottawa with a special event at Rideau Hall. It is a
volunteer women's club that raises needed funds for the community
May 27, 1898 - The Women's Historical Society
is founded in Ottawa
June 13, 1898 -
The Yukon becomes a separate entity from the Northwest Territories
and joins Canada
1898 -
Adelaide Hoodless
(1857-1910)
publishes her 1st book, Public School
Domestic Science, the 1st book of its kind in Canada
1898 - Kathleen “Kit” Coleman (1864-1915) boards a boat in Florida & lands
in Cuba as the world’s 1st
woman war correspondent (during the Spanish
American War)
1898 - Clementina Trenholme Fessenden (1843-1918)
gains acceptance of her work as the 1st EMPIRE DAY celebration
(May 24 holiday) is held in a school in Dundas, Ontario
1898 - The Woman's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa
is formed. It is the forerunner of the Ottawa Historical Society
(renamed 1956) The organization is founded to increase the public
knowledge of the history of Ottawa Source: Ottawa Historical
Society Online (Accessed July 2011)
November 2, 1898 - The first issue of the McGill
Outlook, a student newspaper is published with Lucy E. Potter
Editor-in-Chied, the first woman to head a McGill University
publication
Births 1898:
1898 - Born Corinne Bernard
(1898-1939) a community social activist & volunteer in Manitoba
1898 - Born Ellen Ballon (1898-1969) child prodigy &
internationally renowned pianist
1898 - Born
Marjorie Brook (1898-1988) hospital
administrator
1898 - Born Hilda Alice Hellaby (1898-1983) 1st
Canadian woman to earn a theological degree
February 4, 1898 - Born Margaret Helen McDougall (1898-1997)
journalist & librarian
February 23, 1898 - Died
Mary 'Polly' Scovil/Scovill (1803-1898) pioneer, teacher, farmers wife, & mother
March 8, 1898 - Born Christine Elizabeth Jenkins-Howson
(1898-1967) Black woman newspaper owner & editor
April 3, 1898 - Born Mary Elizabeth Kinnear (1898-1991)
Member of Senate of Canada 1967-1973
April 12, 1898 - Born Helen Maude Dallas (1898-1993) singer
sang to troop during the war
April 19, 1898 - Born Sybil Andrews-Morgan (1898-1992) artist
and printmaker
April 25, 1898- Died
Maria Louisa Angwin (1849-1898) 1st woman licensed
medical doctor in Nova Scotia
May 4, 1898 - Born Sister Ellen Mary Cullen (1898-1994) teacher
&
local historian
May 9, 1898 - Born Susannah Isabelle Steckle (1898-1985)
horticulturist
August 4, 1898 - Born Yvonne McKague Housser (1898-1996)
artist
August 4, 1898 - Born Elizabeth Carmichael Monk (1898-1980)
one of four women who were the 1st to be called to the Quebec Bar
August 10, 1898 - Born Albertine Lapensee (1898-???) pioneer
star of ladies hockey
October 8, 1898 -
Born Eunice Marion Wishart (1898-1982) first woman mayor of
Port Arthur, Ontario
October 28, 1898 -
Born Paraskeva Clark (1898-1986) artist
November 8, 1898 - Born Marie Provost (18981937) silent film
actor
November 22, 1898 - Born Evelina Adams (1898-?? ) her
biography provides a glimpse into lives of student nurses in Word
War1 era
Deaths 1898:
Died
1898 -
Mary Abbott (1823-1898) wife of
Prime Minister John Joseph Abbott (1821-1893)
Died 1898 -
Margaret Dixon McDougall (1826? -1898)
author & poet
February 23, 1898 -
Died Mary 'Polly' Scovil (1803-1898) pioneer, teacher,
farmers wife & mother
May 25, 1898 - Died Marie Angèle
Gauthier(1828-1898) author & teacher, she taught aboriginal people
in Duncan BC, knitting of Cowichan sweaters
September 4, 1898 - Died Sarah
Emma Evelyn Edmonds (1841-1898) army nurse & spy in the American
Civil War
November 5, 1898 - Died Mary Electra Adams (1823-1898)
educator, writer & published author. National Historic Person
November 6, 1898 - Died Sarah Anne Curzon (1883-1898)
respected playwright
November 18, 1898 - Died Sarah Anne Curzon, (1833-1898)
champion of Canadian women's rights & author |
| 1899 |
January 1, 1899 -
Two cent postage will pay to have a letter delivered anywhere in the
British Empire
January 20, 1899 -
The Sons of Freedom Doukabors land in Halifax. The eventually
settle on the West coast of Canada
January 23, 1899 -
The Women's Musical Club of Toronto is founded to
enhance the cultural life of Toronto by sponsoring an annual recital
series and providing performance opportunities and scholarships for
young Canadian musicians
Source: Robin Elliott, Counterpoint to a City: A
History of the Women's Musical Club of Toronto,
1997
1899 - Women have the right to sit on School Boards in
Charlottetown and Summerside, Prince Edward Island
October 30, 1899 - Four Nursing Sisters sail with the first
contingent of soldiers to South African Boer War. It is the first
international military participation for Canadian women.
A total of 12 Canadian Sisters served
1899 - The Vancouver City Hospital Training School for
Nurses admits it's first class of students. In 1919 it becomes part
of the university of the University of British Columbia, the first
such university nursing school in the British Commonwealth
1899 -
Wages and cost of Living for Women Workers in Ontario
for one year $216.71 Yearly Cost of Living including clothing,
lodging and board $214.28 leaving a surplus of $2.43
Source: Ontario Bureau of Industries.
1899 - Daughters of Israel are founded as the first
Jewish Woman's Organization in Saint JOhn, New Brunswick.
Births 1899:
1899 -
Born Agnes Watts (1899-1989) west coast philanthropist
1899 -
Born Gladys Powers (1988-2008) last surviving World War I veteran
2008
1899 -
Born Nora Ellen Dunwoody (1899-1988)
she was
known for establishing gift shops as fund raisers for hospital
auxiliaries
1899 -
Born Mary Emma Quayle Innis (1899-1972) noted economic historian
and educator
1899 -
Born Constance Woodrow (1899-1937) author
January 1, 1899 -
Born Mary Elizabeth Fisher-Lawson (1899-2004) Olympic ladies ingles
figure skater
January 29, 1899 - Born Leila Wightman (1899-1976) 1st
Canadian woman to own and run a telephone company (1947)
February 7, 1899- Born Helen Bernard McCall (1899-1957) pioneer
photographer in British Columbia who left a rich legacy of her works
February 22, 1899
- Born Violet Madeline Mellinger Mann (1899-1976) Titanic survivor
March 9, 1889 - Born Mary 'Maysie' Parsons-Marcy (1899-1949)
Nursing Sister World War l
March 12, 1889 - Born Mary Dyma (1899-1998) social activist &
Manitoba Trailblazer
April 8, 1899 - Born Anne Shipley (1899-1981) Member of
Canadian parliament
April 17, 1899 - Born Jane Mallett (1899-1984) stage, radio and
film actor
April 30, 1899 - Born Margaret McTavish Konantz (1899-1967)
international welfare organizer & Member of the Canadian parliament
May 20, 1899 - Born Olea Marion Davis (1899-1977) sculptor
May 26, 1899 - Born Muriel McQueen Fergusson (1899-1997)
member of the Canadian Senate
June 2, 1899 - Born Constance Isabelle Davies-Woodrow
(1899-1937) poet
September 5, 1899 - Born
Helen Mary Creighton (1899-1989)
distinguished folklorist
November 6, 1899 - Born Aileen Motley Doerksen (1899-1971)
teacher & community volunteer
November 29, 1899 - Born Beatrice Fordham Johnson - Wood
(1899-1992) nurse
November 30, 1899 - Born Edna May Diefenbaker (1899-1951)
wife of John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979) 13th Prime Minister of
Canada.
Note: some sources reportr birth date as 1901
December 2, 1889 - Born Yvonne Lisec (1899-1974) Sister Marie
Ephrem
Deaths 1899:
January 3, 1899 - Died Anne Molson (1824-1899)
philanthropist, wife of John Molson (1763-1836) brewer &
entrepreneur
February 26, 1899 - Died Eliza Cox Carter (1821-1899)
early unlicensed doctor in New Brunswick
May 2, 1899 - Died Fanny Bendixen (1820-1899) who ran
boarding houses & saloon in Cariboo region of British Columbia
during 1860-1890's gold rush
September 12, 1899 - Died
Margaret Lawrence
(1926-1987) award winning author
October 22, 1899 - Died Margaret Moran Dixon
MacDougall/McDougall (1828-1899) poet, journalist, & author |
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