Events listed relate to Canadian women with a few extra items added to give the timeline perspective.
This timeline is not all inclusive.
 



 

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DATES

EVENTS
1900
 		 January 8, 1900 - ‘Baby Gladys Smith’ (better known as Mary Pickford) (1892-1979) makes her stage debut at the Princess Theatre, Toronto, in the play The Silver King.

January 15, 1900  - The 1st chapter of The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I O D E) is founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick by Margaret Polson Murray (1844-1927). The membership volunteer their time to improve the quality of life for children, youth, and those in need, through education, social service, and citizenship programs.

1900 - The Married Women’s Property Act of Canada makes a wife responsible for her own property, wages, profits, etc. She is also jointly responsible for the support of her children.

 1900 - The Dominion Elections Act states that the only people who can vote in a federal election are ones who have the legal right to vote in a provincial election. Minorities (this includes women) who are excluded from voting in Provincial elections are therefore automatically excluded from voting in federal elections. (Statues of Canada 1900 c. 12)

1900 - The Manitoba Married Women's Property Act gives married women in the province of Manitoba the same legal capacity as men. (Statutes of Manitoba 1900 c. 27)

1900 - Adelaide Hoodless (1857-1910) founds the Ontario Normal School of Domestic Science and Art, Hamilton, Ontario.

1900 - Sarah Mallabar/Malabar opens her costume business in Winnipeg, Manitoba. By the 1950's it is one of the largest costume houses in Canada.

1900 - The Toronto Young Women's Christian Association (YMCA) holds its 1st classes for typists. Source: Jean Bannerman, Leading Ladies of Canada (Belleville, Mika Publishing, 1977);

1900 - The only work providing a pension for women is teaching.

1900 - Montreal hospitals refuse to allow women to practice medicine. Source: The Timechart history of Canada by Meredith Macardle (2004)

January  1900 - A male colleague delivers a research paper by Dr. Maude Abbott (1868-1940) before the Pathological Society in London. It was the 1st time a paper by a woman has been presented at the Society. Source: 100 Canadian women : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forster Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2004 pg 21.

1900 - Adaline Augusta 'Ada' Marean-Hughes (1848-1929) is the 1st woman to become president of the Ontario Education Association.

1900 - Royal Daughter’s of the Empire is founded as a philanthropic group

1900 - Josephine Dandurand (1862-1925) produces "two systems of art" which proposes government funding for the arts is half century before the Canada Council of the Arts is organized. The government does not listen. Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,  University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects (accessed February 2006)

1900 - The 1st known organized women's hockey league is set up in Quebec. Three teams compete and spectators are allowed to watch. Source: Women's Hockey - History of Hockey - (accessed June 2011).

1900 - Eaton's catalogue presents its Eaton's Beauty Doll made by Armand Marseille of Germany. Source: Timeline of the History of Dolls in Canada, Dawn Monroe 1992.

1900 - Sugar is spun into cotton candy -  Barbapappa! Source: Culinary Journey. Submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle deCevito, Cochrane, Ontario

1900 - The earliest published recipe for a butter tart is from Barrie, Ontario in the Women's Auxiliary of the Royal Victoria Hospital Cookbook
Births 1900 :
1900 - Born Germaine Gévremont (1900-1968) journalist & award winning author
1900 - Born Grace Armstrong Hartman (1900-1998) Sudbury City Councilor 1950-1967
1900 - Born Frances Emily Lynch (1900-1962) one of the 1st Roman Catholic women lawyers in Ontario
1900 - Born Marie McIntyre (1900-1938) The 1st Ukrainian-Canadian woman to become a pharmacist
1900 - Born  Violet Pooley Sweeny (1886-1965) champion west coast golfer
1900 - Born Georgette Vachon (1900-1987) author
January 1900 - Born Sarah Gotlieb (1900 - ??) social activist
February 11, 1900 - Born Mary Gannan (1900-1975) author of the Just Mary and Maggie Muggins books for young people
February 27, 1900 - Born Mary Claire Wallace (1900-1968) journalist & broadcaster
March 10, 1900 - Born Lillian Margaret Perry (1900-1990) first woman alderman in Lethbridge, Alberta
March 18, 1900 - Born Marion Elder Grant (1900-1989) psychologist, President of the Federation of University Women
April 1, 1900 - Born Sophia Dixon (1900-1994) social activist
April 9, 1900 - Born Irene Baird-Grierson (1900-1981) novelist
April 10, 1900 - Born Phyllis Campbell Abbott (1900-1997) painter
June 9, 1900 - Born  Dorothy Somerset (1900-1991) theatre director
June 28, 1900  - Born Margaret Ruth Bagnall (1900-1994)  writer & historian who painted local scenes for the provincial centennial
July 6, 1900 - Born Agnes Davidson (1900-1996) social activist
August 10, 1900 - Born Norma Shearer (1900-1983) movie star & Academy Award best actor
August 23, 1900  - Born Frances Marr Adaskin (1900-2001) pianist
September 16, 1900 - Born Sister Ethelberta (1900-1988) brought her religious order to Canada & hospital administrator
September 17, 1900 - Born Martha Ostenso (1900-1963) social worker & author
October 22, 1900 - Born Elizabeth Dafoe (1900-1960) librarian
October 29, 1900 - Born Evelyn 'Eve" Dunn (1900-1994) prairie artist
November 27, 1900 - Born Marie-Angèle ‘Jovette’ Alice Bernier (1900-1981) poet and journalist

Deaths 1900:
January 29, 1900 - Died Léocadie-Romaine Gascoin / Sister Marie des Septs-Douleurs (1818-1900) religious leader and mother Superior of her order.
July 11, 1900 - Died Marion Gillen (1861-1900) indomitable early woman doctor
September 23, 1900 - Died Ellen Agnes Bilbrough-Wallace (1841-1900) manager of Marchmont Home, Belleville
December 5, 1900 - Died Evelyn Durand (1870-1900) poet.
1901 January 22, 1901 - Queen Victoria (1819-1901) dies

1901 - The Canadian Army Nursing Service is created and more nurses are dispatched to tend wounded in the South African Boer War

1901 - 13.4% of the total paid labour force is made up of women. The marriage 'bar' is in operation with women legally required to resign upon marriage

 1901 - The average Canadian women will give birth to 4.6 children in their lifetime Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002.

1901 - The 1st Canadian Ladies Amateur Golf Tournament, held at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, is sanctioned by the Royal Canadian Golf Association

1901 - DR. Helen MacMurchy (1862-1953) is the 1st woman doctor to intern with the Toronto General Hospital

March 9, 1901 - Japanese Canadians gain the right to vote in British Columbia. This right is overturned in 1902. Japanese Canadians will regain the right to vote in 1949

April 1901 - Sara Anne McLagan (1855-1924) takes over as editor of their newspaper when her husband died. She is the 1st Canadian woman newspaper editor .  Source: “Sara Anne McLagan” by Linda Hale, Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Online (Accessed December 2012)

April 29, 1901 - It is announced that Empire Day will become Victoria Day in honour of the late Queen Victoria (1819-1901). (celebrated May 24)

1901 - Harriet Brooks (1876-1933) graduates from McGill University Montreal, as the firs Canadian woman to earn a degree in electromagnetism

October 24, 1901 - Former school teacher, Annie Taylor (1838-1921) becomes the 1st person in Canada to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel

1901 - The national federation of the Independent Order of the Daughters of the Empire (I.O.D.E.) is incorporated with headquarters in Toronto

1901 - The Canadian Nursing Service of the Canadian military is formed and women become part of the regular service rather than an ad hoc group. They are given the rank of 'Nursing Sister' a rank without any military command or authority

1901 - Josephine Dandurand (1862-1925) publishes Two Systems of Art which proposes government funding for the arts a full half century before the Canada Council is organized. Her proposal is not successful Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art compiled by Dr, Robert J. Belton .

April 1901 - Sara Anne McLagan (1855-1924) takes over as editor of their newspaper when her husband died. She is the 1st Canadian woman newspaper editor .  Source: “Sara Anne McLagan” by Linda Hale, Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Online (Accessed December 2012)

1901 - Canada's Fruit Mark Act provides the 1st schedule for graded foods Source: Culinary Journey. Submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

1901 - It becomes law in British Columbia that women have the right to support from her husband if she is deserted and did not allow her custody of their children Source: Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.  

 1901 - Female teachers in the city of Toronto earned $250.00 to $675.00 per year while male teachers earned $600.00 to $900.00 per year Source: Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.  
Births 1901:
1901 - Born Mary Margaret "Margery" Brooker (1901-1955) 1st woman appointed School Inspector for the Virden District, Manitoba, the 1st Canadian women to hold such a position
1901 - Born Bessie Portigal Buchwald (1901-1989) early Canadian Zionist
1901 - Born Hortense Pauline Douglas-Cantlie (1901-1979) medical artist
1901 - Born Margaret Paton Hyndman (1901?-1991)1st Toronto woman to be appointed King's Council & 2nd in the British Empire
1901 - Born Helen Kalvak (1901-1984) Inuit artist who helped found the Holman Eskimo Co-operative
1901 - Born Antoinette Hope Harris Millholland (1901-1000) Red Cross Volunteer
1901 - Born Marjorie Elliott Wilkins Campbell (1901-1986) author of historical fiction biographer
February 17, 1901 - Born Mona Parsons (1901-1976) used her home as a refuge for escaping allied airmen until captured by Germans in World War ll
March 4, 1901 - Born Simone Routier (1901-1987) award winning poet
March 29, 1901 - Born May Lawson (1901-1965) singer for choirs & opera in Manitoba
April 19, 1901 - Born Gertrude 'True' Davidson (1901-1978) teacher, writer and municipal politician
July 30, 1901 - Born Mary Belle Barclay (1901-2000) co-founder of Hostelling in North America
August 25, 1901 - Born Luella Saunders Creighton (1901-1966) writer of historic novels
September 15, 1901 - Born Gweneth Lloyd (1901-1993) renowned choreographer
October 17, 1901 - Born Jessie Caldwell (1901-1990) social activist
November 3, 1901 - Born Roberta Bond-Nichols (1901-1966) the 1st woman to lecture in anatomy in Canada
 November 20, 1901 - Born Anne ‘Annie’ Margaret Angus (1901-1991) poet
December 3, 1901 - Born Maryon Elspeth Pearson (1901-1968) wife of Lester B. Pearson (1897-1972)  Prime Minister of Canada
December 28, 1901 - Born Rona Alexandra Hatt-Wallis (1901-1982) first Canadian woman electrical engineer

Deaths 1901:
 January 9, 1901 - Died Mary Mellish Archibald (1849-1901) educator, Ladies Academy/College Mount Allison, New Brunswick
January 10 1901 - Died Anna 'Annie' Marier Gregg Savigny (1838-1901) author
 May 12, 1901 - Died Harriet 'Hattie' Amelia Davis (1858-1901) indomitable early woman doctor
July 10, 1901 - Died Annie Gregg Savigny (? -1901) author
July 16, 1901 - Died Mary Elizabeth Graves (????-1901) maritime educator
September 4, 1901 - Died Minnie Sophia Prat (1868- 1901) book binder
 
1902 June 12, 1902 - The Hague adopts the Guardianship Convention an early attempt at international law concerning the custody of minor children. It was the start of a century of change for women.

1902 - The 1st Canadian course in Household Science is given at the University of Toronto at the Lillian Massey School of Household Science and Art. The methods used at this school were soon picked up at Canadian Universities coast to coast. Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Online (Accessed January 2013)

1902 - The Women's Art Association of Montreal opens a shop to sell crafted items. Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,  University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects  (accessed February 2006)

1902 - A challenge match is held between the Ladies Hockey Clubs of Trois Riviéres and Montreal. At the time, it is hailed as the national championship of Canada as there are no organized leagues or tournaments

1902 - The Coloured Women's Club is formed in Montreal.

1902 - The Royal Bank of Canada hires their 1st woman, Jennie Moore, from Vancouver, British Columbia.

1902 - Eva Maude Powley (1875- ? ) is the 2nd woman in Ontario called to the bar to practice Law. . Source; Diversifying the bar: Law Society of Upper Canada. Online accessed January 2013.

Births 1902:
1902 - Born Sylvia Daoust (1902-2004) sculptor & wood carver
1902 - Born Hermina Rose Fraser (1902-1979) author
1902 - Born Susan Gertrude Jasper (1902-2000) social activist
1902 - Born Alice R. McGlashan (1902-1987) businesswoman in Outaouais, Quebec
1902 - Born Marjorie Mews (1902-1965) renowned Maritime librarian
1902 - Born Marguerite Eliza Robinson (1902-1975) nurse & author
1902 - Born Marjorie Walker (1902-1976) politician in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1902 - Born Nan Shipley (1902-1990) author
January 4, 1902 - Born Angela Sidney (1902-1991) aboriginal storyteller
January 5, 1902 - Born Myrtle Alice Cook (1902-1985) excellent all round athlete  member of the 1st woman's team in the Olympic Games
January 19, 1902 - Born Imelda Dallaire (Sister Marie-Joseph) (1902-1989) hospital manager
February 13, 1902 - Born Ethel Sylvia Wilson (1902-1983) Alberta politician
April 12, 1902 - Born Nancy Blodwen Kennedy-Reid (1902-1994) Matron of Nursing , World War ll
April 14, 1902 - Born Olive Evangeline Diefenbaker (1902-1976) 1st wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.(1895-1979)  
April 20,1902 - Born Elizabeth Goudie (1902-1982) writer who recorded the 1st history of family life in the wilds of Labrador
April 29, 1902 - Born Frances Shelley Wees (1902-1982) author of mystery & romance novels & educator
May 24, 1902 - Born Sylvia Daoust (1902-2004) sculptor & wood carver
June 16, 1902 - Born Audrey Mildred Griffin Kieran (1902- ? ) award winning long distance swimmer
June 17, 1902 - Born Marion Hilliard (1902-1958) medical doctor who helped develop a simplified Pap test
June 18, 1902 - Born Sophie Crestohl (1902-2002) social worker who was Liaison with the United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration
June 29, 1902 - Born Ethel Luella Curry (1902-2000) Haliburton artist
July 30, 1902 - Born Doris / Dorise Winnifred Neilsen (1902-1980) first Communist Member of Parliament
October 7, 1902 - Born Eva Waddell Mader-Macdonald (1902-1997) indomitable woman doctor
October 22, 1902 - Born Elsie Catherine Barclay (1902-1985) co-founder of Hostelling in North America
October 26, 1902 - Born Francoise Gaudet-Smet (1902-1986) leading journalist in Quebec
November 28, 1902 - Born Elizabeth Vera Perlin (1902-1974) social activist & educator
December 14, 1902 - Died Jennie Phelan Hutchinson MacMichael (????-1902) social activist
December 22, 1902 - Born Evelyn Sybil Mary Eaton (1902-1983) poet

Deaths 1902:
January 19, 1902 - Died Ester Pariseau, Mother Joseph, (1823-1902) member of Sisters of Charity & pioneer of the northwest coast
February 20, 1902 - Died Ellen Vasasour Noel (1836-1902) author
December 1, 1902 - Died Sarah Forbes (1860-1902) one of the 1st nurses to serve in Boer War, South Africa

1903 1903 - Emma Baker (1856-1943) is the 1st  woman to receive a Ph.D. from a Canadian University at the University of Toronto.

1903 - The Married Woman's Property Act gives married Women in the province of Prince Edward Island the same legal capacity as men.(
Statutes of P.E.I. 1903 c. 9 )

1903 - Annesley Hall at Victoria College is the first university women's residence to open in Canada

1903 - A women's curling team from Quebec City defeats a visiting men's curling team from the Royal Caledonia Curling Club in Scotland.

1903 - Georgina Fane Pope (1862-1938) is the 1st Canadian to receive the Royal Red Cross for conspicuous service in the field.

1903 - Emma Sophia Baker (1856-1943) is the 1st woman to graduate from University of Toronto with a degree in Philosophy ( she was a psychologist and this subject was covered by a degree in Philosophy at this time.) Source: Connie Smirle  Emma Sophia Baker In A. Rutherford (Ed.), Psychology's Feminist Voices Multimedia Internet Archive. Online.

1903 - Irma LeVasseur (1878-1903) becomes the 1st  woman doctor in the Province of Quebec.

December 3, 1903 - Mary Pickford (1872-1979) makes her debut on Broadway in New York City.

1903 - Canned Tuna 1st appears on grocer's shelves for the consumers to enjoy. Sorry Charlie! Source: Culinary Journey. Submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

1903 -  Governor General Lord Minto (1845-1914) sets up Minto prizes to encourage skillful development in Figure Skating. Barbara Anne Scot was one of the early Minto Prize winners.

Births 1903:
1903 - Born Phyllis Gregory Ross Turner (1903-1988) politician & public servant, mother of John Turner (1929-   ) 17th Canadian Prime Minister
1903 - Born Winnifred Blair Drummie (1903-1983) 1st Miss Canada.
1903 - Born Dorothy Duncan (1903-1957) author
1903 - Born Phyllis Marie Gregory Ross (1903-1988) economist
1903? - Born Louise Olson (1903?-1996) stage actor, producer, & director in Saskatchewan
1903 - Born Isabelle Cohen Ketchum Percival (19031998) businesswoman
February 3, 1903 - Born Frances Adaskin (1903-1988) award winning singer who championed the works of Canadian composers.
March 4, 1903 - Born Carrie Mae Best Black (1903-2001) Black activist who fought racism
April 23, 1903 - Born Viola R. Macmillan (1903-1993) prospector who found gold in Timmins area.
May 23, 1903 - Born Elsie May Gibbons (1903-2003) first woman mayor of a Quebec municipality
May 26, 1903 - Born Mary Littlejohn (1903-1988) Olympic figure skater
July 4, 1903 - Born Marguerite Michaud (1903-1982)1st Acadian woman to graduate from university
July 20, 1903 - Born Sally Kathleen Creighton (1903-1982) writer & journalist.
August 19, 1903 - Born Savella Stechishin (1903-2002) Ukrainian-Canadian author
August 25, 1903 - Born Marion Margaret Graham (1903-1995) World War ll Squadron Leader, R C A F
August 25, 1903 - Born Rose Alma Ouellette (1903-1996) actor, comedienne, & theatre director
August 31, 1903 - Born Helen Irene Battle (1903-1994) one of the outstanding women of science in Canada.
September 23, 1903 - Born Janet McIlvena (1903-1958) music teacher & director
October 8, 1903 - Born Elizabeth Wyn Wood (1903-1966) well known sculptor who has left a legacy of statues & fountains in municipalities across Canada.
October 10,1903 - Born Isabel McLaughlin (1903-2002) early modernist painter.
December 22, 1903 - Born Magda Arnold (1903-2002) psychologist.

Deaths 1903:
1903 - Died Carrie Jenkins Harris (1857-1903) novelist
1903 - Died Elizabeth Chandler McDougall (1818-1903) pioneer of the Canadian North West
March 3, 1903 - Died Elizabet Jennet Wylie McMaster (1847-1903) 1st superintendant of Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
 April 6, 1903 - Died Eliza Marie Jones (1838-1903) agricultural business woman
 May 3, 1903 - Died Sadie Saint/St Germain (1884-1903) World War l Nursing Sister
April 5, 1903 - Died Mary Anne Sadlier (1820-1903) prolific author.
April 30, 1903 - Died Emily Stowe (1831-1903)  the 1st Canadian woman to practice medicine in Canada
1904 May 14, 1904 - Canada competed in its first Olympic Games in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Only men represent Canada

June 1904 - The Canadian Women's Press Club  (CWPC) is formed during a CPR (Canadian Pacific Railroad) sponsored trip with 16 Canadian women journalists to cover the St. Louis World's Fair

July 2, 1904 - The Canadian Nursing Service is increased from eight to 25 Nursing Sisters

1904 - Elizabeth Scott Matheson (1866-1958) becomes the 1st registered woman doctor in what was then the Canadian North West Territories Sources: The Indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker, 1974. : The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan. Online (Accessed May 2014)

1904 - Male members of the Montreal Bookbinders Union strike to force employers to fire women already employed in the industry

September 4, 1904 - The Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptive Poor is opened in Toronto by the National Sanitarium Association

November 7, 1904 - a committee is formed in the province of Quebec to set up a school of Household Sciences in Montreal, to professionalize domestic work and promote public health. The committee sent Jeanne Anctil (1875-1926) and Antoinette Géin-Lajoie to Europe for studies to teach household sciences Source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Toronto; University of Toronto/Laval Université, 2005 vol. 15 1921-1930 p. 21-24.

1904 - Eaton's Department Stores opens a store in Winnipeg, Manitoba and introduces it's western Canada catalogue

1904 - The St. Louis World's Fair introduces the world to burgers on a bun, Ice cream cones, iced tea, and peanut butter! Source: Culinary Journey. Submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

1904 - The tea bag is invented Source: Culinary Journey. Submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

Births 1904:
1904 - Born Katherine Lucy Ball (1904-1991) librarian & professor at the University of Toronto
1904 - Born Marjorie Barmby (1904-1999) social activist in Saskatchewan
1904 - Born Ah Fung 'Agnes' Chan (1904?-1962) is the first Chinese Canadian nurse
1904 - Born Rhea Clyman (1904-1981) trailblazing journalist
1904 - Born Ellen Harris (1904-1967) prominent west coast broadcast journalist
1904 - Born Adèle de Guerry Languedoc (1904-1993) accomplished librarian & Associate National Librarian of Canada
1904 - Born Phyllis Pinnock (1904-2002) Black nurse
1904 - Born Elizabeth 'Bette' Storin (1904-2005) children's author & journalist
January 1, 1904 - Born Ethel Ostry (1904-1976) social activist & volunteer provincially, nationally & with the United Nations
January 4, 1904 - Born Pegi Nicol MacLeod (1904-1949) an artist among the 1st wave of Canadian modernism.
January 7, 1904 - Born Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman (1904-1994) social activist
January 22, 1904 - Born Peggy Seller (1905-1996) is remembered best for writing the rules of synchronized swimming
February 7, 1904 - Born Sybil Bennett (1904-1956) politician & lawyer
February 19, 1904 - Born Hilda Neatby (1904-1975) historian, author, educator & critic of the Canadian education system
March 21, 1904 - Born Jehane Benoit (1904-1987) renowned chef & author, & an officer in the Order of Canada
April 16, 1904 - Born  Fifi D'Orsay (1904-1983) Vaudeville performer & early movie actress known as the 'French Bombshell'
June 23, 1904 - Died Mary Livingstone (Sadie Marks 1904-1983) radio & TV comedienne, wife of comedian Jack Benny
July 24, 1904 - Born Dorothy Goldman (1904-1996) social activist
August 4, 1904 - Born Dora Jean Darling (1904-????) champion golfer
September 3, 1904 - Born Anna Marion Dougall (1904-1987) physician
September 5, 1904 - Born Agnes Wightman Wilkie (1904-1942) only World War ll Nursing Sister killed in action
September 26, 1904 - Born Marcelle Barthe (1904-1965) 1st bilingual woman announcer hired by CBC Radio
October 4, 1904 - Born Donah Everal Supina (1904-1994) psychic & businesswoman
October 9, 1904 - Born Mary Peck (1904-1992) founder of the Canadian Arthritis Society
November 9, 1904 - Born Lillian Beatrice Allen (1904-1985) artist & teacher
November 4, 1904 - Born Desiree Elise Aylen-Scott (1904-1972) poet
November 21, 1904 - Died Jane Buchan (1837-1904) social activist
December 5, 1904 - Born Constance Ida MacFarlane (1904-2000) acclaimed scientist who specialized in seaweed
December 8, 1904 - Born Ruth McKenzie (1904- ?  ) librarian, journalist & historian
December 27, 1904 - Born Mary Evangeline Percy Jackson (1904-2000) pioneering medical doctor on the prairies

Deaths 1904:
November 17, 1904 - Died Elizabeth ‘Eliza’ Murdoch Frame (1820-1904) author and local historian
November 21, 1904 - Died Jane Buchan (1837-1904) Baptist Women's Missionary Society
December 21, 1904 - Died Ada Alfaretta Funnell (1864-1904) indomitable early woman doctor
December 24, 1904 - Died Huldah S. McMullen Rockwell (1854-1904) social activist with the Women's Christian Temperance Union
1905 August 1,1905 - Alberta & Saskatchewan join the Dominion of Canada as eighth & ninth provinces

1905 - Dr. Maud Abbott (1869-1940) is asked by Dr. William Osler (1849-1919) to write a chapter on congenital heart disease in his forthcoming medical textbook Source: 100 Canadian women : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forster Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2004 pg. 21.

January 1, 1905 - 14 year old Canadian Kathleen Parlow (1890-1963) arrives in England to perform with the London Symphony Orchestra, a beginning of an international violinist career

March 1905 - The Canadian Nurse magazine is published for the first time

April 4, 1905 - The Berlin, (now Kitchener) Ontario Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is founded by a group of women who want to serve the women of their community. Source: YWCA 1905-1995   (Accessed May 20, 2005)

April 17, 1905 - The Club of Graduate Nurses of the Montreal General Hospital is formed. It would become known as the Livingston Club

June 27, 1905 - Mina Hubbard (1870-1956) sets off in her deceased husband's footsteps to complete his fateful exploration & mapping  parts of Labrador

1905 - The Ontario Medical College for Women (1895-1905) closes when the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine allows for women students Source: A history of Women's College  (Accessed February 2006)

1905 - The Canadian Association of Nurses is formed.

1905 - Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947) is forced to purchase farm land in Saskatchewan as women are not entitled to free land offered by the federal government. Sources: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains online (Accessed November 2012) : 100 more Canadian Heroines by Merna Forster (Dundurn,
2011)

1905 - Kate Reed (1856-1928) becomes the 1st woman professional decorator when her husband is manager of CP Hotels.

December 2, 1905 - Eaton's Department Stores sponsor the first Santa Clause Parade in Toronto. Santa, in a horse drawn sleigh, is followed through the streets of Toronto to the Eaton's Store

Births 1905:
1905 - Born Evelyn Andrus (1905-1972) first Canadian woman member Royal Photographic Society
1905 - Born Ida Manning Armstrong (1905-1982) physician & sportswoman
1905 - Born Florence Leong Aseam (1905-1983) Alberta businesswoman
1905 - Born Elinor Francis Elizabeth Black (1905-1982) first Canadian woman member of the British Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists
1905 - Born Brenda Beryl 'Blossom' Caron (1905-1999) still life photographer
1905 - Born Lotta Dempsey (1905-1988) well known journalist who had a column in the Toronto Star. She loved large hats
1905 - Born Dorothy Gentlewoman (1905-1980) pioneer teaching children with special needs
1905? - Born Helen Grossman (1905?-1988) one of the early Jewish women lawyers in Canada
1905 - Born Norah Louise Hughes (1905-1989) 1st woman to be head of a Conference in the United Church of Canada
1905 - Born Daphne H. Patterson (1905-1982) early woman aviator
1905 - Born Josephine Pelan (1905-1979) author & librarian
1905 - Born Anna Judson Rossborough Mair (1889-1963) a recognized nurse
January 28, 1905 - Born Ellen Louks Fairclough (1905-2004) Hamilton, Ontario is 1st woman to be appointed to the federal Canadian cabinet
February 13, 1905 - Born Gertrude M. Laing (1905-2005) social activist in clocal community and nationally
March 3, 1905 - Born Evelyn Agnes Pepper (1905-1998) nursing sister & order of Canada
March 27, 1905 - Born Elsie Gregory McGill (1905-1980) Canada's 1st woman graduate in electrical engineering & the 1st to design aircraft
April 11, 1905 - Born Bernice R. Brown (1905-1971) social activist in Prince Edward Island
 May 1, 1905 - Born Eleanor Brass (1905-1992) social activist & author
May 9, 1905 - Born Hedley Maude 'Jay/Jim' Smith-McDougald (1905-1996) Olympic pairs skater
May 30, 1905 - Born Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Graham-Jenkinson (1905-1989) pioneer hockey player who wore a face mask in 1927
June 16, 1905 - Born Edith Beatrice 'Bea' Catharine Lennie (19051987) acclaimed sculptor
July 4, 1905 - Born Marie-Therese Paquin (1905-1997) award winning concert pianist
July 8, 1905 - Born Elizabeth Allin (1905-1993) the 1st woman appointed in physics at the University of Toronto
July 20, 1905 - Born Doris Priscilla Muncey Haslam (1905- 2000 ) local historian in Prince Edward Island
July 25, 1905 - Born Grace MacInnis (1905-1991) social activist & politician
August 10, 1905 - Born Hilwie Jomba Hamda (19051988) helped establish the first Mosque in Canada
August 11, 1905 - Born Helen Battles Hogg-Priestley (1905-1993) award winning astronomer & the 1st Canadian to have a minor planet named for her
September 7, 1905 - Born Kathleen Coburn (1905-1991) professor at Victoria College editor & Order of Canada
September 9, 1905 - Born Elsie Park Gowan (1905-1999) accomplished playwright
November 24, 1905 - Born Ruth Matheson Buck (1905-2009) historian & biographer

Deaths 1905:
1905 - Died Lydia Campbell (1818-1905) diarist of life & lore of 19th century Labrador.
1905 - Died Sadie O. Prince (1861-1905) poet.
1905 - Died Abigail Becker Rohrer (1830-1905) heroine who helped save lives of crew member of the schooner, Conductor,
1905 - Died Mildred Ware (1871-1905) pioneer rancher in Canadian west.
February 2, 1905 - Died Isabella Whiteford Rogerson (1835-1905) Newfoundland poet
May 27, 1905 - Died Ada Florence Kinton (1859-1905) Poet & member of Salvation Army
 July 6, 1905 – Died Aurelie Caouette , Mother Catherine-Aurelie du Precieux-Sang (1833-1905) founder of Sisters of the Precious Blood
 October 2, 1905 - Died Isabel Julia Curtis-Askew (1849-1905) ship bride
October 12, 1905 - Died Isabel Julia Askew (1850-1905) 'ship-bride' & pioneer of British Columbia.
October 14, 1905 - Died Lucia Fidelia Gillette (1827-1905) may be the first Baptist woman ordained in Canada
October 18, 1905 - Died Lavina Clark (1864-1905) Methodist missionary to Canadian North West

1906 1906 - The permanent Army Medical Corps is created in Canada. Georgina Pope (1862-1938) is appointed 1st Nursing Matron Source: 100 Canadian women : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forster Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2004 pg 209

1906 - Medical inspection of school children is begun and leads the way to public school inspection across the country

March 1906 - The government of New Brunswick passes a law allowing women the right to study and practice law in the province

March 1906 - Toronto's first movie house opens, The Theatorium

April 1906 - Mabel French (1881-1995) is the 1st woman admitted to the Bar in New Brunswick

1906 - Henrietta Tuzo Wilson (1873-1955) is the 1st Canadian born woman mountaineer is the 1st woman to ascend to the summit of Peak Seven of the Valley of the Ten Peaks. In 1907 the peak is renamed Mount Tuzo in her honour Source: Girls on top; ten tales of women peak performances in Canada's west by Natalie St-Denis. Canadian Geographic web site   (accessed July 18, 2005)

August 21-25, 1906 - At the Canadian Medical Association Convention, Montreal, Canadian women doctors founded the Federation of Medical Women in Canada



1906 - Mary MacMahon, director of employment for Underwood Ltd., opens the 1st Canadian placement bureau for women in Toronto. In a half century, she placed more than a half-million stenographers Source: Jean Bannerman, Leading Ladies of Canada (Belleville, Mika Publishing, 1977);

1906 - The shop at the Women's Art Association in Montreal receives a charter and becomes the Canadian Handcraft Guild  Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,  University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects  (accessed February 2006)
 
1906 - The University of Toronto grants degrees to the 1st class in Nutrition and Dietetics Source: Culinary Journey. Submitted to Famous Canadian Women by Michelle de cevito, Cochrane, Ontario

1906 - International Figure Skating Championships for women are held separately to men’s competition which began in St Petersburg, Russia in 1896

Births 1906:
1906 - Born Malvina Marjorie Bolus (1906-1997) writer, editor & novelist
1906 - Born Helen Birdsall (1906-1988) dance instructor & choreographer to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) in the 1920's & 1930's
1906 - Born Marjorie Bowker (1906-2006) pioneer lawyer & the 1st woman appointed to Family Court in Alberta as a judge.
1906 - Born Albertine Caron-Legris (1906-1972) pianist, composer & teacher
1906 - Born Evelyn Spice Cherry (1906-1990) filmmaker
1906 - Born Norma Fleck (1906-1998) for whom the Canadian Children's Non fiction Book Award is named
1906 - Born Jean E. Millar Kilborn (1906-1982) medical doctor in China
1906 - Born Eileen 'Bunty' Noble-Brennan (1906-1980) champion figure skater
1906 - Born Esther Irene Paulson (1906-2004) acclaimed nurse in British Columbia
1906 - Born Alma V. Ricard (1906-2003) philanthropist
1906 - Born Lily I. Sherizen (1906-1991) one of the earliest Jewish women lawyers in Ontario
January 15, 1906 - Born Edna Louise Staebler (1906-2006) journalist, author, Member of the Order of Canada
February 4, 1906 - Born Vera Lyla Helen Ayling (1906-1999) journalist & author
February 4, 1906 - Born Gladys Strum (1906-2005)  1st woman to head any Canadian political party (Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Party.)
March 28, 1906 - Born Beulah Vernon Bourns (1906-1990) nurse & missionary with the United Church of Canada
April 18, 1906 - Born Eileen Magill - Cera (1906-1964) first woman pilot in Manitoba
May 24, 1906 - Born Marie-Rose ‘Miemose’ Girard (1906-1995) author and pioneer in northern Ontario
May 31, 1906 - Born Gertrude de la Verne - Tanner (1906-1996) early pilot in Alberta
June 6, 1906 - Born Nazia L. Dane (1906- ?) businesswoman & administrator
June 18, 1906 - Born Gertrude 'Anahareo' Moltke Bernard (1906-1986) writer, animal rights advocate & conservationist
June 26, 1906 - Born Marian Mildred Dale Scott (1906-1993) painter of landscapes & portraits
July 26, 1906 - Born Ruby Mercer Por (1906-1999) operas singer, administrator, broadcaster, author, & editor
September 1, 1906 - Born Laurette Laroque-Auger (1906-1965 French language script writer, actor, playwright, and critic
September 12, 1906 - Born Rose Marie Reid (1906-1978) trend setting swim suit fashion designer & entrepreneur
October 4, 1906 - Born Alma Ricard (1906-2003) businesswoman & philanthropist
October 13, 1906 - Born Aloha Wanderwell-Baker (1906- or 1908-1996) travelogue actor, director and producer
November 27, 1906 - Born Jessie Anne Buckingham (1906-2001) teacher & volunteer
December 18, 1906 - Born Ada Youlton Barnes (1906-1998) social activist
December 25, 1906 - Born Carol Coates Cassidy (1906-1992) author
December 31, 1906 - Born Kathryn 'Kay' Emilor Burns-Rodga (1906-1990)


Deaths 1906: .
1906 - Died Louise Armaindo (1861-1906) world champion high wheel bicycle rider
March 4, 1906 - Died Kate Yeigh (1856-1906) journalist & author
March 7, 1906 - Died Charlotte Anne Harrington (1841-1906) letter writer
March 19, 1906 - Died Eliza Arden Redfern (1852-1906) social activist
 March 21, 1906 - Died Alma Frances McCollum (1879-1906) poet & composer
May 6, 1906 - Died Anne Brown (1837?-1906) wife of Sir George Brown (1818-1880) & Mother of Confederation
May 8, 1906 - Died Marie Louise Amanda Viger (1845-1906) Sister St.-Jean-De-Goto Sister Superior
July 6, 1906 - Died Nettie St. George Skimin (1863-1906) indomitable early woman doctor
September 26, 1906 - Died Minerva Margaret Greenaway (1873-1906) early woman doctor
October 5, 1906 - Died  Anna Delia Topley (1825-1906) photographer
December 20, 1906 - Died Caroline Blowers Gaetz (1845-1906) pioneer in Alberta
1907 1907- The Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association becomes the Canadian Suffrage Association.

 1907 - The Married Women's Property Act gives married women in the province of Saskatchewan the same legal capacity as men. (Statutes of Saskatchewan  1907 c. 18)

1907 - Ontario legislation ensures that school have public health nursing that is publically funded and the 1st Public Health Nurse begins work in Toronto
1907- Canadian Women’s Press Club (C W P C) of Winnipeg is founded

1907 - Mabel Priscilla Penery French (1881-1955) becomes the 1st woman lawyer in New Brunswick when the province passes legislation to allow women to be admitted to the profession. ' An Act  to remove the Disability of Women so far as Relates to the Study and Practice of the Law'. She was the 4th woman called to the Bar nationally & the 1st woman admitted outside of Ontario. Source: Women Lawyers in British Columbia by W. Wesley Pue. Online (Accessed March 2014)

April 18, 1907 - Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) receives a letter from L.C. Page and Company of Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A. accepting her manuscript of Anne of Green Gables and offering to publish on a 10% royalty 

1907 - Mlle Thais Frémont founds the Ste Justine Children's Hospital, Montreal

1907 - Peak Seven of the Valley of the Ten Peaks on Canada's west coast is renamed Mount Tuzo in honour of Henrietta Tuzo Wilson (1873-1955), the 1st woman to climb to the summit in 1906 Source: Girls on top; ten tales of women peak performances in Canada's west by Natalie St-Denis. Canadian Geographic web site (accessed July 18, 2005)

1907 - Bell Telephone operators go on strike to protest excessive hours Source: UFCW Women in Canada - History Timeline . Online Accessed May 2016.

1907 - Valleyfield Textile Strike, Quebec: workers demand shorter work hours, better wages and an end to abusive treatment by shop foremen. The textile mills are shut down for 10 days. While workers lost the strike their militancy leads to some improvements in the industry Source: UFCW Women in Canada - History Timeline . Online Accessed May 2016.

1907 - Western Art Association (for women) was organized by Ada Borradaile Chipman (1860?-1913) Source: Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba (Manitoba Library Association, 1971) :

1907 - The Women's Art Association of Canada, a Toronto club 1st organized in 1886 by Mary Dignam (1860-1938), is incorporated by the Bill no. 30 of the Canadian Government  Source: Women's Hockey - History of Hockey (accessed June 2011)

 1907 - The Canadian Women's Club of Trinidad and Tobago is formed

1907 - John McLaughlin, a Toronto pharmacist, invents the modern Canada Dry version of Ginger Ale a non alcoholic ginger ale. He also developed a method of mass bottling he Ginger Ale and each bottle of McLaughlin Belfast Style Ginger Ale featured a map of Canada and a picture of a beaver on the label.

Births 1907:
1907 - Born Aleen Aked (1907-2003) painter
1907 - Born Roberta Gilbank (1907-1979) first librarian with Scarborough Public Libraries & archivist University of Guelph
1907 - Born Edra Isles Saunders Ferguson (1907-2011) in 1936 she was 1st woman elected as alderman in St Thomas, Ontario
1907 - Born Marguerite Fidler (1907-2007) social activist on family life
1907 - Born Alice Girard (1907-1999)
1907 - Born Grace Irwin (1907-2008) novelist
1907 - Born Tmima Mamie Littner Cohn (1907-1989) lawyer & strong supporter for women's rights
1907 - Born Ivy McVicar 1907-????) social activist
1907 - Born Catherine Seppa (1907-1975) first woman mayor of Fort William, Ontario
1907 - Born Hazel Sterns-Gibson (1907-2006) teacher
1907 - Born Margaret Mary Street (1907-1993) nurse, teacher, & historian
1907 - Born Isabel K. Williamson (1927-2000) astronomer
January 1, 1907 - Born Nina Cohn (1907-1991) volunteer & Woman of the Century (1867-1967) for Nova Scotia & National Council of Jewish Women
January 1, 1907 - Born Inezlie Beryle Gray (1907-1950) author & playwright
February 23, 1907 - Born Evelyn Horne (1907-2005) Caring Canadian Award recipient
February 28, 1907 - Born Marcelle Gauvreau (1907-1968) botanist
March 3, 1907 - Born Annie Powers (1907-1989) 1st francophone women in Ontario to become a doctor
March 18, 1907 - Born Edith Evelyn Turner (1907-1999) nurse & inventor
April 26, 1907 - Born Pearl Miella Fournier (1907-1982) social activist for Franco-Canadiennes
May 5, 1907 - Born Florence Li Tim-Oi (1907-1992) 1st woman priest in the Anglican Church.
May 6, 1907 - Born Agatha Louise Chapman (1907-1963) economist
May 30, 1907 - Born Margaret Mary Street (1907-1993) nurse, teacher, biographer & recipient of the Order of Canada.
June 9, 1907 - Born Marie Antoinette Papen (1907-1989) radio host & director in Saskatchewan
July 1907 - Born Grace Lillian Irwin (1907-2008) author
August 3, 1907 - Born Grace Sarah Hall Fletcher (1850?-1907) businesswoman and social activist
August 3, 1907 - Born Greta Krause, (1907-1998)  harpsichordist
August 28, 1907 - Born Irene Spry (1907-1998)  respected historian & author
September 15, 1907  - Born Fay Wray (1907-2004) actor who is best remembered as playing opposite the ape in the movie, King Kong
 November 21, 1907 - Born Lucy Christie Harris (1907-2002) award winning author
December 12, 1907 - Born Fleurette Marie Berthe Beauchamp-Huppé (1907- 2007) award winning pianist
December 16, 1907 - Born Barbara Kent (1907-2011) silent screen movie star

Deaths 1907:
1907 - Died Helen Mary 'Marie' Grant (1843-1907) 1st women school trustee in Canada (1885)
January 5, 1907 - Died Agnes Maria Turnbull (   -1907) Presbyterian medical missionary in India awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal for services
February 28, 1907- Died Deborah Hurcomb (1867-1907) Nursing Sister in the second Boer War, South Africa.
July 6, 1907 - Died Rosetta Ernestine Carr (1845?-1907) photographer
July 7, 1907  - Died Anna Louisa Walker Coghill (1836-1907) poet & hymn writer
November 5, 1907 - Died Johanne Louise Charlotte Fuher (1833-1907) midwife & author
1908 1908 - The Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses is founded. In 1924 it became the Canadian Nurses' Association 

1908 - Georgina Fane Pope (1862-1938) is the 1st Matron of the Canadian Army Medical corps Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia  (accessed July 22, 2005.)

1908 - Rural mail delivery is introduced in Canada.  Families are no longer as isolated and receive mail and mail order catalogues directly at their homes Source: Before e-commerce : a history of mail order catalogues http://wwwcivilization.ca/cpm/catalog/catooooe.html December 2004.

1908 - Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947) goes to Ottawa where she  protests to the Canadian Government because she was forced to purchase farm land in Saskatchewan as women are not entitled to free land offered by the federal government Sources: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains online (Accessed November 2012) : 100 more Canadian Heroines by Merna Forster (Dundurn, 2011)
June 20, 1908 - Anne of Green Gables is published. The book goes through 4 editions in 3 months

1908 - Flora MacDonald Denison (1867-1921), on behalf of the Canadian Suffrage Association, travels to Halifax to spur women to organize a suffrage group but no area group was ever formed

 1908 - Canadian women’s Press Club (CWPC) of Edmonton is founded

1908 - The Connaught School of Nursing, Toronto,  has first graduation

1908 - W. H. Scoggie Department Stores of Montreal introduces a French language mail order catalogue to best serve clients Source: Before e-commerce : a history of mail order catalogues December 2004.

1908 - The Hebrew Ladies’ Maternity Aid Society of Toronto is founded to bring cheer to woman and children hospitalized in the Weston Sanatorium

1908 - Cellophane, the precursor to plastic wrap is invented by a Swiss chemist Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg 13.

Births 1908:
1908 - Born Annie Epstein Baker (1908-2005) may have been 1st Jewish woman called to the Bar in Ontario in 1929
1908 - Born Alice C. Green (1908-1980) missionary nurse in Canadian northwest & community activist P E I
1908 - Born Bylee Fay Lang (1908-1963) sculptor
1908 - Born Dorothea Palmer (1908-1992) a nurse arrested1936 for distributing birth control literature
1908 - Born Eileen Vollick (1908-1968) 1st Canadian woman to earn a private pilot's license
January 7, 1908 - Born Constance Wilson Samuel (1908-1953) international champion figure skater solo & pairs
January 13, 1908 - Born Florence Bayard Bird (1908-1998) a member of the Canadian Senate, an author, a pioneer broadcaster & journalist
February 1908 - Born Aidrie Main-Cruikshank (1908-2009) champion figure skater
February 7, 1908 - Born Lela Alene Brooks 1908-1990) world record holder in speed skating
February 8, 1908 - Died Suzanna 'Susie' Carson Rijnhart-Moyers (1868-1908)
February 10, 1908 - Born Jean Coulthard (1908-2000) composer, performer & teacher
February 19, 1908 - Born Grace Margaret Patten Sparkes (1908-2003) activist in Newfoundland and Labrador
February 21, 1908 - Born Alma Brock-Smith (1908-2009) pianist & teacher
February 29, 1908 - Born Charlotte Augustine Cadoret (Sister St-Jean-du-Sacré-Coeur) (1908 -?) Educator, composer, & pianist.
March 30, 1908 - Born Frances Louise Bertram-Hulbig (1908-1996) international champion pairs figure skater
April 28, 1908 - Born Ethel Catherwood, (1908-1987) member of the 1st Canadian women's Olympic team
 May 4, 1908 - Born Isabel Elizabeth Staffer (1908-2002) first woman in a hospital pharmacy
 May 6, 1908 - Born Naomi Yanova Adaskin (1908-1996) journalist, pianist & teacher
June 4, 1908 - Born Isabel Janet Macneill / MacNeill (1908-1990) 1st woman in the British Commonwealth to hold a command of a ship.
June 28, 1908 - Born Winnifred Mary Stewart (1908-1990) nurse who conducted experimental research into teaching methods for disabled children
July 3, 1908 - Born Margaret Aitken (1908-1980) politician, journalist & author
July 6, 1908 - Born Jeanne Fisher Marnery (1908-1986) 1st woman appointed professor in Biochemistry at the University of Toronto (1964)
July 31, 1908 - Born Eleanor Georgina Luxton (19081995) author, archivist, & historian
September 6,1908 - Born Sara Barkin (1908-2002) pianist & soprano
September 14, 1908 - Born Cecile Elaine Eustace Smith Hedstrom (1908-1997) 1st Canadian to win a world figure skating championship medal.
October 31, 1908 - Born Muriel Helen Duckworth (1908-2009) social activist for peace & the advancement of women's rights
December 24, 1908 - Born Diana Kingsmill-Weight (1908-1982) Olympic skier

Deaths 1908:
1908 - Died Annie McDermot Bannatyne (1830 ?-1908) social activist
 February 7, 1908 - Died Susanna ‘Susie’ Carson-Moyes (1868-1908) medical missionary
May 14, 1908 - Died Annie Ballantyne (1832-1908) social activist in Red River Settlement
May 24, 1908 - Died Clara Mountcastle (1837-1908) Caris Sima, author & poet
1909 1909 - The Criminal Code of Canada is amended to make kidnapping of women illegal.

March 14, 1909 - A delegation of 1000 women march to the Ontario Legislature to present a petition of 100,000 names of people supporting suffrage is presented

1909 - The International Congress of Women is held in Toronto, including delegates from Europe, the United States, and Australia

1909 - The Canadian Association of Trained Nurses is founded (later Canadian Nurses Association / L'Association des infermieres Canadiennes)
1909 -  Canadian Women’s Press Club of Vancouver and Toronto are founded

1909 - The Ladies Reading Room and Current Events Club is founded in St. John's, Newfoundland

1909 - The Toronto Heliconian Association is founded to give women in the arts and letters opportunity to meet socially and intellectually

1909 - Dr. Helen MacMurchy's (1862-1953) report to the Ontario Government blamed the high  infant death rate on intestinal diseases, ignorance, poverty and inadequate medical care Source: Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002.

1909 - Bessie T. Pullan - Singer (1896-   ) graduated medical school, perhaps the 1st Jewish woman doctor in Canada

October 1, 1909 - The St John's Ladies Reading Room and Current Events Club is formed providing information about women's suffrage to international newspapers and journalists.

1909 - General electric markets the 1st electric toaster Source: Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg 13.

December 4, 1909  - The 1st Grey Cup football game is played in Toronto, Ontario

1909 - Laura Muntz Lyall (1860-1930) is the 1st woman asked to exhibit her works at the Canadian Art Club Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton,  University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects  (accessed February 2006)

1909 - Florence Nightingale Graham, better known as Elizabeth Arden (1878-1966) borrows $6,000.00 and opens the 1st beauty salon on New York's Fifth Avenue Source: Jean Bannerman, Leading Ladies of Canada (Belleville, Mika Publishing, 1977);

1909 - The City of Hamilton, Ontario appoints the 1st school nurse

Births 1909:
1909 - Born Evelyn Anhrus (1909-1972) photographer
1909 - Born Elsie Marion Eaton Bishop (1909-2003) social activist & community volunteer
1909 - Born Beatrice Davidson (1909-1986) architect
1909 - Born Elizabeth 'Betty' Mary Gertrude Davidson (1909-2000) artist
1909 - Born Enid Johnson-MacLeod (1909-2001) acclaimed anaesthetist
January 4, 1909 - Born Minnie 'Jerri' Mumford (1909-2992) Commander, Halifax Women's Service Corps
January 18, 1909 - Born Gertrude Young Beattie (1909-2006) national champion in track and field
March 16, 1909 - Born Jean Flatt Davey (1909-1980) an indomitable early Canadian woman doctor
March 22, 1909 - Born Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983) internationally rewound author & winner of Governor's General Award
March 26, 1909 - Born Catherine "Kay' Bagg (1909-2010) poet
April 4, 1909 - Born Margaret Mary MacBurney-Vasheresse (1909-2007) basketball player with Edmonton Grads
April 15, 1909 - Born Isabel LeBourdais (1909-2003) author & journalist
April 18, 1909 - Born Cecily Brownstone (1909-2005) food journalist
April 21, 1909 - Born Margaret Louise Sutherland (1909-1995) community activist
April 25, 1909 - Born Jean Watson (1909-????) opera singer, Contralto
May 20, 1909 - Born Helen Campbell deGreanger Herring (1909-2000) activist P.E.I and Order of Canada
May 24, 1908 - Born Victoria Hopper (1909-2007) actress on stage and in film
May 28, 1909 - Born Mary Louise Northway (1909-1987) psychologist, businesswoman & philanthropist
June 2, 1909 - Born Catherine Mulligan , Sister Mary Henry, (1909-1996) educator and activist in P E I
June 5, 1909 - Born Catherine de Vaux MacKinnon (1909-1994) poet
June 7, 1909 - Born Margaret Ormsby, professor, editor & historian
June 22, 1909 - Born Frances Adele Rabitblat-Rothblatt (1909-????) Royal Canadian Air Force World War ll
July 12, 1909 - Born Joan Bamford Fletcher (1909-1979) war heroine
July 12, 1909 - Born Helen Constance Hnatyshun (1909-1993) social activist
August 7, 1909 - Born Bernice C. Cunnington (1909-2001) journalist
August 7, 1909 - Born Dorothy Louise Walton (1909-1981) one of the top badminton players in Canada
August 11, 1909 - Born Lenore Talbot Crawford (1909-1983) journalist who maintained a weekly column in the London Free Press.
August 25, 1909 - Born Ruby Keeler (1909-1993) singer, dancer & performer
September 8, 1909 - Born Mabel Adeline 'Abbie' Aylestock (1909-1998) fist Black woman ordained as a minister in Canada
October 12, 1909 - Born Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996) journalist, author & literary critic
October 25. 1909 - Born Doris Clark Ludwig (1905-2005) a social worker by education she became a journalist in her subject area
November 17, 1909 - Born Mary Louise Lynch (1909-2007) lawyer
 November 26, 1909 - Born Agnes Laskin Jamieson (1909-1983) first woman coroner in Ontario
November 28, 1909 - Born Lotta Hitschmanova (1909-1990) international humanitarian who had so many awards that there were 5 rows of award ribbons on her uniform!
November 28, 1909 - Born Elsie Maude Stappleford (1909-2004) social activist
December 7, 1909 - Born Helen Marcelle Harrison-Bristol (1909-1995) 1st woman to hold commercial pilot's license in four countries
December 31, 1909? - Born Ruth Switzer McGill, (1909/-1974) lawyer


Deaths 1909:
1909 - Died Emily Susan Patterson (1835-1909) considered first nurse in Vancouver
 April 12, 1909 - Died Cecilia Viets Jamieson (1837-1909) author of children's books
May 30, 1909 - Died Lucy Margaret Baker (1835-1909) 1st Presbyterian woman missionary in the Canadian North West
September 1, 1909 - Died Margaret Purdie Symington (1855-1909) indomitable early woman doctor
 September 7, 1909 - Died Mary Wiley (1836-1909) social activist with the W C T U
September 29, 1909 - Died Matilda Edgar (1844-1910) historian
October 1, 1909 - Died Matilda 'Tilly' Mays (1970's - 1909) social activist

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