Quotable and Notable Canadian Women
"I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high." Nellie McClung 1910
"The usual statement is that I am a remarkable woman because I can do it; the implication is that the average women is too dumb to succeed at a man's task - and I resent that implication, for it is false." E. Cora Hind
"I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to a great country." Emily Ferguson Murphy, First Woman Magistrate in The British Empire.
"I consider it downright impertinence for a man on a farm to talk about supporting his wife. When she cooks his meals and sews and mends for him and his children from dawn until dusk, what is she doing if she is not supporting herself?" Francis Marion Beynon, 1917
E.
Cora Hind 1861-1942 was world renowned as an outstanding journalist,
lecturer and writer and was a foremost authority on all aspects of agriculture.
"The usual statement is that I am a remarkable woman because I can do
it; the implication is that the average women is too dumb to succeed at
a man's task - and I resent that implication, for it is false."
http://library.usask.ca/herstory/hind.html
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/digiproj/women/ewomen1d.htm
http://www.parkscanada.pch.gc.ca/library/background/22_e.htm
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0004.htm
Lillian
Beynon Thomas 1874 -1951 Journalist and activist, she led a lobby
for new divorce and child-custody laws, for the protection of unwed mothers,
for the property rights of farm women, and for legislation to prohibit
the sale of liquor, which she saw as a cause of much of the misery and
hardship.
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0008.htm
Francis
Marion Beynon a prominent voice for the rights of rural women, working
for improved divorce, child custody and property rights for women.
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0006.htm
http://library.usask.ca/herstory/agricu.html
Winona
Flett (Mrs. F.J. Dixon) and Lynn Flett
concerned
with women's suffrage, also took up other progressive causes, including
better working conditions for women and a meaningful minimum wage.
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/db0005.htm
Nellie
McClung teacher. writer and activist Her books celebrated
the rural and western ideal and the superiority of country over city
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/referenc/~hdg3402.htm
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/HIST/tutor/calgary/mcclung.html
Margaret
Newton leading authority on cereal rusts
http://educ.queensu.ca/~science/main/profdev/women/B10TPMJ1.htm
Irene
Marryat Parlby 1868-1965 Farm women's leader
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/digiproj/women/women99/parlby-e.htm
Dorise
Nielsen MP
http://library.usask.ca/herstory/nielse.html
Violet
McNaughton
Involved in
the suffrage movement, Violet was president of the Provincial Equal Franchise
Board. In1918, she became first president of the Interprovincial Council
of Farm Women.
http://library.usask.ca/herstory/mcnaug.html
Irene Leda Jensen
of Alberta, a driving force in the Women of Unifarm during a span
of more than 15 years. She constantly promoted the interests of rural
women, the farm family and the Women of Unifarm through articles for local
newspapers and radio stations. Her devotion to this cause helped result
in a major change in farm taxation laws, allowing farmers to pay their
spouses a wage and deduct it as an expense from their farm earning.
http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/hall_of_fame/jensen1990.html