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.
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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
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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
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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 Sanatorium1908 - 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
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