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| 1910 |
Girl Guides of Canada holds its first meeting and is
founded. The federal Naval Service Bill creates Canada's Navy. The Married Women’s Relief Act, which authorizes the Alberta courts to give a widow part of her husband’s estate if he did not adequately provide for her. Province of Quebec legislates women textile working hours to fifty eight (58) hours per week. Source: http://niagara.com/`merrwill/trivia.html The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance. March 4 -The Royal Canadian Navy is formed.
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| 1911 | Maud
Leonora Menten (1879-1960.) is the first Canadian woman to
receive her medical doctorate. She received the degree
from the University of Toronto. The Saskatchewan Deserted Wives’ Maintenance Act requires husbands to pay support if they deserted their wives or forced them to leave. May 9 - A pregnant Angelina Napolitano (1883?-1924?) is convicted of murdering her abusive husband and sentenced to hang. There was a massive British and North American wide outburst of protest which caused reduction of the sentence to life in prison. Source: Franca Iacovetta . Angelina Napolitano , in Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Online edition ( Accessed July 2005) June 22 -
a monument to honour
Laura Secord is unveiled at Lundy's Lane, Ontario.
Source Jean Bannerman Leading Ladies Canada.
Belleville, ON: Mika Publishing, 1977 pg 15
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| 1912 | Carrie
Derick (1862-1941) is the first woman in Canada to
become a full professor, a professor of
Morphological Botany at McGill University in Montreal.
The Manitoba Illegitimate Children’s Act provides that an unwed mother can bring court action against the alleged father, if her claims are substantiated, he can be forced to pay support and expenses. February - The British Columbia Legislature passes a bill to allow women to practice at the bar in that province. Source : The Archives of British Columbia. Helen MacGill http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/exhibits/timemach/galler10/frames/index.htm (accessed May 20, 2005) July - The first Calgary Stampede takes place. Canadian Flores Le Due wins the World Champion Trick and Fancy Roper, her first of three such titles. Births: Born Audrey Burger (1912-1988) Social activist for public housing. Born Agnes Martin (1912-2004) one of the world's foremost abstract painter. Born Dora Russell (1912-1986) teacher, journalist and community worker with Girl Guides. January 2 - Born Barbara Lally Pentland, (1912-2000) one of the first Canadian composers to use avant-garde techniques in her music. March 25 - Born Yoshiko Kasahara (1912-1966) noted population statistician. June 29 - Born Agnes Fontaine (1912-1988) a mother of 15 who received the QE Coronation Medal for community Services. August 23 - Born Jean Bruce Dawson (1912-1999) a nurse by training she became an artist. August 25 - Born Muriel Flexman (1912-2003) journalist and first woman to work at Canadian Press Deaths: November 1 - Died Mabel Barriston ( ? -1912) actress. |
| 1913 | July
31 - Alys McKey Bryant
is the first woman to pilot an airplane in Canada. Canada's first feature film, Evangeline is produced in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects http://ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/timeline (accessed February 2006) The Royal Canadian Academy "relaxes" it rules that withhold membership from women. Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects http://ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/timeline (accessed February 2006) Births: Born Margaret Craig Eaton Dunn (1913-1988) Director General Canadian Women's Army Corp 1944. January 18 - Born Gwethalyn Graham. (1913-1935) award winning author. April 9 - Born Saida Gerrard (1913-2005) in the 1930's she made significant contributions to modern dance in Canada. April 24 - Born Violet Archer (1913-2000) musician and award winning composer. April 30 - Born Edith Margaret Fowke (1913-1996) , folklorist , collector writer, and teacher. November 16 - Born Dora de Pédery-Hunt (1913- ) a sculptor and designer of medals who has been honoured with the Order of Ontario and Order of Canada. November 17 - Born Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook ( 1913- ) internationals acclaimed sculptor. December 18 - Born Emma Caslor (1913-1977) folksinger and pianist. Deaths: Died Elizabeth Frame (1820-1913) teacher and author. March 7 - Died Pauline Johnson, (1861-1913) Canada's first renownd native poet. April 11 - Died Amelia Yeomans (1842-1913) pioneer medical doctor and feminist. |
| 1914 | January 28 - Canadian suffragettes
hold a Mock Parliament in
Winnipeg to agitate for votes for women. August 4 - Canada automatically at war with Germany when Britain declares war. September 29 - the first group of Canadian nursing sisters, of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, embark for England and service in World War I on the Franconia. Source: Canadian Nurses in World War I. Trent University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm (accessed July 22, 2005) Emily Coonan receives the 1st National Gallery travel grant to study in Europe. She puts a hold on her travel till after World War l. Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects http://ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/timeline (accessed February 2006) Births: Born Laura Banks (1914-1988) TV broadcaster who used the name of Laura Lindsay. February 14 - Born Ruth Gorman (1914-2002) lawyer and Officer of the Order of Canada April 21 - Born Judith Crawley,(1914-1986) film producer, director and scriptwriter. April 30 - Born Dorothea Crittenden (1915- ) first female deputy minister in Ontario. June 11 - Born Norma Abernethy (1914-1973) Pianist and teacher June 29 - Born Thelma Finlayson, a professor emeritus in Biology at the University at Simon Fraser University. July 6 - Born Viola Desmond (1914-1965) first black woman to challenge discrimination successfully in Canada. July 19 - Born Margaret Allemang (1914-2005) advocate of Canadian nursing history. Deaths: February 1 - Grace Elizabeth Denison Journalist. April 7 - Died Edith Eaton (1867-1914) author |
| 1915 | February - the second group of Canadian nursing
sisters of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, leaves Halifax an
the S.S. Zealand for service in WW I Source: Canadian
Nurses in World War I. Trent University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit
http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm (accessed
July 22, 2005) February 26 - Suffragist Nellie McClung (Born Chatsworth, Ontario October 20, 1873 Died September 1951) presents the Alberta provincial legislature with a petition demanding that women be given the right to vote. The right was granted in municipal elections 2 months later. April - Alberta women vote in municipal elections for the first time. The Edmonton Grads women's basketball team is organized. With 502 wins and only 20 losses from 1915-1940 they are Canada' most successful women's basketball team! Source: www.womenwarriors.ca Timeline Mary Pickford (1892-1979) is receiving 500 letters a week in fan mail. She earns $4000.00 a week and is reputed to be the highest paid woman in the world. Source: 100 Canadian women : famous and forgotten faces by Merna Forster Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2004 pg. 206 The electric "icebox" is introduced to improve food storage. Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg 13. Births: Born Margaret Millar (1915-1994) mystery writer. April 11- Born Agnes Butcher ( 1915- ) pianist and teacher. August 6 - Born Rina Lasnier, award winning author and poet. September 1 - Born Barbara Smucker (1915-2003) noted children's author. September 19 - Born Elizabeth Stern (1915-1980) pioneer medical researcher credited with early detection of cervical cancer. Deaths: May 17 - Died Mary Agnes Fitzgibbon (1851-1915) founder of the Canadian Women's historical Society and author. August 4 - Died Florence Daly Thompson, (1865-1915) accomplished artist, successful and published science researcher and librarian. August 30 - Died Mabel Phoebe Peters (1861-1914) suffragist and social activist in education. September 22 - Died Frances Ester (Hester) How, (1848-1915) teacher. |
| 1916 | January 28 - Manitoba becomes the
first province in Canada to grant women the right to
vote and to hold provincial office. March 14 - Saskatchewan women win the rights to vote and to hold provincial office. April 19 - Alberta women win the rights to vote and to hold provincial office. June 13 - Emily Murphy (1868-1933) is the first woman appointed magistrate (judge of a lower court) in the British Empire. Her first day in court was July 1, in Edmonton, Alberta. July 1 - newly appointed judge Emily Murphy (1868-1933), the first woman appointed magistrate in the British Empire, has her first day in court in Edmonton, Alberta. Mary Hiester Reid (1834-1921) is the 1st woman to serve on the executive of the Ontario Society of Artists. Source: Important Moments in Canadian Art History compiled by Dr. Robert J. Belton, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Creative Projects http://ubc.ca/okanagan/creative/links/timeline (accessed February 2006) The National Research Council is established to promote scientific and industrial research. The electric washing machine replaces hand operated machines to improve laundry day Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg 13. October - the CGIT (Canadian Girls in Training.) publishes it's first program outline in a booklet called Canadian Girls in Training -- Suggestions for the Mid-Week Meetings of Sunday School Classes, Clubs, etc., for Teen-age Girls and it sold for the sum of 5¢. The booklet was extremely popular with church youth leaders. Source : http://cgit.ca/ ( accessed January 4, 2005) Births: Born Ada Bronstein (1916- ) pianist, accompanist and teacher. Born Judith Jasmin (1916-1972) pioneer and accomplished broadcast journalist. February 23 - Born Molly Kool, First registered woman Sea Captain in North America. August 25 - Born Ethel Stark, first woman soloist heard on radio when she plays violin performing under conductor Fritz Reiner the Tchaikovsky “Concerto. March 5 - Phyllis Dewar , swimmer and member of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame. August 1- Born Anne Hébert (1916-2000) award winning poet, playwright , and novelist. November 8 - Born June Havoc ( 1916- ) vaudeville entertainer and award winning Broadway director. Deaths: May 18 - Grace Annie Lockhart (1855-1916) the first woman to receive a university degree in Canada. |
| 1917 | March 8 - Russian women
again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and
peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the
women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar
was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women
the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the
Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian
calendar in use elsewhere. THIS DATE WOULD BECOME INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S DAY.
April 5 -
British Columbia women win the
rights to vote and to hold provincial office. |
| 1918 | World
War l ends with the signing of an armistice at 11 a.m. November 11.
3141 Nursing Sisters have served in the ranks of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War 1. Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia. Women in the Military. Http: www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com April 26 - Nova Scotia women are given the right to vote and hold public office. May 24 - The Women’s Franchise Act is passed federally. June 27 - The Canadian hospital ship Llandovery Castle is torpedoed and sinks. All 14 Canadian Nursing Sisters on board are drowned. Source: Canadian Nurses in World War I. Trent University Archives: Fowlds Exhibit http://www.trentu.ca/library/archives/ffowldswelcome.htm (accessed July 22, 2005) Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and British Columbia pass laws making it illegal to hire White women in Chinese-owned restaurants and laundries. Source: Canadian Chinese National Council. Moments of Chinese Canadian History. http://www.ccnc.ca/toronto/history/timeline.html (accessed July 7, 2003) The Women's College Hospital, Toronto has its first graduation class in nursing with two graduates. Source: A history of Women's College http://sunnbrookandwomens.on.ca (Accessed February 2006) Births: Born Sheila Agnes Egoff (1918-2005) librarian, award winning expert in Children's literature. Born Brenda Milner (1918- ) internationally acclaimed neurologist. February 3 - Born Isobel Moira Dunbar (1918-1999) Edinburgh, Scotland An ice research scientist she was the first woman to take cruises on Canadian government icebreakers. August 5 - Born Betty Oliphant ( 1918-2004) founder of the National Ballet School of Canada. April 23 - Born Margaret Avison. award winning poet. librarian and social worker. May 11 - Born Sheila Branford, author of one of the best animal tales, Incredible Journey. June 25 - Born Marion Orr (1918-1995) Pioneer aviator and first woman to own and operate a flying school in Canada. July 14 - Born Grace Hartman (1918-1993) social activist and union member. August 5 - Born Betty Oliphant (1918-2004) founder of the National Ballet School of Canada. August 8 - Born Irma Sophia Coucill (1918- ) Portrait artist and editor. December 23 - Born Dr. Ricky Kanee Schachter (1918- ) leader in her field of dermatology. Deaths: February 1 - Died Hannah Maynard (1834-1918) pioneer portrait photographer. June 27 - Died Rena Maude McLean, (1879-1918) a nursing sister of World War l. August 26 - Died Robina Lizars author of historical works. September 14 - Died Clemetina Fessenden (1843 - 1918) founder of the I.O.D.E. |
| 1919 | April 17 - New Brunswick women win
the right to vote but not to
hold provincial office. May 19 - June 26 - The Winnipeg General Strike. June 14 - The first successful transatlantic flight leaves St. John's Newfoundland. The Canadian Federation of University Women, is founded. A voluntary, non-profit, self-funded bilingual organization the CFUW/FCFDU members are active in public affairs, working to raise the social, economic and legal status of women, as well as to improve education, the environment, peace, justice and human rights. Eliza Ritchie (1856-1935.) is appointed to the Dalhousie University board of governors, a first for Canadian women. Violet Irene Guymer (1885-1995) earns her diploma as a Funeral Director and Embalmer in Manitoba. She is the first woman in Canada to graduate in this course. Source: Quite and undertaking: the story of Violet Guymer, Canada's firs female licensed funeral director by Elizabeth Lycar and Lorrie Guymer Hutton, (Kelowna, B.C. : Nip and Tuck Publishing, 1966) Zonta International is founded. “Advancing the status of women worldwide.” Zonta International, global service organization of executives in business and the professions, work together, across political and social boundaries, to advance the status of women worldwide. Zonta members volunteer their time, talents and money to local and international service programs as well as scholarship and award programs aimed at furthering women's education, leadership and youth development. Births: |