Dr. Augusta Stowe Gullen Plaque

Description

Creator: the Ontario Archaeological and Historic Sites Board
Media Type: Image
Item Type: Plaques
Inscriptions: Dr. Augusta Stowe Gullen
1857 - 1943
Canada's first woman graduate in medicine was born in Mount Pleasant. She attended the Toronto School of Medicine, received her degree from Victoria University in 1883, and was licensed to practise. Her mother, Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, had graduated in New York State in 1868, and after a prolonged struggle for recognition had been licensed to practise medicine in 1880, thus becoming Canada's first woman doctor. Both were ardent feminists, and devoted themselves to the advancement of women in education and public life. Dr. Emily Stowe organized the Canadian movement for female suffrage, and under her daughter's leadership women in Ontario received the franchise in 1917.
Place of Publication: Mount Pleasant, ON
Date of Original: 2020
Subject(s): Historic sites
Physicians
Suffragists
Mount Pleasant (Ont.)
Ann Augusta Stowe-Gullen
Language of Item: English
Copyright Statement: Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
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