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Oron Weely îmes We nesayApril 21, 1993 - 13 SALLY STAPLES associate broker REIMAX CORNERSTONE REALTY LTD,, REALTR MAIN STREET, ORONO 983-6181 Orono Oftioe )KM s Re ada best su eller. or 623-6000 Pager 1J HERITAGE HIGHLIGHTS j Desist or I wil tell your wife Wome-n medical students had to make a fuss By Marsha Boulton TORONTO, 1 87 1 - What Cana- dian mnedical college allowed women to attend miedical lectures only on the condition thiat they agreed tu flot make a fuss? TiFsstrani'ge restriction was placed on two pioneering Cana- dian womien ln the i1870s by rthe Toronto School of Medicine. In fact, wheni Jennie Tr-oui and Emily Stowe mnanaged to obtain restricted permission to attend a session of lectures at the School, Canadian universities would not allow womien to study medicine. Trout and Stowe perservered and both of them utimiately were instrumental ninestablishing mied- ical colleges for womien. The sessions Tr-out and Stowe attended were virtually designed to incite a"fs. Pranksters placed body parts on the womnen' chairs in the lectuire hall and the male students jeered the two women, with the encouragement of most professors. Obnoxious sketches were drawn on the walls of thre lecture _room with such frequency that the classroom had to whitewashed four times during that session! Trout and Stowe endured al this and more. The only evidence approachîng a "fuss" occurred when one lecturer who persisted in telling sickening and smnutty stories, inspired Trout to admnon- ish himn to desîst or she would advise his wife of exactly what he had said. Appar- ently, this tactic was effective. Jennie Trout and Emily Stowe both grew up on Ontario farins. Both excelled in school and went on to becomne school teachers. At one point, they lived on the samne frage group, which operated under the titie of the Toronto Woml-en's Literary Club for many years. Trout was 10 years younger, and preferred to avoid puhlicity,. Like Stowve, shle comlleted her mledical studies in the Unlite-d States, where mnedical colleges for wonien wýere fir-st establishied in 1850. Stowe graduated as a doctor in 1867, and Trout followed eighit years later. However, according to an 1869 Act of Parliamient, gradu- ates of American colleges could only be licenced to practice in Ontario if they attended a session of Canadian lectures and a matric- ulation exam. Emily Stowe chose to ignore the licencing requiremnents. She practised openly and illegally for 13 years. AlthoughYI she had qualified in her sessional studies, the feisty Stowe miay well have felt that she could flot tolerate the second indigonity of taýkinig the oral sec- tion of, the exam b1 efore yet anioth- er croup of hiostile men. She wýas 49 21 wh lheicence %was finally g!rantIed in 1880. Trout, on the other hand, took the exaimminediately olwn her gr-aduation in 1875-. When h ler husband picked lier up fooinig the orail exlie was comlii- miented on having such a tlne and creditably intelligentwi. She becamie the first Canadian womian to be licenced to practise miedicine, how'ever, when she died in 1921 the Canadiani Medical Journal did flot even record the fact. Emiily Stowe and Jennie TroLi confronted a systemi that 'was designed to thwart their desires to serve the phy,,sicail needs of all hIumai;ty anId, uIsing Idifferent tac- tics, they both woni. Watch for the -Jeannie Trot" Heritage Minute on your local television Station. For more information aýbot the Hïeritage Project cali 1-800-567-1867. MORRIS FUNERAL CHAPEL LTD. Established in 1881 623-5480 4 Division St. Bowmanville Mark M. Stapleton Restorzt -e & Rprodiuction 6720 Leskard'Rd. N., Orono 983-6098 W e specla ize i lir rti n o Historical Restoration and Reproduction of Century Homes. Also al types of General Carpentry. SO:LD Ca#i me to buy or sel! . Orono and crec s real estate rep. V KRYSTYNA JONES Tel: 983-9782- --l i!!ý