Dr. Agnes Douglas Craine plaque, 2 Bay Street, Smiths Falls

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The plaque reads: "Dr. Agnes Douglas Craine / Born on October 9, 1861 in Smiths Falls Ontario / The first woman from Smiths Falls to attend university, Agnes graduated from Queen's University medical school with honors. Post-graduation she attended The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Edinburgh and the faculty of of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow. / With triple qualifications, she returned to Smiths Falls in 1889 to open her practice here, at 2 Bay Street. She was perhaps the best educated woman in Ontario, better than any of her educated male counterparts in Smiths Falls. / Dr. Craine struggled in her profession career as a woman Physician in Smiths Falls, contending with the chauvinistic male jealousies permeating society at that time. / Dr. Craine was a role model for women in Smiths Falls, helping them to wage war of domestic subversion. She died alone in 1937, to the very end, defiant toward her treatment in her native town. The assumption that a woman should remain in her home finally started to turn in the 1940's, only a few years after her death."

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See Glenn J. Lockwood "Smiths Falls: A Social History of the Men and Women in a Rideau Canal Community 1794-1994." Smiths Falls: Corporation of the Town of Smiths Falls, 1994, pp.388-408, 446-449, 468-471.

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