Nellie McClung

Nellie McClung (1873-1951), born near Chatsworth in Ontario, grew up on a homestead farm in Manitoba and became a schoolteacher at sixteen. A figure of the suffragist movement and a public speaker, she helped win the vote for women in Manitoba in 1916, sat in the Alberta legislature from 1921 to 1926, then was one of the five petitioners in the “Persons” case, which in 1929 secured recognition of women's right to sit in the Senate. A temperance activist and the author of sixteen books, she died in Saanich, near Victoria.

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