Legal status of Canadian women, as shown by extracts from Dominion and provincial laws relating to marriage, property, dower, divorce, descent of land, franchise, crime, and other subjects
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- Legal status of Canadian women, as shown by extracts from Dominion and provincial laws relating to marriage, property, dower, divorce, descent of land, franchise, crime, and other subjects
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- 1908
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Legal status of Canadian women, as shown by extracts from Dominion and provincial laws relating to marriage, property, dower, divorce, descent of land, franchise, crime, and other subjects
Author: Edwards, Henrietta Muir, 1849-1931. (compiler)
Year: 1908
Edwards, Henrietta Muir: 1849-1931. Born Montreal; with sister founded Working Girl's Association, 1875, and later the first Canadian magazine for working women, Working Woman of Canada ; financed magazine by selling her paintings and miniatures; married physician Oliver Cromwell Edwards (1850-1915) and had three children; moved to Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, 1882; with Lady Aberdeen founded National Council of Women, 1893, and Victorian Order of Nurses, 1897; moved to Stand Off, Alberta, 1901; convenor of laws of National Council of Women for 38 years; one of "Famous Five" who instigated the appeal to the Privy Council which gave women the right to sit in the Senate of Canada; avid supporter of equal grounds for divorce, reform of the prison system, and mothers' allowances; died at Macleod, Alberta.