1822-1903+Emily+Stowe

Emily Stowe [] 1831-1903 INFO ON EMILY HOWARD STOWE: - first child of a methodist father and a Quaker mother -her mom was well-educated women, she believed in good education for her daughters so she taught them herself cause the local schools was not good in education - at age 15 was a teacher at a one room schoolhouse - when to toronto college and graduated with first class honors 1854 - with a bachelor's degree in science and literature -offered positon in brantford school board became first women principle - maried had 3 kids, husband contracted tuberculosis - her husbands illness inspired her to go into the field of medicine (herbal, PHYSICAN) - finally admitted to school only by special arrangment - returned to her practise without license cause either failed or refuse to sit with people humilating them ( another person got excepted to the college she passed) -she gave lecture's about women's health - charged for doing an aborption to one of her patients

What? Did this person do that to affected and/or chang history? -first women to practise medicine in canada. -was a lifelong champion in women's rights - provided women access to medical schools and foundation to medical college - her struggle to acheive equal women rights began in 1852 when she applied to a victoria college and got declined cause she was a female - got her degree in New York in 1867, thus became first female practising physician in Canada - kept on pressing on the college to get an eduction for women in canada, aventually her daughter got to graduate and be the first one to graduate in canada as a doctor - founded an association for women's rights Might they have different? Where? - was born in a farm in norwich township in upper canada (Ontario) - toronto, this is where emily was the first women to go to medical school in canada why? - i think this is important because she was the one that kept pushing on to allow women to have medical education in canada so she made it possible - without her doing so, probably not even today women wouldn't be allowed to have medical care