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Nellie McClung
Topic Started: Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:34 am (275 Views)
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Nellie McClung was born in 1873, in Grey Country Ontairio. She moved with her family soon after birth to the Souris Valley of Manitoba. She lived in the west for the rest of her life hanging around Manitou, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calragy, and Victoria.

Her first novel was something called Sowing Seeds inside Danny in 1908. It was nantional bestseller in Canadian and American magazines. She moved to Winnipeg in 1911. At this time, Winnipeg was having a women’s right movement and she was embraced in this. An effective speaker with a sense of humour, she played a leading role in the successful Liberal campaign in 1914.

Her causes were for the the suffrage and temperence of women. It was thanks to her actions in Manitoba that it was the first province to have women have the right to vote. The Canadian government to start suit afterwards. After this, she moved to Edmonton and started a campaign for suffrage. She championed dental and medical care for school children, married women’s property rights, mothers' allowances, factory safety legislation and many other reforms. She also had a lesser known campaign for the sterilization of those who are “feeble-minded” and “immoral.” This campaigned caused over 2,700 Albertans who were classified as such to be sterilized over a 44 year period. Over half the sterlizations were performed on aboriginals {ironically}.

This was a time of change in Canada and numerous other parts of the world. Canada had seen some large immigrations in the decades before the following the turn of the 20th century. to farm life, the plight of immigrants, conditions in cities and factories, prohibition, women's suffrage, World War 1, and the Depression were historical events influencing McClung as well as many other people. She was called a crusader by some. She was one of those people who put words into actions. She served as a Liberal Leader for Ligislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921-1926. She was part of the Famous Five, with Irene Parlby, Henrietta Edwards, Emily Murphy, and Louis McKinney who were well known for putting forth a petition to clarify the word “person” in the British North American Act of 1867.
She died in 1951 and left behind a grandson named Jhon McClung who would become a well known and outspoken judge of Alberta.
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