Dr. Emily Stowe 1831-1903
Emily wanted to attend university to become a doctor but was denied that opportunity here in Toronto because she was a woman. So off she went to more enlightened New York City. An Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque here in front of Women's College Hospital on Grenville Street at Elizabeth Street tells the tale:
Emily Stowe's crusade for female suffrage and higher education for women placed her in the vanguard of the women's rights movement in Canada. Denied access to university in this country because of her gender, she studied medicine in New York City, then moved to Toronto where, in 1867, she opened the first private practice in Canada run by a woman doctor. In 1883 Dr. Stowe spearheaded the drive to found Woman's Medical College in Toronto. Her leadership of the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association kept the issue of suffrage in the public eye during the closing years of the 19th century.
Location Co-ordinates: 43.661220 -79.387754
Photo by Alan L Brown - September 2006
Related pages:
Ontario Medical College for Women
Women's College Hospital
First Women's College Hospital
Related pages from my 'Ontario's Historical Plaques' website:
Emily Howard Jennings Stowe, M.D.
Dr. Augusta Stowe Gullen
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