DEFYING CONVENTION- HELEN GREGORY MCGILL(1864-1947)- VERONICA STRONG-BOAG

Veronica Strong-Boag explores the fascinating life of Helen Gregory MacGill (1864-1947), who helped spread feminism throughout North America. Beginning as a pioneering co-ed at the University of Toronto, she became a trailblazer as a woman in journalism reporting on the Canadian Northwest. She contributed to the American and BC suffrage movement and feminist press, and dramatized the need for a revolution in the legal rights of women and children.