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  Canadian Medicine: Dr. Emily Stowe
Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (1831-1903) was the first Canadian woman to practise medicine in Canada.
Stowe's life story illustrates the challenges that women faced in becoming physicians in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Emily remained in school until the age of fifteen, when she began teaching in a small school nearby.
www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/doctors/emily_stowe.html   (499 words)

  
 Emily Stowe
Emily was born on a farm in Norwich, Upper Canada (later Canada West, and then, Ontario), the first of six daughters of Hannah Howard and Solomon Jennings.
Stowe lectured on "Women's Sphere" and "Women in the Professions." She said that a woman "ought to understand the laws governing her own being." Because of pressure by the Literary Club, some higher education in Toronto was made available to women—though Stowe protested that the medical course first planned for women was substandard.
Stowe, playing the part of the Attorney-General, evoked general laughter in her speech recommending that the men's petition be denied.
www25.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/emilyjenningsstowe.html   (1623 words)

  
  Ontario Women's Directorate: Emily Stowe
Emily Howard Stowe was born in Norwich, Ontario in 1831.
Stowe's daughter, Augusta, was also active in the suffrage movement, eventually succeeding her mother as President of the latter organization.
Her daughter, Dr. Augusta Stowe, was the first female graduate in medicine from a Canadian university and the first woman to work at a medical school.
www.citizenship.gov.on.ca /owd/english/students/stowe.htm   (552 words)

  
  US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Emily Howard Stowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Emily Stowe was born in Oxford County, Ontario.
Stowe was a prominent early suffragist, considered by some to be the mother of the movement in Canada.
In an episode that may demonstrate the dominance of the latter, Stowe broke the bond of doctor-patient confidentiality by disclosing the abortion request of a patient, Sara Ann Lovell, a domestic servant, to her employer.
encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Emily_Howard_Stowe   (357 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Emily Stowe
Emily Howard Stowe (May 1, 1831-April 30, 1903) was the first female doctor to practise in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage.
Stowe and Jenny Trout were finally admitted for preparatory courses and qualifying exams at the Toronto School of Medicine.
Stowe became the second female licensed physician in Canada in 1880.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Emily_Stowe   (305 words)

  
 asialeaders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Emily Stowe was born in Oxford County, Ontario.
Stowe was a prominent early suffragist, considered by some to be the mother of the movement in Canada.
In an episode that may demonstrate the dominance of the latter, Stowe broke the bond of doctor-patient confidentiality by disclosing the abortion request of a patient, Sara Ann Lovell, a domestic servant, to her employer.
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Emily attended school until she was 15 and then began teaching in a small county school in the vicinity.
Emily returned to teaching for a while but it is likely that the lack of money drove her away from the profession again.
In 1896, Emily and her daughter Augusta participated in a mock parliament that was organized by the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association that humorously debated and defeated the motion to permit men the right to vote.
www.frymybacon.com /articles/articles.php?articleID=194   (1811 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
If Emily was acting out of financial necessity, it is odd that she abandoned the teaching career for which she had qualified in favour of a long course of study and a protracted battle over professional credentials.
Emily apparently applied to the Toronto School of Medicine, affiliated with the University of Toronto, although the exact date of her application is uncertain.
Stowe later recalled that she had applied in 1869 for admission to classes in chemistry and physiology at the University of Toronto but the senate had denied her a place.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=40926   (3386 words)

  
 Emily Jennings Stowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Emily Jennings Stowe was born in Canada in 1831.
In 1865 Emily was refused entry to the University of Toronto because of her sex.
Emily continued to practice illegally until the Surgeons gave her her license in 1880.
www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/stowe2.htm   (86 words)

  
 stowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Emily Howard Stowe was born on May1,1831.She died in Toronto in 1903.
Emily Howard Stowe was influenced to become a nurse when her husband John Stowe became ill with tuberculosis.
Emily and her daughter both participated in a mock parliament,organized by the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association.
www.svsd.sk.ca /grassroots/2001/project1/proj9/stowe.html   (158 words)

  
 Crossing The Barriers Emily Stowe, Miscellaneous, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Emily was practicing medicine in Canada without a license and because of this had to pay a yearly fine of $100.
Emily had conquered her goal and was fully licensed to practice medicine in Canada.
Emily Stowes struggle to enter the medical profession, caused her to organize the Women's Medical College of Toronto in 1883.
www.chuckiii.com /Reports/Miscellaneous/Crossing_The_Barriers_Emily_Stowe.shtml   (1159 words)

  
 CM Magazine: Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe.
Fortunate to be born into a Quaker community that accepted women as equals, Emily received a good education and was trained to be a teacher, a profession at which she was very successful.
Emily learned about homeopathic medicine from the Jennings' family friend, Dr. Joseph Lancaster, and, with the support of her husband John Stowe, she decided to try a new career.
Emily Howard Jennings Stowe became one of Canada's leading feminists.
www.umanitoba.ca /cm/vol3/no6/stowe.html   (540 words)

  
 Emily Stowe: Doctor and Suffragist. by Wendy Mitchinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This is a biography of Emily Howard Stowe, the first woman to practise medicine in Canada as a woman and a leading figure in the suffrage movement.
This is not a critical biography, in that the author does not probe Stowe and her motivations.
Although Stowe was the first woman to practise medicine in Canada, Trout was the first to be licensed to do so, and this rankled Stowe and her family.
www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/724/stowe21.html   (708 words)

  
 Dr. Emily Howard Stowe - Famous Canadian Physicians - Library and Archives Canada
Emily Howard Jennings was born in 1831 on a farm in Norwich Township in Upper Canada (now Ontario), the first of six daughters of a Methodist father and a Quaker mother.
Emily's mother had been well-educated at an American Quaker seminary and believed in a good education for her daughters.
Emily Stowe was attending an international women's convention in Chicago in 1893 when she suddenly fell from the platform and broke her hip.
www.collectionscanada.ca /physicians/002032-250-e.html   (1091 words)

  
 oxha124.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Emily Howard Jennings was born on May 1, 1831 in Norwich Township, where her maternal great-grandfather, Peter Lossing, had bought 15,000 acres of land in 1810 and her parents, Hannah Lossing Howard and Solomon Jennings, still farmed.
Emily Stowe’s reasons for becoming a physician are not entirely known.
Whatever the reasons, after her third child was born and her husband contracted tuberculosis in 1863, Emily Stowe became determined to enter the field of medicine.
www.execulink.com /~ocbogs/hist/oxhquiz/oxha124.html   (637 words)

  
 Emily Stowe information - Search.com
Emily Howard Stowe née Jennings (May 1, 1831 – April 30, 1903) was the first female doctor to practise in Canada, and an activist for women's rights and suffrage.
Stowe was a prominent early suffragist, considered by some to be the mother of the movement in Canada.
In an episode that may demonstrate the dominance of the latter, Dr. Stowe broke patient confidentiality by disclosing the abortion request of a patient, Sara Ann Lovell, a domestic servant, to her employer.
domainhelp.search.com /reference/Emily_Stowe?redir=1   (308 words)

  
 Brainboost - emily stowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Augusta Stowe, daughter of Emily Stowe, is the first woman to graduate from the Toronto Medical School..
Ann Augusta Stowe - Gullen (1857 - 1943) daughter of Emily Stowe is the 1st woman to graduate in medicine from a Canadian university, Victoria College in Toronto..
Dr Stowes daughter, Dr Augusta Stowe Gullen, graduated from Victoria College in 1883, becoming the first woman doctor to be trained in Canada.
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 Emily Jennings Stowe and Augusta Stowe Cullen - Women's Exhibition - Celebrating Women's Achievements
Emily Jennings Stowe pioneered the struggle for women's equality in Canada as the first woman school principal (1852) and physician (1867).
Emily continued to practise illegally until the College of Physicians and Surgeons finally granted her a licence in 1880.
Following Stowe's graduation in 1883 as the first woman to take her complete medical training in Canada, she married fellow graduate Dr. John B. Gullen, and was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at the new Women's Medical College, and later Professor of Pediatrics.
www.collectionscanada.ca /women/002026-207-e.html   (350 words)

  
 UUWHS - Research: STIRRING THE SAGAS
Becoming interested in Emily Howard Jennings Stowe three years ago, I found that I was having to think about much more than her becoming Canada's first woman doctor and the initiator of the Canadian woman's rights movement.
Stowe took a story of events that happened in faraway London and New York state to indicate the sense of conflict she experienced while promoting women's rights in Toronto, Canada - to widen the vote and gain entry to university and the professions.
It was a strategy of Stowe's not to dwell on adverse trials, experienced twice herself and once by her daughter, in order to advance the cause.
www.uuwhs.org /baros.php   (2638 words)

  
 Beliefs
Her daughter, Augusta Stowe Gullen, continued in her mother's extraordinary path, becoming the first woman to study medicine and graduate from a Canadian university in 1883.
In 1865, Emily Jennings was refused entry to the University of Toronto on account of her sex.
Her daughter, Augusta Stowe, was forced to endure similar hardships when she enrolled in the Toronto School of Medicine in 1879.
www.uuottawa.com /emily_jennings_stowe.htm   (319 words)

  
 Emily Murphy - Emily's Paradox
Emily's Paradox was written and published on-line due to the frustration with mostly finding one-sided accounts available on the internet about her - the sanctioned, sanitized hero version.
Emily Murphy has surfaced larger than life once again, not only enshrined in bronze on Ottawa's Parliament Hill, but as of the November 2004, circulating on the new Canadian $50 bill.
Emily Murphy's achievement was winning the right for women to be appointed to the Senate.
cannabislink.ca /papers/murphy   (1762 words)

  
 Emily Stowe - TheBestLinks.com - Emily Howard Stowe, Canada, Physician, United States, ...
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Despite having the required qualifications, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario refused to license Stowe because no Canadian school would allow a woman to sit the qualifying examinations.
Her daughter, Augusta Stowe-Gullen, was the first woman to earn a medical degree in Canada.
www.thebestlinks.com /Emily_Howard_Stowe.html   (198 words)

  
 72 Varina Emily Stowe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Later, Emily started a new family; she had two sons and a daughter named Ann Augusts Stowe Gullen, when she became a very successful women.
Emily was the first Canadian women to organize a suffrage group in Canada.
Emily Howard Jennings Stowe was very a powerful women and never gave up on anything she struggled through.
www.wsd1.org /SargentPark/JrHigh/JH_Main_Heritage_Fair/hfair2000/stowe.htm   (396 words)

  
 Emily’s life with half a heart: Express & Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Now her parents, Wolverhampton couple Paul Stowe and his fiancee Kirsty Bygrave, face the worry of another operation to insert dye into her bloodstream to track the condition, known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
Emily was born three weeks premature after doctors at New Cross Hospital spotted a blocked bowel on a routine scan and performed an emergency Caesarean.
Mr Stowe, 32, praised staff at New Cross and the children’s hospital in Birmingham for Emily’s care.
www.expressandstar.co.uk /2007/01/19/emilys-life-with-half-a-heart   (249 words)

  
 babble: Honours for Canada's first female Cabinet Minsiter
At age 15 Emily accepted employment as a schoolteacher in the neighbouring town of Summerville, and she taught for seven years.
Emily’s public struggle to achieve equality for women began in 1852, when she applied for admission to Victoria College, Cobourg.
Stowe became the first president and she held the position until her death.
www.rabble.ca /babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=next_topic&f=1&t=005933&go=newer   (1924 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe: Books: Sydell Waxman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
When Emily Stowe was born in Ontario in 1831, every girl's life followed a set pattern.
Emily Stowe was determined to change that pattern.
This book shows how Emily Stowe became not only the first woman school principal and the first woman to practice medicine in Canada, but a pioneer in the fight for women's rights.
www.amazon.ca /Changing-Pattern-Story-Emily-Stowe/dp/0929141431   (355 words)

  
 Emily Stowe
Emily Howard Jennings Stowe was born on May 1st 1831 to parents Hannah Lossing Howard and Soloman Jennings.
Nobody is quite certain of the reasons for Emily Stowe to want to become a physician.
Emily Stowe continued practicing medicine and putting pressure on the University of Toronto to let women enroll and study.
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 Dr Emily Howard Jennings STOWE (1831-1903) - PHOTOTHÈQUE HOMÉOPATHIQUE présentée par Homéopathe International
Emily was a leading female suffragist and in 1893 organized the Dominion Woman Suffrage Association, of which she became the first President.
Emily Jennings Stowe pioneered the struggle for women's equality in Canada as the first woman school principal (1852) and physician (1867).
Dr Augusta Stowe Gullen, daughter of Emily Stowe, became, in 1883, the first woman to receive a medical degree from a Canadian medical school.
www.homeoint.org /photo/s2/stowe.htm   (645 words)

  
 Emily Chang - eHub: About
Emily Chang’s eHub is listed in the Top 100 Feeds at Dave Winer’s Share Your OPML, a “commons for sharing outlines, feeds, and taxonomy” (currently #59).
Emily Chang’s eHub cited by Stowe Boyd in Corante
Emily Chang launches eHub, a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing.
www.emilychang.com /go/ehub/about   (1514 words)

  
 Emily Stowe
Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (May 1, 1831-April 30, 1903), a path-breaking Canadian woman physician and suffragist, led campaigns to provide women access to medical schools and other professional education.
After John was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitorium, Emily resumed teaching to support her family, but found it economically unrewarding.
Stowe campaigned for better medical education for women and influenced several eminent physicians.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/emilyjenningsstowe.html   (1623 words)

  
 Emily Stowe essays
Emily Stowe was the first Canadian woman to practice medicine in Canada.
It was in this small community that Emily and her sisters grew up and developed the strong beliefs and morals that were to be so important later on in Emily's life.
With Emily's parents both being Quakers, it had a very strong influence on Emily, because Quakers firmly believed a proper education was greatly important for everyone, including women.
www.megaessays.com /viewpaper/15649.html   (599 words)

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