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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nellie Mooney McClung
		Nellie McClung, (October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist.
		Nellie McClung founded a number of organizations: the Winnipeg Political Equality League, the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada and the Women's Institute of Edmonton (of which she was the first president).
		Nellie McClung was born in 1873 in Ontario, but her family moved to Manitoba in 1880 as pioneer homesteaders.
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	McClung, Nellie Letitia
		McClung advanced the feminist cause in her day and recognized the need for the economic independence of women (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/PA-30212).
		McClung, Nellie Letitia, née Mooney, suffragist, reformer, legislator, author (b at Chatsworth, Ont 20 Oct 1873; d at Victoria 1 Sept 1951).
		Nellie McClung (left), Emily Murphy (right) and Laura Jamieson (March 1916) were the leaders of the feminist cause in western Canada (courtesy City of Edmonton Archives).
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	Nellie McClung (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Nellie (Mooney) McClung was an adult educator for women's rights, one of "The Famous Five," author of 15 books, suffragist, social reformer, lecturer, and legislator.
		Nellie was born in 1873 in Ontario, before her family moved to Manitoba in 1880 as pioneer homesteaders.
		Warne's (1998) sketch of Nellie McClung declares that she "used her literature as a pulpit to preach her gospel of feminist activism and social transformation." Although she was an advocate of a broad range of issues, her successful leadership was applied to her consistent causes: women's suffrage and prohibition.
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	NELLIE LETITIA MCCLUNG - WOMEN IN B.C. HISTORY - BC ARCHIVES TIME MACHINE
		Nellie McClung is an excellent example of the politically and socially active women who were energetically advocating the rights of women during the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century.
		Nellie and Wes moved to Winnipeg in 1911, where she became involved with the Canadian Women's Press Club and the suffrage movement.
		The efforts of Nellie McClung and those who shared her goals and enthusiasm effected significant changes in women's lives.Canadian women can now vote, hold poltical office, be ordained ministers, and be recognized as fully participating citizens of the country.
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	Nellie McClung
		Nellie McClung was one of the most important leaders of Canada's first wave of feminism, and she is still remembered for her role in the famous "Person's Case" which saw Canadian women declared persons in 1929.
		Nellie Letitia Mooney was born in Ontario in 1873, and moved to Manitoba when she was seven years old.
		McClung continued to be active in the WCTU, but she also joined the Winnipeg Political Equality League, a group committed to helping the female wage earners of the city, and the Canadian Women's Press Club.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/study_guide/famous_women/nellie_mcclung.html (798 words)

	Manitoba Pageant: Nellie McClung
		When Nellie Mooney was born, 100 years ago in Grey County, Ontario, it was a disappointment to her eldest brother Will.
		Mooney could have foreseen this she would have been shocked that a woman would be so bold.
		McClung was the Methodist minister and his wife was a lovely and talented woman whom Nellie greatly admired.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/pageant/20/mcclung.shtml (3827 words)

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		Nellie was born in 1873 in Chatsworth, ON, but she and her family emigrated, along with many others in 1880, to the promising plains of the West.
		The Mooneys and Nellie went to a homestead in Souris Valley, Manitoba.
		Like many people of that time, Nellie's idea of equality didn't stretch to include all colours and races, so she might not be perceived as much of a hero to women of colour.
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	Grey Roots - McClung, Nellie Mooney
		Nellie was born on a farm near Chatsworth in 1873, the youngest of six children.
		McClung was a prominent speaker for the Manitoba Liberal Party.
		McClung was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1921.
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	Nellie McClung, Woman Suffrage and the Person's Case
		McClung was troubled by the absence of legal recourse in cases of spousal abuse and sufferings.
		McClung was an effective and moving speaker and she spent an increasing amount of time writing and speaking about prohibition and women’s suffrage.
		McClung had been a brilliant mimic since childhood when she amused her father with imitations of her mother’s family and McClung paid careful attention to Roblin’s speech and mannerisms and used her mimic skills to her advantage.
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	Nellie McLung
		Nellie was active in the speakers bureau, travelling across Canada, the United States, and to Great Britain to lecture at rallies in support of social changes such as prohibition, property rights for wives and widows, access to education and careers, and better laws to regulate safety and working conditions.
		While she was an MLA, Nellie McClung had become one of the Famous Five--five Alberta women who petitioned the government of Canada to expand the legal definition of the word PERSON to include women, and thus enable women to be appointed to the Senate.
		For example, when Nellie and her sisters observed that women and children suffered economically, socially, spiritually, and often physically because of alcohol and drug abuse, their response was to fight for the right to vote.
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	Home Sweet Heritage Home - McClung, Nellie
		Nellie Letitia (Mooney) McClung was born at Chatsworth, Ontario on October 20, 1873, the youngest of six children of an Irish immigrant family.
		The McClung family moved to Edmonton in the fall of 1914 just after the outbreak of World War I. In 1921 Nellie was elected to Alberta’s Legislative Assembly as a Liberal.
		During her life Nellie McClung wrote sixteen books, hundreds of short stories, articles and columns and amused audiences the world over with her witty and powerful speeches about women’s issues and social reform.
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	Nellie McClung - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nellie McClung, (October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist.
		She was born Nellie Letitia Mooney, in Chatsworth, Ontario.
		An eight-cent postage stamp was issued in honour of Nellie McClung on August 29, 1973.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Nellie_McClung (678 words)

	Nellie McClung - Definition, explanation
		] Nellie McClung, (October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist.
		She was also the grandmother of outspoken Alberta judge John McClung.
		Not as acknowledged, is the fact McClung campaigned for the sterilization of those considered "feeble-minded" and "immoral." Over 2,000 Albertans, who were considered of "inferior genetic stock," were sterilized over a 44 year period.
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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney (October 20 1873 - September 1 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist.
		Born in Grey County, Ontario, in 1873 she moved with her family to a homestead in the Souris Valley of Manitoba.
		Nellie McClung founded a number of organizations: the Political Equality League of Manitoba centered in Winnipeg, of which Lillian Beynon Thomas was a lesser-known but instrumental member, the Federated Women's Institutes of Canada and the Women's Institute of Edmonton (of which she was the first president).
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	Biography/Architecture
		Nellie was a girl who liked to ask questions and talked to anyone who would listen.
		Nellie thought about how unfair things were for girls even when she was a child.
		After Nellie got married, she lived in Calgary for nine years and her address was 803 - 15 Avenue S.W. Once when Nellie was walking with one of her children in her arms, she almost got run over by a drunken man driving a truck.
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	The My Hero Project - Nellie McClung
		Nellie Mooney (her maiden name)-McClung was born on Oct. 20, 1873, in Chatsworth, Ontario.
		Nellie was an average girl until about the age of nine, when she began to question the position of women in society.
		Nellie was hoping there would be races for girls, or that the girls might be able to enter with the boys.
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	Canadian McClungs: James Adam
		When Nellie was hired to teach in the small town of Manitou in 1890, she boarded with the Methodist minister, Reverend James McClung and his wife Annie.
		McClung, who was president of the local chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, was at first a mentor and later, a mother-in-law.
		Nellie died Sept 1, 1951 at the age of 77 years after being in a coma for forty some hours.
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	CBC: Life And Times
		Born Nellie Letitia Mooney in 1873, she was the youngest of six children.
		McClung embraced temperance with the Women's Christian Temperance Union and fought for the prohibition of alcohol.
		McClung and her fellow temperance advocates knew they could never win their battle against the liquor trade without being able to vote.
	www.cbc.ca /lifeandtimes/mcclung.html (404 words)

	Historic Authors: Nellie McClung (1873-1951)
		McClung and her associates, supporting the Liberal Party, were unable to defeat Roblin's government in the 1914 election, but Roblin soon fell under the weight of the scandal associated with the construction of the new legislative building.
		She was an enthusiastic supporter of the war effort and the Red Cross, and in 1921 was elected to the Alberta Legislature, where she championed a host of radical measures ranging from mother's allowances, to dower rights for women, to sterilization of the mentally unfit.
		McClung has done better with her autobiographical memoirs, In Times Like These (1915), Clearing in the West (1935) and The Stream Runs Fast (1945), all of which are highly regarded and have been reprinted.
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	NELLIE McCLUNG
		In 1911 the McClungs moved to Winnipeg, here she began her long struggle for the recognition of women's rights.
		To this end Nellie McClung and her associates for giving them the right to vote.
		Again the McClungs moved, this time to British Columbia where she died in 1951.
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	Nellie McClung Summary
		McClung was soon well known as an author of short stories and articles in Canadian and American magazines and was a popular speaker in demand throughout the West.
		McClung's fiction is seldom more than what Northrop Frye calls "an incidental commentary on a non-literary career." Her characters are stereotypes, her work loosely structured, sentimental, and consciously designed for moral uplift.
		She was born Nellie Letitia Mooney, in Grey County, Ontario.
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	Nellie Letitia (Mooney) McClung - Celebrating Women's Achievements / Women in Canadian Legislatures
		She was a pioneer teacher, author, suffragist, social reformer, lecturer and legislator who lived in the West (Manitou, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Victoria) until her death in 1951.
		Rural life, the plight of immigrants, conditions in cities and factories, the movements for prohibition and women's suffrage, World War I, the Depression and World War II provided the historical context for Nellie, both as a writer and a social reformer.
		Although some call her a crusader, it is said that she was a practical and realistic leader who put words into political action.
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		Nellie L. is a highly accessible source of information about the formative years of an important Canadian suffragette, reformer, legislator, and author.
		Nellie tries to pretend that she is sick like her sister Hannah and cannot go to school but doesn't get away with it.
		Nellie and her sister Hannah often carried fresh well-water and sandwiches to the men who worked hard in the fields.
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	Nellie McClung-Bio (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Nellie McClung, then named Nellie Mooney, was born in 1873 near Chatsworth Ontario, the youngest of six children, women were not viewed as “Persons”.
		She was an inspiration to Nellie, and she was one of the reasons that later in her life Nellie became a teacher, author, suffragist, social reformer, lecturer and legislator.
		The couple had five kids and in 1911 Nellie gave up her teaching career and the family moved back to Winnipeg where Nellie continued to fight for women’s rights.
	www.sjr.mb.ca /ms/notable/2006/6AP/mcclung/bio.htm (542 words)

	Ontario Women's Directorate: Nellie McClung
		Helen Mooney, who would grow up to be social activist Nellie McClung, was born in 1873 on a farm near Chatsworth, Ontario.
		McClung crossed Manitoba dozens of times, using her wit and intellect to drive home her message of justice for women at every theatre and community hall.
		By then, McClung had become one of the English-speaking world's leading crusaders for women's rights and was often asked to give speeches in faraway places.
	www.citizenship.gov.on.ca /owd/english/students/mcclung.htm (0 words)

	nellie mcclung
		McClung, Nellie Letitia, nÃ©e Mooney, suffragist, reformer, legislator, author (b at Chatsworth, Ont...
		Helen Mooney was born in 1873 near Owen Sound, Ontario.
		Nellie McClung was one of the most important leaders of Canada's first wave of feminism, and she is still remembered for her role in the famous "Person's Case" which saw Canadian women declared...
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	Canadian History and Culture #1 -- Nellie McClung
		Thus Nellie Mooney was born into a world of inequity.
		The Mooney family emigrated from Ontario to the Canadian West in 1880 to homestead south of Brandon, Manitoba.
		Nellie McClung is best remembered in Winnipeg for her triumph in the Women's Parliament of 1914.
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	PL-0746 Nellie McClung - Province of Manitoba \| General Page
		PL-0746 Nellie McClung - Province of Manitoba
		Born in Ontario, Nellie Mooney moved west with her family in 1880.
		As a member of the 1918 Canadian War Conference and the World Ecumenical Conference, the Alberta Legislature 1921-26, a governor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1936-42 and a delegate to the League of Nations in 1938, Nellie McClung, novelist, politician and reformer worked for political and social recognition for women.
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	Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case - The "Famous Five" and the Persons ...
		The Famous Five achieved not only the right for women to serve in the Senate, but they and their many contributions paved the way for women to participate in other aspects of public life and the assertion of women's rights is now honoured by the Governor General's Awards in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
		Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards
		Novelist, legislator, prohibitionist, and suffragette, Nellie (Mooney) McClung's influence was felt across the prairies.
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