CANADIAN WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

The Canadian Women's Suffrage Association was originally called the Toronto Women's Literary Guild. The Guild, founded in 1877, was renamed in 1883. It was an influential women's suffrage organization founded in part by Emily Howard Stowe, Canada's second licensed female physician, to fight for women's rights and improved working conditions. The CWSA successfully pressured schools of higher education in Toronto to accept women.

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★ Famous Canadian Physicians: Dr. Emily Howard Stowe at Library and Archives Canada