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Francis Marion Beynon
Francis Marion Beynon (26 May 1884 – 5 October 1951) was a Canadian journalist, feminist and pacifist. She is known for her semi-autobiographical novel ''Aleta Day'' (1919). Early years Francis Marion Beynon was born in Streetsville, Ontario on 26 May 1884. Her parents, James Barnes Benyon (1835–1907) and Rebecca (Manning) Beynon (1847–98), married in 1872. Both parents were teetotallers and convinced Methodism, Methodists, a faith she would later reject. Her sister was author Lillian Beynon Thomas (1874–1961). Her family moved to Manitoba in 1889 when she was a child and took up farming in the Hartney district. She earned a teaching certificate and taught near Carman, Manitoba, Carman for some time. Activist Around 1909 Beynon and her sister moved to Winnipeg, where Francis found work in the advertising department of the T. Eaton Company, a department store. Both sisters were active in fighting for women's suffrage, changes to dower legislation and the right of women to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streetsville, Ontario
Streetsville (pop. 47,327) is a neighbourhood located in the northwestern corner of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on the Credit River. Although Streetsville occupies the west and east banks of the river, the majority is located on the west bank of the river. A town prior to the 1974 amalgamations that formed the City of Mississauga, it seeks to keep a "small town" charm by retaining a variety of historical buildings and streetscapes. As part of this attempt to maintain a separate identity from the larger city, the names of two main Mississauga streets, as they pass through Streetsville, retain the names they had when Streetsville was an independent village: List of roads in Mississauga#Mississauga Road, Mississauga Road and Bristol Road, which remain as Queen Street and Main Street respectively. Other main thoroughfares that pass through or near Streetsville include List of roads in Mississauga#Britannia Road, Britannia Road, List of roads in Mississauga#Creditview Roa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Cora Hind
Ella Cora Hind (September 18, 1861 – October 6, 1942) was a Canadian journalist, agriculturalist, Women's rights activist and suffragist. During the Great Depression, she became famous internationally for her accurate predictions of Canadian prairie crop yields. "Her predictions so regularly proved correct that grain handlers across the world came to rely on them." Early life E. Cora Hind was born in Toronto on September 18, 1861 to Edwin Hind and Jane Carroll. She was two years old when she lost her mother, and five years old when her father died. After the death of her mother, she and her older brothers Joseph and George moved to Artemisia Township to live with their paternal grandfather, Joseph Hind, and aunt Alice. Hind’s grandfather taught her about farming, horses, and cattle. Living several miles from school delayed her education until 1872 so Aunt Alice home-schooled her until the Province built a school on her grandfather’s land. Her family relocated to Fle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Women Novelists
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Feminists
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Deaths
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel '' Journey Through the Nigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1884 Births
Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, in Wales. Later tried and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to English law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the United Kingdom in modern times) on March 14, setting a legal precedent. * February 1 – ''A New English Dictionary on historical principles, part 1'' (edited by James A. H. Murray), the first fascicle of what will become ''The Oxford English Dictionary'', is published in England. * February 5 – Derby County Football Club is founded in England. * March 13 – The siege of Khartoum, Sudan, begins (ends on January 26, 1885). * March 28 – Prince Leopold, the youngest son and the eighth child of Queen Victoria and Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Lill
Wendy Lill (born November 2, 1950) is a Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have been performed extensively in theatres across Canada as well as internationally in such countries as Scotland, Denmark and Germany. Many of the plays explore the divide between the powerful and the oppressed, exploring, for example, the racism and abuse suffered by Canada's indigenous peoples, issues faced by people with disabilities, child sexual abuse and the struggle for women's rights.McNulty, Jim. "Trading her plays for politics: Dartmouth MP makes many sacrifices to lobby on behalf of disabled." Halifax ''Daily News'', July 24, 1998. Four of her plays were nominated for Governor General's Awards. ''Sisters'', which dramatizes the human devastation caused by a convent-run, native residential school, received the Labatt's Canadian Play Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival. Lill's adaptati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He named the area in honor of "God's merciful Providence" which he believed was responsible for revealing such a haven for him and his followers. The city developed as a busy port as it is situated at the mouth of the Providence River in Providence County, at the head of Narragansett Bay. Providence was one of the first cities in the country to industrialize and became noted for its textile manufacturing and subsequent machine tool, jewelry, and silverware industries. Today, the city of Providence is home to eight hospitals and List of colleges and universities in Rhode Island#Institutions, eight institutions of higher learning which have shifted the city's economy into service industries, though it still retains some manufacturin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fisher Chipman
George Fisher Chipman (18 January 1882 – 26 December 1935) was a Canadian journalist who edited the ''Grain Growers' Guide'' for many years. The paper was the official organ of the provincial grain growers' associations in the Canadian prairies, and became the mostly widely circulated farmers' paper in the region. Early years George Fisher Chipman was born on 18 January 1882 in Nictaux West, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. His parents were F. Miles Chipman and Annie S. Fisher. He attended the Middleton High School and the Nova Scotia Normal School, and in 1900 became a school teacher. In 1905 Chipman moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba and obtained a job as a reporter for the Manitoba Free Press. In 1909 an article by Chipman appeared in ''Canadian Magazine'' called "Winnipeg: The Melting Pot." Based on his experience teaching immigrant children in rural Alberta he expressed concern about immigration from the Ukraine, particularly when the newcomers were forced into ethnic enclaves in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobias Norris
Tobias Crawford Norris (September 5, 1861 – October 29, 1936) was a Canadian politician who served as the tenth premier of Manitoba from 1915 to 1922. Norris was a member of the Liberal Party.J. M. Bumsted"Tobias Crawford Norris" ''The Canadian Encyclopedia'', February 14, 2008. Early life Norris was born in Brampton, Canada West (now Ontario), and moved to Manitoba at a young age. Career Manitoba Legislature He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 1896 provincial election in the constituency of Lansdowne. The Liberals won a landslide majority in this election, though Norris was not called to serve in the cabinet of premier Thomas Greenway. Norris was narrowly re-elected in the 1899 election, and moved with his party to the opposition benches. He was one of many Liberals defeated in the party's electoral debacle of 1903, losing to Conservative Harvey Hicks by sixteen votes. He defeated Hicks by ninety-six votes in the 1907 election, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodmond Roblin
Sir Rodmond Palen Roblin (February 15, 1853 – February 16, 1937) was a businessman and politician in Manitoba, Canada. Early life and career Roblin was born in Sophiasburgh Township, Ontario, Sophiasburgh, in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Prince Edward County, Canada West (later Ontario). The Roblin family was established in Sophiasburgh by the Loyalist farmers Philip and Elizabeth Roblin from Monroe (village), New York, Smith's Clove (now known as Monroe) in Orange County, New York. He was educated at Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, Belleville, arrived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Winnipeg in 1877, and worked as a grain trade, grain merchant. Roblin served as Reeve (Canada), reeve of Dufferin, Manitoba, Dufferin for five years and as warden for two and was also a school trustee in the community. He entered provincial politics in the 1886 Manitoba general election, 1886 Manitoba election, running as a Liberal Party of Manitoba, Liberal Party candidate against the Progres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
