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Emily Stowe, Canada’s first woman doctor in private practice

A portrait of Emily Stowe, no later than 1895.
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Denied university entry in Canada because she was a woman, Emily Stowe (1831–1903) studied medicine in New York City and in 1867 opened the first private medical practice in Canada run by a woman doctor, in Toronto. She led the drive to found Woman’s Medical College in 1883 and, through the Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association, kept suffrage in the public eye.

Scope & context

Her medical and suffrage work, not a full biography.

Sources behind this record

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Dr. Emily Stowe (1831-1903) National Historic Person ↗

Parks Canada

Historical importance; plaque text