Suffrage Campaigns & Enfranchisement With Special Reference to Canada: Extended Bibliography

Biographies of Suffragists

Bassett, Isabel. The Parlour Rebellion: Profiles in the Struggle for Women’s Rights. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1975.

Bertrand, Réal. Thérèse Casgrain. Montreal: Lidec, 1981.

Cahill, Barry. “Braden, Mary Ellen (Macnab).” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16. University of Toronto/Université Laval: 2014.

Campbell, Peter. Rose Henderson: A Woman for the People. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.

Cavanaugh, Catherine. In Search of a Useful Life: Irene Marryat Parlby, 1868-1965. PhD dissertation, University of Alberta, 1994.

Cavanaugh, Catherine. "Irene Marryat Parlby: An 'Imperial Daughter' in the Canadian West, 1896-1934." In Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women's History. Ed. Catherine Cavanaugh and Randi Warne. 100-22. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2000.

Converse, Cathy. MainStays: Women Who Shaped B.C. Victoria: Horsdal & Schubart, 1999.

Cook, Sharon. “Letitia Youmans: Ontario’s Nineteenth-Century Temperance Educator.” Ontario History 84 (December 1992): 329-42.

Cormack, Barbara. Perennial and Politics: The Life Story of Honourable Irene Parlby. Sherwood Park: Professional Printing, 1968.

Crippen, Carolyn. “Three Women Pioneers in Manitoba: Evidence of Servant-Leadership.” PhD dissertation, University of North Dakota, 2004. *Margret Benedictsson

Crippen, Carolyn. “Three Manitoban Pioneer Women: A Legacy of Servant-Leadership.” Manitoba History 53 (October 2006): 11-21.

Dadson, True. "The Gentle Heroine: Thérèse Casgrain." The Golden Strings. 35-47. Toronto : Griffin House, 1973.

Demers, Patricia ed. Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis: Pioneer Journalist of the Canadian West. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2013.

Dodd, Dianne. “Canadian Historic Sites and Plaques: Heroines, Trailblazers, The Famous Five,” CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship 6. 2 (Summer 2009), n.p. Online.

Duffin, Jacalyn. “The death of Sarah Lovell and the constrained feminism of Emily Stowe,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 146 (January–June 1992): 881–88. 

Fast, Vera K. “Jessie Turnbull.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography: Volume XIV, 1911-1920. Eds. Ramsay Cook and Jean Hamelin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998.

Ferguson, Ted. Kit Coleman, Queen of Hearts. Toronto: Doubleday, 1978. Print.

Findlay, Clare May. “The Honourable Irene Parlby.” Master’s Thesis, University of Alberta, 1953.

Forget, Nicolle. Thérèse Casgrain. La Gauchiste en Collier de Perles. Préface de Monique Bégin. Montréal : Fides, 2013.

Forster, Merna. 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2004.

Freeman, Barbara M. Kit’s Kingdom: The Journalism of Kathleen Blake Coleman. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1989. Print.

Freeman, Barbara M. “Ferguson, Catherine, Kit Coleman.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, vol 14. Toronto: University of Toronto/Universite Laval, 1998. Online.

Fryer, Mary Beacock. Emily Stowe: Doctor and Suffragist. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990.

Gillett, Margaret. "Carrie Derick (1862-1941) and the Chair of Botany at McGill." Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science. Ed Marianne Ainley. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1990.

Goldsborough, Gordon. “Lillian Beynon Thomas” Memorable Manitobans, Manitoba Historical Society {http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/thomas_lb.shtml}

Gray, Charlotte. Extraordinary Canadians Nellie McClung. Toronto, Penguin Canada, 2008.

Guildford, Janet. “Edith Jessie Archibald: Ardent Feminist and Conservative Reformer.” Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society 11 (2008): 110–33.

Hacker, Carlotta. E. Cora Hind. Don Mills, Ont.: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1979.

Hacker, Carlotta. The Indomitable Lady Doctors. 1974; Halifax, NS: Formac Publishing, 2001.

Haig, Kennethe M. Brave Harvest: The Life Story of E. Cora Hind. Toronto: Thomas Allen, Ltd., 1945.

Hallett, Mary and Marilyn Davis, Firing the Heather: The Life and Times of Nellie McClung Saskatoon, SK: Fifth House, 1993.

Hancock, Carol L. No Small Legacy. Winfield, BC: Wood Lake Books, 1986.

Hart, Anne. "Prominent Figures from our Recent Past: Armine Gosling." Newfoundland Quarterly 83,3 (1988): 19-20. 

Hawkins, R. E. "Lillian Beynon Thomas, Woman's Suffrage, and the Return of Dower to Manitoba." Manitoba Law Journal 27.1 (1999-2000): 45-114.

Hicks, Anne. “Introduction.” Aleta Dey. London: Virago, 1988. *Biographical info on Beynon.

Howard, Irene, The Struggle for Social Justice in British Columbia: Helena Gutteridge, the Unknown Reformer. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1992.

Innis, Mary Quayle. The Clear Spirit: Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966.

James, Donna. Emily Murphy. Toronto : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2001.

Johnston, Susan J. “Hussey, Florence Sarah.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14. University of Toronto/Université Laval, 1998.

Johnson, Sigrid, “Margret Benedictsson, Freyja and the Struggle for Women’s Equality.” The Icelandic Canadian. (Spring 1994): 117-127.

Johnstone, Tiffany. “A New Woman of the Canadian West: E. Cora Hind (1861-1942).” Woman Suffrage and Beyond: Confronting the Democratic Deficit. (21 April 2013). Web.

Karamitsanis, Aphrodite. “Emily Murphy : Portrait of a Social Reformer”. Master’s Thesis, University of Alberta, 1991.

Kirkland, Elizabeth. "Mothering Citizens: Elite Women in Montreal, 1890--1914." PhD dissertation, McGill University, 2011.

Kome, Penney. Women of Influence: Canadian Women and Politics. Toronto: Doubleday, 1985.

LaFramboise, Lisa. “Miriam Green Ellis (1881-1964).” The Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996. Ed. Kathryn Carter. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 301-322.

Lamoureux, Diane. «Idola Saint-Jean et le Radicalisme Féministe de L'entre-deux-guerres», Recherches Féministes 4.2 (1991) : 45-60.

Lazarus, Morden. "Marie Thérèse Casgrain 1896-1981." Six Women Who Dared. 25-28, 38. Toronto: CPA Publishers, 1983.

Leonard, John William. Woman’s Who’s Who of America : A Bibliographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. New York: The American Commonwealth Company, 1914.

Lévesque, Andrée. Éva Circé-Côté. Libre penseuse, 1871-1949. Montréal: Remue-ménage, 2010.

McCallum, Margaret. Emily StoweI. Toronto: Grollier, 1989.

MacEwan, Grant. “Cora Hind: Voice of the Agricultural West.” Mighty Women: Stories of Western Canadian Pioneers. 100-110. Vancouver: Greystone Books Ltd., 1995.

MacEwan, Grant. "Henrietta Muir Edwards: The lady and the Law". In And Mighty Women Too: Stories of Notable Western Canadian Women. 26-32. Saskatoon, SK: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1975.

MacEwan, Grant. “Jessie Turnbull McEwen: The Lady of Tullichewen.” In And Mighty Women Too: Stories of Notable Western Canadian Women. 59-66. Saskatoon, SK: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1975.

McKenna, Katherine M. J. "E. Cora Hind’s Feminist Thought: “The Woman’s Quiet Hour” in the Western Home Monthly, 1905–1922." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 22.1 (2011): 69-98.

McLaren, Sheryl Ann Stotts. "Becoming Indispensable: A Biography of Elizabeth Smith Shortt (1859--1949)." PhD dissertation, York University, 2002.

MacPherson, Margaret. Nellie McClung: Voice for the Voiceless. Montreal: XYZ Publishing, 2003.

Manitoba Historic Resources Branch. E. Cora Hind. Manitoba: Department of Cultural Affairs and Historical Resources, 1982.

Mason, Helen. Settlement of the West: Cora Hind, Journalist. Toronto: Grolier Limited, 1990.

Morgan, Susan. Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of The King and I Governess. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. *Anna Leonowens

Munnings, Gladys. "Thérèse Casgrain." Canadian Women of Distinction: Emily Ferguson Murphy, Agnes Campbell, Thérèse Casgrain, Molly (Mary) Brant, FrancesAnne [sic] Hopkins. 17-24. Newmarket, Ont.: Quaker Press, 1993.

Owen, Michael. “‘Do women really count?’: Emily Spencer Kerby – early twentieth century Alberta feminist,” Canadian Methodist Hist. Soc., Papers ([Toronto]), 10 ([1993–94]): 170–87.

Peach, Leroy. "The Legacy of Edith Jessie Archibald" on Work Through Time: Cape Breton Stories of Land and Sea, Society of Cape Breton County (Web, 2009) {http://www.workthroughtime.ca/Professional/Related/Edith_Jessie_Archibald.ph}

Pelletier-Baillargeon, Hélène. Marie Gérin Lajoie: De mère en fille, la cause des femmes. Montréal: Boréal Express, 1985.

Rasmussen, Linda, Lorna Rasmussen, Candace Savage and Anne Wheeler, eds. A Harvest Yet to Reap: A History of Prairie Women. Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1976.

Ray, Janet. Emily Stowe. Don Mills, Ont.: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1978.

Roberts, Barbara. A Reconstructed World: A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s Universiy Press, 1996.

Roberts, Wayne. “Six New Women: A Guide to the Mental Map of Women Reformers in Toronto.” Atlantis 3.1 (1977): 145-64.

Roome, Patricia Anne. “”From One Whose Home is Among the Indians”: Henrietta Muir Edwards and Aboriginal Peoples.” In Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West through Women’s History. Ed. Sarah Carter, Lesley Erickson, Patricia Roome, and Char Smith. 47- 78. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005.

Roome, Patricia Anne. Henrietta Muir Edwards : The Journey of a Canadian Feminist. PhD Dissertation, Simon Fraser University, 1996.

Sanders, Brynne Hope. Emily Murphy: Crusader: "Janey Canuck". Toronto: Macmillan, 1945.

Savage, Candace. Our Nell: A Scrapbook Biography of Nellie L. McClung. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1979.

Sicotte, Anne-Marie. Marie Gérin-Lajoie, Conquérante de Liberté. Montréal : Remue-ménage, 2005.

Smith, K. "Dr. Augusta Stowe-Gullen: A Pioneer of Social Conscience." Canadian Medical Association Journal 126.12 (1982): 1465-7.

Stanbridge, Joanne. Emily Stowe: Canada’s First Woman Doctor. Don Mills, Ont.: Pearson Education Canada, 2005.

Strong-Boag, Veronica. "Canadian Feminism in the 1920s: The Case of Nellie McClung." Journal of Canadian Studies 12 (Summer 1977): 58-68.

Strong- Boag, Victoria. “Ever a Crusader: Nellie McClung, First Wave Feminist.” In Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. Second Edition. Edited by Veronica Strong- Boag and Anita Clair Fellman. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991: 308-21.

Taylor, Georgina M. “‘Ground for Common Action’: Violet McNaughton’s Agrarian Feminism and the Origins of the Farm Women’s Movement in Canada,” Ph.D. dissertation, Carleton University, 1997.

Taylor, Georgina M. “‘Let Us Co-operate’: Violet McNaughton and the Co-operative Ideal.” Pp. 57–78 in B. Fairbairn and I. MacPherson, eds. Co-operatives in the Year 2000: Memory, Mutual Aid, and the Millennium. Saskatoon: Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan, 2000.

Thomas, Lillian Beynon. “Some Manitoba Women Who Did First Things.” Transactions of the Historical and Scientific Study of Manitoba 3.4 (1947-8): 13-25.

Thompson, Joanne Emily. “The Influence of Dr. Emily Howard Stowe on the Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada.” Ontario History 54.4(December 1962): 253-66.

Warne, Randi. Literature as Pupit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie L. McClung. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred University Press, 1993.

Waxman, Sydell. Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe. Toronto: Napoleon Publishing, 1996.

Whelan, Gloria. “Maria Grant, 1854-1937: The Life and Times of an Early Twentieth Century Christian.” In In Her Own Right: Selected Essays on Women’s History in BC. P#. Barbara Latham and Cathy Kess, eds. Victoria: Camosun College, 1980.

White, Anne, Ed. A New Day for Women: Life and Writings of Emily Spencer Kerby. Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta, 2004.

White, Anne. “Emily Spencer Kerby: pioneer clubwoman, educator, and activist,” Alberta Hist. (Calgary), 46 (1998), no.3: 2–9.

White, Anne. “Spencer, Emily (Kerby),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003.

Yorke, Lois K. “Edwards, Anna Harriette.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 14. University of Toronto/Université Laval, 1998. Web.