Education
University of Toronto.
University of Toronto.
The family farm was in the Huron Tract on lot 10, concession 1, in the township of Tuckersmith, one mile north of what is now Hensall, Ontario. She initially became a teacher. She started saving so that she could attend Kingston’s Ontario Medical College for Women (which was absorbed into the University of Toronto’s medical school in 1906).
She graduated in 1909 but no hospital in Toronto would take her for her residency so she had to attend Philadelphia"s Women"s Medical College.
In 1911, she returned to Canada and was the first woman in Canada to perform surgery. She was also the first woman to do major gynecological surgery in Canada.
She died in a nursing home in 1981 at the age of 103 and is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.