Much has been written about the first women doctors of Canada, and especially Ontario’s Emily Howard Stowe, the first woman to practice medicine in Canada, and her daughter August Stowe Gullen, Canada’s female first medical school graduate.

In fact, Maclean’s magazine did a feature on Stowe and Canada’s women doctors way back in 1910. The pioneer feminist rose to fame in Canada in the 1970’s as this Google ngram clearly reveals. More