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henrietta edwards
Title: henrietta edwards
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henrietta edwards
HENRIETTA MUIR EDWARDS
Born in Montreal on December 18, 1849, Henrietta Muir Edwards was one of Alberta's
"Famous Five Women". She began her fight for woman's rights at her home in Montreal with
her sister. Here she founded the Working Girls' Club, which offered meals, reading rooms and
study classes, in 1875. Henrietta and her sister then published the periodical, known as the
"Working Women of Canada". They paid the costs of publishing the paper by depriving
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…showed last 75 words of 418 total…Policy. She told
the government more then they wanted to know when she said, "war or no war there should be a
Department of Public Health and a Department of Child Welfare".
Henrietta Muir Edwards died at Fort McCloed on November 10, 1931. In her honor two
plaques were erected in her honor. The first plaque is located at the entrance to the Senate
Chamber in Ottawa and the other at the post office in Fort McCloed.
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