Sources Encyclopedia Canadiana Online (Accessed 2000) : The Indomitable Women Doctors by Carlotta Hacker, (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1974)
Research Facts
Emily Stowe was the mother of Augusta Stowe Gullen; accepted by the Academy of Medicine in the 1930s.
Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings). Born Norwich, Upper Canada (Ontario) May 1,1831. Died April 30,1903. She taught school when she was quite young. It was not until 1854 that she had attended and graduated from Normal School. That same year she was appointed Principal at Brantford Public School. This was the first appointment of a woman to such a position in Canada. However Emily really only wanted to save money from her teaching so that she could afford to attend medical school. With no Canadian institution allowing women to study medicine she studied in the United States and in 1868 became the only Canadian woman to practice medicine in Canada.
Emily was a life long champion of women’s rights. She organized the Women’s Medical College in Toronto in 1883. She was also founder and first president of the Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association in 1889.