Portal:Toronto Women's Press Club

Local chapter of the Canadian Women's Press Club, active from 1909 to 1995.

Toronto Women's Press Club

Works

Members

Founding members

  • Kathleen Blake Coleman of the Mail and Empire, Toronto
  • "Francoise" Barry of La Journal de Francoise, Montreal
  • Kate Simpson Hayes, 'Mary Markwell" of the Manitoba Free Press, Winnipeg
  • Mary Adelaide Dawson of the Telegram, Toronto
  • Irene Currie Love, of the Advertiser, London, Ontario
  • Katherine Hughes, of the Bulletin, Edmonton
  • Alice Asselin of La Nationalist, Montreal
  • Margaret Graham of the Press, Ottawa
  • A. Madeleine Gleason of La Patrie, Montreal
  • Marie Beaupre of La Press, Montreal
  • Grace E. Dension of Saturday Night
  • "Peggy" Balmer Watt of the Sentinel Review, Woodstock
  • A. (Amintha) Plouffe of Le Journal, Montreal

Other notable members

  • Francis Beynon, editor of women’s pages of The Grain Growers’ Guide
  • Lillian Beynon
  • Cora Hind, agriculture editor of the Manitoba Free Press
  • Lily Laverock, secretary and treasurer of the first Vancouver branch
  • Nellie McClung
  • Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • Emmeline Pankhurst
  • Emily Murphy
  • Byrne Hope Sanders
  • Marshall Saunders
  • Miriam Green Ellis
  • Doris Anderson
  • Charlotte Whitton