Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney (October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. She was also the grandmother of outspoken Alberta judge John McClung.
Born in Chatsworth, Ontario in 1873, and later moved with her family to a homestead in the Souris Valley of Manitoba. Between 1904 and 1...
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Nellie McClung, born Nellie Letitia Mooney (October 20, 1873 - September 1, 1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. She was also the grandmother of outspoken Alberta judge John McClung.
Born in Chatsworth, Ontario in 1873, and later moved with her family to a homestead in the Souris Valley of Manitoba. Between 1904 and 1911, Nellie McClung, and her husband Wesley; who was a druggist and their family of five children resided in Manitou, Manitoba. The women’s rights movement in Winnipeg embraced her. An effective speaker with a sense of humour, she played a leading role in the successful Liberal campaign in 1914.. She lived in the West for the rest of her life in Manitou, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Victoria. The Manitou house in which McClung and her family lived in has been re-located to the Archibald Historical Museum in La Riviere, Manitoba where it...
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