the year 1876 Dr. Emily H. Stowe--graduated in New
York--settled in Toronto for the practice of her profession.
Thoroughly imbued with the principles roughly summed up in the
term "woman's rights," and finding that her native Canada was not
awake to the importance of the subject, she lectured in the
principal towns of Ontario on "Woman's Sphere and Woman in
Medicine." By reason of the agitation caused by these lectures a
Woman's Literary Club[534] was organized in Toronto with Dr.
Stowe, president, and Miss Helen Archibald, secretary. The
triumphs scored through the efforts of this club were the
admission of women to the University College and School of
Medicine of Toronto, Queen's University and the Royal Medical
School of Kingston, and the founding of a medical school for
women in each city. When the municipal franchise was granted to
women the club decided to come out boldly as a suffrage
organization. Accordingly by resolution the Toronto Woman's
Literary Club was dissolved and the Canadian Woman Suffrage
Association[535] formed, March 9, 1883.

McGill University at Montreal has an annex for women founded
through the munificence of one of the merchants of that
city.----Dalhousie College, Halifax, admits women on the same
footing as men. The Toronto _Mail_ says it is only a question of
time when all Canadian colleges will do the same thing.----In
1883 the provincial legislature of Nova Scotia gave duly
qualified women the right to vote, and they exercised it very
generally the following year.----In New Brunswick the old laws
and prejudices remain, but woman suffrage has its friends and
advocates in Mrs. E. W. Fisher and Mr. and Mrs. W. Frank Hathaway
of St. Johns.----In 1885 the Mount Allison Methodist College at
Sackville, N. B., conferred the degree of M. A. on Miss Harriet
Stewart. This is the first instance of an educational institution
in the Dominion conferring such an honor upon a lady.

FOOTNOTES:

[534] _The Ballot-Box_ in 1880 said: "_The Citizen_ of Toronto,
Ont., has established a 'Ladies' Column' under the auspices of the
Toronto Woman's Literary Club, the first ladies' club ever formed
in Canada. This club has been in existence four years. _The
Citizen_ is said to be the first Canadian paper devoted, even in
part, to woman's interest. Heading t