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I'm doing a really big project on Emiy Stowe for the national heritage fair project in Canada!. I have all of the basic info!. do you know any that could be useful!? Or any sites that include info about her!? Do you have ideas for the project!? if you can help me with any of these questions it woud be highy appreciated!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (May 1, 1831-April 30, 1903), a path-breaking Canadian woman physician and suffragist, led campaigns to provide women access to medical schools and other professional education!. Her efforts led to the organization of the woman's movement in Canada and to the foundation of a medical college for women!.

Emily was born on a farm in Norwich, Upper Canada (later Canada West, and then, Ontario), the first of six daughters of Hannah Howard and Solomon Jennings!. Solomon became a Methodist, though the rest of the family remained Quaker!. In the Quaker tradition of education for women, Hannah had attended a co-educational boarding school in Providence, Rhode Island!. She is thought to have been a midwife and healer!.

In 1846, Emily, who had been educated at home by her mother, became a teacher at a one-room schoolhouse in nearby Summerville, Canada West!. She taught at various area schools for seven years, receiving, like other women teachers at that time, half of the salary accorded to men!. During 1853-54 Emily attended the recently built Provincial Normal School in Toronto, Canada West, the only advanced school open to women in British North America!. She graduated with a First Class Certificate!. She then worked for the Brantford School Board, 1854-56, perhaps the first woman appointed principal of a public school in Canada West!.

Emily married carpenter and carriagemaker John Stowe in 1856!. She left teaching and moved to his community of Mount Pleasant, south of Brantford!. Their three children, Ann Augusta, John Howard, and Frank Jennings, were born between 1857 and 1863!. After John was diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitorium, Emily resumed teaching to support her family, but found it economically unrewarding!. Influenced by her Quaker upbringing and having learned homeopathic medicine in the 1840s from a family friend, in 1863 she decided to become a doctor!. While she studied, her sister Cornelia cared for the Stowe children and household, just as Quaker women once did for married women who went on preaching journeys!. Www@QuestionHome@Com