Nellie mcclung biography

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    Overview


    This lektion is based on viewing the Heritage Minute, "Nellie McClung," Nellie McClung was an important advocate of women's rights and suffrage. As a result of her campaigning, Manitoba became the first Canadian province to give women the vote in

    Aims


    Studying the life of Nellie McClung will provide students with an understanding of the concepts about "appropriate" gender roles that existed in her time and in ours. Students will also examine how McClung challenged these notions.


    The "Nellie McClung" Heritage Minute will provide students with a starting point to conduct further research into McClung's life and career, as well as the suffrage movement in Canada. Students will stage a "mock parliament," similar to the one that McClung staged, and they will research when women and people with various ethnic origins were granted the right to vote in Canada.

    Activities


    1. A different world


    Nellie McClung grew up in a time

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        Nellie McClung  

     

    Born: October 20, , Chatsworth, Ontario

    Died: September 1, , Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

     

    Biographical Note:

    Nellie (Mooney) McClung was an adult educator for women's rights, one of "The Famous Five," author of 15 books, suffragist, social reformer, lecturer, and legislator.

    Nellie's teaching, writing, and public speaking abilities were all utilized to improve the rights of Canadian women. Her passion for women's rights, activist nature, Christian faith, and sense of duty, blended well with the social and moral reform movements arising in the West. Rural life, the plight of immigrants, conditions in cities and factories, the movements for prohibition and women's suffrage, World War I, the Depression, and World War II, provided the historical context.

    Nellie was born in in Ontario, before her family moved to Manitoba in as pioneer homesteaders. In she married Wes McClung and they had

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    Nellie McClung

    Canadian author, activist, suffragist and politician (–)

    Nellie Letitia McClung (née&#;Mooney; 20 October &#;&#; 1 September ) was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the book Sowing Seeds in Danny, and would eventually publish sixteen books, including two autobiographies. She played a leading role in the women's suffrage movement in Canada, helping to grant women the vote in Alberta and Manitoba in McClung was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in , where she served until

    As a member of the Famous Five, she was one of five women who took the Persons Case first to the Supreme Court of Canada, and then to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, for the right of women to serve in the Senate of Canada. McClung was the first woman appointed to the board of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in She served as a delegate to the

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