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Macphail was born on March 24, 1890. Photo by Rob Gowan The Sun Times / Postmedia Network Grey County council has voted down a motion to declare March 24 Agnes Macphail Day, with some of those who ...
Macphail, who got into politics to represent farmers in the area, was the first member of a Canadian delegation to the League of Nations and was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth ...
News Release March 23, 2025 Today, the City of Toronto and Mayor Olivia Chow honoured Jason Ash, a dedicated Thorncliffe Park community leader, as the 2025 recipient of the Agnes Macphail Award. Ash ...
Others offered alternative name suggestions for the second twin, including Emily - after the first female doctor in Canada, Emily Stowe - or Agnes, after Agnes Macphail, the first woman elected to ...
Alternative suggestions were also offered to the mother for the second twin, such as Emily - inspired by Canada's first female doctor, Emily Stowe - or Agnes, in tribute to Agnes Macphail, the ...
Yuan Yi Zhu: Debunking the myth of the Persons Case Contrary to popular belief, females were already considered persons by 1929. The story of women's suffrage in Canada is far more complex ...
In 1936, Agnes MacPhail, a forty-six-year-old member of parliament (MP), representing Grey-Bruce, Ontario, found herself included in a roster of traveling lecturers managed by an agency in New York.
Begum said she nominated Sharipova for the 2023 Agnes Macphail Award because she saw how hard she worked to provide people, especially children with autism, opportunities they would not have had ...
Dr. Shakhlo Sharipova, who founded the Thorncliffe Park Autism Support Network (TPASN), has been named this year’s Agnes Macphail Award winner. The city’s annual Agnes Macphail Award is presented to ...
The Agnes Macphail Award Selection Committee for the 2023 Agnes Macphail Award has extended the time for receiving nominations to noon (12 pm) on Monday, January 23, 2023 (formerly midnight on January ...