Emily Stowe Emily Howard Jennings is a true Canadian heroine. Fortunately she was born in Quaker community that saw women as equals. Emily received a good education and became a very successful teacher. Despite her achievements Emily wanted much more. Emily learned about homeopathic medicine from Dr. Joseph Lancaster and with the support of her husband, John Stowe, she decided to try a new career. When she tried to get in the Toronto School of …
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…and humiliate them. Unfortunately, Emily failed and went back to practicing without a license. Emily became one of Canada's leading feminists. She founded one of the earliest female suffrage groups and was instrumental in the mock parliament of 1896 where a parliament of women, using all of the arguments men had used against them, refused to give men the vote. She helped found the Women's Medical College in Toronto in 1883. In 1903 Emily Howard Jennings Stowe died.