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A quick search for Lockhart’s name reveals that she earned a Bachelor’s degree in sciences and English literature in 1875 from Mount Allison University, the first for any woman in the British Empire. This is where biographical entries on Lockhart end, because very little is known of her life after graduation.
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Jenny (Jennie) Trout: A StoryMap
“I hope to live to see the day when each larger town (at least) in Ontario will have one good true lady physician working in His name.”
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Canadian Women in STEM
This StoryMap highlights the remarkable contributions of 29 pioneering Canadian women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring a chronological overview of women born between 1831 and 1914, it celebrates significant advancements across disciplines such as medicine, physics, chemistry, geology, and engineering.
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Black Canadian Women in the Field of Medicine
This StoryMap features Black Canadian women, historical and current, who have made their mark in the field of medicine in North America. These women may have met with rejection, obstacles, and discrimination but the one thing they all had was determination; and that made them into trailblazers whose legacies have made an indelible imprint in Canada’s medical landscape.
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Margaret Ecker
Journalism in the early 20th century was not an easy career path for women. Social rules and etiquette dictated that a woman not concern herself with “troubling news” of death or politics. In the face of this gender-based discrimination, Canadian newspaper reporter Margaret Ecker rebelled against restrictions placed on her movements and built a place for herself in the field of journalism.
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