henrietta edwards

HENRIETTA MUIR EDWARDS Born in Montreal on December 18, 1849, Henrietta Muir Edwards was one of Alberta's "Famous Five Women". She began her fight for woman's rights at her home in Montreal with her sister. Here she founded the Working Girls' Club, which offered meals, reading rooms and study classes, in 1875. Henrietta and her sister then published the periodical, known as the "Working Women of Canada". They paid the costs of publishing the paper by depriving themselves …

…Policy. She told the government more then they wanted to know when she said, "war or no war there should be a Department of Public Health and a Department of Child Welfare". Henrietta Muir Edwards died at Fort McCloed on November 10, 1931. In her honor two plaques were erected in her honor. The first plaque is located at the entrance to the Senate Chamber in Ottawa and the other at the post office in Fort McCloed.