Augusta Stowe-Gullen

Ann Augusta Stowe-Gullen, was a Canadian medical doctor, lecturer and suffragist. She was born in Mount Pleasant, Ontario as the daughter of Emily Howard Stowe and John Fiuscia Michael Heward Stowe. A plaque regarding her work can be found in Brant County, Ontario.

Medical career

She is best known for being the first woman to graduate from a Canadian medical school in 1883. This made Emily and Augusta the first mother-daughter medical team in Canada. Her appeal to Dr. Barrett and other medical people led to the establishment of the Ontario Medical College for Women.
She also had a notable career teaching medical topics at the Ontario Medical College for Women. She was a member of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, a founder of the National Council of Women and a member of the Senate of the University of Toronto among important roles she carried out during her lifetime. In 1935 she was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.

She was elected a trustee on the Toronto Board of Education in 1892, serving until 1896. Toronto allowed women to run for the Board of Education long before Ontario allowed this elsewhere.
Stowe-Gullen also helped her mother establish what would later be called Women's College Hospital.
A leading figure in the suffrage movement, she succeeded her mother as president of the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association in 1903.
She is known for her quotation "When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever."
She died at her home in Toronto on September 25, 1943.