E. CORA HIND

During this time Cora and Aunt Alice became involved in The Women's Christian Temperance Union. Cora and Dr. Amelia Yeomans formed the Manitoba Equal Suffrage Club. Their motto was, "Peace on Earth goodwill toward men." Together with clergy, businessmen and politicans, they improved the conditions of Winnipeg. Cora and Dr. Yeomans worked especially hard to improve the lives of women and the poor. They spoke against working conditions in clothing factories and living conditions in prisons. Cora was a founding member of The Winnipeg Women's Press Club.

Cora believed agriculture was a business and was the first journalist to write about it as such. She was involved in several rural organizations as well as the suffrage movement. Along with Nellie McClung and Lillian Beynon Thomas, she helped to form the Political Equality League. This league campaigned for women's rights to vote, which were granted in 1916.

Cora was guest speaker at the founding convention of the Saskatchewan Homemakers Club in 1911. Her speech encouraged women to be active and to make use of "labor saving devices."

Cora was honored for her contributions to agriculture by the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists, The Wool Growers of Manitoba and The Western Canada Livestock Union. She was presented with an honorary LLD degree by the University of Manitoba.

After Cora died in 1942, the United Grain Growers created the Cora Hind Fellowship for research in agriculture. The Cora Hind Scholarship in home economics was created by the "Free Press."

Cora left behind a great legacy. She wrote, "The usual statement is that I am a remarkable woman because I can do it; the implication is that the average woman is too dumb to succeed at a man's task and I resent that implication, for it is false."

To see a photo of Cora Hind, use the link below.

http://library.usask.ca/herstory/agricu....

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