Nellie McClung

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Nellie McClung
By Katrin
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Introduction

• Made a big impact to women
• Helped women have a right to vote
• Along with four other women, she helped women
  become treated as a person
• Became known as the Famous Five
• persons case a success and a turning point

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Personal Life

• Born on Oct. 20th of 1873
• Often called Windy Nell, Calamity Nell, The
  Hyena in Petticoats and Holy Terrror
• Motto- never retract, never explained, never
  apologize-get this thing done and let them howl
• Became known as the Holy Terror because of
  motto
• part of the Famous Five
• Included Henritta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney,
  Irene Palby and Emily Murphy
• Died in Victoria, British Columbia on Sep. 1 of
  1951

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Family

• Letitia McCurdy Mooney is her mother
• John Mooney is her father
• Family moved to Manitoba to find better farmland
• Siblings are Will, George, Jack, Elizibeth, and
  Hannah
• Nellie the curious one while growing up
• Lizzie died of pneumonia

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Family

• Aug. 25, married Robert Wesley McClung
• Married at age 23
• Children are Jack, Florence, Horace and Mark
• Marriage to Robert was a happy one
• Annie E. McClung is her mother-inlaw
• Says that shes the most ideal mother-in-law
• Annie influenced her to write books and to talk
  to large groups

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Career

• Led the compaign to give women the right to vote
  on Jan of 1914
• Convinced government that women should be allowed
  to vote
• Women in Manitoba were first to vote in Canada
• Oct. 29 of 1929 council ruled that the word
  persons now reffered to both men and women
• Invloved in social reform and Womens Christian
  Temperance Union
• Had to do with social and health problems caused
  by alcohol

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Career

• Made sixteen books
• First novel is Sowing Seeds In Danny
• Sold over 100 000 copies
• Wrote hundreds of short stories, articles and
  columns
• Wrote articles in many Canadian and American
  magazines

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Education

• Went to school at age ten
• Attended Normal School in Winnipeg
• Started teaching at age sixteen
• Gave up teaching career when married to Robert
  Wesley Mclung

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Interesting Facts

• Aug. 29 of 1873 an eight cent stamp went on sale
• House still stands today
• Oct. 18 of 1999 a statue of the Famous Five was
  put up in Calgary
• Nellie McClung Girls Junior High was named after
  her

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Conclusion

• Chose Nellie because when I read her biography,
  seemed important and I wanted to learn more
  information about her
• Learned her personal life, family life, education
  and career
• Most important thing learned was she helped women
  have a right to vote
• Impact that she made was helped women all over
  Canada have a right to vote

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Bibliography

• Woodlock, George, 100 Great Canadians, Edmonton,
  Hurtig,1980
• McDemott, Barb and McKeown, Gail, Famous
  Canadians From Ontario, Canada, Reidmore Books,
  1999
• Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, Standard, 2001,
  McClung, Nellie
• Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, 1993,
  McClung, Nellie
• Nellie Letitia Mooney McClung, 2002,
  www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/12/h12-304-e.html, 01-07-03
• Life and Times, January 18, 2000,
  www.tv.cbc.ca/lifeandtimes/bio1999/mcclung.htm,
  01-15-03
• The University Of Manitoba Press, Manitoba Author
  Publication Index, February 7, 2003,
  www.mbwriter.mb.ca/mapindex/m-profiles/hist-mcclun
  g.html, 01-23-03