Lillian Beynon Thomas, Woman's Suffrage and the Return of Dower to Manitoba
Lillian Beynon Thomas, Woman's Suffrage and the Return of Dower to Manitoba R.E. HAWKINS* I. INTRODUCTION: PRAIRIE PRESSWOMAN 1999 CanLIIDocs 127 N 5 MARCH 1910, THE MANITOBA FREE PRESS ran a reprint of a feature Oarticle that had appeared two weeks earlier in the New York Herald under the headline, "Winnipeg, Grainspout of the World's Granary—The Magic City of the Great Northwest, which Expects to Wrest Commercial Supremacy from Buffalo and Duluth and Even Chicago Itself."' Manitoba historian W.L. Morton called the 1900-1912 period in the province's history "The Great Boom."' It was a boom built on four pillars: immigration—the population of Winnipeg quadrupled, swelling from 42,300 inhabitants in 1901 to 166,553 in 1912;3 Professor of Law, University of Western Ontario; Dean of Arts, St. Francis Xavier Univer- sity I would like to thank Marianne Welch, Reference Librarian, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, the Provincial Archives of Manitoba (P.A.M.), Josephine 'Beynon' Boos of Barrie, Ontario, and Dr. and Mrs. M.J. Snidal of Winnipeg, Manitoba, for all their re- search assistance. Dr. Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, who first introduced me to Manitoba dower history. Dean Peter Neary, Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario, Dr. Rande Kostal, Faculty of Law, Univer- sity of Western Ontario, and Dr. DeLloyd Guth, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, all of who provided helpful comments. Manitoba Free Press (5March 1910) 21-22 [hereinafter Free Press]. 2 W.L. Morton, Manitoba A History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967) at c.
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