Nominated by: Paul Armstrong

Why E. Cora Hind should be a Great Manitoban:

Claim to fame: Agricultural expert, newspaper pioneer

Manitoba dosage: 4

Fast Facts: Western Canada's first female journalist...Agricultural editor for the Winnipeg Free Press from 1901-37...Her yield estimates for Canada's wheat were so accurate, they influenced world markets...In 1909, she missed by only 0.5 percent on a 118,719,000 bushel crop...Upon her death in 1942, Mackenzie King proclaimed her "one of the greatest of Canadian women"...Terrorized editors.

2 Comments

• Not J. W. Dafoe who was the one who hired her!

  Posted by: Donna Wilkins | 2008-06-27 07:52:32

• Working woman before her time. Feminist, social activist, working for political equality alongside Dr. Amelia Yeomanns and Lillian Beynon Thomas (who should also have been nominated). One wonderful tough broad who stood up for her principles and the ordinary working woman.

  Posted by: Elisabeth Kunkel | 2008-07-09 10:06:21

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