Homegrown doodler gets around ‘everywhere’
Mabou’s Beaton on Google with cartoon of Canadian suffragist Henrietta Edwards
DAVENE JEFFREY STAFF REPORTER
djeffrey@herald.ca @CH-davene
A Nova Scotia-born cartoonist’s work swept across the country Thursday when it popped up as the daily Google Doodle.
“It’s totally cool. It’s something everyone sees," artist Kate Beaton said in a telephone interview Thursday evening.
The world’s most popular search engine contacted her earlier this fall about doing a drawing for their daily doodle for Canada, Beaton said.
“The nicest thing is that I’m the one they thought of."
She describes her work as a mixed bag featuring history jokes, literary jokes and pop culture.
Google had wanted to do something to celebrate a woman in Canadian history.
Initially, they thought of using the image of suffragette Nellie McClung, but she was eventually ruled out because of her controversial support of eugenics.
“It’s important to take the bad with the good when you are celebrating people," Beaton said.
However, they settled on wellknown female rights advocate Henrietta Edwards.
In Beaton’s drawing, Edwards is dressed in period clothing leading a group of marching women and carrying a banner that proclaims women’s rights as townspeople look on in surprise and consternation.
Beaton was born and raised in Mabou, Inverness County. But she’s an internationally acclaimedcartoonist; her work has been featured in the New Yorker and she has been a New York Times bestseller.
Still, the doodle drew a lot of attention Thursday. Beaton said she has been inundated with messages on Facebook, emails and messages on her website.
Back home in Cape Breton, Beaton said people were stopping at the bank where her mother works to say they had seen the doodle.“It’s everywhere, although it’s only everywhere for one day," Beaton said.
She won’t say how much she was paid for the drawing, but she said it was worth it.
“They pay decently, they sure do. . . . It’s a good gig if you can get it."
Currently, Beaton is also working on a children’s picture book for Scholastic, and she’s getting ready to release another collection of comics with Drawn & Quarterly next summer.
She has lived in many places, but Toronto has been her home base for the past couple of years.
“There’s a great community of artists here."
Also, her publishers are nearby.
Still, Beaton said she can get teary when looking at pictures of home.
Fortunately, she won’t be homesick for long.
Besides being busy fielding press interviews and accepting congratulations on her doodle Thursday, Beaton said she has also been rushing around getting ready to head home to Cape Breton for Christmas on Saturday.
It’s totally cool. It’s something everyone sees.
Kate Beaton
Kate Beaton created Thursday’s Google doodle marking the 165th birthday of Henrietta Edwards.
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Henrietta Muir Edwards
Henrietta Muir Edwards, a modern woman, used her determination, perseverance and dedication to help improve the plight of the women of her time. Throughout her career, her concerns were transformed into direct involvement in women's rights.
Born in Montreal in 1849, in her early years Henrietta Louise Muir developed an interest in women helping women. Raised in an affluent, cultured and religious family, Henrietta joined the women's movement, becoming actively involved in different religious organizations and coming face-to-face with the injustices of old traditions, where the exclusion of women was widely accepted. In Canada, the United States and Europe, she pursued studies in the field of arts, which strengthened her determination to ensure recognition for women in activities to which little consideration had previously been given.
Her involvement in women's causes took root in Montreal, where, in 1875, she and her sister Amélia founded the Working Girls' Association (the precursor to the YWCA). During the same era, she launched the first Canadian magazine for working women, aptly entitled Working Woman of Canada, which she and her sister edited. She financed the magazine with the proceeds from her artwork, which consisted of paintings and miniatures. Following her marriage to Dr. Oliver C. Edwards and the birth of their three children, the Edwards family moved to Saskatchewan. There, Henrietta discovered her true passion for women's rights, and became even more involved in feminist organizations.
In 1893, Henrietta Muir Edwards, together with Lady Aberdeen, founded the National Council of Women, and for nearly 35 years served as chair for Laws Governing Women and Children. Also in collaboration with Lady Aberdeen, she founded the Victorian Order of Nurses and was appointed chair of the Provincial Council of Alberta, serving in this capacity for many years. Throughout these experiences, Henrietta Muir Edwards championed many of the accomplishments of different feminist organizations and was an avid supporter of equal grounds for divorce, reform of the prison system, and allowances for women. Her major contribution to the review of provincial and federal laws relating to women earned her a reputation for knowing more about laws affecting women than even the chief justice of Canada.
In 1927, she joined forces with Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby to sign a petition requesting that the Supreme Court of Canada reinterpret the law concerning the term "person" in the British North America Act. It was not until October 18, 1929, after taking their cause to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, that a reversal of the Supreme Court decision granted Canadian women the right to be appointed to the Senate. By joining the "Famous Five", Henrietta Muir Edwards brought to the cause of "women not officially recognized" her determination, extensive knowledge of the Canadian legal system and the prestige of having fought so many battles aimed at re-defining the position of women in Canadian society.
Resources
Bannerman, Jean Mackay. — "The Famous Five". — Leading ladies Canada. — Belleville : Mika Publishing Company, 1977. — P. 210-234Edwards, Henrietta [Muir]. — Legal status of women of Alberta : as shown by extracts from dominion and provincial laws. — [Edmonton?] : Issued by and under the authority of the Attorney General, 1921. — 80 p.
Edwards, Henrietta Muir . — Legal status of Canadian women, as shown by extracts from dominion and provincial laws relating to marriage, property, dower, divorce, descent of land, franchise, crime and other subjects. — Calgary : National Council of Women of Canada, 1908. — 61 p.
MacEwan, Grant. — "Henrietta Muir Edwards : The lady and the law". — Mighty women : stories of Western Canadian pioneers. — Vancouver : Greystone Books, 1995. — P. 26-32
Nicholson, Barbara J. — Feminism in the Prairie Provinces to 1916 [microform]. — Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1974. — 3 microfiches. — (Canadian theses on microfiche ; no. 21331). — M.A. thesis, University of Calgary, 1974.
Roome, Patricia Anne. — Henrietta Muir Edwards : the journey of a Canadian feminist [microform] — Ottawa : National Library of Canada, [1998]. — 4 microfiches. — (Canadian theses on microfiche; no. 24346). — Ph.D. thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1996.
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Henrietta Muir Edwards
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Henrietta Muir Edwards
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| - In 1874 Henrietta and her sister Amelia started the Young Women’s Reading Room and Library on Bleury Street in Montreal, Quebec.
- In 1875, Henrietta and Amelia started an employment agency, and soon learned that women needed training and a viable alternative to domestic and shop work. So them formed the Working Women’s Association. The Working Women’s Associated provide vocational training for women and a Boarding House for seventy women.
- In 1876 Henrietta and Amelia helped organize the Women’s Baptist Missionary Society East in Montreal, Quebec.
- In 1878 Henrietta established the Montreal Women’s Print Printing Office. Henrietta published the first Canadian magazine for working women, entitled Women’s Work in Canada, which she and her sister Amelia edited. By 1882 the Montreal Women’s Printing Office had become job printers offering a range of services.
- Henrietta was an artist and studied art nationally and internationally. She helped finance the magazine and Working Women’s Association with the proceeds from her artwork. At the request of the Canadian government she painted a set of china dishes for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Each china bowl depicted seasonal Ottawa scenes painted on an oyster shell. April 1883 Henrietta exhibited 5 works of art at the Art Association of Montreal and became an honorary member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, a dubious “artistic honor as the position was open to men not women.
- In 1893, Henrietta Muir Edwards, together with Lady Aberdeen, established the National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC). Henrietta became the First Convener of the Standing Committee on Laws. For nearly 35 years Henrietta served as Convener of the NCWC’s Law Committee on laws governing women and children.
-In 1897 Henrietta co-founded the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) with Lady Aberdeen. Henrietta was appointed chair of the Provincial Council of Alberta, serving in this capacity for many years.
- In 1906 Henrietta presented Dower legislation to the Alberta legislature. When Henrietta and Annie Bulyea met with Premier A.C. Rutherford, he promised the Assembly would be “favourable to better legislation” and urged Henrietta to return with a new petition in 1907.
-While Henrietta had no formalized training in the law, she was so knowledgeable on laws relating to women and children that lawyers and judges sought her out for advice and opinions. In 1908, at the request of the Canadian government, Henrietta compiled a summary of Canadian laws, both federal and provincial, which pertained to women and children. Henrietta wrote handbooks on women and Canadian law - "Legal Status of Women in Canada" in 1917 and "Legal Status of Women in Alberta" in 1921.
-During the First World War, Henrietta served as a Red Cross leader. The War Committee asked Henrietta for her advice on how to enforce stricter conservation measures. This was the first time in Canadian history that the government had asked a woman to assist with the review of a public policy. Henrietta advised the government to establish a Department of Public Health and a Department of Child Welfare. Henrietta was made secretary of the National Subcommittee on Thrift and Economy in Canadian Homes.
|  Famous 5 sign Calgary,Alberta  Famous 5 statue Calgary, Alberta  Medaillon miniature China Painting by Henrietta Muir Edwards  Medaillon miniature China Painting by Henrietta Muir Edwards  Medaillon miniature China Painting by Henrietta Muir Edwards | |||||||||||
- On October 18, 1929, the Privy Council declared in the famous “Persons Case of 1929” that women were persons and thus eligible to hold any appointed or elected office. Four months after the “Person’s Case” Cairine Wilson became Canada’s first senator.
-March 4, 1981 the Henrietta Edwards commemorative postal stamp was issued.
 -On October 18, 1999 a monument to Canada’s Famous 5 was unveiled in Calgary, Alberta. In 2000 a second set of five statues were placed on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario. These statues were the first sculptures of Canadian women to grace Parliament Hill.
-A new $50 Canadian bill, unveiled in Calgary, Alberta in 2004 commemorated the Famous Five
 |  Medaillon miniature China Painting by Henrietta Muir Edwards  Soup Tureen Painted by Henrietta Muir Edwards for the Chigago Worlds Fair 1893  Winter scene of the Rideau Hall tobbogan slide in Ottawa. Henrietta Muir Edwards painted 12 bowls for the Chigago Worlds Fair 1893 | |||||||||||
-October 2009, Henetta along with the other Famous Five women became honorary senators.
It was the first time in Canadian history that a senator was named posthumously.
Edmonton, Alberta has a park named the Henrietta Muir Edwards Park. www.wikimapia.org/15504275/Henrietta-Muir-Edwards-Park
|  Painting by Henrietta Muir Edwards of her daughter Alice as a young girl | |||||||||||
Henrietta Louise Muir was born on December 18,1849 in Montreal, Quebec. Her parents, William and Jane had 9 children.
Great grandmother Henrietta was raised with strong religious faith. Her Scottish grandparents immigrated to Montreal in 1820. Montreal didn’t have Baptist churches in 1820, so a number of Baptists in the city began meeting at Muir’s residence. The Muir family built schools, newspapers, churches and the Montreal Baptist College.
Henrietta was raised in a family that believed in equality, the right of women to vote, to own property, and to have financial security. Henrietta’s family participated in the public debates on women’s education, legal rights, and employment. In 1865 Henrietta’s father and uncles and the members of the Mercantile Library Association sponsored a debate on the right of woman to vote in political elections.
The Muir family concern for married women’s property rights and financial security would serve as a role model for Henrietta. Her parent’s 1844 marriage contract, guaranteed that Henrietta’s mother, would have her own property and protect her from legal responsibility for William’s business obligations and personal debts. This gave Jane more financial security than most British women. When Henrietta’s grandfather died, his Will differed from tradition, and specified that his estate be divided equally between all of his children regardless of age or gender.
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Literacy, education and the organization of academies and colleges for both sexes were important priorities for the Muirs. Begun in 1871, the Montreal Educational Association included Mrs. Claxton, Mrs. Lay, Jane Muir and her daughters as members. While Henrietta and Amelia were allowed to attended lectures on arts and sciences at McGill, the elder women lobbied for the establishment of a woman’s college at McGill. In 1884, thirteen years later, women were allowed to attend McGill’s Art Program, albeit in separate classes. It was another thirty-four years before women were allowed to enroll in McGill’s medical program. In 1922, five women graduated from McGill’s Faculty of Medicine.
In 1864 Henrietta’s father bought a microscope. William was a founding member and President of the Montreal Microscopic Club. When it was William’s turn to host the Club, Henrietta and her sisters would stay in the background and listen to the men’s discussions. Henrietta’s father invented an illuminating lens for the microscope, which he demonstrated to the Montreal Natural History Society. Henrietta accompanied her father to the Second Annual Conversazione of the Natural History Society in 1865.
The Muirs encouraged Henrietta’s love of the Arts and provided Henrietta with a rich cultural life. When she was fourteen Henrietta attended the Montreal Art Association’s 1865 Conversazione with her father. Henrietta’s father chaired a fund created to erect a statute of Queen Victoria in the mid 1860’s. Art presented Henrietta with a few options, although the Montreal School of Arts and Design refused female applicants until 1880. Denied entrance into formal program, Henrietta continued private art lessons with John Bell-Smith and the Fraser brothers.
In 1875 Henrietta established the Working Girls' Association, later renamed the Working Women’s Association. At the WWA single girls could get rooms, meals, job training, health and fitness lessons, and legal advice. The Working Women’s Association filled a need for young women who came to the city in search of employment.
In 1876 Henrietta left for New York to study Art with Wyatt Eaton who had begun teaching at New York’s Cooper Union Female School of Art and the National Academy of Design. When Henrietta returned to Montreal she opened an art studio to help subsidize the Working Women’s Association. Henrietta was the WWA President, driving spirit and the Boarding House proprietress. She provided the leadership, generated financial support and managed the staff.
Two years later she opened the Montreal Women’s Printing Office, where they employed female labor. The women were trained as compositors, and printed the monthly paper “Woman’s Work in Canada”. Henrietta illustrated her newspaper and several books.
|  Henrietta Muir Montreal, Quebec 1876  Henrietta Muir Montreal, Quebec 1876 |
 Edwards family 1893, Ottawa, Ontario Henrietta Muir Edwards and Doctor Oliver Cromwell Edwards and their children, William, Margaret and Alice Edwards |
In 1876 Henrietta married Doctor Oliver Edwards in Ottawa, Ontario. After they were married Henrietta and Oliver lived in Montreal with the Muir family. Oliver’s private medical practice was run out of the family home. Oliver also taught health classes at Henrietta’s Working Women’s Association. Henrietta and Oliver had three children and six grandchildren. Daughter Alice, and son William were born in Montreal, Quebec and Margaret was born at Indian Head, Saskatchewan.
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In 1882 Oliver traveled to Fort Qu’Appelle, Saskatchewan to serve as medical doctor for the Department of Indian Affairs. That autumn, Oliver covered hundreds of miles on horseback vaccinating. Henrietta and the children joined him in the spring of 1883. They built a house in Indian Head, Saskatchewan and then moved it to Qu’Appelle in 1885 where they lived until returning to Ottawa in 1890. While living in Qu’Appelle Henrietta became President of the Qu’Appelle Women’s Christian Temperance Union. After the formation of the WCTU, Henrietta helped established a cottage hospital for maternity cases.
In 1890 the family returned east to Ottawa, Ontario so the children could attend school. Oliver went back into private practice, and Henrietta opened an art studio and provided lessons for young artists in Ottawa. She also submitted painting to numerous exhibitions. She accepted executive positions on the National Council of Women of Canada (NCWC) and the Ottawa Local Council of Women.
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Henrietta became president of the Ottawa Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), superintendent of its building projects and an executive member of the Ontario Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
In 1897, Henrietta and Lady Aberdeen founded the Victoria Order of Nurses (VON) to provide nursing services to districts that did not have medical care. In 1898, the VON’s first Training Homes were established to provide graduate nurses with six months of training in district work.
Oliver’s post-graduate homeopathy training in Scotland was popular in the British medical profession but not in Ottawa. Oliver entered into battles between doctors and homeopaths. They debated the “scientific” merits of homeopathy. Oliver was convinced homeopathy represented a safer treatment approach and he refused to abandon his use of homeopathy. This decision and the fact that a wife was unable to accept paid employment without bringing shame to their marriage caused severe financial difficulties. Henrietta accepted painting commission in an attempt to help their financial situation. But it wasn’t enough.
In 1896 they sold their Ottawa residence. Still in debt, Henrietta and the children moved to Montreal, to live with her family, and Oliver took a medical officer position with the Department of Indian Affairs posted in Regina, Saskatchewan. Henrietta re-established her Montreal art studio and started working in Quebec women’s organizations.
In 1900 and 1901 Oliver traveled as the medical doctor with the Treaty 8 Commission in charge of vaccinating native people throughout northern Alberta and the Yukon district. (see Historical Photos by O. C. Edwards)
|  Margaret Edwards, Hendrietta & Oliver Edwards Alice Gardiner, Amella Muir, William Edwards Montreal Quebec 1900  Hospital on the blood reserve, Alberta Oliver was the doctor from 1902 - 1915 | |
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After his Treaty 8 commission Oliver returned to Montreal. In 1902, Oliver left Montreal for a permanent and final posting as a medical officer on the Blood and Peigan Reserves. The Blood Reserve, the largest in Canada, was approximately half the size of Holland. Oliver was the only Medical Officer for 1,700 Blood Indians, and the only doctor for the Peigan’s whose rambling reserve lay north of Macleod. The vastness of these Reserves with the dangers of winter blizzards and spring floods made this position more suitable for two young doctors, rather than just Oliver who was now in his fifties.
Spring 1903 found the Edwards daughters traveling west to Fort Macleod. Henrietta remained to attend the Toronto NCWC Convention. After the convention Henrietta boarded the Canadian Pacific Railway for Fort Macleod in the Northwest. Within the first year, Henrietta mounted a campaign for dower rights, homesteading privileges and suffrage through the WCTU and the NCWC. In the Fall, Henrietta went to the Winnipeg NCWC’s Convention. She stayed as Annie Bulyea’s guest at Government House, and became the North-West Territory Vice President.
The 1895 Edmonton and Calgary local councils established by Lady Aberdeen had collapsed after a few years. The existing Regina Local Council of Women seemed destined to failure despite the efforts of its president Annie Bulyea Henrietta’s friend from the Qu’Appelle WCTU days. Returning from convention, Henrietta and Annie attended the first Western Canada Temperance Union convention held in Calgary.
At the NCWC convention, Henrietta shared the pamphlet she had prepared showing the impact of Canadian laws on women. As the Law Convener, Henrietta had followed the issue of dower restoration in Manitoba. Following a petition in 1901 the Government amended the Married Women’s Property Act but denied the women’s request for dower rights. Widow’s right to a one-third interest in the marital property was an established clause in British and eastern Canadian law. Manitoba and the North-West Territory (Alberta) had terminated dower rights to simplify land transfers and prevent encumbrances on the transfer of title. Ontario women, who moved west assuming the same dower rights applied to their western homesteads discovered that their dower rights had been cancelled, and married women were ineligible for homestead grants. Married women could not acquire private property or benefit financially along with their husbands. Henrietta found this disgraceful and she gave a simulating lecture on the North-West Territory laws relating to women and children and outlined suffrage campaign plans. She contacted 21 unions, and found none had begun suffrage petitions. With her knowledge of Canadian legislation, her eastern experience, and her executive positions, Henrietta became one of the movement’s leaders. Due to Henrietta’s insistence, the NCWC supported a petition to the Federal Government to extend homesteading rights to women.
On September 1, 1905 Alberta became a province. Annie Bulyea’s husband became the Lieutenant Governor and A.C. Rutherford another Baptist and a Liberal emerged as the first Premier. A.C. Rutherford, was an Ottawa Valley Scot, McGill University law graduate and friend of Oliver’s brother, W.C. Edwards. In 1905 Henrietta requested “advanced Legislation as regards Woman’s Rights in property, a measure of Woman’s Suffrage and the recognition of a mother’s parental rights and the raising of the age of consent.
April 1906, 7 months after Alberta became a Province, Henrietta presented Dower legislation to the Alberta legislature. Although Premier Rutherford had promised that he would be “favourable to better legislation” it was another 10 years of petitions, endless letters and numerous delegations the new Liberal Government graciously granted some of Henrietta’s demands
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