Nellie mcclung brief biography of donald

    Nellie McClung  

Born: October 20, 1873, Chatsworth, Ontario

Died: September 1, 1951, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Biographical Note:

Nellie (Mooney) McClung was an adult educator for women's rights, one of "The Famous Five," author of 15 books, suffragist, social reformer, lecturer, and legislator.

Nellie's teaching, writing, and public speaking abilities were all utilized to improve the rights of Canadian women.

Her passion for women's rights, activist nature, Christian faith, and sense of duty, blended well with the social and moral reform movements arising in the West. Rural life, the plight of immigrants, conditions in cities and factories, the movements for prohibition and women's suffrage, World War I, the Depression, and World War II, provided the historical context.

Nellie was born in 1873 in Ontario, before her family moved to Manitoba in 1880 as pioneer homesteaders. In 1896 she married W