Nellie McClung

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Nellie McClung

• By Jackie

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Why Is She Famous

• Stood up for women s rights
• Writer
• Public Speaker

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Early Life

• Family of eight
• Small log house
• Long journey to Winnipeg

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Later Life

• Teacher
• Writer
• Part of W.C.T.U?
• Traveled

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Family

• Husband Wesley McClung
• Had four children

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Why she is important to Canada?

• Changed the lives of Canadian Women by winning
  equal rights for voting
• Never stopped trying to change the rights of
  women
• Writer

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Books She Wrote

• Sewing Seeds in Danny (1908)
• The Second Chance (1910)
• The Black Creek Stopping House (1912)
• In Times Like These (1915)

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Books

• The Next of Kin (1917)
• Three times and out a Canadian boys experience
  in Germany (1918)
• Purple spring (1921)
• When Christmas crossed (1923)
• Painted fires (1925)
• All we like sheep (1930)

• Clearing in the west (1935) Flowers for the
  living (1931)
• Leaves from Lantern lane (1936)
• More leaves from lantern lane (1937)
• Before they call (1937)
• The stream runs fast (1945)

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Conclusion

• I chose Nellie McClung because she was important
  to Canada
• She came to my attention because if it wasnt for
  her, my life would be very different today
• I have learned a lot from this project about her
  and the rights of women.
• Jackie

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Bibliography
Websites Nellie McClung 1998 accessed Jan. 29
http//timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/refenc/db0003.htm Ne
llie McClung accessed Feb. 3 www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/12/h
12-304-e.html nellie McClung accessed
Feb.13 http//library.usask.ca/herstory/nellie.htm
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Bibliography

• Books
• Nellie McClung by Mary Lile Benham published in
  Ontario by Fitzhenery in 1975
• Portraits of our people by Terry Angus published
  in Canada by Meth uen in 1976
• Encyclopedias
• World Book 1998 Nellie McClung
• World Book 2000 Nellie McClung
• Pictures were taken from Canadian Encyclopedia
  online

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