Ella Cora Hind fonds, 1861-1942

MSS SC 7

44 cm of textual materials

Agricultural writer and editor for the Manitoba Free Press, Ella Cora Hind was known as an authority on agriculture, livestock, and wheat yields. Her opinion influenced prices on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and western grain crops for several years. She was one of the first female writers and editors of the Manitoba Free Press. She was also a champion of women's suffrage and a strong supporter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Political Equality League.

Donated by the Winnipeg Free Press

The collection contains correspondence (largely letters of congratulations on her 1935 honourary doctorate), a diary of her 1928 European tour, lectures, her Winnipeg Free Press columns 1935-1942, and news clippings about her career.

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