Lady Aberdeen

When Ishbel Maria Marjoribanks Hamilton-Gordon stepped onto Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s campus in 1894, her reputation preceded her.

Better known as Lady Aberdeen, the wife of the Governor General, the Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Ishbel had arrived in Canada the previous year as a well-known Victorian bluestocking 카지노 게임 컬렉션� a woman dedicated to social activism and intellectual opportunities for her gender. She had spearheaded educational and health care improvement for the Scottish working class and was outspoken in her support of votes for women. She carried these passions across the Atlantic to Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

Lady Aberdeen actively promoted the empowerment of women, organizing like-minded groups across the country. She helped found the National Council of Women to give women a coast-to-coast platform for collective action.

Eager to promote better health care away from hospitals, Lady Aberdeen helped create the Victorian Order of Nurses, which 카지노 게임 컬렉션� just as Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s had a half-century before 카지노 게임 컬렉션� received a royal charter from Queen Victoria.

Lady Aberdeen arranged for books to be sent to western settlers and nurtured women카지노 게임 컬렉션�s art appreciation groups. She became a confidante of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier.

Ever restless, in 1893 she published her memoir, Through Canada with a Kodak, of a trip across the young nation.

In the spring of 1894, Principal George Grant invited the Aberdeens to visit Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s and address its students. Aberdeen Street, just north of campus, commemorates the couple카지노 게임 컬렉션�s visit. In his opening remarks, Lord Aberdeen praised Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s for cultivating knowledge and Lady Aberdeen followed with a more rousing message.

Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s was to be congratulated, she said, for admitting women almost 20 years before. Despite this, there still persisted 카지노 게임 컬렉션�the ancient prejudice against women receiving a university degree.카지노 게임 컬렉션� Women needed to 카지노 게임 컬렉션�rebel against that system.카지노 게임 컬렉션� A 카지노 게임 컬렉션�little smattering of knowledge카지노 게임 컬렉션� would not suffice. Women needed to train for 카지노 게임 컬렉션�high service카지노 게임 컬렉션� and to tackle the 카지노 게임 컬렉션�social problems and difficulties카지노 게임 컬렉션� of Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s emerging urban-industrial society.

Three years later, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s gave Lady Aberdeen an honorary degree. This was not only the first such honour that Queen's university had awarded to a woman, it was also the first awarded to a woman by any university in Canada.