Lillian Beynon Thomas

Lillian Beynon Thomas is a Manitoba Heritage Council commemoration in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Manitoba · Laura Secord School, 960 Wolseley Avenue, Winnipeg · location approximate

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Lillian Beynon, advocate journalist and social reformer, became one of the most influential women in western Canada. Through her page in the "Weekly Free Press and Prairie Farmer", she worked to alleviate the isolation of rural women by educating them in the need for social reform and political change. Together with other middle class women, many from Winnipeg's west-end, she helped to organize the Political Equality League in 1912. Their goal, she argued, was to show Manitobans what political equality could mean to "women and children who were in the power of weak, coarse, unfair, sick or brutal men." Through peaceful means, including a satirical Mock Parliament, they persuaded the legislature to grant votes to women. On 27 January 1916 the Manitoba Legislature became the first in Canada to recognize women's suffrage. She married a colleague, Vernon Thomas, who supported her literary and political work. She was later active in establishing theatre in Manitoba, and became a successful novelist and playwright.

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Plaque text and location: Manitoba Heritage Council Commemorative Plaques, Historic Resources Branch, Government of Manitoba, as the Branch publishes them on its plaque pages. The text is the Manitoba Heritage Council’s text as the Branch publishes it; the pin on this page is ours, worked out from the location the Branch gives and marked approximate. Contains information from the Government of Manitoba, licensed under the OpenMB Information and Data Use License (Manitoba.ca/OpenMB)
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