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The early 1900s were a time of tremendous change in Canada, the rapid increase in industrialization, and the growth of cities. Unfortunately many Canadian women were unable to participate fully in society because they had neither political nor legal equality. Nellie McClung was a very important person in the early 1900s. She was valued for her views and actions on the Canadian suffrage movement. She was a teacher and a novelist, and while remembered as doing both of these things well, it is because of her work as an essayist and a political activist that she deserves to be in our hall of fame. Helen Mooney was born in 1873 near Owen Sound, Ontario, In 1880 she moved with her family to farm near Millford in the Tiger Hills southwest of Brandon. At the age of sixteen, with only five years of formal education, she moved to Winnipeg where she attended Normal School and qualified as a teacher.