Fostering the
Trailblazers
of
Tomorrow
The Nellie McClung Foundation aims to honour the legacy of past trailblazers while empowering, inspiring, and celebrating the next generation of girl and women leaders in our community.
Our purpose
The Nellie McClung Foundation was created in order to acknowledge and raise awareness of the contributions of Nellie McClung and her “famous” friends, who assisted in advancing the cause of women in this province and country, and who created opportunities for all citizens for generations to come.
Our
impact
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Nellie McClung’s granddaughter, Marcia McClung, far left, performs in the inaugural presentation of the readers theatre production, Let Them Howl.
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NELLIE MCCLUNG
Canada's Most
suffragist
Famous
Nellie McClung was an orator and an entertainer; she was an authorand an advocate; she was a teacher and a legislator. She was a prairiewoman who used her talents, determination and energy to bringabout change in society.
Nellie is best know for two major achievements: being one of theleading women who helped ‘get the vote’ for most of the womenof Manitoba (1916); and as a member of the ‘famous five’ - a groupof women who challenged the meaning of the British NorthAmerican Act and worked to get women declared ‘Persons’ rather than property under the law (1929).
