Ella Cora Hind (1861 - 1942)

Born 18 Sep 1861 in Toronto, York, Canada West

Ancestors

Died 6 Oct 1942 at age 81 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Biography

Cora Hind is Notable.

E. Cora Hind was a journalist, agricultural authority, and women's rights activist.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1861, she was the daughter of Edwin Hind and Jane Carroll. When Jane died in 1863, Edwin took his children to live with relatives on a farm in Grey County. Edwin himself died three years later and the children moved in with their grandfather, Joseph Hind.^[1] As a teenager, Cora lived with an uncle and aunt in Orillia, where she attended high school.^[2]

Cora moved to Manitoba in 1882 with her aunt, Alice Hind. ^[3]She became the first woman typist west of the Great Lakes, established the region's first stenography bureau, became known internationally as an agricultural journalist, and was a founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club, and the Manitoba Equal Franchise Association. She co-founded the Political Equality League with Nellie McClung.

In 1935 she was granted an honorary LLD degree by the University of Manitoba^[4]

In 1975 a plaque in her honour was erected at the Free Press Building where she worked in Winnipeg.^[5] The Beat Reporting award (E. Cora Hind Award) is named in her honor. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada Census, 1871," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M476-56X : 24 October 2018), Ella Cora Hind in household of Joseph Hind, Artemesia, Grey, Ontario, Canada; citing 1871; citing National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
2. ↑ "Canada Census, 1881," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVFZ-G2Z : 20 May 2019), Ella Cora Hind in household of Joseph John Hind, Orillia, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada; from "1881 Canadian Census." Database with images. Ancestry. (www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing Joseph John Hind, citing Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
3. ↑ "Canada Census, 1901," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHKS-CT1 : 16 December 2019), E. Cora Hind in household of Alice Anna Hind, Winnipeg (city/cité), Manitoba, Canada; citing p. 4, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
4. ↑ The Canadian Encyclopedia
5. ↑ Manitoba Historical Society
6. ↑ National Newspaper Awards.

See also:

• Wikipedia contributors, "Ella Cora Hind," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ella_Cora_Hind&oldid=1178993372 (accessed February 8, 2024).
• "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPLV-SP6B : 9 December 2019), Cora E Hind, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; citing Census, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.