Added by you! Violet McNaughton

Violet McNaughton was a feminist activist who worked relentlessly to improve the lives of women and children, championing causes such as training for deaf children. A year after emigrating from England in 1909, she married Saskatchewan homesteader John McNaughton, who was also sympathetic to feminism. Violet was a driving force behind the 1913 formation of a women’s section of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers’ Association, and helped found the Saskatchewan Equal Franchise League, a key player in winning women of that province the right to vote in 1916. A committed pacifist during World War One, she rose to national prominence in 1919 as President of the Interprovincial Council of Farm Women, and helped craft the Progressive Party’s platform in 1921. Violet McNaughton died in Saskatoon in 1968.