For the Record. Joan Grierson

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was the beginning. It was in 1917 that women in Canada won the right to vote. Five years after Hill graduated, for the first time in history, a young woman took her seat in the House of Commons in Ottawa. Agnes Macphail was to be the only woman there for fifteen of her nineteen years in office, but as she said, “A woman’s place is where she wants to be.”

      The first women who trained to be architects in Canada would certainly agree. Between 1920 and 1960 twenty-eight women went through the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto. The following pages describe their professional lives, with glimpses of the times they faced upon graduation.

WOMEN GRADUATES IN ARCHITECTURE

      1920 TO 1960, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

      1920s

Marjorie Hill

Jean Hall

Elizabeth Lalor Harding

      1930s

Beatrice Centner Davidson

Katharine Jefferys Helm

Dama Lumley Bell

       Phyllis Cook Carlisle

       Ann Gauthier Malott

      1940s

       Martha Stewart Leitch

       Margaret Synge Dryer

       Mary Imrie

       Alice Ayer Alison

       Shelagh Macdonnell Rounthwaite

       Isobel Grace Stewart

       Jean Taylor Strange

       Joan Robinson Grierson

       Ruthetta Kaplan Reiss

      1950s

       Lennox Grafton

       Catherine Currie Smale

       Margaret Gisborne Christie

       Marjorie Sewell Shepland

       Audrey Koehler Christie

       Joan Burt

       Joanna Barclay de Tolly Ozdowski

       Kathleen Connor Irvine

       Mary Patterson Clark

       Monica Nomberg

       Natalie Salkauskis Liacas

THE 1920s

      EVENTS

       The League of Nations convenes in Paris.

       William Lyon Mackenzie King is prime minister of Canada.

       In the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin dies at 53. Joseph Stalin takes control.

       Military leader Chiang Kai-shek becomes leader of the Republic of China.

       Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf.

       Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. president on the death of Warren G. Harding.

       The discovery of insulin is announced at the University of Toronto.

       First transatlantic telephone communication and first network radio broadcast.

       First transmission of television.

       Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic.

       Air mail service begins in northern Canada.

       October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday, the stock market crash marks the start of the Great Depression.

      LIFE

      This decade is known as the Roaring Twenties. Women bob their hair and smoke in public. The flapper dress appears and the Charleston hits the dance floor. Movies, radio and the gramophone replace vaudeville and bring entertainment into the home.

       Flying is all the rage. Eileen Vollick of Hamilton, Ontario, is the first woman pilot to take off and land a plane on skis.

       Agnes Macphail, an independent candidate from Grey County, Ontario, is the first elected woman to sit in the House of Commons.

       The marketplace introduces strained baby foods and the first motel.

      MODEL T FORD 1922 TOURING CAR. By 1927 the Ford Motor Co.had produced 15 million automobiles.

      WASSILY CHAIR, designed at the Bauhaus by Hugarian-born Marcel

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