Augusta Stowe-Gullen

Ann Augusta Stowe - Gullen (nee Stowe, born July 27, 1857 in Mount Pleasant, Ontario, Canada, † September 25, 1943 in Toronto, Canada) was a Canadian physician, women's rights activist and Theosophist. She was the first woman who earned a degree in medicine in Canada.

Life and work

Stowe - Gullen was born on July 27, 1857 in Mount Pleasant as one of three children of John and Emily Stowe. 1883 she married the physician John Benjamin Gullen.

She was a member of the Theosophical Society, and on February 16, 1891 in addition to their mother Emily Stowe, Algernon Blackwood and Albert Smythe in Toronto co-founder of the first theosophical lodge in Canada.

She started in 1879 to study medicine at the Toronto School of Medicine, University of Toronto and was in 1883 the first woman who earned a degree in Medicine ( Medical Doctor) in Canada. After that, she taught anatomy at the newly founded Woman's Medical College in Toronto and was from 1890 where he worked as a lecturer for teething. In 1909 she co-founded the Women's College Hospital in Toronto. She also campaigned for women's rights.