Last week in our local history feature, we talked about the role of women in establishing the Porcupine Mining Camp.
Tis week, we mention two women who entered local politics… probably sooner than you thought.
Timmins Museum director-curator Karen Bachmann says that in 1927, a Mrs. Thomas became the reeve of Tisdale Township.
“Ellen Terry in Timmins becomes a councillor in the late 1930s, early 1940s,” says Bachmann, “and she goes on right up until the 1960s. (She) headed the finance committee for those years.”
Bachmann says Terry was instrumental in a lot of moves forward by the then-Town of Timmins.
“And she ran the Timmins Business School for years, so graduated all kinds of young women into secretarial fields and getting them their first jobs, and those girls went to work in the offices at the Hollinger, the McIntyre, the Dome (mines).”
Thanks, as usual, to Karen Bachmann and the Timmins Museum for making our weekly history feature possible.