Terry Crowley
Dr. Terry Crowley is a professor emeritus at the University of Guelph, where he chaired the history department from 2003 to 2008. He earned a PhD at Duke University in 1975, having previously studied at Carleton and Bishop’s University. During his time as a history professor at Guelph, he edited Ontario History Magazine. His research work has centred in Canadian history, focusing on rural, agricultural and women’s issues. Among his writings: Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality (Toronto: Lorimer and Co., 1990).
Bio last updated April 30th, 2019.
Articles by Terry Crowley
Agnes Macphail
By Terry Crowley
February 3, 2017
Agnes Macphail was Canada’s first female member of Parliament. She, a radical, believed in thinking anew about collective problems rather than reverting to outmoded prescriptions.
Following a family tragedy in which a niece shot an uncle, Agnes whisked her nieces and nephews off to Toronto, rented a large house, and began taking in boarders to pay the rent, all the while serving on the executives of the Canadian Civil Liberties Union and the Canadian Association for Adult Education Following the 1921 Federal election, Agnes Macphail became the country’s best–known woman as Canada’s first female member of Parliament Terry Crowley, Agnes Macphail and the Politics of Equality (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co, 1990)