Ella Cora Hind was born in Toronto, Canada back in 1861. Her mother died when she was two and her father died when she was five. She then lived with her paternal grandfather and aunt in Grey County, Canada. Her grandfather Joseph taught her about farming, horses and cattle. She grew up several miles from school, she did not start her schooling until she was eleven.
After finishing high school the family moved to Winnipeg in 1882. She approached the editor W.F. Luxton of the Manitoba Free Press about a job, he turned her down. A few months later she handed him an article, he accepted it, published it, but refused to acknowledge that Ella had written it. She opened up her own business as a stenographer, she was also the first person in Manitoba to use a typewriter.
She joined the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She was still interested in farming and became famous for her accurate analysis of crop yields. She died in 1942, she was 81.
What you may not know about Ella is that she was the first Western Canada’s female journalist.
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