Q&A: Laura Marshall Jamieson was deeply committed to social justice, says biographer Veronica Strong-Boag.
Award-winning historian and author Veronica Strong-Boag’s new book The Last Suffragist Standing, is a study of the life’s work of kick-ass suffragist and progressive politician Laura Marshall Jamieson .
In the 1920s and 1930s, she also led B.C. and Canadian campaigns for peace, the unemployed and young children. Vancouverites rewarded her by electing her as a social democratic MLA in 1939 and again in 1940 and then as a city councilor in 1948.Q: What comes to mind first when you think of Jamieson?A: I hadn’t known she was a pioneering woman mountain-climber as a member of the Alpine Club of Canada. Scaling the Rockies kept up her spirits.
Q: She was a big believer in working for all minorities and marginalized groups that were key to the advancement of women. How did she come to that wide-ranging plan/belief?
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