In 2017, two of Nellie McClung’s homes were relocated to Manitou, Manitoba, and opened to the public. The Nellie McClung Heritage Site celebrates the life, achievements, and legacy of the legislator, social reformer, and women’s rights activist Nellie Letitia McClung in the same location she started her adult life. Nellie Letitia McClung (1873-1951) was 16 years old when she arrived in 1890 to work as a teacher at the Hazel school near Manitou and boarded with the Hasselfield family. Hazel Cottage is one of two houses on the Nellie McClung Heritage Site. Two years later, she started teaching at Manitou school and boarded with the family of a Methodist minister. The minister’s wife, Annie E. McClung, was a women’s suffrage supporter and the provincial president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU); she inspired and influenced McClung to become an active member of the organization. In 1896, she married the family’s second son, Wesley, and they moved to the McClung House in 1899. In this house, they raised four of their five children; she wrote two of her 16 books and became a prominent leader in the Canadian suffrage movement and women’s right to vote. In 1911, the family moved to Winnipeg, and McClung continued her suffrage work. In 1916, following the campaign McClung led, Manitoba became the first province in Canada to grant women the vote. Her most famous achievement happened in 1929 when she, as one of the Famous Five, won the Person Case that qualified women as persons and allowed them to serve in the Canadian Senate. During the spring and summer, the Hazel Cottage and McClung House were renovated and restored to the time when McClung and her family lived there. On display are 19th-century artifacts and memorabilia related to McClung and her family and an exhibition of historic wedding gowns and dresses. Read more...