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Memorable Manitobans: Margret Jónsdóttir Benedictsson (1866-1956)
Journalist, human rights activist. Born in Hrappsstaoir in Vioidalur, Iceland, she immigrated to North Dakota in 1887, where she attended Bathgate College. Four years later she came to Manitoba. Benedictson first lectured on women’s rights in 1893 and she later founded Icelandic women’s suffrage society in Winnipeg. She served as editor, with her husband Sigfus, of Freyja, “the only women’s suffrage paper published in Canada,” from 1898 to 1910. They lived at 530 Maryland Street. She divorced her husband in 1910 and two years later moved with her three children to Blaine, Washington. She died at Anacortes, Washington in 1956. See also:
Sources:Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 2 May 2015
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