She also was responsible for the children's pages under the pseudonym "Dixie Patton" and wrote an anonymous column, "Country Girl's Ideas.
She accepted that women should be responsible for care of the home and of children, but felt this should not preclude them from education, property rights and discussion of political issues.
[5] During World War I (1914–18) Beynon supported giving all immigrants the right to vote, opposed conscription without a plebiscite, and believed these issues should be freely discussed in public.
[1] She, her sister Lillian, Nellie McClung and Ella Cora Hind helped bring about the defeat of Rodmond Roblin's Manitoba government in 1915, and helped ensure that his successor Tobias Norris gave full suffrage to women in provincial elections from 1916.
[8] Some sources say her views caused conflicts with George Fisher Chipman, the editor of the paper, and she resigned for this reason.
[6] However, Chipman gave Beynon considerable freedom and continued to publish her articles for several weeks after she left.
In New York Benyon and her sister worked at the Seamen's Church Institute, an Episcopalian Mission for sailors.