She aligned herself with a group of women "who were fighting out the battle of our Empire with the pick and the spade on unbroken soil.

"[3] She began to gain widespread attention and acknowledgement in 1908, when she published several articles in the Canadian Gazette that encouraged others to follow her lead, and move to the West.

With the outbreak of the First World War, she returned to England, where she managed crews of female agricultural workers in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire districts.

After the war, when her brother, also a farmer in Saskatchewan died, Binnie-Clark resumed her life on the Canadian prairies.

[5] Decades later, Binnie-Clark is remembered as the fiercest advocate of the farming profession for British women at the turn of the century.