Harriet Irene Dunlop Prenter (1865 or 1856 – 16 July 1939)[a] was a leader in the women's rights movement in Canada.
During World War I (1914–18) Harriet Dunlop Prenter took an idealist position against church ministers who supported military training in schools.
[6] In the fall of 1916 Prenter informed the WILPF headquarters that Rose Henderson in Montreal had "fifty women ready to join a group".
Woman's Century responded in late summer 1917 to a report that Prenter and Laura Hughes, described as "prominent suffragists", had drawn a link between suffrage and pacifism in Ontario.
[8] According to the editor, Jessie Campbell MacIver, "National Union and Ontario Equal Franchise Association have again and again expressed themselves as repudiating utterly any question of premature peace.
Prenter mocked the "silken dames ... so occupied with 'committees' and 'uplifting' that they allow the social revolution to walk right past them.
"[11] Prenter wrote regularly for Canadian Forward, which reported on labour and socialist topics and published feminist and pacifist material for about 30,000 readers.
In 1922 she and Janet Inman addressed two hundred women of the WPC at a public meeting in Hamilton, Ontario.