Helen Gregory MacGill

Helen Gregory MacGill (née, Gregory; after first marriage, Flesher; after second marriage, MacGill; January 7, 1864 – February 27, 1947) was one of Canada's first woman judges - and for many years the country's only woman judge - journalist, and a noted women's rights advocate in Canada, where she fought for female suffrage.

"Lee" Flesher, died in 1901 from the consequences of an earlier knife attack from one of the patients at the Mayo Clinic, leaving behind two young boys, Eric (1891) and Freddy (1894).

[4] As part of her job as a foreign correspondent for Cosmopolitan magazine, MacGill had as her first assignment the interview of leading members of the Japanese parliament in 1890.

This situation led her to learn on her own about the subject, and then she self-published the book Daughters, Wives and Mothers in British Columbia as a guidebook with the laws regarding the topic.

[5] MacGill was a feminist within the system that rejected radical feminism and believed that the role of a mother was the one that should allow women to be part of the public sphere.