Helen Richmond Young Reid

Helen Richmond Young Reid CBE (December 11, 1869 — June 8, 1941) was a Canadian social reformer, focused on public health and women's education.

Her mother was a Unitarian church worker and founder of the Montreal Woman's Club; her father, born in Scotland, had a successful business in granite and marble.

[1] Reid directed the Montreal branch[5] of the Canadian Patriotic Fund's ladies' auxiliary during World War I,[6] and lectured in the United States about her work.

[1] In 1935, Helen Richmond Young Reid was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition for her lifetime of "philanthropic services in the Dominion of Canada".

[16] In her last illness Reid was assisted by fellow social worker and friend Jane Wisdom.