Towards the end of the war she married and moved to Chicago, where she was active in numerous civic causes for the rest of her life, notably fighting for women's rights and for improvements to education.

[3] James Hughes supported the temperance movement, opposed corporal punishment in schools and was a strong believer in hygiene.

Her uncle Sir Sam Hughes "offered her a half section of prairie land if she would give up her interest in peace work."

At this meeting the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace was established, with the American Jane Addams as president.

[5] The press accused women who did attend of having "fallen under the influence of the German plotters at the alleged peace conference.

[6] In late October 1916 she wrote that the Canadian branch of the ICWPP was active in every province of Canada apart from British Columbia.

Hughes spoke publicly against conscription into the armed forces when this became an issue in 1917, and was praised for her stance by the SDPC.

Woman's Century responded in late summer 1917 to a report that Hughes and Harriet Dunlop Prenter, described as "prominent suffragists", had drawn a link between suffrage and pacifism in Ontario.

[14] 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.

Lunde campaigned for laws to regulate child labor, job security for teachers, state assistance for education and electoral reforms.

[3] She was a member of the "Big 19" in the early 1950s, a lobby group that pushed local government to fight organized crime.