She was the daughter of Louisa Emma Gill and Reverend Thomas Angwin, a Methodist minister.
On 20 September 1884 she became the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Nova Scotia, where she set up an office in Halifax.
In 1895, she lectured on hygiene, together with Annie Isabella Hamilton, the first woman to receive an MD from Dalhousie University.
[2] She was a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and also spoke in favour of women's suffrage.
She died suddenly on 25 April 1898 in Ashland, Massachusetts while recovering from minor surgery.