Rose Henderson née Wills (1871–1937) was a Canadian political activist and social reformer.
[1][2] Rose Mary Louise Wills was born on 14 December 1871[3] in Dublin, Ireland to middle-class parents of English ancestry.
Rose's husband, Charles, died at Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal in January 1904.
[2] After Charles's death, Rose Henderson became an activist and social reformer on behalf of Montreal's working class districts.
In a 1925 article in The British Columbia Federationist wrote "the power of France rests upon a black basis", which she called "one of the most menacing and sinister facts in history", going to condemn the French for training the Senegalese "to subdue and enslave white people".