Mary Elizabeth Hawkins

Mary Elizabeth Hawkins, née Chambers (1875–1950) was a Canadian charity worker, founder of Canada's first birth control clinic. A widow in Hamilton, Ontario, Hawkins founded the Hamilton Birth Control League in 1931, which soon established a birth control clinic in the city.[1]

  1. ^ Dianne Dodd (1983). "The Canadian Birth Control Movement on Trial, 1936-1937". Histoire Sociale/Social History. 16 (32): 411–29.

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