Augusta Stowe-Gullen

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Ann Augusta Stowe-Gullen (1857 – 1943), was a medical doctor, a lecturer and a suffragette. She was the daughter of Emily Howard Jennings.

She is best known for being the first woman to graduate from a Canadian medical school. Her appeal to Dr. Barrett and other medical people led to the establishment of the Ontario Medical College for Women.

She also had a notable career teaching medical topics at the Ontario Medical College for Women. She was a member of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, a founder of the National Council of Women and a member of the Senate of the University of Toronto among important roles she carried out during her lifetime. In 1935 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire.