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Myra Knox
Myra Knox (1853 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian-born American physician. Having been a teacher before her career in medicine, she became the first woman in California to be appointed to a board of education. Biography Myra Knox was born in 1853, in New Brunswick, British North America. She received her early education in Minneapolis, where her family had removed and where she herself married. On her way west with her husband, Clifford Knox, and her two small children, she suddenly became a widow, the husband dying in Nevada. The young woman proceeded to California and took up the study of medicine. In 1884, she graduated from the Cooper Medical Institute (now Stanford University School of Medicine) in San Francisco, and practiced her profession in Oakland thereafter. She was the first woman in California to be appointed to a board of education, serving for twelve years on the Oakland board after her appointment in the early 1890s. She was also for many years physician at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and Multiculturalism, multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World Immigration to Canada, immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of New France, French and then the much larger British colonization of the Americas, British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
