CFUW St. John's

10/08/2026

Here are the directions for our Monthly Meeting. Members of the public are welcome to attend.

10/08/2026

Coming up next week! Please join us to hear Gordon Jin speak about the history of Chinese immigration to NL and the Head Tax.

10/05/2026

In Person CFUW Meetings, Location and Directions:

The Alexander Murray Building of Memorial University (The Earth Sciences Building), Room 4065. There is free parking in the lower-level parking garage below the building. The Earth Science Building is on the North Side of the Prince Phillip Parkway, across from the Engineering Building. To access the free parking, drive through the very short lane between the Earth Science Building and the University (Student) Centre to the parking entrance on your left. This is parking level 2. When parked, take the elevator to the 4th Floor. Upon leaving the elevator, walk past the railed open space (that looks to the floor below) toward the green sign “Department of Earth Sciences”. Room 4065 is on the left, just past the departmental general office.

10/05/2026

Filmmaker Karen Cho travels from Montreal to Vancouver to uncover stories from the last survivors of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, a set of laws imposed …

10/04/2026

07/30/2026

Feel like the digital wave is leaving you behind? Digital Seniors NL will be here to assist you in gaining a better understanding of how to navigate today’s technical landscape 💻

💻Saturday, August 8th @ 10am💻
*BYOD** - Bring your own devices! phone , tablet or laptop. No device? No problem! We have some for you to use for the workshop.
Register HERE: https://nlpl.ca/events/getting-started-basic-digital-skills-with-digital-seniors-nl/

07/30/2026

06/21/2026

Emily Stowe decided she wanted to be a doctor at a time when Canadian medical schools did not admit women. This did not stop her. Born in 1831 in Norwich, Upper Canada, Stowe was educated as a teacher, became the first female principal of a public school in Canada, and then decided she wanted to study medicine. She applied to the University of Toronto medical school in 1865. She was refused. The university did not admit women. Stowe enrolled instead at the New York Medical College for Women in New York City, one of the few medical schools in North America that accepted female students. She studied while her husband August was ill and while raising three children, graduated in 1867, and returned to Toronto to begin practising medicine. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, the body that controlled medical licensing in the province, declined to grant her a licence. The licensing board required applicants to have attended lectures at a Canadian medical school, and since no Canadian medical school had accepted her, she was trapped in a circular problem of their own making. Stowe practised medicine without an Ontario licence for more than a decade, treating the patients who came to her, mostly women and families who could not access or did not want to see a male physician. The authorities were aware of her practice. There was a brief prosecution that was eventually dropped. She continued. She was finally granted a full Ontario medical licence in 1880, thirteen years after earning her medical degree in New York. Her daughter Jennie Trout received her Ontario licence the same year, making the Stowe family responsible for the first and second licensed female physicians in Ontario.

06/17/2026

CFUW St. John’s and Michael Donavan Library

In 1964, following a lobbying and publicity campaign, CFUW St.John’s persuaded the St. John’s City Council to fund the establishment of the first two Children’s Branch Libraries. CFUW St. John’s members were appointed to the Library Board.