page_title: Amelia Yeomans
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Amelia Yeomans / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Historical plaque commemorating Canadian physician and suffragist Amelia Yeomans. Erected on the median of Broadway, west of Donald Street, by the Historic Sites Advisory Board of Manitoba. Site Location (lat/long): N49.88753, W97.14062.
context_page_description: Amelia Yeomans was a Canadian physician and suffragist. She and her adult daughter Lilian were the first female physicians in Manitoba.
context_section_description: As physicians, Yeomans and her daughter frequently treated sex workers, homeless women, and others being held in the local jail. These experiences led Yeomans to write a pamphlet educating women about sexually transmitted diseases. The pamphlet was released by the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). 
  The WCTU was the first English-speaking organization in Manitoba to espouse women's suffrage. In 1893, the first year of recorded WCTU activity, Yeomans served as an officer for the organization. On February 9, 1893, Yeomans and the WCTU staged a mock parliament in the Bijou Theatre in Winnipeg, organized by Arminda Myrtal Blakely, and invited the Manitoba legislature to attend. Yeomans played the premier, while other members, including Nellie Letitia Mooney and Ella Cora Hind, presented pro and con arguments. 
  In 1894, Yeomans helped to form the Equal Franchise Association in Manitoba.
  Yeomans served as the provincial president of the WCTU from 1896–1897.
caption: Plaque honoring Dr. Amelia Yeomans, Winnipeg
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