Neither famous nor specially talented, she came with her husband, Sir William Dummer Powell (1755-1826), to the first settlement amongst the pine trees in the forest that once stood where Toronto now is.Her privations and character rose above the difficulties of settling in a new country well away from her usual English comforts in England and New England.She set an example for the role of women in her time in Toronto enough that Katherine M. J. McKenna wrote a Ph.D. thesis about her role in women's history and later developed it into a book, "A Life of Propriety," McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
Neither famous nor specially talented, she came with her husband, Sir William Dummer Powell (1755-1826), to the first settlement amongst the pine trees in the forest that once stood where Toronto now is.Her privations and character rose above the difficulties of settling in a new country well away from her usual English comforts in England and New England.She set an example for the role of women in her time in Toronto enough that Katherine M. J. McKenna wrote a Ph.D. thesis about her role in women's history and later developed it into a book, "A Life of Propriety," McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994.
Inscription
sacred
to the memory of
the Hon. William Dummer Powell
formerly Chief Justice of this Province
an eminent lawyer and an upright Judge,
who after a long life devoted to the
cause of Justice and Humanity
died at Toronto on the
6th. September, 1834,
aged 79 years.
also ANNE
widow of the late
Hon, William Dummer Powell,
died 10th March, 1849,
aged 93 years,
also Elizabeth
their daughter
died 1st December, 1855.
blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
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