Bagshaw, Elizabeth

File consists of a recording of Elizabeth Bagshaw. Topics of the conversation include secret decision to study medicine; registration with male students at U of T. medical school. Drs. Stowe, Trout, Henderson, Cullen. Father's death; co-practice in Toronto with Dr. Skinner Gordon. Removal to Hamilton, 1906, as fill-in for Mabel Henderson. Rental horse-and-rig for housecalls; playing tricks on horse-proud Jack Griffith. Use of bicycle for frequent night-calls, maternity calls; VON assistance at home births. Depression period; establishment of birth control clinic, 1932. Adoption of John, despite restrictive adoption policies (no single women, women over 40). Disapproval of unmarried co-habitation, too many abortions. Bringing round St. Joseph's Hospital staff to accept work in birth control; Catholic bishop's annual graduation harangue against planned parenthood workers as 'devils and heretics'; Quebec as example of effective planned parenthood. Fundraising teas for birth control clinic, participation of Hamilton social elite; absence of legal interference with birth control work. Early women doctors in Hamilton; female doctors' preference for urban practices; failure of women's medical societies. Deaths of Drs Davis and Henderson. Discrimination against Toronto female doctors by male colleagues; foundation of Toronto Women's Medical College. Enjoyment of Hamilton status as 'one of the boys'. Disagreement with male colleague. Dislike of John Munro. Women's medical schools at Toronto and Queen's; Hamilton as leader in preventive medicine; doubtful value of much current medical research. //Subject's recent ailments, cures; recent poor experience in hospital. Approval of OHIP and Canadian medical working conditions. Former professional expectation that female doctors would quit upon marriage. Dr. Shortt. Social activities, work with Canadian Federation of Medical Women. Dr. McVean. Holiday travels. Why women study nursing, not medicine: to marry doctors. Opinion that nurses performed better in old days; description of former inferior equipment and supplies.