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Article: Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora Howard King.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- August 1, 2001
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Honour Due: The Story of Dr. Leonora Howard King, by Margaret Negodaeff-Tomsik. Ottawa, Canadian Medical Association, 1999. 236 pp. $24.95 Cdn (paper).
Margaret Negodaeff-Tomsik has written an interesting book on the life of Dr. Leonora Howard King, a Canadian medical missionary who was born in Farmersville (now Athens), Ontario in 1851 and laboured in China for most of the years from 1877 to the early 1920s. Negodaeff-Tomsik lovingly takes us through Leonora's early years and education. Leonora wanted to study at Queen's University's School of Medicine in Kingston, Ontario, which was only a one-day ride from her home. But women were not allowed to study medicine ...