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E. Cora Hind is remembered as a pioneer leader in Manitoba, both in journalism, where she created a place for herself in a male-dominated environment, and in supporting the rights of women, where she used her prestige in the community to lobby for social change.

Ella Cora Hind was born in Toronto in 1861. In 1882, she moved with her aunt to Winnipeg.

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She had harboured ambitions of becoming a journalist, but after repeated rejections from the editors of the Manitoba Free Press, trained as a legal secretary. After a brief career with a law firm, she established her own business in 1893, becoming the province's first public stenographer or "typewriter."

All her life, Hind had been fascinated with agriculture.

In 1901, soon after the appointment of J.W. Dafoe as the editor of the Free Press, Hind became a regular reporter and the Commercial and Agricultural Editor of the