Edith Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian veterinarian
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Place of Birth: York, Ontario, Canada
About Edith Williams
- Edith Williams (24 June 1899 – 24 November 1979) was a Canadian veterinarian, the second woman from the country to complete her training at the Ontario Veterinary College and life partner of Dr Frieda Fraser.
- Initially entering university in 1916, Williams dropped out after one year.
- After a three-year trip abroad while she worked as a clerk in a bank and the Canadian immigration office, she returned to Toronto and took up farming on a farm she had inherited.
- After ten years of raising livestock, Williams was accepted into veterinary school and graduated in 1941.
- For the next twenty-five years, she had a private small-animal veterinary practice in Toronto.
- During the periods when Fraser and Williams were separated, they wrote letters daily.
- Their correspondence was preserved and donated after Fraser's death to the University of Toronto libraries.
- It is a unique portrait of lesbian life in the early twentieth century, as few such records have survived.
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