Franklin Brownell (1857, New Bedford, MA–1946, Ottawa, ON) Street Fair, Ottawa Women’s Canadian Club [Kermesse de l’Ottawa Women’s Canadian Club], 1918, oil on canvas/ huile sur toile, 65 × 78 × 5 cm. Collection of Library and Archives Canada/Bibliotheque et Archives Canada, C-010583.
Lady Aberdeen helps launch the Victorian Order of Nurses, May Court Club, Women’s Canadian Historical Society, as well as Ottawa branch of Women’s Art Association of Canada, which holds art classes led by such figures as Franklin Brownell, until 1923.
Lady Aberdeen fonde les Infirmières de l’ordre de Victoria, le May Court Club, la Women’s Canadian Historical Society, ainsi que la Women’s Art Association of Canada qui offre des cours d’art, dispensés par Franklin Brownell, entre autres, jusqu’en 1923.