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Nellie McClung is an excellent example of the politically and socially active women who were energetically advocating the rights of women during the latter part of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century. Born in 1873 in Grey County, Ontario, Nellie Letitia Mooney was the youngest of six children. She was raised by a strict Scottish Presbyterian mother and an Irish Methodist father, so religion was always a significant part of Nellie's life. The family moved to Manitoba in 1880 to find better farmland and homesteaded near present-day Wawanesa. Nellie headed off to Winnipeg in 1889 for a five-month teacher-training program. The next year she taught all eight grades in a school at Hazel, three miles from Manitou. It is there that Nellie met her husband Wes McClung. Nellie married Wes McClung in 1896. Wes and Nellie had five children together. In the years before the First World War, Nellie McClung established herself as a popular author. Her books celebrated the rural and western ideal and the superiority of country over city. She had sixteen books published during her lifetime. Two of these books include Sowing Seeds in Danny, and The Second Chance. Nellie and Wes moved to Winnipeg in 1911, where she became