Editing Jennie Kidd Trout (section)

== Biography ==
Born in Wooden Mills, [[Kelso, Scotland|Kelso]], [[Scotland]], Jennie (whose name is variously spelled 'Jenny') moved with her parents to Canada in 1847, settling near [[Stratford, Ontario]]. Trout had taken a course in teaching after graduation, and had taught until her marriage to Edward Trout.  She married Trout in 1865 and thereafter moved to [[Toronto]], where Edward ran a newspaper.

Motivated by her own chronic illnesses, she decided on a medical career, passing her matriculation exam in 1871 and studying medicine at the [[University of Toronto]]. Trout and Emily Jennings Stowe were together the first women admitted to the [[University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine|Toronto School of Medicine]], by special arrangement. Stowe, however, refused to sit her exams in protest of the school's demeaning treatment of the two women. Trout later transferred to the [[Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania]], where she earned her [[M.D.]] on March 11, 1875 and became the first licensed female physician in Canada.<ref name=Buchanan>Buchanan, D. (2012). " In His Name": The Live and Times of Jenny Kidd Trout. Leaven. 3(3): 16.</ref>

Trout then opened the Therapeutic and Electrical Institute in Toronto, which specialized in treatments for women involving "[[galvanic bath]]s or electricity."  For six years, she also ran a free dispensary for the poor at the same location.  The Institute was quite successful, later opening branches in [[Brantford, Ontario|Brantford]] and [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], [[Ontario]].<ref name=Buchanan/>

Due to poor health, Trout retired in 1882 to [[Palma Sola, Florida|Palma Sola]], [[Florida]].  She was later instrumental in the establishment of a medical school for women at [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] in [[Kingston, Ontario|Kingston]].<ref>Dembski, P. E. (1985). Jenny Kidd Trout and the founding of the women's medical colleges at Kingston and Toronto. Ontario History. 77(3): 183.</ref>  Her family travelled extensively between Florida and Ontario, and later moved to [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]], [[California]], where she died in 1921.<ref name=Buchanan/>

In 1991, [[Canada Post]] issued a postage stamp in her honour to commemorate her as the first woman licensed to practise medicine in Canada.<ref>Buchanan, W. W. (1991). Canada honours its first licensed woman doctor: Jeannie (Jenny) Kidd Trout (1841-1921). Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 21(4): 455-457.</ref>

On April 21, 2018, [[Google]] celebrated her 177th birthday with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/jennie-trouts-177th-birthday/|title=Jennie Trout's 177th Birthday|website=Google|date=21 April 2018}}</ref>