Memorable Manitobans: Mollie Irene Beard Ives (1920-2008)

Mollie Irene Ives Click to enlarge

Community activist.

Born at Winnipeg on 1 January 1920, she worked as a receptionist at the Winnipeg Clinic, a censor for the Manitoba Film Board, and a real estate agent. She volunteered on the board of directors of the St. Vital YMCA, Paraplegic Association, and the March of Dimes, and was a member of the Manitoba Film Censor Board (c1954). On 29 May 1937, she married Charles William “Charlie” Ives at Winnipeg and they had a daughter. In November 1969, she became the first woman to successfully plead her own case before the Supreme Court of Canada, in a land expropriation matter. She died on 7 August 2008.

See also:

Mollie-Irene Ives: Dressing for Court by Sharon Reilly
Manitoba History, Number 56, October 2007

Sources:

Marriage registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Full-time movie fans,” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 September 1954, page 10.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 23 August 2008, page C16.

“Manitobans’ legacy a better province,” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 January 2009, page B3.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 19 May 2024

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