Steeves, Dorothy Gretchen (Biersteker)

STEEVES, Dorothy Gretchen (Biersteker), politician (b 26 May 1891, Amsterdam, Netherlands; d 9 May 1978, Vancouver). She studied law at the Univ of Leyden and practised in Amsterdam and the Hague before joining the Dutch civil service during WWI. Despite a privileged family background, she was a member of the Socialist Party of Holland, a suffragist and a pacifist. At the end of the war she married Rufus Steeves, a Canadian POW, and immigrated to VANCOUVER in 1919. When the Depression began she...

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