Know your place

The deeper history of the Timmons controversy

Armine Gosling’s daughter drove an ambulance for the Red Cross during the Great War. (Photo: Newfoundland Quarterly, 1918)

Armine Gosling campaigned to get the vote for women in Newfoundland in the 1920s. Born in Quebec in 1861, she came to St. John’s to teach at Bishop Spencer College, the Church of England girl’s school. In the early 20th century, G…