Elizabeth Monk

Elizabeth Carmichael Monk (August 4, 1898 – December 26, 1980) was a Canadian lawyer and Montreal city councillor. In 1942, she became one of the first two women admitted to the Quebec Bar, alongside Suzanne Raymond Filion. In 1980, she was one of five recipients of the Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case. Early life and education Monk was born in Montreal on August 4, 1898, to Alfred Monk, a lawyer, and Mary Elizabeth Monk. She studied at Montreal's High School for Girls. A Governor General's gold medallist, she graduated from McGill University in 1919 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in modern languages and won a scholarship to Radcliffe College, where she graduated with a Master of Arts. She won the IODE overseas post-graduate scholarship for the province of Quebec and proceeded to study at Somerville College in Oxford. She went on to study civil law at McGill University, where she obtained her bachelor's degree in 1923 and received the Elizabeth Torrance Medal, the first woman to receive this award. Career