Elizabeth McMaster

Elizabeth McMaster (, December 27, 1847 – March 3, 1903) was a Canadian philanthropist and head of the committee which founded the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

Early life Elizabeth was born in 1847 to parents George Black Wyllie and Mary Ann Reid, an Anglican family who immigrated to Canada from Scotland. In 1865, she married Samuel Fenton McMaster, who was the nephew of William McMaster, founder of McMaster University.

In 1866, Elizabeth and Samuel were baptised into the Bond Street Baptist Church. Elizabeth was a member of the Ladies Bible Association and supported the Toronto Home for Incurables.

Graduating in 1891, McMaster left Chicago to work at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles and Children's Home, an orphanage in Schenectady, New York.