Lily Laverock

Lily Laverock (14 June 1880 – 2 December 1969) was a Scottish journalist, impresario and suffragist. She emigrated to Canada when she was ten years old.

Biography Laverock was born in 1880 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She emigrated to Canada in the 1890s. then studied moral philosophy at McGill University in Vancouver, then in 1911 she launched the first women's newspaper in British Columbia, The Chronicle. In 1918, Laverock was elected to the Vancouver's Carnegie Library management board. She was part of a large deputation to the Attorney General who campaigned for better property laws for women and equal guardianship of children for mothers.

Lavercock was also an avid arts supporter. By 1921, she worked as an impresario and organised International Celebrity Concerts featuring international stars such as Geraldine Farrar, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Nellie Melba, John McCormack, Benno Moiseivitsch, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Rosa Ponselle, the Belgian Royal Symphonic Band and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Lavercock retired in the 1950s,