Margaret Hyndman

Margaret Hyndman (7 August 1901 – 18 January 1991) was a Canadian lawyer and women's rights advocate. One of the first women to be called to the bar in Canada, she was named to the Order of Canada in 1973.

Early life Hyndman was born August 7, 1901, in Palmerston, Ontario. While in the city she worked as a stenographer and got her self articled with the Law Society.

Career While studying for the bar exam, she worked as an articled clerk for F. W. Wegenast, doing much of the research for his book The law of Canadian companies. Later they partnered and founded Wegenast and Hyndman, with Hyndman acting as sole partner at the firm after Wegenast's death in 1942. Of her accomplishments as a woman lawyer, Hyndman told Maclean's in 1949: "Only the fact that I am a lawyer matters. That I am a woman is of no consequence. I make a point of not knowing how many women lawyers there are in Canada." She also worked on the Eastview Birth Control Trial and Canada (AG) v Lavell.