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position did not come with a pay rise, or a seat on the faculty. Derick was told by the McGill
University president that this was a 'courtesy title' and she was not actually a professor. Furthermore, the new botany department chair assigned Derick work suitable for a demonstrator, not a professor.
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Instead, Derick was officially appointed as professor of morphological botany by McGill
University in 1912. This made Derick the first woman both at McGill University and in Canada to achieve university professorship. However, morphological botany was not Derick's research expertise, and this new
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Derick founded McGill
University's genetics department. She created the Evolution and Genetics course (the first of its kind in Canada) and published a number of academic publications on botany. She was one of the few women to be listed in the
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Derick was also president of the
Montreal Suffrage Association from 1913 to 1919. She publicly supported birth control in Canada (which was then illegal from 1891 to 1969). In 1915, Derrick confronted then Quebec premier
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Derick continued to persevere in her role, and returned to teaching and research after a new demonstrator was hired. She later petitioned to have her title changed to professor of
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Due to poor health, Derick retired in 1929. McGill
University awarded her the honorary title of "professor emerita," making her the first female professor emeritus in Canada.
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with first-class honours, the highest GPA (94%) that year, and received the Logan Gold Medal. Her graduating class included two other notable
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Derick died on November 10, 1941, in Montreal, Quebec.
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one-third the salary of her male counterparts in 1905.
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