of birth control. Derick also supported other social causes, including the need for mandatory school attendance for children, and care for 'abnormal' children. In 1914, Derick supported Annie Langstaff, the first female law graduate from McGill University, in her unsuccessful bid to join Quebec's bar. One of Derick's students, Faith Fyles, went on to become assistant botanist on the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa. Death Derick died on November 10, 1941 in Montreal, Quebec. Posthumous recognition A street (Rue Carrie-Derick) is named after her in Montreal's Southwest borough. An award has been created in her honour at McGill University, titled the Carrie M. Derick Award for Graduate Supervision and Teaching. Derick was designated as a National Historic Person in 2007. On her 155th birthday in 2017, she was recognized through a Google Doodle. Awards The J.C. Weston prize See also Timeline of women in science References External links Biography of Carrie Derick from The Centre for Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University Collections Canada Biography of Carrie Derick Gillett, Margaret. "Carrie Derick (1862-1941) and the chair of botany at McGill." Despite the odds: Essays on Canadian women and science. Ed. Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 1990, 74–87. Gillett, Margaret. We walked very warily: A history of women at McGill. Montréal: Eden Press Women's Publications, 1981. 1862 births 1941 deaths 20th-century Canadian botanists Canadian women botanists Canadian women geneticists Canadian geneticists Botanists active in North America Academics in Quebec Canadian feminists Canadian expatriates in Germany People from Montérégie McGill University faculty Harvard University alumni University of Bonn alumni Anglophone Quebec people Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) McGill University alumni 20th-century Canadian women scientists