Maria Louisa Angwin

Maria Louisa Angwin (September 21, 1849 – April 25, 1898) was a Canadian physician. She was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in Nova Scotia.

The daughter of Reverend Thomas Angwin, a Methodist minister, and Louisa Emma Gill, she was born in Blackhead, Conception Bay, Newfoundland. Her family moved to Nova Scotia in 1865. She was educated at the lady's academy of Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy, receiving a liberal arts degree in 1869. She attended the normal school in Truro and taught school for five years in Dartmouth to finance her further studies. Angwin received a MD from the Woman’s Medical College in New York state in 1882. She interned at the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston. Angwin continued her studies at the Royal Free Hospital in London. In 1884, she was licensed to practice in Nova Scotia and set up an office in Halifax. She was a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and also spoke in favour of women's suffrage.

She returned to New York in 1897 to pursue post-graduate studies. Angwin died suddenly in Ashland, Massachusetts while recovering from minor surgery.