Martha Louise Purdy "Black" OBE (February 24, 1866 – October 31, 1957) was a Canadian politician and the second woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons. Martha Louise Munger was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of George and Susan Munger, a wealthy family. She was educated at Saint Mary's College (Indiana), which was run by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Of the five children her mother had over four years, Martha is the only one to survive.

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  • Martha Louise Purdy "Black" OBE (February 24, 1866 – October 31, 1957) was a Canadian politician and the second woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons. Martha Louise Munger was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of George and Susan Munger, a wealthy family. She was educated at Saint Mary's College (Indiana), which was run by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Of the five children her mother had over four years, Martha is the only one to survive. She had two younger siblings, George Jr. and Belle. Her father operated a laundry that was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Martha married Will Purdy. He left to go to Hawaii and Martha broke up with him. In 1899, she gave birth to their child in a log cabin child after he left. In 1899 she crossed the Chilkoot Pass into Klondike. She returned home to Chicago, and returned again to Klondike in 1900. She earned a living by staking goldmining claims and running a sawmill and a gold ore-crushing plant. In 1904, she married George Black, Commissioner of the Yukon. In the 1935 federal election, she was elected to the House of Commons for the riding of Yukon as an Independent Conservative taking the place of her ill husband. She was the second woman in history to be in the Parliament of the Yukon. She published an autobiography, My Seventy Years, in 1938.
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  • Martha Louise Purdy "Black" OBE (February 24, 1866 – October 31, 1957) was a Canadian politician and the second woman elected to the Canadian House of Commons. Martha Louise Munger was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of George and Susan Munger, a wealthy family. She was educated at Saint Mary's College (Indiana), which was run by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. Of the five children her mother had over four years, Martha is the only one to survive.
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  • Martha Black
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