Lizzie Cyr was a prostitute who in 1917 was brought before magistrate Alice Jamieson, in Calgary, on a charge of vagrancy. In the early decades of the 20th century, prostitution was controlled ...

In 1917, Alice Jamieson, one of only two female magistrates in the British Empire at the time, heard the case of Lizzie Cyr. Jamieson convicted Cyr of vagrancy and sentenced her to six months of ...