This button features a portrait of Isabel Baxter Mackenzie (1802-1873) - a resident of Mackenzie House and wife of William Lyon Mackenzie, Toronto's first Mayor, a radical journalist and publisher, and leader of the Rebellion of 1837 in Upper Canada.
The packaging features a quote about Isabel, praising her "intelligence", "virtues" and "womanly courage" - hand-printed on a 1845 Washington Flat-Bed printing press.