Following the bestselling 100 Canadian Heroines, Merna Forster presents 100 more stories of amazing women who changed our country.
In this second installment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, author Merna Forster brings together 100 more incredible stories of great characters and wonderful images. Meet famous and forgotten women in fields such as science, sport, politics, war and peace, and arts and entertainment, including the original Degrassi kids, Captain Kool, hockey star Hilda Ranscombe, and the woman dubbed "the atomic mosquito." This book is full of amazing facts and trivia about extraordinary women. You’ll learn about Second World War heroine Joan Fletcher Bamford, who rescued 2,000 Dutch captives from a prison camp in a Sumatran jungle while commanding 70 Japanese soldiers. Hilwie Hamdon was the woman behind the building of Canada’s first mosque, and Frances Gertrude McGill was the crime fighter named the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan." Read on and discover 100 more Canadian heroines and how they’ve changed our country.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-406)
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- One hundred more Canadian heroines
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- 100 Moe Canadian Heroines 5
- Copyright 6
- Contents 11
- Foreword 17
- Introduction 21
- Mary Electa Adams 25
- Sally Ainse 28
- Maud Allan 33
- Elizabeth Arden 37
- Helen Armstrong 41
- Elizabeth Bagshaw 46
- Mary “Bonnie” Baker 49
- Catherine Barclay 53
- Frances Barkley 58
- Robertine Barry 63
- Abigail Becker 66
- Margret Benedictsson 69
- Myra Bennett 72
- Mary Bibb 76
- Georgina Binnie-Clark 79
- Lucie Blackburn 82
- Fern Blodgett 86
- Esther Brandeau 89
- Rosemary Brown 92
- Jennie Butchart 96
- Ethel Catherwood 101
- Victoria Cheung 104
- Helen Creighton 108
- De Grassi 111
- Demasduit 116
- Flora MacDonald Denison 119
- Viola Desmond 123
- Pauline Donalda 126
- Onésime Dorval 130
- Allie Vibert Douglas 133
- Mary Two-Axe Early 136
- Sarah Emma Edmonds 139
- Leone Norwood Farrell 144
- Faith Fenton 148
- Joan Bamford Fletcher 152
- Lillian Freiman 156
- Alexandrine Gibb 160
- Hilwie Hamdon 163
- Harriet Rhue Hatchett 166
- Satinder Hawkins 169
- Prudence Heward 172
- Esther Hill 176
- Lotta Hitschmanova 180
- Helen Hogg 184
- Ann Hulan 187
- May Irwin 190
- Eliza M. Jones 194
- Frances Oldham Kelsey 197
- Lady Sara Kirke 201
- Muriel Kitagawa 205
- Elsie Knott 209
- Molly Kool 212
- Marguerite de la Rocque 214
- Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkié 217
- Florence Lawrence 220
- Marie-Henriette LeJeune-Ross 224
- Irma LeVasseur 227
- Frances Loring 231
- Laura Muntz Lyall 234
- Anna Markova 238
- Clara Brett Martin 242
- Frances Gertrude McGill 245
- Dorothea Mitchell 248
- Sophie Morigeau 252
- Kirkina Mucko 255
- Marion Orr 258
- Yoko Oya 262
- Madeleine Parent 265
- Esther Pariseau 268
- Elizabeth Parker 271
- Kathleen Parlow 275
- Marie Anne Payzant 279
- Lady Mary Pellatt 283
- Nellie Yip Quong 286
- Ada Annie Rae-Arthur 289
- Hilda Ranscombe 293
- Kathleen Rice 297
- Madeleine de Roybon d’Allonne 303
- Katherine Ryan 306
- Catherine Schubert 310
- May Sexton 313
- Norma Shearer 316
- Nell Shipman 320
- Angela Sidney 323
- Charlotte Small 326
- Elizabeth Smellie 329
- Lois Smith 332
- Ethel Stark 336
- Anna Swan 339
- Émilie Tremblay 343
- Mary Schäffer Warren 346
- Maud Watt 349
- Esther Wheelwright 353
- Charlotte Whitton 356
- Mona Wilson 360
- Florence Wyle 363
- Letitia Youmans 366
- Notes 371
- Selected Bibliography 399
- Acknowledgements 409
