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100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces Cover Image Book Book

100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces Merna Forster ; foreword by Julie Payette.

Forster, Merna. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 1554889707 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9781554889709 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: 408 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
A -- New Wave in Education / Mary Electa Adams -- She Fought the Law and the Law Won / Sally Ainse -- Dancer / Maud Allan -- Behind the Red Door / Elizabeth Arden -- Wild Woman of the West / Helen Armstrong -- B -- Should Parenthood Be Planned? / Elizabeth Bagshaw -- Bonnie at the Bat / Mary "Bonnie" Baker -- Adventures in Hostelling / Mary Barclay -- Bound for Uncharted Waters / Frances Barkley -- Feminist Rebel / Robertine Barry -- Heroine of Long Point / Abigail Becker -- Power of Freyja / Margret Benedictsson -- Florence Nightingale of the North / Myra Bennett -- Not-So-Promised Land / Mary Bibb -- Homesteads for Women? / Georgina Binnie-Clark -- Quest for Freedom / Lucie Blackburn -- Sparks on the Lucky Mosdale / Fern Blodgett -- Secret Identities / Esther Brandeau -- Brown Is Beautiful / Rosemary Brown -- Legacy of Blooms / Jennie Butchart -- C -- Saskatoon Lily / Ethel Catherwood -- Between Two Worlds / Victoria Cheung -- First Lady of Folklore / Helen Creighton -- D -- Original De Grassi Kids / Cornelia De Grassi -- Beothuk Captive / Demasduit -- Born a Rebel / Flora Mac Donald Denison -- On Trial for Being Black / Viola Desmond -- Prima Donna / Pauline Donalda -- Lady in Black / Onesime Dorval -- Astronomical Success / Allie Vibert Douglas -- E -- Set My Sisters Free / Mary Two-Axe Early -- Just Call Me Franklin / Sarah Emma Edmonds -- F -- Fighting Polio / Leone Norwood Farrell -- Secret Life of Alice Freeman / Faith Fenton -- Heroine in Sumatra / Joan Bamford Fletcher -- Mother of the Jewish People in Canada / Lillian Freiman --
G -- Getting Girls in the Game / Alexandrine Gibb -- H -- Building Al Rashid / Hilwie Hamdon -- Soldiers' Song / Hattie Rhue Hatchett -- Trailblazer / Satinder Hawkins -- Maverick Painter / Prudence Heward -- Invasion of Architecture / Esther Hill -- Atomic Mosquito / Lotta Hitschmanova -- Stars Belong to Everyone / Helen Hogg -- Queen of St. George's Bay / Ann Hulan -- I -- Queen of Comedy / May Irwin -- J -- Making Bitter Butter Better / Eliza M. Jones -- K -- Thalidomide Heroine / Frances Oldham Kelsey -- Newfoundland Planter / Lady Sara Kirke -- Betrayed / Muriel Kitagawa -- Chief / Elsie Knott -- Captain Kool / Molly Kool -- L -- Castaway / Marguerite de la Rocque -- "The Woman Skilled at Needlework" / Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkie -- Girl of a Thousand Faces / Florence Lawrence -- Healer / Marie-Henriette Le Jeune-Ross -- Pioneering Pediatrician / Irma Le Vasseur -- Grande Dame of Canadian Sculpture / Frances Loring -- New Woman / Laura Muntz Lyall -- M -- Doukhobor Martyr / Anna Markova -- Toppled Legal Heroine / Clara Brett Martin -- Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan / Frances Gertrude McGill -- Lumberjack Who Made Movies / Dorothea Mitchell -- Trader / Sophie Morigeau -- Labrador Legend / Kirkina Mucko -- O -- Born to Fly / Marion Orr -- Fujin Pioneer / Yoko Oya -- P -- Walking the Picket Lines / Madeleine Parent -- Designing Nun / Esther Pariseau -- Mountain Pilgrim / Elizabeth Parker -- Lady of the Golden Bow / Kathleen Parlow -- Prisoner of War / Marie Anne Payzant -- Guiding Light / Lady Mary Pellatt -- Q -- Granny Yip / Nellie Yip Quong -- R -- Cougar Annie / Ada Annie Rae-Arthur -- She Shoots, She Scores / Hilda Ranscombe -- Prospector / Kathleen Rice -- From Slavery to Freedom / Marie Marguerite Rose -- Lady of Cataraqui / Madeleine de Roybon d'Allonne -- Other Klondike Kate / Katherine Ryan --
S -- Lady Overlander / Catherine Schubert -- Foremother of Equality / May Sexton -- From Montreal to MGM / Norma Shearer -- Girl from God's Country / Nell Shipman -- Tagish and Tlingit Tales / Angela Sidney -- Woman of the Paddle Song / Charlotte Small -- Colonel / Elizabeth Smellie -- Bringing Ballet to Canada / Lois Smith -- Conductor Who Built a Great Symphony Orchestra / Ethel Stark -- Walking Tall / Anna Swan -- T -- Sourdough from Lac-St-Jean / Emilie Tremblay -- W -- Mountain Woman / Mary Schaffer Warren -- Angel of Hudson Bay / Maud Watt -- From Captive to Mother Superior / Esther Wheelwright -- Unforgettable Madam Mayor / Charlotte Whitton -- Great Human Dynamo / Mona Wilson -- Sculpting Life on Glenrose / Florence Wyle -- Y -- Fighting the Gigantic Crime of Crimes / Letitia Youmans.
Subject: Heroines in literature > Canada > Biography.
Women > Canada > Biography.
Women heroes > Canada > Biography.
Canada > Biography.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Parkland Regional.

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