100 more Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces

Forster, Merna. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1554889707 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781554889709 (pbk.) :
Physical Description: print
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 --