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Irene Parlby (1868–1965) – women's farm leader, activist, politician; Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – educator and member of the executive of the Local Council of Women of Halifax; Octavia Ritchie (1868–1948) – physician; Emily Stowe (1831–1903) – doctor, campaigned for the country's first medical college for women
The Famous Five (French: Célèbres cinq), also known as The Valiant Five, [1] and initially as The Alberta Five, were five prominent Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby. [2]
Representation by women has been a significant issue in Canadian politics since 1900. The first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada was Louise McKinney in the 1917 Alberta general election, while the first woman elected to the House of Commons was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election. Although female ...
The History of women in Canada is the study of the historical experiences of women living in Canada and the laws and legislation affecting Canadian women. In colonial period of Canadian history, Indigenous women's roles were often challenged by Christian missionaries, and their marriages to European fur traders often brought their communities into greater contact with the outside world.
Edith Ballantyne (born 1922) – Czech-Canadian peace activist; Christine Ross Barker (1866–1940) – Canadian pacifist and suffragist; Alice Amelia Chown (1866–1949) – Canadian feminist, pacifist and writer; Muriel Duckworth (1908–2009) – Canadian pacifist, feminist and community activist, founder of Nova Scotia Voice of Women for Peace
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
The Famous Five – 1920s women's rights activists; Janice Filmon (born 1943) – Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba since 2015; Iqwinder Singh Gaheer (born 1993) – member of Parliament for the riding of Mississauga—Malton; Jennifer Granholm (born 1959) – first female governor of Michigan; Gurmant Grewal (born 1957) – the "Ironman of ...
Today, every Canadian jurisdiction has had at least one female premier except for Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan. The most women first ministers at any one time was six, for 277 days from 11 February to 15 November 2013.