More Than a Footnote
More Than a Footnote
Marilyn Stanley
, Andrea Pole
, Melissa Kohlman
, Chantal Comeau
, Cassandra Schiemann
, Siobhan Laskey
, Barry Kazimer
, Jude Castillo
, Sarah Schwartz
, Linda Leitch
, Phyllis VanDusen
, Melanie Solar
, Emma Sim
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Adrienne Stevenson
, Beth Follett
, Meghan Whyte
, Dani Kat
, Alex Henderson
, Randi Ann Doll
, Mary Therrien
, Candace Fertile
, Rachel Edmonds
, Carl Scott
, Katherine Krige
, Rodney Cross
, Benita Hartwell
, Charles Leblanc
, Sara Erskine
, Megan Brodie
, Janet Meisner
, BJ Underwood
, Sandra Dufoe
, Lynn Davidson
, Heather Sibley
, Deana Bueley
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Susan Baues
, Lynn Hallson
, Robert Hykawy
, Deb Philippon
, Shannon Lee
, Linda Hall
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Rhonda Struthers
, Rebecca Dixon
, Katherine Koller
, Susan Ratcliffe
, Fin Macdonald
, Mary Lester
, Denise Duvall
, Pat Johnston
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Marin Beck
, Susan Haldane
, Evelyn Kulchar
, Sandra Furlotte
, Linda Meyer
, Kate Kostandoff
, Mary Danieli
, Susan Jang
, Heather Belliveau
, Catherine Young
, Noelle Walsh
, Yolande Thivierge
, Laurie Burns
, Hailey Slaviero
, Ruth Osgood
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Pearl Pirie
, Maria Mclean
, Mary Mexis
, MELISSA ZILBERBERG
, Maureen Brownlee
, Melissa Poremba
, Margaret Lindo
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Ellen Clarke
, ANNE MILLAR
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Gwynn Scheltema
, Nara Monteiro
, Jessica Trento
, Natalie Mudri
, Nadia Cescato
, Janice Cournoyer
, Meradith Anderson
, Andrea Gillespie
, Lisa Mallia
, Veena Lin
, LJ Law
, Andrea Mack
, Margaret Jones
, Lynn Andrews
, Margaret Palmer
, Heather Chong
, Shayla Bradley
, Jessica Baldwin
, Marc Bédard Pelchat
, Audrey Joyal
, Donald Forsythe
, Hoda Montazeri
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, jane luce
, Leslie Vermeer
, Debra Fisher
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Beth Dekoker
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Nirakone Phromkharanourak
, finn mulryan
, Kathleen Nightingale
, zelda dwyer
, Natasa Ilic
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Karen Nordrum
, Lise Gaston
, Monica Miller
, Derek Davidson
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Joe Mitchell
, Chris Carvalho
, P. Thompson
, Carla MacDonald
, Valerie Henitiuk
, Cindy Lapena
, Martine Fabris
, Alice Meems
, Oluwaferanmi Oyeniran
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There are women throughout Canada’s history who when faced with a locked door, have looked for a key—or a battering ram. Award-winning writer Karin Wells tells the stories of women like the fierce and iconoclastic Mina Benson Hubbard, who finished the mission to map northern Labrador that had killed her explorer husband, and Vera Peters, MD, who revolutionized treatments for Hodgkins lymphoma and breast cancer. Or the painter Paraskeva Clark, child of the Bolshevik Revolution, who rattled staid Toronto when she took Norman Bethune as a lover and spoke out for art as a tool of social change. And have you heard of Charlotte Small, a Métis woman who canoed and trekked 42,000 km—more than three times further than the American explorers Lewis and Clark—and had five babies along the way?
Some were outrageous, some were unassuming, most were not polite, but they all ignored the voices that said women could not paddle a canoe, program a computer, understand the universe, or cure a disease. They lived big lives—often at great cost—and they made a difference.
