100 Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces

Summary: "This inspiring collection profiles remarkable women — heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and more. In 100 Canadian Heroines you’ll meet remarkable women in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, etc. The book is full of amazing facts and fascinating trivia about intriguing figures. Discover some of the many heroines Canada can be proud of. Find out how we’re remembering them. Or not! Augmented by great quotes and photos, this inspiring collection profiles remarkable women — heroines in science, sport, preaching and teaching, politics, war and peace, arts and entertainment, and more. Profiles include mountaineer Phyllis Munday, activist Hide Shimizu, unionist Lea Roback, and movie mogul Mary Pickford."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781550025149 :
ISBN: 1550025147 :
Physical Description: print
319 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn Group, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

"Selected bibliography": p. [280]-289.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Kim Campbell -- Maude Abbott : specialist of the heart -- Lady Aberdeen : a lady of the empire -- Emma Albani : superstar -- Marie-Joseph Angelique : flames for freedom -- Anna Mae Aquash : murder of a Mi'kmaq activist -- Edith Jessie Archibald : the Cow Bay saloon raider -- Pitseolak Ashoona : Inuit life in art -- James Miranda Barry : was she or wasn't he? -- Martha Black : first lady of the Yukon -- Marguerite Bourgeoys : we shall teach -- Molly Brant : a Mohawk diplomat -- Harriet Brooks : forgotten physicist? -- Agnes Deans Cameron : Arctic bound -- Emily Carr : painting with passion -- Therese Casgrain : the dangerous radical -- Nellie Cashman : the angel of Cassiar -- Kit Coleman : woman's kingdom -- Laure Conan : tale of a broken heart -- Florence Deeks : taking H. G. Wells to court -- Mazo de la Roche : an imaginary world -- Carrie Derick : the professor -- Marie Dressler : an unlikely Hollywood star -- Margaret Duley : novels of Newfoundland -- Henrietta Muir Edwards : painting for a purpose -- Rose Fortune : policing the port -- Laure Gaudreault : a union militant -- Marie Lacoste Gerin-Lajole : militant mother -- Helen Grant : around the world -- Isobel Gunn : an Orkney lass called Fubbister -- Marie Guyart (Marie de l'Incarnation) : founder o' the Ursulines -- Mary Riter Hamilton : the battlefields -- Helen Harrison : at home in a spitfire -- Ann Harvey : heroine of isle aux morts -- Ann Hebert : ah kamouraska! -- E. Cora Hind : of farm and field -- Adelaide Hunter Hoodless : homemaker with a mission -- Frances Anne Hopkins : Frances and the voyageurs -- Mina Hubbard : race through Labrador -- Francoise-Marie Jacquelin (Marie de la Tour) : heroine of Acadia -- E. Pauline Johnson : the Mohawk poet -- Leonora Howard King : a mandarin in imperial China -- Flores La Due : ride 'em cowgirl -- Mrs. Kwong Lee : landing in the forbidden city -- Anna Leonowens : after the king of Siam -- Beatrice Lillie : funniest woman in the world -- Jean Lumb : a Chinese voice -- Major Margaret C. Macdonald : our matron-in-chief -- Elizabeth Gregory MacGill : queen of the hurricanes -- Helen Gregory MacGill : Madam Judge -- Viola MacMillan : mining dynamo -- Helen MacMurchy : health heroine -- Agnes MacPhail : on the hill -- Jeanne Mance : the hospital that Jeanne built -- Hannah Maynard : eccentric genius behind the black box -- Nellie McClung : sowing seeds of reform -- Louise McKinney : a first in the British empire -- Violet McNaughton : champion of farm women -- Helen McNicoll : rediscovering an impressionist -- Aimee Semple McPherson : preaching the gospel -- Maud Menten : the brilliance of a biochemist -- Mikak : kidnapped -- Lucy Maud Montgomery : her beloved Anne of green gables -- Geraldine Moodle : the lens of a lady -- Phyllis Munday : upon a mountaintop -- Asayo Murakami : secrets of a picture bride -- Emily Murphy : Janey Canuck -- Nahnebahwequay : off to see the queen -- Margaret Newton : battle of the rust -- Mary Irene Parlby : farm women unite! -- Mona Parsons : escaping the nazis -- Mary Pickford : Gladys goes to Hollywood -- Georgina Pope : wartime adventures in nursing -- Isabella Preston : for the love of lilies -- Susanna Carson Rijnhart : tragedy in Tibet -- Lea Roback : militant on the March --