Table of Contents
Introduction 6
Writers
Edith Josie 9
E. Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake 11
Margaret "Ma" Murray 13
Alice Freeman (Faith Fenton) 15
Angela Sidney/Ch'óonehte' Ma Stóow 19
Capi Blanchet 21
Photographers and Artists
Elizabeth Quocksister 23
Hannah Maynard 25
Hazel anna Wilson/Jut-Ke-Nay 27
Kate Rockwell 29
Florence Edenshaw Davidson 31
Sonia Cornwall 35
Emily Carr 37
Jennie Butchart 39
Entrepreneurs
Belinda Mulrooney 41
Cougar Annie (Ada Annie Rae-Arthur) 43
Sophie Morigeau 45
Miners
Lucille Hunter 47
Delina Noel 49
Émilie Tremblay 51
Nellie Cashman 53
Adventurers
Lilian Eland 55
Dorothy Blackmore 57
Kate Carmack/Shaaw Tláa 59
Minnie Paterson 63
Catherine Schubert 67
Ruth Masters 69
Phyllis Munday 71
Doctors and Scientists
Frances Oldham Kelsey 73
Helen Sawyer Hogg 75
Victoria Chung 77
Julia Henshaw 81
Edith Berkeley 83
Brave Pioneers and Homesteaders
Emma Stark 85
Kimiko Murakami 87
Anna Petrovna Markova 89
Isabella Mainville Ross 91
Maria Mahoi 93
Mary Ann Gyves/Tuwa'hwiye Tusium Gosselim 95
Helpers and Healers
Nellie Yip Quong 97
Barbara Touchie/Sicquu?uλ 99
Ann Elmore Haig-Brown 103
Alma Russell 105
Sara Ellen Spencer 107
Ga'axsta'las/Jane Constance Cook 109
Evelyn Penrose 111
Politicians
Martha Black 113
Rosemary Brown 115
Athletes
Barbara Howard 117
Lois Smith 119
Acknowledgements 120
Selected Bibliography 121
Image Credits 126