Queen Victoria, was the Queen of Great Britain for 63 years - the longest that any other British monarch has ruled, as well as the longest of any female monarch in history. She died at the turn of the century and in many ways influenced both the 19th century and the 20th century. Over her reign she saw great expansion and advances in industry, science, communications, the building of railways and the London Underground, and society 's development.
Dr. Emily Howard Stowe was the first female doctor to practice in Canada and was an activist for women's rights and suffrage.
Annie Edson Taylor was an American adventurer who, on October 24, 1901 - her 63rd birthday - became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
The Famous Five were five Canadian women who fought for women’s rights. These five remarkable women believed that women should have the right to vote as well as the right to be voted into the legislature. The Famous Five were: - Emily Murphy (the first female judge in the British Empire) 1868-1933 - Henrietta Muir Edwards (working women's advocate and a founding member of the Victorian Order of Nurses) 1849-1931 - Irene Marryat Parlby ( first female Cabinet minister in Alberta as well as a farm women's advocate) 1868-1965 - Louise Crummy McKinney (first woman to be elected into the Legislative Assembly of Alberta - or any legislature in Canada or the rest of the British Empire) 1868-1931 - Nellie McClung (a member of the Alberta legislature and a suffragist) 1873-1951
Emma Baker was the first woman to receive a PhD. from a Canadian University.
Sara Anne McLagan was a newspaper editor, co-founder, publisher, journalist, and president. Her newspaper work labeled her as a dedicated social reformer. (no picture available)
Emmeline Pankhurst, a British political activist, was the leader of the British suffragette movement, helping women win the right to vote.
Edith Nesbit, more commonly known as simply E. Nesbit, was an English author and poet. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television.
Jane Addams was a world renowned pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist.
Pauline Johnson was a Canadian writer and performer. She was notable for her poems and performances that celebrated her First Nations heritage. Her poetry was published in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain.
Georgina Fane Pope was a Canadian nursing sister in South Africa during the Second Boer War. In 1903, she became the first Canadian to receive the Royal Red Cross, awarded to her for conspicuous service in the field.
Martha Black OBE was a tough Canadian pioneer and politician. She became the second woman elected into the Canadian House of Commons when she was 70 years young.
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win the Nobel Prize in two different fields (physics and chemistry), and the first scientist to receive two Nobel Prizes. She and her husband discovered polonium and radium.
In 1922, Alaska P. Davidson became a the FBI’s first female Special Agent, at the age of 54.
Rosa Luxemburg was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist. She was a member of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, the Independent Social Democratic Party, and the Communist Party of Germany. She and killed when a revolt she was in was crushed. The commemoration of Rosa Luxemburg still plays an important role among the German political left.
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer. She was heavily inspired by the aboriginal people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Margaret Damer Dawson co-founded the Women Police Service (WPS) in 1914. She was a campaigner on women's issues and wanted a uniformed organisation to deter women from becoming prostitutes. Margaret used the opportunity of WWI to posses a foothold in police work which could be extended when peace came. They were issued identity cards and police officers assisted them.
Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE was a Canadian author who is best known for her "Anne of Green Gables" series published in 1908. These books, as well as her many others, are still widely popular today.
Qiu Jin was a Chinese poet and a revolutionary heroine and a martyr who became a symbol of women's independence. She was allowed a good education and therefore pressed for better access to education for women. She was also vocal in her support for women's rights, wrote articles about historical Chinese women to provide women with good role models, published a women's magazine, encouraged women to resist oppression by their families and government, and publicly opposed the feet binding of young girls. She and her cousin worked to unite many secret revolutionary societies to overthrow the Manchu government. Unfortunately however, they were both arrested for this and executed. Qiu was one of China's greatest women!
Roberta Jamieson is a Canadian lawyer. She is also a First Nations activist and was the first Aboriginal woman ever to earn a law degree in Canada. Roberta also became the first woman appointed as an Ontario Ombudsman (a public advocate appointed by the government or parliament).
Helen Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. When she was 20, Keller entered Radcliffe College. She graduated magna cum laude, the first blind-deaf person to graduate from college.
Alys McKey Bryant was the first woman pilot to fly in Canada. She was a US citizen, and had already flown solo many times in the US before she flew in Canada on July 31, 1913.
Alice Wilson was the first female geologist hired by the Geological Survey of Canada. She conducted field studies on rocks and fossils in the Ottawa region between 1913 and 1963.
Virginia Woolf was an author known for her nonlinear, free form prose style, her wounded childhood, mood swings, and the depression that took her life when she committed suicide in 1941.
Barbara Hanley was the first woman to be elected a mayor in Canada. On January 6, 1936, Hanley was elected mayor of Webbwood, a small town some 50 miles west of Sudbury.
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel was a French fashion designer and founder of the Chanel brand. She was the only fashion designer to appear on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. She was one of the most active First Ladies in history and worked for political, racial and social justice.
Agnes Campbell Macphail was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Agatha Christie was an English crime writer of novels, short stories, and plays. She is one of the most successful novelists; some of her more famous books include the Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Tommy and Tuppence books.
Mary Pickford was a Toronto born actress who appeared in such silent film hits as "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (1917) and "Poor Little Rich Girl" (1917). She also worked as a producer and co-founded a film company (with D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.).
Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped an estimated 800 Jews escape the Nazis during World War II. While she and her family were imprisoned for it, she survived, and wrote numerous books, including The Hiding Place.
Helen Alice Kinnear, was a Canadian lawyer, and the first federally appointed female judge in Canada.
Dorothy Lawrence was an English journalist who, at age 19, secretly posed as a man to become a soldier during the World War I.
Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, for which she received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross.
Jane Haining was a Scottish woman who sacrificed her life for her charges (many of which were Jewish - 400 children ranging from age 6-16) in the Girls’ Home of the Scottish Mission in Budapest, Hungary. In 1944, the Gestapo took her to Auschwitz.where she later died at only 47 years old. The birth and death dates above are estimated (the years are correct).
Muriel McQueen Fergusson was a lawyer and served as New Brunswick’s Regional Enforcement Counsel for the Wartime Prices and Trade Board (during WWII). In 1953, she was called to the Senate and appointed as its first female Speaker in 1972.
Mary Booker (1901 - 1955), was the first Canadian woman that became appointed as a School Inspector.
Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, famous for her study of how culture influences personality. She was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s
Amy Johnson was the first female pilot to fly alone from Britain to Australia, which she achieved at the age of 26. Other achievements include becoming the first female ground engineer licensed by the Air Ministry, and being awarded the C.B.E. for her flying achievements.
Katharine Hepburn became a Hollywood star in the 1930's and won over thousands with her beauty, wit, and eccentric strength. Over her six decades in Hollywood, Katharine earned twelve Academy Award nominations and was awarded an unprecedented four Best Actress Oscars.
Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir, commonly known as Simone de Beauvoir(French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ]; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986), was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist. She did not consider herself a philosopher but she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.[1] Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, an autobiography, monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She is best known for her novels, including She Came to Stay and The Mandarins, as well as her 1949 treatise The Second Sex, a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism
Eileen Vollick became Canada's first licensed female pilot on 13 March 1928. She was also the first Canadian woman to parachute into water.
Irena Sendler was a Roman Catholic, Polish woman who worked to save children (and some adults) in the Warsaw during the holocaust. She started helping Jews in 1939 and over the years she and her underground network rescued 2,500 Jewish children in Poland during World War II (Some of which were already outside of the Ghetto and in hiding.).
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964, for her "determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances".
Ethel Stark was a Canadian violinist and conductor. She was born in Montreal, Quebec, and studied at the McGill Conservatory of Music with Alfred De Sève and Alfred Whitehead.
Catholic nun and missionary Mother Teresa was a great women who touched the lives of many. She taught in India for 17 years before she experienced her calling to care for the sick and poor. Her order established centers for the blind, aged, and disabled; a hospice; and a leper colony. This truly amazing woman received a Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work and was a great inspiration to many.
Blanche Margaret Meagher was Canada's first female ambassador. Formerly a junior high school teacher, Meagher made history when she was named the ambassador to Israel.
Gwethalyn Graham was a Canadian writer. Her 1944 novel Earth and High Heaven was the first Canadian book to reach number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.
A civil rights activist, Rosa Parks started a city-wide boycott when she refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. The city of Montgomery was forced to lift a law requiring segregation on public buses. Rosa received many awards and honors her life for her activist work, including The Spingarn Medal.
Often called “The Most Beautiful Woman in Films,” Hedy Lamarr’s beauty and screen presence made her one of the most popular actresses of her day. In addition to her film accomplishments, Hedy and composer George Antheil patented what they called the “Secret Communication System.” in 1942. The original idea, meant to solve the problem of enemies blocking signals from radio-controlled missiles during World War II, involved changing radio frequencies simultaneously to prevent enemies from being able to detect the messages.
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