100 Canadian heroines : famous and forgotten faces
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- ISBN: 9781550025149 :
- ISBN: 1550025147 :
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319 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : Dundurn Group, c2004.
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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 -- |
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Subject: | Heroines in literature -- Canada -- Biography Women -- Canada -- Biography Canada -- Biography Women heroes -- Canada -- Biography Heroines in literature -- Canada -- Biography |
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Castlegar Campus Library | FC 26 W6 F67 2004 (Text)
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