Emily Howard Stowe was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Stowe helped found the women's suffrage movement in Canada and campaigned for the country's first medical college for women.
Emily Stowe
The history of feminism in Canada has been a gradual struggle aimed at establishing equal rights. The history of Canadian feminism, like modern Western feminism in other countries, has been divided by scholars into four "waves", each describing a period of intense activism and social change. The use of "waves" has been critiqued for its failure to include feminist activism of Aboriginal and Québécois women who organized for changes in their own communities as well as for larger social change.
Mother Joseph Pariseau (1823–1902) was a Quebec-born missionary who worked in the Pacific Northwest of the United States during the pioneering period
Helena Gutteridge fought for women's suffrage in BC
Unveiling of a plaque commemorating the five Alberta women whose efforts resulted in the Persons Case, which established the rights of women to hold public office in Canada.
Veronica Foster, popularly known as "Ronnie, the Bren Gun Girl" on the production line. Many women worked "on the home front" during the war.
