Celebrating Canadian Women

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Across
  1. 3. Fought for Indigenous women’s rights and status
  2. 5. First woman to lead Canada’s Supreme Court
  3. 10. Acclaimed author of Anne of Green Gables
  4. 12. Played key roles in women’s right to vote
  5. 13. Feminist activist and founder of the Congress of Black Women
  6. 16. Refugee and later Governor General of Canada
  7. 17. Celebrated poet of Mohawk and English heritage
  8. 18. McClung Trailblazing feminist and “Famous Five” member
  9. 20. Cree singer-songwriter and activist
  10. 21. Groundbreaking Métis artist known for spiritual themes
  11. 22. First female Governor General of Canada
  12. 23. Pioneering engineer and advocate for women in aviation
Down
  1. 1. First Canadian woman astronaut
  2. 2. First female Prime Minister of Canada
  3. 4. Canada’s first Black female Member of Parliament
  4. 6. AnnShadd Afro-Canadian publisher and abolitionist
  5. 7. Olympic medalist and mental health advocate
  6. 8. First female judge on the Supreme Court of Canada
  7. 9. Civil rights icon who challenged segregation in Nova Scotia
  8. 11. First female Governor General of Asian descent
  9. 14. First woman mayor of a major Canadian city
  10. 15. First Indigenous woman appointed to the federal cabinet
  11. 19. Influential author of The Handmaid’s Tale
  12. 22. Canada’s second female astronaut and former GG