Celebrating Canadian Women

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Across
  1. 5. first woman elected to the house of commons
  2. 7. Opened first hospital in canada
  3. 8. first woman to serve as premier of a territory
  4. 9. first woman Prime Minister of Canada
  5. 12. first canada's woman lawyer
  6. 14. becoming a first woman receiving a Ph.D. from a Canadian university
  7. 16. walked 32 kilometres of attack by Americans during the War of 1812
  8. 19. first woman to serve as premier of a territory
  9. 20. first Canadian woman physician to practice in Canada
  10. 23. first Canadian woman astronaut sent into space
  11. 24. First ever Canada's pay equity commissioner
Down
  1. 1. first woman to serve as governor general of Canada
  2. 2. She was a pioneer in women’s education in Quebec and helped lay the groundwork for legal reforms to protect women’s rights.
  3. 3. brown First Black woman elected to a canadian provincial legislature and worked to end racism and sexism in politics
  4. 4. First two women in the British Empire to be elected to a provincial legislature
  5. 6. first Canadian woman to represent Canada in an Olympic Games
  6. 10. First chinese canadian woman to become a doctor
  7. 11. She was a last member of the Beothuk people who made drawings and write stories to keep her people's history alive
  8. 13. first pioneer of women's university education
  9. 15. first black newspaper woman in North America
  10. 17. first woman to command a major Canadian warship
  11. 18. first woman appointed as a judge to a superior court
  12. 21. first woman elected chief of a First Nation community
  13. 22. first black Canadian woman elected to the House of Commons
  14. 25. first women who fight for women's voting right in Canada