Woman Empowerment

1. First woman to serve as premier of a territory
4. First Canadian woman physician to practice in Canada
5. Canada's first woman lawyer
7. First woman elected to the House of Commons
9. First woman Prime Minister of Canada
10. Fought for women's right to vote in Manitoba
13. Spoke out about the importance of access to clean drinking water that was being denied to the Indigenous community. She became the Chied water commissioner for the Anishinabek Nation
15. First woman to hold the position of a deputy commissioner of the Northwest Territories and eventually a commissioner
18. First Black newspaperwoman in North America
21. First Canadian woman astronaut sent into space
22. First woman appointed as a judge to a superior court
23. First-ever Canada’s Pay Equity Commissioner
24. First Canadian woman to represent Canada in the Olympic Games

2. SECORD Canadian Heroine of the War of 1812
3. Created the friendship centre Nistawoyou to help Indigenous people find work and created New Start, an organization to help Indigenous people upgrade their education
6. First woman elected to a legislature in the British Empire
8. First women elected to a legislature in the British Empire
11. First woman to receive a P.H.D. from a Canadian University
12. First Black Canadian woman elected to the House of Commons
14. First Indigenous woman to advise the Minister of National Health and Welfare
16. First woman to serve as Governor General of Canada
17. First woman appointed to the Senate
19. First women elected Chief of a First Nation community
20. First woman to command a major Canadian warship