women in canada

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Across
  1. 1. first Canadian woman physician to practice in Canada
  2. 3. Canadian heroine of the War of 1812
  3. 5. First woman to serve in a federal cabinet.
  4. 8. First female mayor of a major city in Canada
  5. 9. Civil rights activist and businesswoman.
  6. 12. one of the first women elected to a legislature in the British Empire
  7. 14. First female geologist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
  8. 16. first woman elected chief of a First Nation community
  9. 17. first woman to receive a Ph.D. from a Canadian university
  10. 18. first woman to serve as Governor General of Canada
  11. 19. first Canadian woman prime minister for less than five months
  12. 20. First female police magistrate in the British Empire
  13. 21. first woman to command a major Canadian warship
  14. 23. first Canadian woman astronaut sent into space
  15. 24. first woman in Canada to become a full professor at McGill University in Montreal
Down
  1. 2. Advocate for women's rights.
  2. 4. Early female activist and politician.
  3. 6. First female aircraft designer
  4. 7. first Black Canadian woman elected to the House of Commons
  5. 10. founder of Canada’s first hospital
  6. 11. first woman elected to the House of Commons
  7. 13. Famous Canadian painter
  8. 15. Canada’s first woman lawyer
  9. 22. first-ever Canada’s Pay Equity Commissioner