Celebrating Canadian Women

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Across
  1. 2. First woman Prime Minister of Canada
  2. 4. First woman in the British Empire elected to a provincial legislature
  3. 6. First Black newspaper woman in North America
  4. 9. Walked 32 kilometers during the War of 1812
  5. 12. First woman appointed as a judge to a superior court
  6. 13. First pioneer of women's university education
  7. 15. First woman to serve as premier of a territory
  8. 19. First Canadian woman to represent Canada in an Olympic Games
  9. 22. First Chinese Canadian woman who become a doctor
  10. 23. First Canada’s pay equity commissioner
  11. 24. First Black Canadian woman elected to the House of Commons
Down
  1. 1. Pioneer in women’s education in Quebec
  2. 3. First woman elected chief of a First Nation community
  3. 5. First woman earned a Ph.D. from a Canadian university
  4. 7. First Canadian woman physician to practice in Canada
  5. 8. First woman in the British Empire elected to a provincial legislature
  6. 10. First Canadian woman astronaut sent into space
  7. 11. First Canadian woman who became a lawyer
  8. 14. First woman elected to the House of Commons
  9. 16. First woman who opened the hospital in Canada
  10. 17. First woman to serve as premier of a territory
  11. 18. First woman to serve as governor general of Canada
  12. 20. First woman to command a major Canadian warship
  13. 21. First woman who fought for women's voting rights in Canada