WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

4. First woman to serve as premier of a territory
5. First woman appointed to the Senate
6. First woman to serve as Governor General of Canada
11. First women elected Chief of a First Nation community
12. First woman elected to the House of Commons
14. First Indigenous woman to advise the Minister of National Health and Welfare
15. First woman Prime Minister of Canada
18. First women elected to a legislature in the British Empire
21. First Canadian woman physician to practice in Canada
22. First Canadian woman astronaut sent into space
23. First Black newspaperwoman in North America

1. First woman elected to a legislature in the British Empire
2. First woman to hold the position of a deputy commissioner of the Northwest Territories and eventually a commissioner
3. First Canadian woman to represent Canada in the Olympic Games
7. First Black Canadian woman elected to the House of Commons
8. Canada's first woman lawyer
9. First-ever Canada’s Pay Equity Commissioner
10. Fought for women's right to vote in Manitoba
13. First woman to receive a P.H.D. from a Canadian University
14. First woman to command a major Canadian warship
16. SECORD Canadian Heroine of the War of 1812
17. First woman appointed as a judge to a superior court
19. 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
20. Created the friendship centre Nistawoyou to help Indigenous people find work and created New Start, an organization to help Indigenous people upgrade their education