Canadian women have long been trailblazers, creating art, making discoveries and setting records – and often battling incredible odds and discrimination in the process. Here, award-winning children’s writer Elizabeth MacLeod presents biographies of more than one hundred of these remarkable women, from the famous, such as Margaret Atwood, to the lesser known, such as multi-award-winning mathematician Karen Yeats. There are stories of activists and architects, engineers and explorers, poets and politicians and so many more. Each category pairs a historical groundbreaker with a present-day woman making her mark in that same field. Included are stories of Indigenous women, immigrants, women with disabilities and women from the LGBTQ+ community. Together, they tell the story of Canada. And together they offer a vision of what’s possible, to inspire all children to blaze trails of their own.
- ISBN: 9781525300615
- Author: MacLeod, Elizabeth
- Illustrator: Faddoul, Maia
- Published: 2020 , Kids Can Pr
- Themes: Famous Women, girls and women, History
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Canada, Intermediate (ages 9-14)
- No. of pages: 80