née Hyman. Born January 24, 1943, Montreal, Quebec.  Died 1973, St. Catharines, Ontario. Rosalind graduated with first class honours Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, Montreal in 1963. After her marriage she continued her education graduating with a Masters from the University of Rochester, New York, U.S.A. in 1965. The couple returned to Montreal so Rosalind could continue her studies earning a Doctorate (PhD) in 1971. The following year the couple were both on faculty at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, where Rosalind was a founding member of the Department of Economics. The couple adopted a son. In 1972 she took leave from Brock University and worked with the New Democratic Party (N D P) of Manitoba as director of economic analysis in the Cabinet Policy Secretariat. After giving birth to a son in 1973 she fell into a coma and died a month later. In September 1975 Brock University opened the Rosalind Blauer Centre for Child Care.  Source: Brock women who made - and changed - the University's history, Brock University, Online, (accessed 2024)

Born May 6, 1907, England. Died October 17, 1963, Montreal, Quebec. At the end of World War 1 (1914-1918) Agatha immigrated to Canada where she felt she had a connection with her uncle having been Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba and her great grandfather had been a Father of Confederation. Agatha earned her Bachelor of Arts in commerce from the University of British Columbia where she also went on to earn a Masters degree in 1931. She started her working career with and insurance company prior to working with the Bank of Canada starting in 1940. She was one of the first women economists working for the Bank. In 1942 she was seconded to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (now Statistics Canada) to help develop Canada's national accounts. She soon became one of Canada's leading experts in the field. She was the only woman attending the firs United Nations Sub-Committee on National Income Statistics held in 1945. In July 1946 she was identified as a member of a communist cell transmitting secrets to the Soviet Union and was suspended from her job. Her trial case was dismissed for lack of evidence but she was ostracized from the Canadian Civil Service. She was hired to work at Cambridge University in England on the recommendation of her former Canadian boss. She authored Wages and Salaries in the United Kingdom 1920-1938 published by the University. After three years in England she returned to Canada to live and work in Montreal where she married. She was never achieved her former prominence as an economist and sadly jumped to her death from her apartment. Source: The Trial of Agatha Chapman, by James Powell, Today in Ottawa's History, Online (accessed 2022)

Born April 9, 1894, Jaslo Poland. Died August 17, 1974, Toronto, Ontario. After Cecilia had finished her high school  the family relocated to Austria. In 1920 Cecelia came to Canada after she had completed her first year at the University of Vienna in Austria. . Learning English, she worked summers at an inn in Muskoka, Ontario. In 1924 she graduated with her Bachelor of Arts from the University or Toronto and the following year she completed her Master's Degree. In 1930 Cecilia was the first woman to earn a Doctorate (PhD) in Mathematics in Canada when she graduated from the University of Toronto and only the third person to receive such a degree in Canada. She would go on to teach mathematics and physics at the University of Toronto for over 30 years. She would spend ten years as a lecturer prior to being promoted to an assistant professor in 1941. She is remembered for translating mathematical texts. In 1948 she was invited to lecture at the University of British Columbia. She helped female students through her work with the Canadian Association of University Women's Fellowship Committee. In 1958 she married Dr. Zygmunt Dunaij, a Holocaust survivor. She retired from the U of T in 1961 but continued to teach there for an additional five years. As well as helping to support her family over the decades she als helped refugee Jewish families who  were fleeing persecution in Europe during World War ll (1939-1945). After the death of her husband in 1968 she taught at Upper Canada College in Toronto. In 1995 the Krieger-Nelson Prize was created by the Canadian Mathematical Society to honour Cecelia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson. Cecelia's papers are part of the collections of the U of T Archives. Source: Canadian Encyclopedia, Online, (accessed 2023)

Born July 21, 1943, Kingston, Ontario. Judith attended Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia earning her Bachelor of Commerce Degree in 1963. She studied at the London School of Economics in England from 1965-1966. On May 8 1970 she married Anthony Stirling and the couple have 2 children. She worked as a researcher with the Combines Investigation Branch of the Federal Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs until 1965. She worked as an economist and writer for the Financial Times of Canada from 1966 through 1972 and then was Director of Policy Studies at the C.D. Howe Institute until 1980. She worked with the Economic Council of Canada from 1985-1992 prior to becoming Associate Director of the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, Kingston and Executive Director of Queen’s-University of Ottawa Economic Projects in 1992-1994. She was a member of Ontario Premier’s Council from 1998-1990. She has authored several books the economics and social role of government. In 1996 she was inducted into the Order of Canada. She was a founding president of the Canadian Policy Research Networks until she retired in 2005. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Community Foundation of Ottawa and is part of a group of volunteers working to establish a Citizens Academy of Ottawa. (2020)

née Roden. Born November 25, 1943, Hamilton, Ontario. Died August 1, 1987, Hamilton, Ontario. Evelyn began her university studies at the University of Toronto but after two years she switched to McMaster University in Hamilton. She had married Mort Nelson, a fellow student at McMaster. By 1965 she had earned her Bachelor of Science in mathematics and continued her studies earning her Master's Degree in 1967. Her Master's thesis was published in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics. By 1970 she had obtained her doctorate (PhD) and her thesis was the bases for an article once again in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics. She remained at McMaster as a post-doctoral researcher and in 1978 she was appointed as an Associate Professor. In 1982 she became Head of the Computer Science at McMaster. The following year she became a full professor. With over 40 published papers in her field she made contributions in universal algebra  with applications to theoretical Computer science. In 1995 the Krieger-Nelson Prize was created by the Canadian Mathematical Society to honour Cecelia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson. The McMaster Department of Mathematics offers the Evelyn Nelson Lectures. Source: Canadian Encyclopedia, Online (accessed 2017)

née Gregory. Born June 29, 1904, Rossland, British Columbia. Died April 18, 1988, Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Phyllis graduated with first class honours in economics and political science from the University of British Columbia (U B C) in 1925. She then went to Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. to earn her Masters in 1927. She would also study at the London School of Economics, England, and the University of Marburg, Germany. In 1928 she married Leonard Hugh Turner  in London, England. The couple had three children. After the death of her husband when she was just 29 she returned to live with her parents in Rossland, British Columbia. She soon had a job in Ottawa, Ontario working as a public servant working with the Canadian Tariff Board, the Dominion Trade and Industry Commission and the Wartime Prices and Trade Board. Talented and dedicated as she was she would only ever receive two-thirds of the salary of a man in the same working position. For her work  in helping the economy of Canada during World War ll (1939-1945) she was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1945 she married Frank Mackenzie Ross (1891-1971), who would serve as Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia from 1955-1960. From 1951 to 1954 she sat as a member of the Senate of the University of British Columbia and then from 1960 to 1966. In 1961 she became U B C's first woman chancellor. In 1967 she receive the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada  and was later appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada. She was also a Dame of the St. John of Jerusalem and a Dame of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Her son John Napier Wyndham Turner(1929-2020) would become the 17th Prime Minister of Canada. Source: The British Columbia Archival Information Network, Online (accessed 2022); Find a Grave, Online, (accessed 2022)

Born 1940. Died August 1995. Lise earned a Master of Arts in economics from Université Laval in 1965 and that same years received a pre doctoral Canada council grant to study in the humanities social sciences and fine arts. By 1966 she was working at the Bureau d'amenagment de test du Québec.  She continued her studies in Belgium earning a doctorate at the Université de Louvain in 1972. She was well published in articles for journals and boos in the field of economics. Back in Quebec by 1970 she was working on the faculty of the Université de Montréal teaching economics and macroeconomics. She worked as a visiting scholar at the Centre for Operations Research and Economics, Belgium and the Institut national de la statistique et des études économique, France. She was a member of the Canadian Economics Association (C E A), She was an associate editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics which is bilingual. She married Camille Bronsard and the couple had two children. Source: Obituary, by Marcel Dagenais, Canadian Journal of Economics vol. 29 N0. 3 August 1966 pp 757-759, Online (accessed 2022)

née  Pocock. Born February 21, 1950. Died February 21, 2012, Toronto, Ontario. Margaret earned her Bachelor of Arts and her Master's degrees. She married Larry Sinclair and the couple had five children. Margaret taught for 15 years and served as vice principal with the Toronto Catholic District School Board. When her children were grown she returned to school to earn her Doctorate at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (O I S E). She worked at York University as a Professor in the Math Education Department. Her love of mathematics  allowed her to follow her passion of teaching, researching and publishing. Source: Obituary, Toronto Star, Online (accessed 2023)

née Mamanuwartum. Born 1818?, Normandy House Northwest Territories (Now Manitoba). Died 1910?, Alberta. Jessie married Henry Bird Steinhauer, an Ojibwa. They met while he worked as a teacher and interpreter for the Methodist church at Norway House. Henry would become a Methodist convert and the first Indigenous ordained Methodist Minister shortly after the young couple met. The couple had twelve children.  In 1855 they were living in Lac La Biche (now in Alberta) to establish a mission and by 1857 they were in Fish Lake on the Saskatchewan River to establish a mission. (2023)

Born 1937? Ottawa. Died 1980, Ottawa, Ontario. In 1948 Edith earned her Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.  She began working for the Bank of Canada holding various positions from Assistant Chief of Research from 1966 through 1971, Chief the International Department from 1974 through 1977, then Chief of the Computer Department.  She was an Associate Advisor and being part of the police-making body at the band and was the highest ranking women. She served as president of the Victorian Order of Nurses (V O N), Ottawa Branch and went on to serve on the national executive. She also served on the Queen's University Council. The Edith Whyte Memorial Book Prizes in intermediate Macroeconomic Theory and the Edith White Memorial Scholarships in Economics which are awarded to university students were established by her family and friends at Queen University in Kingston. Source: QED Builders, Queen's University Economic Department online (accessed 2024); not on find a grave 2024)

née Baxter. Born March 18, 1879, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Died March 9, 1917, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. In 1891 Agnes was the first woman to receive a degree from Dalhousie University in Mathematics. She also won the Sir William Young Gold Medal for being the undergraduate with the highest standing of honours student in mathematics and mathematical physics. By 1892 she had earned the Master's Degree. She earned a fellowship and went on earning her Doctoral Degree (PhD) at Cornell University, New York, U.S.A. She was the fourth woman to receive a PhD in Mathematics in North America and the second woman to do so in Canada. August 20 1896 she married Dr. Ross Hill. The couple settled in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. where she supported her her husband in his teaching career at the university. The couple had two daughters. After her death, Ross Hill donated donated funds to Dalhousie to set up a collection of books in mathematics. In 1988 Dalhousie University dedicated the Agnes Baxter Reading Room in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing Science. Source: D C B, Online  (accessed 2020)

Born November 21, 1870, Hamilton, Ontario. Died May 9, 1947. Following her education at the University of Toronto Louise continued her studies in mathematics on a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago and Bryn Mawr College in the U.S.A. where she would earn her PhD in mathematics in 1914. She was a full professor at Vassar from 1902 until her retirement in 1936. She contributed some dozen research papers in leading mathematics journals during her career. and was a speaker at international meetings of mathematicians. (2020)

Born June 1, 1868, Woodstock, Ontario. Died September 12, 1940, Walton, New York, U.S.A. Annie completed her studies at the masters level at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A. and continued in her education in mathematics earning a PhD. from Cornell University, New York, U.S.A. in 1894. Upon graduation she was awarded the Association of Collegiate Alumnae European Fellowship to study mathematics a the Gottingen University. Returning from studies in Europe in 1896 she began her career at Wells College, Aurora, New York, U.S.A., as professor and Registrar. She was elected to the American Mathematics Society in 1897. She was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the League of Women Voters. She devoted time and energy to encouraging women to take a spirited interest in local, state and national communities. Source: Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Online (accessed 2004)

Born March 25, 1912, Tokyo, Japan. Died December 6, 1966, Ottawa, Ontario. In 1950 she received a scholarship to work in post graduate studies at the University of Texas, Austin, Texas, U.S.A. She also received an Master's of Arts in mathematics at the University of Michigan and worked for her Doctorate (PhD) in sociology at the University of Michigan. Dr Kasahara  moved to Canada in 1956 where she joined the Census Division of Statistics Canada and then the Central Research and Development Staff. She specialized in demographic research but participated actively in a large variety of projects. In 1963 she was extremely proud to become a Canadian citizen. She published numerous papers, distinctive reports, and represented Canada at a number of international conferences with distinction. The high professional standards that she applied to her work were also evident in her hobby of photography. An accomplished linguist she was also a stimulating conversationalist. Source: Cambridge University Press & Assessment, Online (accessed 2020)

Born April 9, 1894, Jaslo, Poland. Died August 17, 1974, Ontario. Cecelia began her studies at the University of Vienna, Austria, but moved to the University of Toronto earning her Bachelor of Arts, Master's of Arts and Doctorate (PhD) by 1930. She was the 1st woman to earn a Canadian mathematics doctorate. She was a instructor, lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Toronto retiring only in 1962. She continued teaching at Upper Canada College, Kingston, Ontario until her death. The Canadian Mathematical Society now awards the CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize lectureship for Distinguished Research by Women in Mathematics in honour of Cecilia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson. She encouraged her students in their studies in mathematics and engineering and was an active participant in the Canadian Association of University Women. Cecilia Krieger archival papers are maintained at the University of Toronto. Source: Canadian Encyclopedia, Online (accessed 2018)

née Synge. Born May 5, 1923, Toronto, Ontario. Died August 8, 2017, Greenwich Village, New York, U.S.A. Cathleen began her studies in mathematics by obtaining her B.A. at the University of Toronto. She continued her studies by earning a master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946 and she earned her PhD. at New York University in 1951. She has contributed to several esteemed scientific associations and was the first woman to belong to the Applied Mathematics Section of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. In 1997 she received the Krieger-Nelson Award from the Canadian Mathematical Society in recognition of her outstanding research.  Married with four children she has been recognized by the National Organization for Women for combining a successful career and family. In 2004 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Mathematical Society to recognize the cumulative influence of her total mathematical work. In 2021 the Canadian Mathematical Society presented the first Cathleen Synge Morawetz Prize to an author of an outstanding research publication. Source: In Memorium: Mathematician Cathleen Synge Morawetz, U of T News, Online (accessed (2017); The Cathleen Morawetz Prize Online,  (accessed 2025)

née Roden. Born November 25, 1943, Hamilton, Ontario. Died August 1, 1987, Hamilton, Ontario. Evelyn's parents were Russian immigrants who supported their daughter all the way through her studies. She began her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto in Mathematics-physics-chemistry honours program then transferred to McMaster University in Hamilton. Shortly after she married Mort Nelson. She graduated in 1965 at the top of her class and began her post graduated studies receiving her Master’s degree in 1967 followed in 1970 with a PhD from McMaster. She gave birth to her first child while writing her thesis which was published in the Canadian Journal of Mathematics. She began a teaching career at McMaster and was promoted to full professor in 1983. She served as editor of Algebra Universalis. She also chaired, 1982-1984 the Unit of Computer Science within the mathematics department at the University. The Canadian Mathematical Society now awards the CMS Krieger-Nelson Prize for Distinguished Research by Women in Mathematics in honour of Cecilia Krieger and Evelyn Nelson. Source: Canadian Encyclopedia, Online  ( accessed 2017.)

Born September 17, 1952, St. Catharines, Ontario. Starting out in computer studies Nancy soon learned that she preferred statistics. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from The University of Waterloo in Ontario, her masters' from the University of British Columbia and her Doctorate (PhD) from Stanford University ,U.S.A. in 1979. A Professor of Statistics at the University of Toronto she  taught since 1986 and served as Chair of the department from 1997-2002. An elected member of several distinguished societies and associations in her field she was the winner of the President's Award of the Committee of Statistical Societies in 1992. The award recognized outstanding contribution to the profession of statistics. She was the first woman to hold a Canada Research chair in statistics. From 1995  to 1997 she was the Editor-in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Statistics.  In 1995 she was the 1st recipient of the Krieger-Nelson Prize Lectureship for distinguished research by a woman in mathematics. In 1996-1997 she served as president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and in 2004 -2005 she was president of the Statistical Society of Canada. Her efforts led to the creation of the Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences in 2012 where she has served as Director since 2015.  In 2018 she became Editor-in-Chief for the Annual Review of Statistics and its Application. She has produced over 50 journal publications in statistics as well as three major books in the field. All of this while being an mother of two children!.

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