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1970
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1970 - 39.9% of women ages 15 and
over work in the labour force but with annual earnings being
only 59% of men
1970 - The Canada Royal Commission on the Status of Women
tables a report with recommendations to eliminate sexual inequality
in Canada. The Commission recommends changes to the military to
create equal conditions for all, especially for women
1970 -
The Velvet Fist
begins publication from the Toronto
Women's Caucus (T W C)
1970 - Sue Johanson R N
(1930- )
opens in Don Mills Birth Control Clinic, the 1st such
clinic in a High school in North America
1970 - With the approval of
three doctors abortion becomes available in some hospitals on a
case-by case basis
April - May 1970 -
The Vancouver Women's Caucus organizes the Abortion Caravan as
the first national protest against the abortion laws and calls
for their repeal.
The Abortion Caravan crosses Canada and stops in
Ottawa with a specific demonstration at Parliament. 30 women
chain themselves to the parliamentary gallery in the House of Commons,
closing the Canadian parliament for the first time in its history
Source : A History of Abortion in Canada
http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/history.html
(accessed July 30, 2003)
May 11, 1970 - Ella Jean Canfield
(1918-2000)
is the 1st woman to be elected to the Legislative Assembly of
Prince Edward Island
June 1970 -
Dr Henry Morgentaler's office is raided by the police
and he is charged with conspiracy to perform an abortion
Source : A
History of Abortion in Canada
http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/history.html
(accessed July 30, 2003)
November 20-21, 1970 -
The 1st national conference of the Canadian Women's
Liberation Movement at the University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1970 - The Canada Royal Commission on the Status of Women
tables a report with recommendations to eliminate sexual inequality
in Canada
1970 - Sue Johanson
(1930- )
opens in Don Mills Birth Control Clinic, the 1st such
clinic in a High school in North America
1970 - With the approval of
three doctors abortion becomes available in some hospitals on a
case-by case basis Source:
http://herstory.womenspace.ca/timeline.html
)
November 20-21, 1970 -
The 1st national conference of the Canadian Women's
Liberation Movement at the University of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
December 21, 1970 - Elizabeth Magdalena 'Lena' Pederson
(1940- ) is
the 1st woman and the 1st Inuit woman to be elected to the Northwest
Territories Council
1970 -
Beverly Boys (1951- ) is a
double Gold medalist at the British Commonwealth Games & is
voted by the Canadian Press winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award
as Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the Year
1970 - The 1st Women's
studies courses are offered at
the University of Toronto, McGill University, University of
Waterloo, Université de Montréal and the University of Guelph Source A Chronology of the
development of women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic
Feminist Network
http://www.unb.ca/PAR-L/chronology1.htm (accessed April 28, 2003.
)
December 21, 1970 - Elizabeth Magdalena 'Lena' Pederson
(1940- ) is
the 1st woman and the 1st Inuit woman to be elected to the Northwest
Territories Council
1970 - The 1st Women's
studies courses are offered at
the University of Toronto, McGill University, University of
Waterloo, Université de Montréal and the University of Guelph Source A Chronology of the
development of women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic
Feminist Network
http://www.unb.ca/PAR-L/chronology1.htm (accessed April 28, 2003.
)
Births 1970:
1970 -
Born Sylvia Tennisco (1970 -
) graphic artist
January 24, 1970 - Born Lynn Coady (1970-
) award winning author
April 1970 - Born Mary Jo "M. J." De Coteau (1970-
) in 2004 MacLean's named her as one of ten women making a
difference
April 22, 1970 - Born Robbyn Hermitage (1970 -
) champion badminton player
May 3, 1970 -
Born Marie-Soleil Tougas (1970-1997) actor on Quebec television
May 8, 1970 - Born Naomi Klein (1970- )
social activist & author
ay 18, 1970 - Born Vicky
Sunohara (1970- ) Olympic medal winning hockey team
member
July 7, 1970 - Born Cree Summer (1970 - ) actor
July 28, 1970 - Born Isabelle Brasseur, (1970 - ) with Lloyd
Eisler, pairs figure skating
champions, with world & Olympic Medals.
August 21, 1970 - Born Carrie-Anne Moss
(1970 - ) international model & actor
October 5, 1970 - Born Tina Poitras (1970 -
), top ranked sport walker
November 30, 1970 -
Born Sandra Oh(1970 - ) actor
December 31, 1970 -
Born Chandra West (1970- )
actress in TV & movies
Deaths 1970:
1970 - Died Edith Hallett Bethune (1890-1970)
photographer
1970 -
Died Marie
S. Penny (1895-1970) businesswoman in Newfoundland
January 13, 1970
- Died Christine van der Mark-Wise (1917-1970) author
January 17, 1970 -
Died Alice Mary Jones-Holt (1886?-1970) Nursing Sister
World War l
January 20, 1970 -
Died Clara Flos Jewell
Williams (1889-1970) author
January 23, 1970 - Died
Nell Shipman (1892-1970) award
winning actor, author, screenwriter, director and producer
February 4, 1971 -
Died Ada Benvie (1883-1971) World War l Nursing Sister
February 8, 1970 -
Died Sadie Mildred
Grimm-Cruikshanke (1895-1970) motorcycle racer
February 27, 1970 - Died Marie
Dionne (1934-1970) one of the Dionne quintuplets
March 28, 1970 -
Died Muriel Lee - Monroe (1894-1970) lawyer
April 25, 1970 - Died
Helen Alice Kinnear (1894-1970) 1st woman to plead a case before
the Supreme Court of Canada
July 9, 1970 - Died Flora
McCrae Eaton (1879-1970) businesswoman, social activist & author
July 10, 1970 - Died Mary Houston (1888-1970) World War l
Nursing Sister
July 13, 1970 - Died
Laura
Salverson (1890-1970) award winning author
July 30 1970 -
Died Eleanor Rivington-Downs (1884-1970) World War l
Nursing Sister
August 1970 - Died Marion
Long (1882-1970) portrait painter
August 7, 1970 - Died
Hannah (Annie) Elizabeth Gale (1876-1970) 1st woman in the
British Empire to become an alderman
August 17, 1970 - Died
Louise Elizabeth Manny ( 1890-1970) New Brunswick historian & activist
September 3, 1970 -
Died Alice Torr (1881-1970) World War l Nursing Sister
September 13, 1970 -
Died Alice Torr (1881-1970) World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 22, 1970 - Died Emily Abalinda Parker (1889-1970)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 4, 1970 - Died
Dame Alfreda Jenness Attrill (1877-1970) Nursing Sister World War
l, Dame of Grace, St John Ambulance
October 20, 1970 - Died
Judith Jasmin (1916-1972)
pioneer & accomplished broadcast journalist
October 22, 1970 - Died
Pauline
Donalda (real name Pauline Lightstone) (1882-1970) internationally
renowned opera singer
October 24, 1970 - Born
Gladys Lillian Boyd (1873-1970) medical endocrine specialist
November 30, 1970 -
Died Susannah 'Susan' Grant (1871-1970) medical
missionary
November 30 1970 - Died Charlotte Hardcastle-Coltart
(????-1970) World War l Nursing Sister
December 22, 1970 -
Died Emily Abalinda Parker (1889-1970) World War 1
Nursing Sister
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January 1, 1971 -
The
Ontario Native Women’s Association is established as an Non
Governmental Organization (NGO) to empower Aboriginal women
January 1, 1971 -
Quebecoises deboutte! (Quebec Women Stand-up),
the 1st socialist feminist journal, is founded. It ceases
publication in 1974
1971
-
The
Canadian Unemployment Insurance Act contains provision for maternity
leave. A woman who met the eligibility requirements faced a two-week
waiting period with no benefits, followed by 15 weeks of benefits at
60% of her usual wages to a maximum of $189.00 a week
1971 - The
Canadian government modifies the Canadian Labour Code to prohibit
discrimination based on sex and to provide for 17 weeks of maternity
leave. Maternity benefits are added to Unemployment Insurance
1971 - The Province of Quebec allows women to be members of
a jury
April 5, 1971 - Frances
(Coolin) Phipps becomes the 1st Canadian Woman to reach the
North Pole
1971 - The
University of British Columbia offers the first degree granting
program in Woman's Studies. Source: Women's
Studies by Renee Bondy in Herizon. (accessed July
2011)
November 12, 1971 -
Stewardess
Mary Dohey (1933- )
saves the lives of passengers and crew of an Air Canada
flight from a hijacker
1971-
Mabel Margaret Van Camp
(1920-2012) is the 1st woman
appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Ontario
1971 - Gwen Landolt forms "The Right to Life", an
anti-abortion organization
1971 - Joyce Wieland (1931-1998.) is the 1st living Canadian woman artist
to have a solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada
1971 - Robert Andras is appointed the 1st federal
minister responsible for the Status of Women. He is the 1st of
several men to hold this position Source: Women in History; a
timeline by Kirsten Smith, Postmedia News March 9, 2011.
1971 - Basketball player Noel MacDonald Robertson
(1915 - ) is inducted into the
Canada Sports Hall of Fame
1971 - Debbie Van Kiekebelt
(1954- ) Gold medalist in Pentathlon at
the Pan American Games and Debbie Brill
(1953 - ) Gold Medalist in the High Jump at the Pan
American Games are voted by the Canadian Press as winner of the
Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the year
Births 1971:
1971 - Born Nicole Dunsdon (1971 -
) is crowned the last Miss Canada October 28, 1991
1971 - Born Barbara Hannigan (1971- ) opera singer
March 20, 1971 - Born Monique Kavelaais (1971- )
Olympic epee fencer
May 25, 1971 - Born Nicole Luiken (1971 - ), author
June 26, 1971 - Born Christine Nordhagen Virling ( 1971- ) world
wrestling champion.
July 2, 1971 - Born Evelyn Lau (1971 - ) author
& youngest poet to be nominated
for a Governor General's Award.
July 29, 1971 - Born Annie Perreault (1971 - ) one of Canada's most decorated
Olympians.
October 3, 1971 - Born Angela Kelly (1971- ) award
winning soccer player and coach.
Deaths 1971:
1971 - Died Irene Kataq Anguitok-Anqutitaq (1914-1971)
Indigenous sculptor
1971 - Died
Elsie Holloway (1882-1971) portrait
photographer, Newfoundland
1971 - Died Kate Livingston Cumming (1889-1971) Canadian artist
1971 - Died Helen Beatrice Palen (1865
- 1971)
appointed the Deputy Registrar of the Ontario Securities Commission
& 1st woman
Registrar of the Supreme Court of Ontario
1971 - Died Marie
Therese Goulet (1912-1971) Métis teacher & author
1971 - Died
Harriett ‘Hattie’ Olive Stacey (1888-1971) World War l Nursing
Sister
January 3, 1971 - Born Isabelle Charest-Charbonneau (1971-
) Olympic medalist in speed skating
January 4, 1971 -
Died Evelyn Mary Ashton-Simister (1889-1971) World War l Nursing
Sister
January 4, 1971 -
Died Edith Harriette Marion Powell (1882-1971) World War l
Nursing Sister
January 11, 1971 -
Died
Aileen Motley Doerksen (1899-1971)
teacher & community volunteer
January 14, 1971 - Died Evelyn Mary Aston-Simister (1889-1971)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 14, 1971 - Died Martha Scarrow (1912-1971) political
member of the C.C.F. Party in Ontario.
March 25, 1971 - Died
Anne Douglas Savage ( 1896-1971) pioneer educator & artist
April 1, 1971 -
Died Jean Cowan (1891-1971) World War l Nursing Sister
May 5 1971 -
Died Clara Sophia Gillies (1889-1971) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
May 5, 1971 -
Died Violet Walker-Stewart (1890-1971) World War l Nursing
Sister
June 23, 1971 - Died Emily Coonan (1885-1971) artist
August 9, 1971 -
Died Elizabeth Odell (1888-1971) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 1971 - Died Anne 'Annie' Sutherland Cavers (1888-1971)
nursing Instructor
December 11, 1971 - Died Kate Aitken (1891-1971)
journalist, author, radio & TV Personality, lecturer, "Busiest woman in the
world".
December 15, 1971 - Died
Bernice R. Brown (1905-1971) social activist in PEI
December 19, 1971 - died Emily Alexander Stewart-Buckly
(1886-1971) World War 1 Nursing Sister
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January 1, 1972 - Indian Rights for Indian
Women is a national organization formed in Alberta
1972 - Muriel McQueen Fergusson (1899-1997.)
is named the 1st woman Speaker of the Senate of Canada and the
becomes the 1st woman speaker in the Canadian Parliament
1972 - Jeanne Sauvé (1922-1993)
becomes the 1st Quebec Woman in a federal government cabinet when
she is appointed as Minister of State for Science and Technology
1972 -
The Canadian Income Tax Act allows the deduction
of the cost of child care from the income of working
mothers
February 3 - February 17, 1972 -
Olympic Winter Games, Sapporo, Japan. Silver Medal: Karen
Magnussen (1952- ) in
women's singles figure skating
1972 - Rachel Browne
(1934-2012) founds the School of Contemporary
Dance, Winnipeg, Manitoba
August 26, 1972 - September 11, 1972 -
Olympic Games,
Munich, West Germany
Silver Medals: Lesley
Cliff
(1955- ) in women's 400 meter individual swimming medley.
Bronze
Medals: Donna Gurr
(1955- )
in women's 200 meter swimming backstroke.
Pat Messner (1954- )
Women's slalom in the
demonstration sport of water skiing.
August 30,1972 - Rosemary Brown (1930-2003) is the
1st
Canadian Back woman elected to a public office when she is elected to
the provincial legislature as a
member of the New Democratic Party in British
Columbia Source:
British Columbia Federation of Labour.
1972 - Jocelyn Bourassa
(1947- ) a medal winning golfer, is
the 1st Female Athlete Quebec of the Year & Canadian Female Athlete
of the Year
1972 -
1st palliative care unit opens at St. Boniface General
Hospital, Manitoba. Within weeks Canada’s second Palliative care
unit is opened at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec
1972 -
The Canadian Newsletter of Research on Women/ Recherches sur la
femme-bulletin d'information begins publishing
Source A Chronology of the development of
women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network (accessed April 28, 2003.
)
1972 - The Alberta Sexual
Sterilization Act (1928) is repealed. 2,822 people had been
sterilized. Many of the operations were illegal un the Act itself
Source: Herstory: A Canadian Women's Calendar 2000
Page 72.
1972 -
The Toronto Women's Bookstore starts out as a few shelves of books
at a Toronto Women's Center on DuPont St. Source:
A short history of the Toronto Women's Bookstore The
Varsity, University of Toronto, February 4, 2011
1972 - Pat Messner (1954- )
is
the 1st Canadian woman to win an
world gold medal in water skiing. She earned the 1972 Ontario Sport
Achievement Award
1972 -
Microwave Ovens hit the Canadian market
Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg
18
1972 - Eva Von Gencsy (1924- )
founds Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
1972 - Toronto policewomen are granted an unpaid maternity leave of twelve
weeks. During their leave they will not lose seniority nor suffer a
decrease in salary
Source: Herstory: Milestones
in the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online
Accessed June 2011.
1972 -
The Service, Office, an retail Workers Union of Canada, a feminist
union, is formed to organize workers in female dominated occupations
not represented by other unions
1972 -
The Women's Press is founded to play an integral role in the
froliferation of feminist writing in Canada
Births 1972:
1972 - Died Blanche Wisenthal (1919-1972) social
Activist & National President of Hadassah W. I. Z. O.
1972 - Born Rachel Zimmerman (1972-
) inventor of a computer program using Bliss symbols to help the
speaking impaired communicate
February 16, 1972 - Born
Milaine Clouther (1972-
) medal winning badminton player
February 24, 1972 - Born Manon Rhéaume (1972- ) 1st
woman to play in the National Hockey League
March 17, 1972 - Melissa Auf Der Maur (1972- ) rock music
performer
April 9, 1972 - Born Karen Clark (1972- ) medal
winning synchronized swimmer
April 14, 1972 - Born Janice Christine Buller (1972-2013)
nurse
May 16, 1972 - Born
Lucy Slade (1972-2011) medal winning Kayaker &
canoeist
June 13, 1972 -
Born Natalie MacMaster (1972- )
champion fiddler
June 19, 1972 - Born Anna Van Der Kamp
(1972- ) medal
winning rower
July 6, 1972 - Born Susan Aeron-Grey
(1972-2016) actor
August 29, 1972 - Born Amanda Marshall
(1972- ) singer
September 3, 1972 - Born Christine Boudrias (1972-
) Olympic medal winning speed skater
September 27, 1972 - Born Clara Hughes
(1972- ) medal
winning cyclist & speed skater
October 10, 1972 - Born Marianne Limpert(1972-
) swimmer with 20 national titles and 81 international medals
November 14, 1972 - Born Lori Dupuis (1972- ) silver
& gold medalist in women's Olympic Hockey
Deaths 1972:
1972 - Died Evelyn Anhrus (1909-1972) photographer
1972 - Died Alashua Aningmiuq (1914-1971) Indigenous print
maker
1972 - Died
Daisy Bailey (1921-1972) enamel & copper
artist
1972 - Died Albertine Caron-Legris (1906-1972) pianist,
composer & teacher
1972 - Died
Donalda James Dickie (1883-1972) educator & author of
school text books
1972 - Died Janet Leys Shaw Mactavish (1925-1972) architect
1972 - Died Ada Kelly Whitney ( -1972) 1st Black
teacher in Windsor, Ontario
January 10, 1972 - Died Mary Emma Quayle Innis (1899-1972)
noted economic historian
January 24, 1972 - Died Margaret Rae Morrison Lucklock
(1893-1972) one of 1st two women elected to the Ontario Provincial
Legislature
February 29, 1972
- Died
Gertrude Walker (1891-1972) World War 1 nurse who served with the
American Red Cross
March 4, 1972 - Died
Grace Brown Waters (1881-1972) World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 17, 1972 - Died Louise Newcombe (1882-1972) World War 1
Nursing Sister
March 25, 1972 - Died
Beatrice Maude Bradshaw (1885-1972) well respected teacher &
administrator in Manitoba
May 2, 1972 - Died Mary McNulty (1895-1972) 1st woman to
practice law in the city of Ottawa
May 8, 1972 -
Died Beatrice Helen Worsley (1921-1972) computer scientist
June 1972 - Died
Winnifred Dawson (1890-1972) World War l Nursing Sister
June 4, 1972 -
Died Wilhelmina MacKenzie-Livingstone (1895-1972) Public
Health Nurse
June 10, 1972 -
Died
Lucille Hunter
(1879-1972) Yukon pioneer
July 27, 1972 - Died Evelyn Fainer Robson (1914-1972)
Canadian Women’s Army Corps during World War ll
July 31, 1972 - Died
Ethlyn Trapp (1891-1972)
1st
woman president of the National Cancer Institute of Canada
August 16, 1972 - Died Celestine Geen-Steele (1878-1972)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
September 17, 1972 -
Died Alice Boyle (1881-1972) World War l Nursing Sister
October 12, 1972
- Died Mary Frizzell-Thompson (1913-1972) track & field star
October 15, 1972 -
Died Louise Jean Brand (1881-1972) World War l Nursing Sister
November 1972 - Died Judy Hill ( -1972) northern
Canadian nurse killed in plane crash
December 9, 1972 -
Died
Edith Alberta Gallagher (1891-1972) Nursing Sister World
War l
December 19, 1972 -
Died Desiree Elise Aylen-Scott (1904-1972) poet
December 30, 1972 -
Died Emily Blanche Luscumbe (1886-1972) poet
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January 1, 1973 - The provincial government of Quebec
establishes the Council on the Status of Women
January 1973 -
Day Care For Everyone begins publication.
It is
published by the Daycare Organizing Committee, Toronto, Ontario
January 20, 1973 - The Ontario Teachers' Federation holds
an Early Childhood Conference at Humber College of Applied Arts &
Technology
April 1, 1973 - Interval House, Toronto, is the 1st
women's shelter opened for women from abusive lives
April 3, 1973 - Mary Elizabeth Kinnear
(1898-1991) retires from the Senate of Canada
having served from 1967
Source: Obituary, New York Times, December 28, 1991. ; Senate
of Canada Biographies Online (accessed July 2014)
1973 - Colonel Joan Fitzgerald becomes the first military
woman to graduated from the National Defence College
1973 - The Montreal Gay Women publish the
1st Canadian
lesbian journal, Long Time Coming
1973 - The
National Native Women’s Association is established in Winnipeg,
Manitoba
1973 - Sylvia Olga
Fedoruk (1927-
) is
the 1st woman appointed to the Atomic
Energy Control Board of Canada
1973 -
The Congress of Black Women of Canada (C
B W C) is founded and dedicated to improving lives of Black women
and their families
June 16, 1973 - The first National
Conference of Women of Political Action is held in Toronto
1973 - The 1st rape crisis
telephone line is Canada is opened by Vancouver Rape Relief Source:
http://herstory.womenspace.ca/timeline.html
Fall 1973 - A group of women in Edmonton Alberta
meet and launch Branching Out, a magazine of national
interest published and produced entirely by women. It features
original fiction, poetry, photography art work & includes article on
topical women's issues
November 13,
1973 -
Henry Morgentaler is acquitted of illegal abortion
charges in Montreal
1973 -
Five undergraduate courses in Women's studies are offered at the
University of British Columbia , the first academically credited
women's studies program in Canada
Source A Chronology of the development of women's
studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network
http://www.unb.ca/PAR-L/chronology1.htm (accessed April 28, 2003.
)
1973 - Rosella Bjornson (1947- )
is the 1st woman to be hired as First
Officer in North America on scheduled jet equipment and the 1st
woman hired by a commercial air line in Canada. She is also the 1st
woman to e a member of the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association
1973 - The Supreme Court of Canada Rules against Irene
Murdock in her family property Case stating that the farm belongs to
her husband because women are not recognized as making an economic
contribution to family property. It is not until 1977 that
there are reforms to matrimonial property laws to recognize the
economic contribution of women's domestic labour
1973 - Karen Magnussen (1952-
) wins the World Figure Skating Championship is voted by the
Canadian Presss as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's
Tope Female Athlete of the year.
Births 1973:
March 5, 1973 - Born Isabelle Fortier/Nelly Arcan (1973-2009)
Quebec novelist
March 13, 1973 - Born Allison Higson (1973- ) world
record holder in the breast stroke swimming
April 18, 1973 - Born Alexis Mazurin (1973-2005) broadcaster &
comedienne
April 23, 1973 - Born Paige Parenti-Gordon (1973- ) diver who won medals
at Commonwealth Games & Olympian
May 18, 1973 - Born Chantal Kreviazuk (1973- ) award
winning musician & singer
September 7, 1973 - Born Emily Molnar (1973- )
award winning ballet dancer & choreographer
November 9, 1973 - Born Gabrielle Miller (1973- ) Canadian
TV & movie actor
November 22, 1973 - Born Cassie Campbell
(1973- ) hockey player with 21 team medals national and Olympic
December 5, 1973 - Born Shalom Harlow (1973- )
top supermodel & actor
Deaths 1973:
1973 - Died
Rosalind Blauer (1943-1973) economist
1973 -
Died
Adrienne Choquette (1915-1973) journalist and author
1973 - Died Rebecca 'Ruby' Cornette-Kidd
(1889-1973) World War 1 Nursing Sister
1973 - Died
Dorothy Jenkins
(1889-1973) Canadian figure skating champion
January 10, 1973 -
Died Helen Woolson (1888-1973) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 18, 1973 -
Died Christina Margaret Johnston/Johnson-Berry (1888-1973)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
March
18, 1973 - Died Vera Lillian Parsons (1889-1973) 1st woman to be a
criminal defence lawyer in Ontario & the 1st woman lawyer to appear
before a judge 7 jury in Canada
March 18, 1973 - Died
Isobel Mary Watts (1883-1973) Nursing Sister in World War l
April 26, 1973 - Died Norma Abernethy (1914-1973) pianist &
teacher
May 12,, 1973 - Died Margaret Grace Burkholder (1881-1973)
author, journalist, poet, & local historian
September 17, 1973 - Died
Mary Susanne Edgar (1889-1973) youth leader & camp
founder & director
October 17, 1973 - Died
Louise Lucas (1885-1973)
Mother of the C C F
November 1973 - Alberta Letts ( -1973) librarian
November 5, 1973 – Died
Florence Helena Upton-Corlett (1884-1973) World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 14, 1973 - Died
Sybil Johnson-Dunfield (1887-1973) nursing sister World War l
December 16, 1973 - Died Bertha Evelyn McDonald (1895-1973)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
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January 1, 1974 -
The Quebec Native Women Inc. is established to promote issues of
non-violence & justice
1974 - The 1st National
Conference on Women in Sport is held in Toronto. This leads the way
to the creation of Sport's Canada's Women's Program Source Canada Women's
Foundation. History of the women's movement: selected moments of
importance in the history of Canadian women , 2004
http://cdnwomen.org.
April 10,
1974 -
Pauline McGibbon (1910-2001) is
sworn in as the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of the Province
of Ontario (1974-1980) & became
the 1st Canadian woman to obtain such a position
1974 - The National Film Board of Canada opens Studio
D. This is the 1st women's English film studio in the world. It will
produce films from a women's perspective Source Canada Women's
Foundation. History of the women's movement: selected moments of
importance in the history of Canadian women , 2004
1974 -
17
year old Lucille Lessard (1957- ) is the
1st Canadian to win the World Field Archery Championships &
that same year she is receives the Elaine Tanner Award as Canadian
Junior Female Athlete of the Year
1974 - Women
comprise 80% of librarians in Canada while men held 90% of administrative
positions within the profession
Source:
Canadian Chronology
(accessed April 28,
2003)
1974 - Pauline Jewett (1922-1992) is appointed
president of Simon Fraser University, the 1st woman to be head of a major
co-educational university in Canada
1974 - CORA, the
Feminist Bookmobile, is launched by Judith Quinlan &
Ellen
Woodsworth to take feminist literature to rural areas of
Ontario
June 1974 -
Toronto Police women are 1st placed on regular patrol duties with
men. The women are expected to do the same work as male colleagues
Source: Herstory: Milestones in the
History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online Accessed June
2011.
July 8, 1974 - Simma Holt
(1922-2015), is the first Jewish
woman elected to a seat in the House of Commons, Ottawa
July 8, 1974 - Ursula Appolloni (1929-1994)
is the first Irish Canadian woman elected to a seat in the House of
Commons, Ottawa
August 16, 1974 - Long
distance swimmer, 16 year old Cindy Nicholas
(1957- ) breaks the record for a
crossing of Lake Ontario.
August 22, 1974 - The 1st Assembly of Native Women's
Association of Canada is held
September 17, 1974 - The
Royal Canadian Mounted Police accept four women recruits, the 1st
females to join the force.
1974 -
The Ontario Provincial Police (O P P) embark on a recruitment program
and for the first time 15 women graduate from the Recruit
Orientation Class and are sworn in as Ontario Provincial Constables
1974 - Virnetta Anderson
(1920-2006) is elected to the Calgary City
Council, the 1st Black Albertan to be elected to a major political
position
November 1974 -
Gladys Jolly becomes the 1st woman to
command men assigned to a police station in Toronto, Ontario.
Source: Herstory: Milestones
in the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online
Accessed June 2011.
November 19, 1974 - Norma Scarborough
(1918-2009)
founds the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League / Association
canadienne pour le droit d'avortement (C A R A L / A C D A).
It is the 1st national group promoting abortion rights in Canada
1974 - Dr. Bette Stephenson
(1924-2019) becomes the 1st woman president of
the Canadian Medical Association
1974 -
Medical doctor, Major Wendy Clay (1942- ), qualifies for her pilot's wings six
years before the pilot classification of the Canadian Armed Forces
is opened to all women
Source "Women throughout Canadian military history." in
Canadian Forces Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23 February 2005.
1974 -
The Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada is
established.
1974 - Catherine Parr Trail
(1802-1899), pioneer and author is designated a National
Historic Person by the Historic Sites and Monument Board. An historic
plaque is erected at Young's Point, Ontario in 1995.
1974 -
Constance R. Glube,
(1931 - ) ONS becomes the 1st
Canadian woman to be appointed as City Manager
1974 -
The CBC produces a documentary on the life of Myra Bennett
(1890-1990), a nurse who served in Newfoundland and Labrador.
She held the honours of the Order of the British Empire & the Order of Canada
1974- Wendy Cook (1956- )
is voted by the Canadian Press as the winner of the Bobbie
Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year
Births 1974:
May 25, 1974 - Born Madeleine Thien (1974- ) award winning
author
June 1, 1974 - Born Alanis Morissette,(1974-
) award winning singer
July 7, 1974 - Born Jennifer Jones (1974- ) international
medalist in Curling.
July 13, 1974 - Born Deborah Cox (1974- ) rhythm &
blues singer.
August 1, 1974 - Born Beckie Scott, (1974- ) Olympic gold medalist in Cross
Country skiing.
September 3, 1974 - Born Amanda Lynn Mayhew (1974-
) model, magazine editor & entrepreneur
October 28, 1974 - Born Naida Cole (1974- ) piano
soloist
Deaths 1974:
1974 - Eliza Perley Brison
(1881-1974) psychiatrist
1974 - Died
Grace Annie Lamby Dainty (1877-1974) public health nurse,
Lethbridge, Alberta
1974 -
Died Clara Winnifred Fritz (1889-1974) first researcher,
timber pathogist
1974 - Died
Isabel Mortimer-Green (1888-1914) World War 1 Nursing Sister
1974 - Died
Amy Monica Hopkins (1894-1974)
rancher in Alberta & letter writer
1974 - Died Mathilde 'Ruby' Scott (????-1974) businesswomen,
ran last known brothel in Dawson City
1974 -
Died
Marion Myrtle Upton
(1890-1974) first woman to become a mayor in New Brunswick
January 1, 1974 -
Died Elizabeth Perley Brison (1881-1974) psychiatrist
January 24, 1974 - Died
Enid Finley Gordon (!896-1974) pioneer of physiotherapy being
recognized as a profession
February 7, 1974 -
Died Grace Jean Conner-McKenzie (1887-1974) World War l
Nursing Sister
March 8, 1974 -
Died Dora Ridout Hood (1885-1974) book dealer of Canadiana
April 23, 1974 -
Died
Olive Maud Coad (1884-1974) World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 26, 1974 - Died
Gladys Reeves (1890-1974)
early Edmonton photographer
May 26, 1974 -
Died Ruth Switzer McGill, (1909/-1974) lawyer
June 16, 1974 - Died
Yvonne Lisec (1899-1974) Sister Marie Ephrem
June 17, 1974 -
Died Ruth Kerr-Todd (1916-1974) Olympic swimmer
June 18, 1974 - Died
Annie Harvie Ross Foster
(1875-1974) nurse turned author and journalist
July 29, 1974 - Died
Diane Croll (1914-1974) Jewish doctor who served in World War ll R C
A F
August 17, 1974 - Died Cyrpra
Cecilia Krieger (1894-1974) noted mathematician
September 4, 1974 - Died
Sarah Persis Johnson Darrach (1886-1974) WW l nurse,
matron of nursing Brandon Manitoba, Order of the British Empire
September 17, 1972 -
Died Alice Boyd (1881-1972) World War l Nursing Sister
October 1974 - Died Kathleen Jean Munn (1887-1974) artist
December 11, 1974 -
Died Elizabeth Vera Perlin (1902-1974) social activist &
educator
December 15, 1974 - Died Helen Griffith Wylie Watson
(1911-1974) award winning nurse and officer in the Order of Canada
December 31, 1974 - Died Grace Ellen Hewson Knight (1885-
1974) lawyer, fourth woman to be called to the bar in Ontario
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1975
- The United Nations declares International Women's Year 1975 - it will become a whole
decade 1976-1985!
1975 -
The World YWCA Councils holds its meeting in Vancouver, British
Columbia. 450 delegates participate from 70 member countries
1975 -
Women's income is 60% of the average men's income
1975
- Grace Hartman (1918-1993.) is elected to the national
president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) and
is the
first woman to hold the top position in a Canadian
Union
February 18,
1975
- Sylvia Ostry (1927- )
is the
1st woman to
hold the rank of Deputy Minister in the government of
Canada.
May 30, 1975 - The
Canadian Post Office issues a commemorative stamp honouring the life
of Marguerite
Bourgeoys
(1620-1700),
founder of the Congregation de Notre-Dame de Montréal. Mother
Marguerite Bourgeoys was canonized
(declared a Saint) in the Roman
Catholic Church in October 1982
June 19-July 2,1975
-
The United Nations hosts the 1st
international conference on women in Mexico City
1975 -
The Ontario Women's Hockey Association is
formed
Summer 1975 -
Nicole Juteau (1954 - )
becomes the 1st
Police woman in the Province of Quebec
Source: Pionnières Québecoise (accessed June 2013.
)
July 7, 1975 - Rosemary Brown
(1930-2003)
is the 1st woman to run for the leadership of a federal party. She
loses the New Democratic leadership race to Ed Broadbent
October 12-26, 1975 -
Christilot Hanson Boylen
(1947- )
becomes the only athlete to achieve three individual gold medals in
Pan Am Game History when she competes in the equestrian events
1975 - Cathy Townsend (1937- ) is
the 1st Canadian woman to win the Bowling Cup
1975 - Nancy Garapick
(1961- )
who set the world record in the 200 metre backstroke is voted
by the Canadian Press as the winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as
Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the Year
1975 - Lyn Harrington
(1911- ) wins the Vicky
Metcalfe Award
for her contribution to children’s Literature
Source: “Broadcast pioneer charmed all she met…” by Susan Ferrier
MacKay and Allison Lawlor. The Globe and Mail May 4, 2013.
1975 - Dow Chemical introduces the Zip Lock
sandwich bag
Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas: Women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002.
1975 - The Historic Sites and Monument Board
erect an historic plaques for National Historic Person,
Catherine Parr Trail (1802-1899),
pioneer and author at Young's Point, Ontario
1975 -
The Canadian Committee on Women’s History is founded
1975 - ISKWEW: Newsletter of the Saskatchewan Native
Women is published to serve the community of Prince Albert and all
Native Women in Canada
Births 1975:
January 28, 1975 -
Born Anne Montming (1975-
) winner of 19 international medals in the sport of diving
January 31, 1975 - Born Michelle Justine Lang (1975-2009)
journalist killed in Afghanistan war
June 26, 1975 - Born Marie-Nicole Lemieux (1975- )
award winning opera singer
September 6, 1975 - Born Juliette Kang (1975- )
internationally celebrated violinist
November 30, 1975 - Born Waneek Horn-Miller (1975-
) Indigenous social activist & medalist in water-polo
Deaths 1975:
1975 - Died
Gertrude Alford
(1891-1975) early woman lawyer
1975 - Died
Ruth Eassers (1922-1975) pioneer doctor in psychoanalysis
1975 - Died
Katherine Ethelwynne 'Ethel' Gray-Borden (1892-1975) World War l
Nursing Sister
1975 - Died
Marjorie Freeman Campbell (1896-1975) author, local historian, &
crime writer
1975 - Died
Frances Lillian Fish (1888-1975)
1st woman graduate Dalhousie University with a Law Degree
& 1st
called to the Bar in NS
1975 - Died
Mary L. Fraser (1883-1975?) author & folklorist
1975 - Died
Laure Gaudreault (1889-1975 Union Activist
1975 - Born Joanna Karczmarek (1975- ) Olympic medalist
in Physics & academic
1975 - Died
Kathryn Agnes McCloskey (!883-1975) pioneer civil
servant in External Affairs Department
1975 -
Died
Martha Morkin (1886-1975) nurse in World War l
1975 - Died
Bertha Thorsteinson-Thomson (1888-1975) World War l Nursing Sister
January 3, 1975 - Died Mary Evelyn Gannon (1900-1975) author of
the Just Mary & Maggy Muggins stories for youth
January 22, 1975 - Died Laure Gaudreault
(1889-1975) social activist, educator & journalist who organized
Quebec rural teachers
January 22, 1975 -
Died Winifred Vernon Godard (1890-1975) World War l Nursing
Sister
January 25, 1975 - Died
Charlotte Whitton (1896-1975) social activist, politician, & 1st
woman mayor of a large urban centre in Canada (Ottawa)
February, 1975 - Died
Anna Mae Aquash
(1945-1976) social activist on behalf of Aboriginal North Americans
February 22, 1975 -
Died
Kateryna Antonovych
(1887-1975) artist
February 28, 1975 -
Died Mary Elizabeth Brehaut (1887-1975) historian
April 14,
1975 - Died
Florence Jessie Murray (1894-1975) Presbyterian medical missionary
in Asia who was decorated by King of Denmark for her service
April 17, 1975 - Died
Marguerite Eliza Robinson (1902-1975) nurse & author
May 3, 1975 - Died
Sarah (Nini) Fischer, (1896-1975)
internationally renowned soprano, honorary member of the Royal College
of Music in London
May 14, 1975 - Died
Hilda Neatby (1904-1975), historian, author, educator, & critic of
the Canadian education system
June 9, 1975 - Died
Jane Barnes Wisdom (1884-1975) pioneer social worker
June 11, 1975 -
Died Mary Elizabeth Steinhauser (1942- 1975) heroine of a
prison break
June 29, 1975 - Died Annie
Langstaff (1887 - 1975) 1st woman to receive a degree in Law from
McGill University in 1914-1915
July 4, 1975 - Died Catherine Seppa (1907-1975) first woman
mayor of Fort William, Ontario
August 26, 1975 -
Died Juliette Beliveau (1889-1975) French language actor of
stage, TV, & movies
September 24, 1975 - Died
Patricia Lowther
(1935-1975) respected poet, the Patricia Lowther Award now honours
the best Canadian Poets
October 10, 1975 - Died
Susan
Olivia Poole (1889-1975) inventor of the Jolly Jumper
December 8, 1975 - Died
Katharine McLennan (1892-1975) historian who was passionate about
the restoration of Louisbourg
December 12, 1975 - Died
Marguerite Merle Lazier-Tyrer (1891-1975) World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 31, 1975 - Died
Clara Hoffer (1887-1975)
Outstanding farmer & community leader
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1976 -
The 1st 'Reclaim the Night' (now Take Back the Night) march is held
in Belgium. Canada's 1st march in 1978
1976 - Iona Campagnolo
(1932- )
is appointed the 1st woman federal
Minister of Sport for Canada
February 4-15, 1976 - Olympic Winter Games,
Innsbruck, Austria. Gold Medals: Kathy Kreiner in
women's giant slalom alpine skiing. Silver Medals; Catherine Priestner
is the
1st Canadian woman to win an individual medal in speed skating
in the 500 metre event. The 1st ice Dancing medal event is held at
these games
February 16, 1976 -
Stewardess
Mary Dohey
(1933- ) becomes the 1st living
person to receive the Cross of Valour in recognition for saving the
lives of passengers & crew of an Air Canada flight in 1971
July 14, 1976 -
The death penalty is abolished in Canada
July 17- 31, 1976 - Olympic Games,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Gold Medals: Cheryl Gibson
(1959- ),
in women's 400 meter individual swimming medley. Bronze
medals; Nancy Garapick (1961- ),in Women's 100 meter and 200 meter
swimming backstroke; Shannon Smith
(1961- ) women's 400
meter swimming freestyle; Becky Smith
(1959- ), in 400 meter
individual swimming medley; Gail Amundrud
(1957- ), Barbara Clark
(1958- ),
Becky Smith (1959- )
and Anne Jardin (1959- ) in women's 4X 100 swimming
freestyle relay; Wendy Cook (1956-
), Robin Corsiglia, (1962-
) Susan (Smith)
Kelsey (1958- ) and Anne Jardin
(1959- ) in
women's 4X 100 swimming medley relay Source: Canadian Olympic Committee.
June 22, 1976 -
The
Canadian Parliament abolished the death penalty by eight votes
August 31, 1976 - Carallyn Bowes arrives in Burnaby,
British Columbia after running the 6,180 km from Halifax, Nova
Scotia in just 133 days. She is the 1st woman to run across Canada.
She wore out 13 pairs of shoes during her run
November 7, 1976 - The United Nations adopts the
Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
December 5, 1976 - The 1st
Canadian women to be granted the Rhodes Scholarships to
continue their education are selected. Melanie Dobson, Mary
Sheppard, Eileen Gillespie and Jessie Sloan
head for Oxford University. Previously Rhodes Scholarships had been
available only to men
1976 - Sue
Holloway (1955- )
is the 1st Canadian woman to ever compete in both winter and summer
Olympic Games in the same year. After competing in cross country
skiing in Innisbruck she competed in Canoe / kayak sprint in
Montreal
1976 - Kathy Kreiner
(1957- ) Gold medalist in skiing at
the Winter Olympic Games is voted by the Canadian Press winner of
the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's top Female Athlete of the
Year
1976 - Roberta Jamieson
(1953- ) is the
1st Aboriginal woman in Canada to become a lawyer
Source: Roberta Jamieson: Chief Six Nations of the Grand River
Territory. Contemporary Canadian Biographies. Thompson Gale,
August 2003. (Accessed online June 2008.)
1976 - Jean Bessie Lumb
(1919-2002) becomes the 1st Chinese Canadian
to be inducted into the Order of Canada
1976 -
MATCH International Centre,
a Canadian-based non-governmental organization, is established by Canadian women following their
attendance at the 1975 United Nations Conference for Women held in
Mexico City. It is created to bring to life a feminist vision of
what development work can, and should, mean: equality, dignity,
opportunity, and a better life for women and men, the world over
1976 - Eaton's Department Stores closes
their catalogue services after several years of losses exceeding
millions of dollars. It is the death of a Canadian tradition
Births 1976:
1976 - Born Melanie Mark (1976- ) 1st First
Nations woman to be elected to the legislature of British Columbia
January 24, 1976 - Born Shae-Lynn Bourne (1976- )
international champion figure skater in ice dance
March 19, 1976 - Born Rachel Blanchard (1976- )
actor
April 10, 1976 - Born Sara Renner (1976- ) award
winning & Olympic skier
August 27, 1976 - Born Sarah Chalke (1976- ), Star of TV
and movies
October 21, 1976 - Born Melanie Turgeon (1976 )
medal winning alpine skier
Deaths 1976:
1976 -
Died
Hilda May James-Grossick (1895-1976) World War l Nursing Sister
1976 -
Died
Dorthea Mitchell (1877-1976) early filmmaker & businesswoman
1976 - Died
Jean Elizabeth 'Betty' Riley-Black
(1913-1976) champion pairs figure skater
January 6, 1976 -
Died Marie-Anne Duperreault (1885-1976) journalist
February 2, 1976 -
Died
Dorthea Mitchell (1877-1976) amateur filmmaker,
actor, director, screenwriter & author
February 7, 1976 - Died
Jane Chisholm (1888-1976) World War l Nursing Sister
February 11, 1976 - Died
Lillias Adelaide Morden-Cavanah (1890-1976)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 11, 1976 - Died Marjorie Walker (1902-1976)
politician in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
February 17, 1976 - Died
Stella Johnstone-Pollexfen (1892-1976) World War l Nursing Sister
April 7, 1976 - Died Born Rebecca Belle Watson (1911? - 1976)
Vancouver, British Columbia Community Activist
April 16, 1976 -
Died Mabel Hilda Allison-Fetterly (1887-1976) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
May 24, 1976 -
Died Denise Pelletier (1923-1976) bilingual actor of TV,
stage, & movies
May 27, 1976 -
Died
Violet Madeline Mellinger Mann (1899-1976) Titanic survivor
June 4, 1976 - Died
Beatrice Janet Trew (1897-1976) social activist & politician
June 14, 1976 -
Died Margaret Bannerman (1896-1976) actor of stage and movies
June 24, 1976 - Died Monique Correveau (1927-1976) award
winning author of French language books for children
July 17, 1976
- Died Angélina
Berthiaume-Du Tremblay (1886-1976) businesswoman in newspaper
business
July 26, 1976 -
Died Henrietta Elizabeth Banting (1912-1976) physician & researcher
in mammography
July 26, 1976 - Died Nellie Hall-Humpherson (1895-1976)
suffragette
August 1976 - Died
Mary Winnifred ‘Winnie’ McKeen (1889-1976) poet
August 1, 1976 - Died
Margaret Helen McGill (1895-1976) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 13, 1976 - Died
Dorothy Dworkin
(1889-1976) nurse, businesswoman and a founder of Mount Sinai
Hospital Toronto
August 23, 1976 -
Died Dorothy Stevens McIlwraith (1891-1976) editor of Weird
Tales
August 28, 1976 - Died Ethel Matilda Chapman
(1888-1976) home sciences journalist in Ottawa, Ontario
September 3, 1976 -
Died Albanie Morin (1921-1976) one of the first three women Members
of Canadian parliament from Quebec
September 9, 1976 - Died
Mabel F. Timlin (1891-1976) economist
September 10, 1976 -
Died Bessie 'Betty' Mitchell (1896-1976) theatre director
September 16, 1976 -
Died
Jean Thompson (1910-1976) member Matchless Six 1926 Olympic team
October 1, 1976 -
Died Winnifred Marion Simpson-Lewis (1891-1976) World War l Nursing
Sister
October 31, 1976 - Died Edna Estella 'Stell' MacLaughin
(1881-1976) World War 1 Nursing Sister
November 22, 1976 - Died
Leila Wightman (1899-1976) the 1st Canadian
woman to own & run a telephone company 1947
November 28,1976 -
Died Mona Parsons (1901-1976) used her home in the Netherlands refuge for escaping allied airmen until captured by
Germans
December 22, 1976 - Died
Olive Evangeline Diefenbaker (1902-1976)
1st wife of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker.(1895-1979)
December 31, 1976 - Died Ethel Ostry (1904-1976) social activist
and volunteer provincially, nationally & with the United Nations
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| 1977 |
1977
-
The Canadian Citizenship Act is amended to allow
women to confer Canadian Citizenship on their children
March 22, 1977 - The photo image of
movie star Bridgette Bardot hugging a seal hits the world press
wires. It was a tactic in the international animal rights activities
in Northern Newfoundland Source: 100 days that
changed Canada. (Toronto: Harper Collins, 2011)
1977-
Patricia Proudfoot
is the 1st woman appointed to
the British Columbia Supreme Court.
1977 -
The National Association of Indian Rights for Indian Women is formed
to challenge discriminatory sections in the Indian Act
1977 - Sandra Lovelace Nicholas
(1948- ), an aboriginal woman from Tobique Reserve, New
Brunswick, appeals to the United Nations Human Rights Commission
(U N H R C) against the injustice of Canada's Indian Act which gave native status
through the male head of the household. The UNHRC would rule in
Lovelace's favour Source: Many
names to consider by Thomas Axworthy in The Ottawa Citizen,
Monday, April 11, 2005 pg. A13.
September 1, 1977 - Emma Patterson Morrison
is appointed as Attorney General of British
Columbia, the first woman in Canada to hold this provincial position
1977 - The Association of Women Dentists of Ontario is
established
1977 - Mary Wong of
Hamilton Ontario becomes the 1st Canadian of Chinese descent to be
appointed as a Citizenship Court Judge
1977 -
Highway signs appear in metric system
1977 -
The Manitoba Bar admits Lawyer
Marion Ironquil Meadmore
(1936- ) as the 1st
Aboriginal
Canadian woman to be called to the bar
Source: Canadian
Chronology (accessed April 28,
2003)
1977 –
The Canadian Voice for Women for Peace is accredited with
Observation Status at the United Nations
Source: Lisa
Wajna, Great Canadian Women: Nineteen Portraits of Extraordinary
Women (Folklore Publishing, 2005) 1977 -
The Badgley Report is releases confirming that access to abortion is
patchy and inequitable across Canada
1977 - Melanie Dobson, Mary Sheppard,
Eileen Gillespie and Jessie Sloan are the 1st Canadian women
to win Rhodes Scholarships to Oxford University in England
Source: Canadian
Chronology (accessed April 28,
2003)
1977 - Cindy Nicholas (1957-2016)
is the 1st woman and fastest person to complete a double crossing
swimming of the English Channel is voted by the Canadian Press as
winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Awards as Canada's Tope Female
Athlete of the year
1977 - Judy Cameron (1954- )
is the first woman pilot hired by Air Canada
1977 - The first home pregnancy test is available Source:
Canuck Chicks and
Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas
Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002.
1977 - Simpson's Sears catalogue services is
bought out and becomes Sears Canada Source: Before e-commerce : a history of
mail order catalogues (accessed
December 2004.)
Births 1977:
1977 -
Born Natasha Cecily Bacchus (1977- ) track athlete
January 1877 - Born Mary Eugenia 'Gene' Hinch-Mahar
(1877-1958) Survivor of Halifax explosion
January 25, 1977 - Born Evelyn Emily Hall (1888-1977) World
War l Nursing Sister
April 14, 1977 - Born Jessica Rakoczy (1977-
) World Lightweight boxing
champion
June 28, 1977 - Born Measha Bruggergosman (1977-
) international respected opera singer
December 31, 1977 - Born
Tammy Lee "Barbie" Shewchuk-Dryden (1977- ) award
winning national team hockey player
Deaths 1977:
1977 - Died
Gertrude 'Gert' Menzies Harding (1889-1977) militant suffragette
1977 - Died Winnifred James (1925-1977) nurse
1977 - Died
Winifred Dobson Schurman (1890-1977) World War l Nursing Sister
1977 - Died
Maude Walker (1888-1977) World War l Nursing Sister
January 25, 1977 -
Died Evelyn Emily Patterson (1888-1977) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 2, 1977 - Died Elizabeth 'Betty' Gardner
Taylor-Campbell (1922-1977) Olympic medial winner in track & field
February 21, 1977 -
Died Margaret Furness Macleod (1883-1977) Haiku poet
February 25, 1977 -
Died Annie Bertha Hamilton (1888-1971) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
March 7, 1977 -
Died Maida Doras Parlow French-Knowles (1891-1977) author &
biographer
April 6, 1977 - Died
Olea Marion Davis (1899-1977) sculptor
April 15, 1977 - Died Alexa Stirling Fraser (1897-1977) golf champion.
July 16, 1977 - Died
Verna Marguerite 'Marg' Osborne (1926-1977) singer of country, folk
& gospel with Don Messer's Jubilee.
July 26. 1977 - Died Gena Brancombe (1881-1977) composer, choir
conductor, teacher, & pianist.
August 12, 1977 - Died
Dorothy MacLeod Penner Cotton (1886-1977) World War 1 Nursing Matron
September 16, 1976 -
Died Anne ‘Tagish Anne’ Graham (1914-1976) Yukon
businesswoman
October 23, 1977 - Died Beatrice Sifton Nasmyth Furniss
(1884-1977) one of only 4 Canadian women allowed behind the Lines in
WW l France.
October 24, 1977 -
Died Beatrice Nasmyth-Furniss (1885-1977) World War 1
correspondent
November 11, 1977 -
Died Margaret Rebecca Chase-Collins (1896-1977) physician
November 27, 1977 - Died Marie-Rose Turcot (1887-1977) author
& journalist
December 6, 1977 - Died Josephine A. Daphinee
(1875-1977) founder of the Canadian Federation of Business and
Professional Women
December 24, 1977 - Died
Florence Durrell Clark
(1891-1977) musician & composer
December 25, 1977 - Died
Emma Caslor (1913-1977) folksinger and
pianist
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| 1978 |
1978 - The
Canadian Labour Code is amended to eliminate pregnancy as a basis
for lay-off or dismissal from a job
1978 - The 1st Take Back the Night March is held in cities
across the country to protest rape and other forms of sexual
violence against women and to reclaim the streets
September 21, 1978 - The Canadian Post office issues a commemorative
stamp celebrating the life of Marguerite d'Youville
(1701-1771) founder of the "Grey Nuns"
1978 - Airline flight attendants gain the right to work
after they are married & after they reach the age of 32
1978 -
Judy
Cameron is
the 1st woman pilot hired by Air
Canada
1978 -
Birth control pills carry warnings of health risk for
smokers & women over forty years of age
1978 -
Statistics Canada reports that
women university graduates earned $4,000 to $7,000 less than men
with equivalent. jobs and skills
September 15 - June 7, 1976 - A long strike
of INCO nickel workers in Sudbury, Ontario is supported by Wives
Supporting the Strike group. This group supports the community by
organizing a Christmas party for some 10,00 children, and some of
the members participate in the Toronto International Women's Day
March in Toronto in 1979
November 4, 1978 - Members of Vancouver Rape Relief and
Women's Shelter participate in the 1st 'Take Back The Night' march
in San Francisco, California and organize the 1st Canadian 'Take
Back The Night March' Source: Lee Lakeman, member of
VRR&WS.
1978 - Helen Marie Rathwell,
A
Saskatchewan farm wife, wins a landmark decision, from
the Supreme Court of Canada which grants half the property
acquired in her husband’s name
1978 - Lyn Cook
(1918 - ) wins the
Vicky Metcalf Award for her contribution to Children's Literature.
she literarily
developed the prototype of the hyphenated Canadian ( i.e.
Finnish-Canadian)
Sources: “Lyn Cook” by Ruth Maydan in Profiles, Canadian
Library Association, 1971; Creating the National Mosaic.
Multiculturalism in Canadian Children’s Literature 1950-1994 by
Miriam Verena Rihter.
1978 -
The Canadian Omnibus Bill is
passed, eliminating pregnancy as a basis for layoff or dismissal.
1978 -
The Independent Order of the Daughters of the Empire officially become
the I.O.D.E.
1978 -
The Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Montreal is
founded 'to promote the understanding of the historical and
contemporary situation of women in society.'
Source A Chronology of the
development of women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic
Feminist Network (accessed April 28, 2003.
)
1978 - Corporal Gail Toupin
is the 1st woman member of the Sky Hawks, the Canadian
Army's skydiving demonstration team Source "Women throughout Canadian military
history." in Canadian Forces Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23
February 2005.
1978 -
Rachelle Halpenny (1950-2012) participated
in the 4th international Cerebral Palsy Games winning 3
gold and 2 bronze medals for Canada
Sources: “Life Story” by Joanne Lovett Potter, Ottawa Citizen
February 2, 2013. ; “Rachelle Halpenny: A woman first, an athlete
second and way at the other end of the scale, disabled” by Lyse
Blanchard in Canadian Woman Studies Spring 1983; Personal
friendship.
1978 -
The Canadian Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Union merges with the
Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union
1978 - Cookie Cartwright organizes the Ontario Woman's
Hockey Association helped by Rhonda Taylor &
Bev Mallory
1978 - Diane Jones-Konihowski
(1951- )
Gold medalist in Pentathlon at the British Commonwealth Games is
voted by the Canadian Press as the winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld
Award as Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the Year
1978 - Hazel McCallion
(1921-1923)
is first elected as Mayor of Mississauga, Ontario. She will serve 12
consecutive terms
December 1978 - Eleanor Joan 'Dusty' Miller
(1929-2012) is elected as the first woman mayor of Thunder Bay,
Ontario
1978 - Pam and Grant Hooker begin to sell pastries
that they called 'Beaver Tails, at a Killaloe, Ontario fair.
Births: 1978:
1978 - Born Esi Edugyan (1978- ) Aboriginal
leader and social activist
July 23, 1978 -
Born Heather Moyse (1978- ) winning rugby
player and Olympic medalist in bobsledding
April 26, 1978 - Born Stana Kastic (1978-
) actor
November 17, 1978 - Born Rachel Anne McAdams (1978-
) actor
Deaths 1978:
1978 - Died Margaret
Helen Brown (1887 - 1978) author & editor who shared her
talents as a missionary
January 19, 1978 - Died
Margreta 'Greta' Dale (1929-1978) artist
January 31, 1978 -
Died Lillian Langstaff (1883-1978) early indomitable woman
doctor
May 9, 1978 - Died
Dorothy Steeves (1895-1978) social activist & Member of British
Columbia Legislature 1934-1945
May 29, 1978 - Died Elizabeth Catherine Shalla
(1890-1978) diarist in Renfrew County Ontario, in 1st Polish
settlement
July 18, 1978 -
Died Winnifred Ehlers-Keighley (1891-1978) nurse
September 18, 1978 - Died Gertrude 'True' Davidson (1901-1978)
teacher, writer, & municipal politician
September 25, 1978 - Died
Claire Adams (1898-1978) silent film actor
November 18, 1978 - Died Rose Marie Reid (1906-1978) swim suit
fashion icon & entrepreneur
December 23, 1978 - Died
Sarah Christine Eileen Oulton (1911-1978) local P E I historian
December 26, 1978 - Died Rene M. Caisse (1888-1978) nurse who developed ESSIAC, what she thought was a cure to some
cancer
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January 20, 1979 - Ione Christensen
(1933- )
becomes the 1st woman to serve as Yukon Territorial Commissioner
1979 -
The New Brunswick Vital Statistics Act allows a single
mother the choice of giving the child her own surname or, with the
father's acknowledgement and consent, his surname
1979 - The Canadian Psychiatric
Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental
disorders
1979 -
The1rst female students enrolled in
Canadian military colleges Source: National Defence and the
Canadian Armed Forces, Fact sheet. Online (Accessed March
2014)
February 15, 1979 - Anne Murray
(1945- ) wins Grammy Award for top
Female Vocalist
May 19-May 21, 1979 - The 1st Bi-National Lesbians Conference/Conference
Lesbienne Bi-Nationale is held in Toronto,
June 4, 1979 - Flora Isabel MacDonald
(1926-2015) becomes the 1st woman to hold a
major cabinet position as Secretary of State for External Affairs.
She is also one of the first women in the world to be a Foreign
Minister.
1979-1985 -
Trials take place as part of Servicewomen in Non-Traditional
Environments Team (S W I N T E R) project in Canadian Armed Forces
June 10, 1979 -
The Feminist Party of Canada is launched in Toronto
July 19, 1979 - The Indian Women's March begins
as 28 women begin a 160 km walk from the Oka Reserve in Quebec to
Ottawa. They are protesting gender discrimination of the Indian Act
Summer 1979 - Grapevine
is 1st published by the Lesbian Mother's Defense Fund. It
hopes to become a place for writing about day to day lives so other
women can see the common ground we all stand on in fighting for a
better life or ourselves and our children. It ceases publication in
1985
1979 - Pamela Anne McDougall
(1925- ) is the 1st Foreign
Service Officer to reach the rank of Deputy Minister when she is
appointed DM for Health and Welfare Canada
Source: Margaret Weiers, Envoys Extraordinary: Women of the
Canadian Foreign Service (Toronto: Dundurn, 1995)
1979 -
Herizon, Canada's feminist magazine begins publishing as a
regional newspaper
1979 -
Broadside, a ground breaking Canadian feminist newspapers that
runs for ten years begins publication. It is mostly run by volunteer
efforts of a group of political activists
1979 -
HealthSharing publishes its 1st issue as a groundbreaking
magazine providing critical information on women's health from a
non-medical perspective. It ceased publication in 1993
1979 -
Tightwire: from Kingston Prison for Women is published from
the Prison for Women (P 4 W) Kingston, Ontario to give incarcerated
women an artistic platform and also inform readers of current
proposals. It is published through 1993. P4W closed in 2000
1979 -
Intercede is formed as a volunteer advocacy group of foreign
domestic workers and feminist supporters to raise awareness and
lobby the federal and provincial governments for changes in
legislation. In 2011 the their services were taken over by
Toronto's Working Women Community Centre
1979 -
The University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario establishes an undergraduate
BA program in Women's studies
Source A Chronology of the development of
women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network (accessed April 28, 2003.
)
1979 - Pat Messner
(1954- ) is the 1st Canadian woman
to win a world championship in waterskiing
taking the Gold Medal in
women's slalom at water skiing world Championship. Pat has also
taken 18 Canadian championship title from 1965-1979. She is athlete
of the Year for Water Ski and Wakeboard Canada
1979 - Nellie J. Cournoyea ( 1940- ) is elected to the Legislature of the
Northwest Territories and becomes the 1st native woman to lead a provincial
territorial government in Canada
1979 -
Jean Casselman-Wadds (1920-2011)
is
the 1st woman appointed as Canadian High Commissioner to
Great Britain
Sources: Obituary. Ottawa Citizen December 3, 2011.
November 4, 1979 -
Laverna Katie Dollimore
(1922-2011) administrative diplomatic civil
servant aides in saving American Diplomats during the Iranian
revolution
Source: Remembering Laverna Dollimore a woman ahead of her time by
Robert Wright. Ottawa Citizen November 4, 2011; She got more
adventure than she bargained for in Tehran by Nora Ryell The
Globe and Mail, December 13, 2011. Page R5.
1979 - Sandra Post (1948-
) is second on the Ladies Professional Golf Association
(LPGA) Tour earns more prize money in a single year than an previous
Canadian Golfer. She is voted by the Canadian Press as winner of the
Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the Year &
wins the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Top Overall Athlete of the
Year
December 6, 1979 -
Heroine Shannon O'Brien saved her son from drowning. She
was awarded the Canadian Star of Courage for her deed
. Source: The Beginners
Guide to Canadian Honours by Christopher McCreery
1979 - Rosella Bjornson (1947-
) is the 1st pregnant commercial air pilot!!
Source Rosella Bjornson Canadian Hall of
Fame inductee . Canadian Ninety-nines
(accessed July 18, 2005)
1979 - Ione Christensen
(1933 - ) becomes the Commissioner
of the Yukon Territories
1979 - Eleanor Reed Townsend (1944-1988)
became the 1st woman to win the open class (open to both men
and women) national fiddle competition
1979 -
50th Anniversary of the Persons Case. Seven women are awarded the
Governor's General Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
Eileen Tallman Sufrin (1913-2000) a social activist who led
Eaton's Employees in an attempt to unionize. Dr Elizabeth Bagshaw
Pioneer in providing women with
information and advice on birth control
The Honourable Thérèse Casgrain (1886-1981)
Senator and leader in
obtaining the vote for women in Quebec. Sophia Dixon (1900-1994)
a social activist who worked in support of the co-operative movement
and of rural women's organizations; Mary Two-Axe Early
(1911-1996) a social activist ensuring
rights for native Indian women are equal to those of native Indian
men;
Dr. Grace MacInnis (1905-1991) a
social activist and member of parliament who advocated women's
rights and improvement of women's living and working conditions;
Marion Royce 1st director of the Women's Bureau in the
federal Department of Labour
Births 1979:
January 8, 1979 -
Born Sarah Polly(1979- ) actor
January 21, 1979 - Born lana Miller (1979- ) actor
August 3, 1979 - Born Lilly Evangeline (1979- )
actor
August 12, 1979 - Born Cindy Klassen (1979- )
medal winning world champion speed skater
October 31, 1979 - Born Helen Lesley Upperton (1979-
) bobsled medalist in World Cup and Olympic Games
November 30, 1979 - Born Severn Cullis-Suzuki (1979 -
) international environmentalist
December 7, 1979 - Born Dana Ellis (1979- ), track &
field medal holder
Deaths 1979:
1979 - Died
Elizabeth Miriam Janzen Dreger (1917/1918 - 1979) social activist
1979 - Died Joan Bamford
Fletcher (1918-1979) lead 2,000 Dutch civilians to safety in
Sumatran jungle
1979 - Died Hermina Rose Fraser (1902-1979) author
1979 - Died Roberta Gilbank
(1907-1979) first librarian with Scarborough Public Libraries &
archivist University of Guelph
1979 - Died
Frances Hawkins (1891-1979) teacher in Japan & for
World War ll Japanese Canadian in inductee camps
1979 - Died Josephine Pelan (1905-1979) author & librarian
1979 - Died Vera Alexandra Robinson (1897?-1979) early Canadian
Law Librarian
1979 -
Born Sherri Woods (1979-2008) journalist
January 19, 1979 -
Died Amabel Reeves King (1889-1979) writer, poet, and editor
February 23, 1979 - Died
Hortense Pauline Douglas-Cantlie (1901-1979) medical artist
February 28, 1979 - Died Annie Julia Hood-Moorehead (1887-1979)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 30, 1979 -
Died Joan Bamford Fletcher (1909-1979) war heroine
May 1979 - Died
Faustina Adelaide Kelly-Cook (1895-1979) physician & tireless
volunteer
May 11. 1979
- Died Catherine Nichols Gunn (1886-1979) World War l Nursing Sister
& Public Health Nurse
May 18, 1979 - Died
Phoebe Florence
Miller (1889-1979) author of poems & greeting card verse from
Newfoundland
June 10, 1979 - Died
Frances Beatrice Taylor (1891-1979) journalist, poet, & playwright
September 30, 1979 -
Died
Jean Louise Emberly Wallbridge (1912-1979) architect
October 15, 1979 - Died Gladys Cameron MacGregor Watt (
- 1979) Canadian live theatre & historical building conservator
November 12, 1979 - Died
Elizabeth 'Bonnie' Bjarnarson (1893-1979) trained nurse awarded the
Manitoba Good Citizenship Award for meritorious service
December 15, 1979 - Died Adelaide Ruth Boswell (1896-1979)
music teacher, historian, & restorer of historic sites in Prince
Edward Island
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