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Events
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to give the timeline perspective.
This timeline is not all inclusive.
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2011 |
2011 -
The population of women in Canada is 17,062,460 or 50.9% of the
population
2011 - The average family size including adults is 3.5
people
2011 -
The average of life expectancy for women is 81.45 years
2011 - The average age for marriage for women is 28. 66% of
households are made up of married couples. 27% of households are
made up of common-law couples
2011 - The number of women self-declared having been
born outside Canada is 3,500.000 or 51.7 % of people born outside of
Canada
2011 -
The number of women participating in the formal, paid workforce is
7,960,725 or 48% of the paid workforce
2011 -
The percentage of university students who are women is 59% of the
overall student population
January 31, 2011 - Linda Bond
(1946 - )
is
elected General
of the Salvation Army.
Source: The Salvation Army. online accessed May 2013
February 11, 2011 - The Canadian
Government announces a new Hero Class coast guard vessel named for
Capt. Nicola Goddard, who was serving in Afghanistan when she
was killed May 17, 2006, the 1st female Canadian soldier to die in
action Sources: Toronto Star, Globe and Mail.
February 12, 2011
March 3, 2011 -
A postseason match between the Queen's Golden Gaels and the Guelph
Gryphons became the longest collegiate hockey game, male or female,
Canadian or American — on record. The match began on Wednesday and
it only ended on Thursday. The duration of the match was 167 minutes
and 14 seconds when Queen's forward Morgan McHaffie
placed a rebound past Gryphons goalie Danielle Skoufranis
March 2011 - The first exhibit of Red Dresses appears at
the University of Winnipeg. The Red Dress Campaign recognizes
Awareness for Missing and Murdered women, girls, and two spirited
people. Red is traditional thought to be the only colour spirits can
see thus a red dress is a way of calling the spirits of Missing and
Murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two spirited back to their
loved ones
March 27, 2011- Shania Twain (1965-
) is inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame
April 2011 - A Toronto Policeman's remark that women can
avoid rape by avoiding dressing like 'sluts' prompts a global
phenomenon, 'a slutwalk protest'
May 2, 2011 - Elizabeth Evans May (1954- )
becomes the 1st Canadian Member of Parliament for the Green Party.
She won her seat in Saarnich-Gulf Islands, British Columbia. This
was her third attempt to become elected to Parliament
May 12-13, 2011 -
A
tribute to the life of Kate McGarrigle
(1946-2010)
is recorded to provide a Celebration of her life
May 23-25, 2011 - The Nobel Women's initiative, a hosting
group of Nobel Peace Prize winners, holds an international
conference on sexual violence against women in conflict zones at
Chateau Montebello, Quebec. It is the first time the group has met
in Canada. They want Canada to be a leader protesting and taking
action for victims of sexual violence as Canada took lead against
landmines Source: "Female Nobel laureates gather in Montebello by
Kelly Patterson, The Ottawa Citizen May 22, 2011.
May 31, 2011 - Rear Admiral Jennifer Bennett
is appointed first woman in Canada as Chief of Reserves & Cadets
2011 - Candace Grier-Lowe from Norway House, Manitoba
becomes the 1st indigenous Woman veterinarian dentist in the world
and the 1st to graduate in Canada in this specialty
2011 - Andromache Karakatsanis (1955-
) is appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada
Source: Diversifying the bar; Law Society of Upper Canada
online accessed January 2013.:
August 26, 2011 -
40 women participated in the Longest Ice Hockey Game 4 CF, at Canlan
Ice Sports Burnaby 8 Rinks in
Burnaby,
British Columbia. The goal was to play for the next 10
days as they attempted to set a new Guinness World Record for
playing the longest hockey game while also raising funds and
awareness for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
September 1, 2011 -
1st
ever economic summit on women is sponsored by the Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperative (APEC) is held in San Francisco , U.S.A.
September 2011 - Roberta 'Robbie' Taylor
(1946?-2012)
is awarded the Elsie Gregory MacGill Northern Lights, 'The Elsie'
for lifetime achievement
October 2, 2011 - Alison Redford
(1965- )
becomes the 1st woman Premier of the province of Alberta
October 11, 2011 - The Yukon Territory Election sees
the highest record of seats won by women. The New Democratic Party
(N D P) of the Yukon caucus is made up of 67% women, becoming the
first with official party status in Canada to be made up of over 50%
women
October 21, 2011 - Rona Ambrose
(1969- ) Minister responsible for the Status of
Women unveiled a plaque in Edmonton, Alberta, recognizing the
Persons Case, an event of National Historic Significance
November 23, 2011 -
Chief
Justice Robert Bauman concluded that polygamy remains illegal in
Canada. His comprehensive legal opinion is the 1st in the
world to fully expose the effects of polygamy
Source: Sally Armstrong, Assent of Women: A New Age is Dawning
For Every Mother’s Daughter. (Vintage Canada, 2013) page 79-80.
2011 - Susan Ursel (1958-
) wins the Canadian Bar Association Hero Award in recognition
of her contribution to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
Committee
Source: Diversifying the bar; Law Society of Upper Canada
online accessed January 2013
2011 - Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier Lamoureaux
(1836-1918) pioneer of the Northwest
Territories is declared an Nationally Historic Person, the 1st Métis
woman of the Northwest Territories to receive this distinction
2011 - Canadian women take international gold medals in
soccer
2011 - Fire Service Women Ontario is formed
Source: Women firefighters as capable as males.
Noorthumberlandnews.com Accessed June 2013
2011 - Erin Bruzzese, a 10 year veteran of the
Kamloops British Columbia Fire Rescue, is the 1st woman to appear on
the Firefighters annual calendar. She says she volunteered because
it is for a good cause Source: Kamloops Daily News November
12, 2011
2011 - Jennifer Heil (1983-
) finishes her career in freestyle skiing by winning tow Gold
Medals in women's moguls at the Freestyle Skiing World Championships
and
is
voted by the
Canadian Press as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's
Top Female Athlete of the Year
2011 - The
British
royal family ends a 1000 years of tradition by reversing a
primogeniture rule that favoured males for succession to the throne
Females now have the same rights to the throne as men
Deaths
2011:
January 6, 2011 - Died
Norma Eleanor Walmsley (1920-2011) social activist
January 14, 2011- Died Lucy Slade (1972-2011) medal winning
Kayaker and canoeist
January 17, 2011 - Died
Eileen Elizabeth Dailly (1926-2011) politician
January 29, 2011 - Died
Loreen Rice Lucas (1914-2011) author
February 11, 2011 - Died Suzanne Beauchamp (1932-2011) Member
of the Canadian parliament
February 17, 2012 - Died Dorothy
'Dodi' Elizabeth Robb (1920?-2012) pioneer worker in Canadian
television
February 18, 2011 -
Died Cayle Vivian Chernin
(1947-2011) actor, producer, and writer
March 2011 - Died Mary
Greyeyes-Reid (1920-2011) 1st aboriginal woman in the Canadian
Army Corps
March 3, 2011 - Died
May Cutler (1923-2011) publisher, author, Mayor of Westmount, Quebec
March 12, 2011 - Died Dr. Olive Patricia Dickason C. M., PhD.,
D.Litt. (1920-2011) journalist, professor & scholar. Canada's expert
on the history of aboriginal peoples
March 18, 2011 -
Died Gladys Marguerite Hawkins-Pitcher (1916-2011) one of the last
living players of the Preston Rivulettes Hockey Club
April 4, 2011 -
Died Mary Bryant (1919-2011) community activist
April 8, 2011 - Died
Freda Ahenakew (1932-2011)
Aboriginal author, Member, Order of Canada & Saskatchewan Order of
Merit
April 10, 2011 - Died
Hanna Newcombe (1922-2011) social activist for peace
April 13, 2011 - Died Anne
Adamson Campbell (1912-2011) award winning choral conductor
April 24, 2011 - Died
Elizabeth "Betty" Ann Berthiaume Wicken (1927-2011) played
with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
May 28, 2011- Died Born Alice Robitaille/Alys Robi
(1923-2011) well known Quebec singer
June 1, 2013 -
Died Jane Purves (1949-2013) journalist & politician
June 14, 2011 - Died Rhea Whitehead (1936-2011) social
activist & pacifist
June 17, 2011 - Died
Elizabeth 'Betty' Fox (1937-2011) founder of the Terry Fox Run for
Cancer
June 22, 2011 - Died Jane Watson Heffelfinger (????-2011)
actress, broadcaster and volunteer
July 2011 - Died Rita Laroque Morel (1911-2011) public servant
July 10, 2011 - Died
Pierrette Alaire (1921-2011) opera singer
July 17, 2011 - Died
Anne Garber (1947-2011) journalist in print & on line
July 17, 2011 - Died Yoné Young (?-2011) dancer & manager of her
own dance company
August 2, 2011 - Died Joanne
Strong Philpott (1930-2011) columnist for the Globe and Mail
newspaper
August 8, 2011 -
Died Hugette Proulx (1923-2011) broadcaster who had open
shows on sexuality
August 14, 2011 - Died Frances Morrison
(1918-2011) librarian in Saskatchewan
August 26, 2011 - Died
Tricia Jeanne Trepanier
(1953-2011) civil servant
August 30, 2011 - Died Joyce Marguerite Brennan (1929-2011) 1st woman Elected to the Smith Falls, Ontario Town Council
September 12, 2011
- Died Maxine Tynes (1949-2011) acclaimed Black poet
September 15, 2011 - Died Frances Bay (1918-2011) actor & star
on Canada's Walk of Fame.
September 27, 2011 - Died Maryvonne Kwendergi/Kendergian
(1915-2011) broadcaster, author, professor, musicologist, & pianist
October 1, 2011 - Died
Nancy Riche (1944-2011) awarded the 1992
Persons Case & known as a woman of courage
October 2, 2011 - Died Cindy Shatto (1957-2011) true pioneer
in the sports of swimming and diving
October 13, 2011 -
Died
Barbara Kent (1907-2011) silent screen
movie star
October 17, 2011 -
Died Barbara Kathleen Buchner (1927-2011) medical researcher in
virology, hepatitis & radiommunoassay
October 23, 2011 -
Died Tillie Taylor (1922-2011) lawyer & social worker
October 24, 2011 - Died Laverna Katie Dollimore (1922-2011) diplomat who aided saving American
Diplomats during 1979 Iranian revolution
October 26, 2011 - Died
Jean Frances (1916-2011) Canada’s Doll Lady
November 2011 - Died Susan Budlovsky (1918-2011) heroine
of Nazi death camps World War ll
November 2011 - Died
Shirley Elford
(1943-2011) acclaimed glass sculptor
November 3, 2011 -
Died Joyce Carter (1930-2011) fashion
journalist
November 7, 2011 - Died Margaret Weisbord (1914-2011) musician
November 10, 2011 - Died
Shirley Elford
(1943-2011) acclaimed glass sculptor
November 15, 2011 - Died Edra Isles Saunders Ferguson
(1907-2011) 1st woman elected as alderman in St
Thomas, Ontario
November 16, 2011
- Died Mary Isobel Eady (1926-2011) women's rights advocate &
unionist
November 25, 2011 -
Died Jean Casselman-Wadds
(1920-2011,1961
1st woman appointed by the Canadian Government as delegate to
the United Nations. 1979 the 1st woman appointed as Canadian High
Commissioner to Great Britain
November 26, 2011 - Died
Pat Holden Collins (1924-2011) one of the world's 1st
women photo journalists
December 23, 2011 - Died
Mary Frances Fraser (1921-2011) award
winning local historian from Brampton, Ontario
December 24, 2011 - Died Mary Noel Balke (1918-2011)
librarian, journalist, & broadcaster with the CBC,
librarian at Ottawa Public Library
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2012 |
March 2012 - Crystal Kennedy
is the 1st woman firefighter hired in Moncton, New Brunswick
Source: CBC News New Brunswick. "Moncton adds female
firefighter to its ranks."
2012 - Olympic Games, London, England, Canada wins
Bronze soccer medal
2012 - Celebrating
1933 - Mary Belle Barclay and her sister E. Catherine Barclay
pitch a tent in Bragg Creek, Alberta to welcome campers to the 1st
Hostel in North America. In 2012 Parks Canada declare this to be an
Historic Site
May 4, 2012 - The Royal Canadian Mint strikes the
country's last once cent coin, the penny
June 1-5, 2012 - Canada joins other Commonwealth
countries to celebrate the 60 reign of Queen Elizabeth II
July 27, - August 12, 2012 - At the Olympic Games held
in London, England, Team Canada is composed of more female athletes
than male athletes
September 4, 2012 - Pauline Marois
(1949- ) is elected as the 1st woman premier of the
province of Quebec
September 18, 2012 -
A rural Yukon Aboriginal Women's summit is held in Whitehorse, Yukon
Territory: Strong Women, Strong Communities: Restoring Our Balance
October
9, 2012 -
Malala
Yousafzai, 16 years old, is shot in the head by a member of
the Taliban for daring to speak about education for girls. She will
be awarded honorary citizenship in Canada for her heroism and
contribution to women's rights in the world
October 11, 2012 -
The United
Nations declares this as the world’s 1st International
Day of the Girl child
November 2, 2012 - Judith Guichon
(1947- ) becomes the 29th Lieutenant Governor of
British Columbia
December 2012 - Kiara Adams is the 1st woman
hired as a fire fighter in Whitehorse, Yukon Source: City of
Whitehorse (accessed June 2013).
December 2012 - Christine Sinclair (1983-
) wins the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Top Overall Athlete
of the year after winning
the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Top Female Athlete. of the Year
& the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Top Overall Athlete of the Year
December 8, 2012 - The city of Victoria , British Columbia, declares
this day to be Dr. Victoria Cheung (Chung) Day. While in China, Dr.
Cheung cared for an taught medicine. This is the 100th anniversary
of her Jiangmen Central Hospital. A three meter high statue stand in
the lobby of the hospital in South Guangzhou Province
Deaths 2012:
2012 - Died
Dr Ellen Signe McLean (1926-2012) president of
Associated Country Women of the World
2012 - Died
Meredith Marks (1962-2012) physician and medical educator
January 2012 - Died
Dorothy Annabelle Straton McPhedran (
-2012) 1st woman to be Inspector of Schools for the
Ontario Ministry of Education
January 5, 2012 - Died Lois Boyle (1932-2012) "mother of the
Snowbirds" Canada's flying aerobatic team
January 5, 2012 - Died F. Marguerite "Peggy" Hill
(1919-2012) medical doctor
January 10, 2012 - Died Rachelle Halpenny (1950-2012) sport
personality who say no disability to entering the "Game"
January 19, 2010 - Died Sarah Burke (1982-2012) medal winning
pioneer of women's freestyle skiing
January 22, 2012 - Died Mary Evelyn "Molly" Cameron (
-2012) librarian known for her outstanding contribution to her
profession
January 25, 2012 - Died Alice Moulton (1911-1912) librarian
with the University of Toronto
January 29, 2012 -
Died Constance ‘Connie’ May Davidson-Howey (1925-2012)
historian & teacher
January 29, 2012 -
Died
Andréanne Lafond
(1919-2012) journalist and broadcaster
February 1, 2012 - Died Edith Virginia Vuchnick (
-2012) social activist & volunteer, president of Canadian YWCA & Member of the Y World Council
February 2, 2012 - Died Joyce Carmen Barkhouse (1913-2012)
poet
February 6, 2012
- Died Simone David-Raymond (1911-2012) social activist in Montreal
February 6, 2012 - Died Coleen Thibaudeau (1925-2012) poet
February 10, 2012 - Died
Nancy Lee Tegart (1912-2012) pioneer in British Columbia
February 13, 2012 - Died Pat Lotz (1930-2012) librarian &
researcher
February 14, 2012 - Died Eleanor Joan "Dusty" Miller
(1929-2012) theater administrator & first woman mayor of Thunder
Bay, Ontario
February 16, 2012 - Died Ethel Stark (1910- 2012) celebrated
Canadian musician & founder Montreal Women's Orchestra
February 24, 2012 - Died Marjorie Bronfman ( -
2012) philanthropist
February 26, 2012 - Died Jeannine Lock ( 1925-2012)
award winning journalist, broadcaster, & producer
February 27, 2012 - Died Pat Annesley (1936-2012)
journalist
March 11, 2012 - Died
Gene Anne 'Jan' Turner (!926-2012) physician
March 14, 2012 - Died Doris Elsie Guyatt (1929-2012) politician
& acclaimed civil
servant
March 21, 2012 - Died Jay Macpherson (1931-2012) award
winning poet
March 24, 2012 - Died
Alice Mildred Heap (1925-2012) social
activist & pacifist.
March 30, 2012 - Died
Lena "Lee" Delmonico (1925-2012)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
March 30, 2012 - Died Janet Margaret Anderson Perkin
(1921-2012) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball
League
April 9, 2012 - Died
Doris Ogilvie (1919-2012), a deputy judge
juvenile & provincial courts & strong supporter of women's rights
April 12, 2012 - Died Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok (1934-2012)
Inuit artist & sculptor
April 19, 2012 - Died Mabel Margaret Van Camp (1920-2012),1st
woman appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Ontario
April 20, 2012 - Died Lillian McGregor (1924-2012),
1st
Elder in residence at the University of Toronto & lecturer on the seven sacred teachings of the elders:
She was the 1st native woman awarded an honorary
doctorate of law from the University of Toronto
April 23, 2012 - Died
Flo Whyard (1917-2012), journalist,
editor Whitehorse Star, MLA and Mayor of Whitehorse, Yukon.
April 28, 2012 - Died
Elizabeth Joan Latimer
(1945-2014) renowned palliative care medical pioneer
April 29, 2012 - Died
Daisy Juror (1920-2012) baseball player for the All American Girls
Baseball League
May 13, 2012 - Died Mae Ames (1920-2012)
stage actor & director
May 19, 2012 - Died Charlotte Starkey (1910-2012) volunteer
at various levels of Girl Guides for 55 years
June 5, 2012 - Died
Wafa Dabbagh (1962- 2012) 1st woman to wear a religious head
covering in the Canadian Armed Forces
June 9, 2012 - Died
Rachel Browne
(1934-2012) founder Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers
June 21, 2012 - Died Maria Marrelli (1915-2012) social
activist on behalf of Italian Canadians she was presented with the
Italian Order of Merit
June 23, 2012 -
Died Constance Evelyn Saunders Dundas (1936-2012) genealogist &
teacher
June 25, 2012 - Died Lucella Catherine Ross (1921-2012)
played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
June 25, 2012 -
Died Roberta ‘Robbie’ Taylor (1946?-2012) aviator & social worker
August 18, 2012 - Died Cathie Anne Oberholtz (!940-2012)
anthropologist
August 29, 2012 - Died
Ruth Miriam Goldbloom (1923-2012) force behind the development of
Pier 21 Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia
September 5, 2012 -
Died Dorothy 'Dody' Anne Caley-Klein (1920-2012) champion
figure skater
September 11, 2012 - Died Elsie Cressman (1923-2012)
Order of Ontario for work in midwifery
September 11, 2012 - Died
Jeanne Brault Laurin (1923-2012),1st woman mechanic in Canada
September 24, 2012 - Died Mimi Mitchell Donald (1917-2012)
Canada's most outstanding teacher of the deaf in 20th century
September 26, 2012 - Died Sylvia Olga Fedoruk (1927-2012) 1st
woman Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
September 26, 2012 - Died Elizabeth "Betty" Brewster
(1926-2012) poet
September 29, 2012 - Died Barbara Ann Scott (1928-2012)
Canada's Sweetheart figure skated who won a gold medal in 1948
Olympics
October 12, 2012 -
Died
Vera Virginia Smith-Humpage (1932-2012) champion skater
October 18, 2012 - Died Janet "Jay" Barbara Acton (1941-2012) skier
October 20,-2012 -
Died Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova (1932-2012) sinologist,
University of Toronto
October 22, 2012 -
Died Wilma Helen Hunley (1920-2012) politician & 1st woman
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
November 9, 2012 - Died Helen Kathleen Mussallem (1915-2012)
decorated nurse
November 10, 2012 - Died Purvathi "Pari" Basrur (1921-2012) 1st woman
to work at the Ontario Veterinary College on faculty, University of
Guelph
November 16, 2012 - Died Ruth Tulving (1930-2012)
artist
November 22, 2012 - Died Beverly Witter Du Gas
(1923-2012) nurse
December 26, 2012 -
Died Rachel Elizabeth Proulx (1955?-2012) Northern Ontario
social activist
November 30, 2012 - Died Rhoda Pendleton Baxter
(1928-2012) singer
December 2012 - Died Magda Pennington (1928-2012)architect
noted for her design of house.
December 10, 2012 - Died Diane Mary Loomer (1940-2012)
Choirmaster, composer, Order of Canada recipient
December 12, 2012 - Died
Jean Roberts
(1926-2012) stage actor
December 18, 2012 - Died
Elizabeth 'Betty' Carol Marsden (1947-2012)
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2013 |
February 11, 2013 - Kathleen O'Day Wynne
(1953- ) is sworn in as the 25th
Premier of Ontario, the 1st L B T Q Premier in Canada
June 13, 2013 -
The
documentary Sing Me the Songs, Celebrating the Works of
Kate McGarrigle
(1946-2010)
is released
June 19, 2013 - The Mining
Association of Canada (MAC) has elected Zoe Yujnovick,
President and CEO of Canada's largest iron ore production company,
The Iron Ore Co. of Canada, as Chair of the MAC. She is the 1st
woman to be Chair in the Mac's 78 year history
October 10, 2013 - Alice Munro (1931- )
is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
October 2013 - Christine Sinclair (1983 - )
is inducted
into Canada's Walk of Fame, Toronto Source:
Walk of Fame
2013 - Eugenie Bouchard (1994-
) ranked # 32 in the Women's Tennis Association is named Most
Improved Player and who reaches the Wimbledon finals
is
voted by the
Canadian Press as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's
Top Female Athlete of the Year
Deaths 2013:
January 3, 2013 - Died Joy
Roberts-White (1910-2013) broadcast journalist who worked for BBC,
CBC, Reuters & CTV
January 5, 2013 - Died Heather B. S.
MacGregor (1921-2013) war bride
January 8, 2013 - Died Kenojuak Ashevak (1927-2013) Inuit
artist of Cape Dorset
January 10, 2013 - Died
Anne Felsko (1919-2013) businesswoman
January 12, 2013 - Died
Margaret Evelyn Prang (1921-201) pioneer
& innovator in developing concept of family which did not
necessarily include a husband
January 13, 2011 -
Died Eileen Elizabeth Dailly (1926-2011) politician
January 16, 2013 - Died Marjorie Mills
(1945-2013) piano player who recorded with Quality Records of
Canada, Master recordings and Gemstone Records
January 16, 2013 - Died
Isabel Frances Leith Macdonald (1917-2013)
drama teacher
January 17, 2013 -
Died Janice Christine Buller (1972-2013) nurse
January 23, 2013 - Died Susan Douglas Rubes (1925-2013) actor
with a long distinguished career on stage, TV, & film
January 26, 2013 - Died
Daurene Lewis (1943-2013) 1st Black woman in Canada to
become a mayor when elected mayor of Annapolis, Nova Scotia.
January 30, 2013 - Died
Diane Paulette Marleau (1943-2013) federal politician
February 8, 2013 - Died Hope Morritt ( -2013) author
& educator
February 13, 2015 - Died Nancy Lima Dent (1919 -2013) created a body of over
30 dance works, many are commentary on social issues
February 15, 2013 - Died Patricia
'Pat' Alcora Skinner (1934-2013) Black activist in Nova Scotia
February 26, 2012 -
Died Phyllis Theodosia Simmons-Brooks (1926-2012) Black
teacher-librarian
March 4, 2013 - Died Lucile Garner Grant (1910-2013) 1st woman
hired as a stewardess by Trans-Canada Airlines
March 4, 2013 - Died
Freda Swedlove-Lithwick (1919-2013) World War ll Nursing Sister
March 12, 2013 - Died
Madelaine Parent (1918-2013) social
activist & labour leader
March 23, 2013 - Died
Joan Ann Cooch (1932-2013) pioneer women's hockey coach.
March 27, 2013
-
Died
Yvonne Brill (1924-2013) award winning, pioneering engineer, & space
scientist & inventor
April 1, 2013 - Died Marge Linden (1935-2013), 1st
woman all night disc jockey on Montreal Radio &the 1st to
appear TV in Montreal.
April 4, 2013 - Died Ayako "Irene" Uchida (191-2013) medical
researcher who connected radiation and Downs Syndrome in pregnancy
April 7, 2013 - Died
Dr. Betty Feniak (1920-2013) home economics
professor University of Manitoba
April 14, 2013
-
Died
Susan Harrison (1948-2013)
author
April 16, 2013 - Died Rita MacNeil (1944-2013) singer
who promoted her Maritime homeland
April 17, 2013 - Died
Edna Mae 'Deana' Durbin
(1931-2013) movie actor from 1930's
April 22, 2013 - Died
Jean Petrona Angus (1923-2013)
Deaconess & leader in the United Church of Canada
April 27, 2013 - Died
Joan O'Sullivan (1922-2013)
Sister of St Joseph, Hamilton, hospital administrator
April 30, 2013 - Died Shirley Firth-Larson (1953-2013) medal
winning Olympic cross country skier
May 5, 2013 - Died
Judith Brady (1931-2013) social
activist
May 7, 2013 - Died
Mariruth Sarsfield
(1925-2013) Black activist, journalist, researcher/author, & broadcaster
May 9, 2013 - Died Hugette Oligny (1922-2013) French Canadian
actor
May 17, 2013 - Died Linda Marie Giesbrecht (1952-2013)
lawyer
May 25, 2013 - Died Evelyn Beatrice "Lynn" Tyrrell
(1920-2013) fashion designer
June 1, 2013 - Died
Jane Purves (1949-2013)
journalist & politician
June 3, 2013 - Died
Amy Louise Marsland (1924-2013) journalist
June 4, 2013 - Died Elizabeth 'Betsey' Carroll Martin
(1959-2013) philanthropist
June 14, 2013 - Died Lily Rosebush (1924-2013) pioneer
worker against drunk drivers
June 25, 2013 - Died
Agnes Holmes (1920-2013, played with
the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
June 26, 2013 - Died Bronislawa "Betty" Barban (1913-2013)
pianist, who became 1st conductor of the St John Symphony Orchestra
June 27, 2013 - Died
Leith Margaret Knight (1924-2013) journalist & local historian
June 30, 2013 - Died
Bridgid Ann Davidson (1958-2013)
social activist
July 2013 - Died Frances M. Phipps (????-2013) 1st woman to
set foot on North Pole
July 2, 2013 - Died
M. Jean Anderson (1918-2013) nursing
director
July 12, 2013 - Died
Rosemarie Riddell (1946-2013) nurse ahead of her time supporting
HIV/Aids patients
August 1, 2013 - Died
Anne Goodman (1950-2013) educator
August 11, 2013 - Died
Claire Lorraine Mackay (1930-2013) author
August 23, 2013 -
Died Goldie "Red" Burns (1925-2013)
academic, enthusiastic teacher
September 18, 2013 - Died
Diana Ruth Elizabeth Moeser (1944-2023) hospital administrator
September 15, 2013
-
Died
Reva Potashin (1921-2013) psychologist
September 22, 2013 - Died
Eleni Skalbania (1943-2013) businesswoman
September 20, 2013 - Died
Anne Lezar Mirvish (1919-2013) sculptor &
philanthropist
September 22, 2013 - Died Clara McCandless Thomas
(1919-2013) author & professor.
September 26, 2013 - Died
Clara McCandless Thomas (1919-2013) author & professor
September 28, 2013 -
Died Inger Hansen (1929-2013) Justice in
Ontario Court of Justice.
October 8, 2013 -
Died
Denise Marie Baillargeon
(11946-2013) founder of Rescuing Our African Daughters
October 13, 2013 -
Died
Rosalie Alma Gower (1931-2013) social activist
October 23, 2013 -
Died
Ruth Galbraith (1932-2013)
medical doctor & role model for working mothers
October 26, 2013 - Died
Jeannie Thib (1955-2013) artist
November 4, 2013 - Died Marion Fulton (1921-2013) volunteer,
Order of Canada 1978 & Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame 1988
November 4, 2013 –
Died Florence Robinson (1922-2013) Black activist
November 12, 2013 - Died Dorothy May Copithorn
(1919-2013) musician of piano, & organ
November 15, 2013 - Died
Sarla Bedi (1924-2013) 1st woman
to be registered as a Hindu priest in Ontario.
December 10, 2013 - Died Leigh Anne Chapple (1955-2013)
journalist/broadcaster in Ottawa
December 12, 2013
- Died Lola Lange (1922-2013) farmer's wife
December 15, 2013
- Died Bonnie Dafoe (1917-2013) poet |
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2014 |
February 2014 - Olympic Games
Sochi, Russia. Hayley Wickenheiser, Jayna Hefford and Caroline
Ouellette become the first Canadian athletes to win four career
Olympic gold medals. They were members of the Canadian women's
hockey team that won four striaght Olympic tournaments
Gold Medals: February 8, 2014 Justine Dufour-Lapointe, Freestyle
skiing; February 11, 2014, Dara Howell, Freestyle Skiing;
February 19, 2014, Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse,
Bobsleigh; February 20, 2014, Jenifer Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes,
Jill Offier, Dawn McEwen, and Kristen Wall women's curling; February
20, 2014, Meghan Agosta-Marciano, Gillian Apps, Melodie Daoust,
Laura Fortino, Jayna Hefford, Haley Irwin, Brianne Jenner, Rebecca
Johnston, Charline Labonté, Geneviève Lacasse, Jocelyne Larocque,
Meaghan Miklelson, Caroline Ouellette, Marie-Philip Poulin, Lauriane
Rougeau, Natalie Spooner, Shannon Szabados, Jenn Wakfeield,
Catherine Ward, Tara Watchorn, and Haley Wickenheiser for Ice
hockey; February 21, 2014 Marielle Thompson, Freestyle skiing.
Silver medals: February 8, 2014, Chloé Dufour-Lapointe, freestyle
skiing; February 9, 2014 Meagan Duhamel, Kristen Moore-Towers,
Kaetlyn Osmond, Tessa Virtue, figure skating; February 17, 2014
Dominique Maltais, snowboarding; February 18, 2014 Marie-Eve Drolte,
Jessica Hewitt, Valérie Maltais and Marianne St-Gelais, short track
3000 meter relay:
Bronze Medals: February 8, 2014 Kelsey Serwa,
freestyle skiing; February 11, 2014 Kim Lamarre, freestyle skiing;
February 16, 2014 Jan Hudec, alpine skiing
April 28, 2014 -
One
Billion Rising parade is held in Toronto, standing against rape and
murder of women
May 16, 2014 - The R C M P release the National
Operational Review on Missing Aboriginal women confirming high
numbers of murdered Aboriginal women and higher rates of violence
against Aboriginal women
2014 - The government of the Yukon Territory amends
the Vital Statistics Act to recognize same-sex parents on birth
certificates replacing previous ruling that only the biological
parent in a same-sex relationship could be listed
2014 - Red Dresses are displayed for the first time at the
Canadian Museum of Human Rights, Ottawa. The Red Dress Campaign
recognizes Awareness for Missing and Murdered women, girls,
and two spirited people. Red is traditional thought to be the only
colour spirits can see thus a red dress is a way of calling the
spirits of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls, and two
spirited back to their loved ones. The red dresses are now a
permanent display
2014 - Chatelaine magazine is ranked first in Canada as the largest
magazine with criculation over 530,000 copies.
August 2014 - Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau
(1956- ) becomes the 1st Acadian woman to be
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
2014 - Anne of
Green Gables, the Musical, holds the Guiness World Record
for the longest musical theatre production marking its 50th
anniversary
November 17-19
2014 - the International Conference on women and Girl
Child for Social and Economic Equality is held in Karnataka, India
2014 - Eugenie Bouchard
(1994- ) reached 5th in the Women's Tennis Association rankings
while being named Most improved player
is
voted by the
Canadian Press as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's
Top Female Athlete of the Year for the second year
2014 - Linda Hasenfratz (1966- )
becomes the 1st woman to be E Y Canada's Entrepreneur of the Year
2014 - Kaillie Humphries
(1985- ) the 1st female bobsledder to defend her Olympic title is voted by
the Canadian Press winner of the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Top
Overall Athlete of the Year
2014 - The Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Womens'
Hockey Association drafts a board policy to welcome transgender
players to play in the league
Deaths 2014:
2014 - Died
Jean E. Caine
(1923-2014) broadcaster in Ontario
January 19, 2014 - Died Helen
Morley (1918-2014) physician
January 17, 2014 - Died
Francine Lalande (1940-2014) federal
politician who championed assisted suicide
January 17, 2014 - Died
Barbara Alice West Jefferys Allen (1916-2014) artist
January 22, 2014 -
Died E.
Margaret Fulton (1922-2014) renowned
feminist of her era.
January 26, 2014 -
Died Doris Witiuk (1929-2014) played
with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League.
February 2014 - Died
Daisy Mae Gordon (1925-2014) Black trailblazer
February 14, 2014 - Died
Judith Winifred Taylor Mappin (1928-2014), renowned bookstore owner Montreal
February 11, 2014 - Died Mavis Gallant (1922-2014) acclaimed
author
February 18, 2014 - Died
Mavis Gallant (1922-2014) author & playwright,
Companion of Order of Canada
February 20, 2014 - Died
Josefina Napravilova (1914-2014) returned children to Czech Republic
after World War ll
February 21, 2014 - Died Molly Chadsey (1916-2014) World War
ll photographic specialist
March 2, 2014 -
Died
Gail Gilmore/Gibson (1937-2014) actor & ballet dancer
March 7, 2014 - Died Celine Tower (????-2014) editor and
volunteer in Ottawa
March 9, 2014 - Died
Vivian Mabel Jung (1924-2014) Asian Canadian teacher who fought
discrimination
March 18, 2014 - Died
Heather Robertson (1943-2014) author & journalist.
March 21, 2014 -
Died Barbara
Mary Wilson (1931-2014), archivist & historian
April 2014 - Died
Miriam
Alleyne Priscilla Renouf (1953-2014) archaeologist
April 15, 2014 -
Died Kirsten Bishopric (1963-2014) actor of
stage, television & movies
April 23, 2014 - Died Mary Jane Wright (1915-2014)1st woman in
Canada to chair a major psychology department at a university
April 26, 2014 - Died
Catherine Mallory Knowles (1919-2014)
librarian
April 29, 2014 - Died Marta Nielson (1961-2014) producer &
director of documentary films
May 12, 2014
- Died Lynne Cohen (1944-2014) photographer of void interiors
May 13, 2014 - Died
Anastasia Marie Shkilmyk (1945-2014), social
worker
May 17, 2014 - Died
Rose Eleanor
Milne (1925-2014) sculptor
May 19, 2014 - Died Agnes
'Aggie' J. Bishop (1938-2014) renowned pediatrician in Winnipeg
May 21. 2014 - Died
Virginia ‘Gina’ Ann McDougall-Cohoe (1927-2014) rodeo champion &
sculptor
May 27, 2014 - Died
Geraldine 'Geri' Migicovsky (1921-2014)
actor & social activist who brought '911' service to Ottawa
May 25, 2014 -
Died Sheila Diane Rose (1942-2014) educator
May 31, 2014 - Died Patricia 'Pat' Mary McDonagh (1934-2014)
fashion designer
June 1, 2014 - Died
Kathryn Elizabeth McCallion (1945-2014) career diplomat
June 6, 2014 -
Died Esther Raber-Nobleman (1921-2014) Jewish member of R C A
F World War ll
June 11, 2014 -
Died Alice Mary Sidgwick (1922-2014)
medical doctor & choir master
June 18, 2014 - Died
Claire Martin Faucher (1914-2014) author
June 21, 2014 -
Died Lorna van Mossel (1923-2014) social
activist who worked with new immigrants
June 22, 2014 - Died
Elizabeth Comper (1945-2014) philanthropist & social
motivator for anti-Semitism
June 28, 2014 - Died Anne A. Taylor (1946-2014) teacher,
communications administrator, & volunteer
July 4, 2014 -
Died Lorraine Mary Williams (1932-2014)
social worker & volunteer
July 19, 2014 -
Died Sheri-Lyn Plewes (1960-2014) civil engineer
July 21, 2014 - Died
Virginia Luella 'Ginger' Byfield (1929-2014) journalist & editor
July 24, 2014 - Died Jessie Innes London ( -2014)
journalist
July 25, 2014 - Died Jane Elizabeth Proctor (1949-2014)
physiotherapist to team Canada
July 27, 2014 - Died
Tove Bording (1935-2014)
civil servant, Foreign Service Officer for Canada
August 2,
2014 -
Died Sue Richards (1958-2014) social activist
August 22, 2014 -
Died Grace Jean Sutherland Boggs
(1922-2014) civil servant with National Gallery of Canada
August 29, 2014 -
Died Hanna Spencer (1914-2014) President National Women's Council
September 4, 2014 -
Died Margaret 'Maggie" Glenesk Beal Morris
(1925-2014) radio & TV personality & Bell telephone voice
October 20, 2014 - Died
Marie Warder (1927-2014) journalist & author of 24 books
October 21, 2014 - Died Bertha Cook-Jones (1922-2015) social
activist for equality for Métis women
October 21, 2014 - Died
Catherine Mary Wisnicki.(1919-2014) 1st
Canadian woman to graduate from university in architecture
October 29, 2014 - Died Mary Irene Patricia Jolliffe
(1923-2014) press agent for the arts
October 29, 2014 - Died
Mildred 'Millie' Sarah Maria Tremblay (1925-2014) award winning poet
November 3, 2014 -
Died Margaret Anne Wilson Thompson (1920-2014) leading researcher in the
field of muscular dystrophy
November 4, 2014 - Died Irma Elizabeth Hacking (1917-2014)
World War l nurse
November 11, 2014 -
Died Mary Clark Pyne (1924-2014) nurse, missionary, pilot, and poet
November 12, 2014 - Died
Adele Ward (1932-2014) broadcast journalist who worked mainly for
children
November 18, 2014 - Died
Borgny
Pearson (1920-2014), journalist & federal government
communications officer
December 12, 2014 - Died
Mary Eleanor Nichols Bales (1942-2014)
award winning realtor
December 21, 2014 -
Died Sonia 'Toni' Esmée Florence d'Artois (1924-2014)
secret agent during World War ll
December 21, 2014 - Died Michelle Tisseyre (1918-2014)
acclaimed broadcaster, actor, and translator
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2015 |
2015 -
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has 15 women from diverse backgrounds
of 30 his cabinet ministers
2015 - Sara Jeannette Duncan
(1861-1922) and Agnes Maude Machar
(1837-1927) are declared
persons of National Historic Significance
March 19, 2015 - Janice Filmon
(1943- ) becomes the 2nd woman
to be appointed as Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
May 2015 -
The Yukon Territory legislature passes a motion to amend the Yukon
Human Rights Act to explicity protect the rights of transgender,
transsexual, & trans-variant citizens
August 29, 2015 -
Ashley
Callingbull-Burnham earned the title Miss Universe,
the 1st First Canadian & 1st Aboriginal woman to win this title
October 4, 2015 - The organization RED Dress asks for
donations of dresses which will be used as displays across the
country representing missing and murdered Aboriginal Women.
Women across the country are asked to display a Red Dress in their
homes, businesses and in public spaces. The
Red Dress campaign raises awareness for Missing and Murdered
women, girls, and two spirited people. Red is traditional thought to
be the only colour spirits can see thus a red dress is a way of
calling the spirits of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls,
and two spirited back to their loved ones.
October 19, 2015 - 88 women are elected to seats in the
House of Commons in Ottawa. This the highest number of women Members
of Parliament to date. Women made up 33% of the candidates in the
federal election and 26% of the women who ran won seats in the House
of Commons.
2015 - Judy Cameron (1954- ) a pioneer woman commercial
pilot, is awarded the Elsie McGill Northern Lights Award
November 4, 2016 - For the 1st time in Canadian history the
Cabinet of the federal government of Canada includes an equal number
of women and men, 15 of each
2015 - Brooke Henderson
(1997- )
the 1sdt Canadian to win on the Ladies Professional Golf Association
Tour in more than ten years is
voted by the
Canadian Press as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's
Top Female Athlete of the Year
Deaths 2015:
January 10, 2015 - Died
Anne Abrametz (1915-2015) social activist for Canada's Ukrainian
culture preservation
January 10, 2015 - Died
Patricia Martens (1952-2015) science researcher
January 10, 2015 - Died Verna Marie Huffman Splane
(1914-2015) acclaimed nurse
January 22, 2015
-
Died Suzanne Lapointe (1934-2015) singer, actor & television host
January 23, 2015 - Died
Jalynn Bennett (1943-2015) powerhouse businesswoman
January 23, 2015 -
Died Heather Sifton (1936-2015) aviator
January 23, 2015 - Died Semma Holt (1922-2015) journalist,
author &
the 1st
Jewish woman elected to a seat in House of Commons Ottawa
January 31, 2015 - Died
Elizabeth Cordelia 'Corrie' Eaton
(1910-2015) indomitable woman doctor
January 31, 2015 - Died Elise Partridge
(1958-2015) poet
February 4, 2015 - Died
Helen Preston-Glass (1917-2015) acclaimed nurse & educator
February 5, 2015 - Died Louise Maheux-Forcier (1929-2015)
acclaimed award winning author
February 12, 2015 - Died
Alison Gordon (1936-2015) journalist, first woman to cover American
League Baseball
February 26, 2015 - Died
Martha Ruth Cohen (1920-2015) social activist & philanthropist
March 17, 2015 - Died Betty Lee (1921-2015) pioneer
journalist
March 18, 2015 - Died May 'Billie' Alexandra Hallam (1919-2015)
Miss Toronto 1937
April 11, 2015 - Died
Helen Anne Henderson (1946-2015) advocate for disabled people &
journalist
April 25, 2015 - Died
Christien Stewart (1941-2015) federal politician
May 1, 2015 - Died Elizabeth 'Betty' Whittall (1931-2015) International
and Olympic champion swimmer
May 10, 2015 -
Died Barbara Sue Turnbull (1965-2015) quadriplegic journalist
May 29, 2015 -
Died Olga 'Olly' Penner (1929-2015) beloved radio host in
Manitoba
May 31, 2015 - Died Gladys Taylor ( -2015)
writer, journalist, & publisher
June 4, 2015 - Died Edythe Elizabeth
Goodridge (1937-2015) social activist
June 11, 2015 - Died
Kay Helen McDaniel (1917-2015) played with the All American Girls
Professional Baseball League
June15, 2015 - Died Helen Dacey Wilson (1927-2015) author,
broadcaster, & civil servant
July 10, 2005 - Died
Linda R. Bull (1950-2015) internally
acclaimed indigenous rights advocate
July 11, 2015 - Died Claudia Joan
Alexander (1959- 2015) scientist
July 25, 2015 -
Died Gwendolyn 'Gwen' Maud Ellis - Gammon (1918-2015) World
War ll WREN
July 26, 2015 - Died Flora MacDonald (1926-2015)
renowned politician of the 70's & social activist for Afghanistan.
August 7, 2015 - Died
Born Frances Kathleen Oldman Kelsey (1914-2015) Doctor who saved the
U.S.A from Thalidomide
August 13, 2015 - Died Dorothy Muriel Wylie
(1929-2015) nurse & educator
August 23, 2015 - Died
Frances Jane Wasselein (1946-2015) social activist & feminist in
British Columbia
August 24 2015 - Died
Phyllis 'Pat' Grosskurth (1924-2015) author & 1st
female professor in English Department, University of Toronto
August 25, 2015 - Died Marguerite McDonald
(1941-2015)
1st female national reporter at CBC TV’s
parliamentary bureau in Ottawa
August 31, 2015 - Died
Aileen Theodora Williams
(1924-2015) Black activist
September 27, 2015
– Died Brenda/Brindi Diamond/Diament-Fischauf (1914-2015) Jewish
member of CWAC in World War ll
October 4, 2015 - Died Pamela Ann McDougall
(1925-2015) Foreign Service Officer, Diplomat
October 16, 2015
- Died
Ruth Hammond (1920-2015)
pioneer in public relations
October 29, 2015 -
Died
Tamara Joworska (1926-2015) acclaimed textile artist
November 1, 2015 - Died
Kathern Loewen Friesen (1918-2015) philanthropist
November 12, 2015 -
Died
Katherine Friesen (1918-2015) social activist in Manitoba
November 13, 2015
- Died Marie Elizabeth Macbeath (1925-2015) teacher & scientist
December 16, 2015 - Died Ruth Marion Bell (1919-2015) social
activist working for women's right
December 20, 2015 - Died Hazel Desbarats (1936-2015) stage
actor
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