Janetta Mary Ornsby
One of the seven founders of the Women’s Engineering Society in the UK
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Marie-Anne Laporte
Candian labour activist
Katherine Angelina Hughes
1900s Canadian teacher, journalist, public servant, author, and Irish political activist
Laura Elizabeth McCully
1900s Canadian feminist, poet, journalist, and independent woman
Anna Yonker
1900s Ukrainian-Canadian community activist
Elizabeth McKenzie Hatton
In her work with Aboriginal girls and for Aboriginal human rights, she showed a leadership beyond that suggested by the evangelical tradition she came from.
Mabel Hubbard Bell
American venture capitalist and social reformer
Letitia Munson
1800s Canadian herbalist, fortune-teller and midwife
Anna Leonowens
Author, educator, and feminist, inspiration for the musical The King and I
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie
Canadian feminist, social reformer, lecturer, educator and author