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Canadian asylum inmate labourer
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Oionhaton
1600s Huron woman
Alice Knee
Alice was working as a nurse to provide healthcare on the Navajo Reservation when she met Lurton Knee, the owner of the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch at Pleasant Creek. She married Lurt in 1958, and became a partner in the business.
Ardra Tarbell
Ardra Tarbell worked at Acadia National Park for 39 years.
Jannetje Vrelandt Drummond
Jannetje Vrelandt Drummond (c1740-1790) was a Loyalist during the U.S. Revolutionary War.
Lucinda Collins Fares
The first non-Native woman to settle in the Snoqualmie Valley.
Agathe de Rambaud
French nurse in charge of the royal children of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Adeline Trottier Toutant
1800s Canadian immigrant
Lydia Jackson
Lydia Jackson (fl. 1760–92) was a wrongfully indentured Black woman who managed to secure her freedom and leave colonial Canada for Sierra Leone in 1792.
Nancy McKenzie
Nancy McKenzie’s life serves to illustrate the way in which native women were increasingly victimized by the changing mores of fur-trade society in 1800s Canada