Jannetje Vrelandt Drummond
Jannetje Vrelandt Drummond (c1740-1790) was a Loyalist during the U.S. Revolutionary War.
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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
Dora Sion Amir
20th century Greek immigrant to the U.S.
Elizabeth Jackson
1700s Irish-American patriot
Peggy
One of the hundreds of people of African descent enslaved in Upper Canada in the 1700s and 1800s
Josette Work
1800s Indigenous Canadian woman