Shawnadithit
The last known living member of the Beothuk people, indigenous inhabitants of Newfoundland, Canada.
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Ham Hop
Ham Hop came to Australia as the wife of a Geelong businessman in 1910. Arriving on a temporary permit under the Immigration Restriction Act, Ham Hop became a cause célèbre as her husband fought for her to be allowed to remain in the country permanently.
Charlotte Butler
One of the “Ladies of Llangollen” of 1700s Wales
Helene Wilson
Mount Rainier National Park Ranger, 1918
Jessie B Reed
Yosemite National Park Ranger & Cook, 1919-1921, 1923, 1927-1928
Katie Trefon Williams
American who recounted subsistence ways of living in the early 1920s and 1930s
Martha S Bingaman
Yosemite National Park Ranger, 1926-1928
Charlotte Margaret Rumbold
Active in urban planning in two cities: St. Louis, Missouri, and Cleveland, Ohio
Ou Shee Eng
Despite her immigration detainment and the long-term consequences of the exclusion era, Ou Shee and the women around her table lived lives of courage and strength. Their legacies survive among their daughters and granddaughters who built a homeland in America for the Chinese immigrant community.
Marie
Enslaved Native American tried in Trois-Rivières for attempted murder and suicide and sentenced on 29 Dec. 1759 to be hanged.