100 More Canadian Heroines

by Merna Forster

  CATA Alliance. www.cata.ca (accessed August 13, 2009).

  Cherniavsky, Felix. The Salome Dancer: The Life and Times of Maud Allan. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991.

  Chinese Canadian National Council, Women’s Book Committee. Jin Guo: Voices of Chinese Canadian Women. Toronto: Toronto Women’s Press, 1992.

  Clarke, David. The Butchart Gardens: A Family Legacy. Victoria: The Butchart Gardens Ltd., 2003.

  Coggeshall, George. History of the American Privateers, and Letters-of-marque. New York: Putnam, 1861. www.mun.ca/rels/native/beothuk/beo2gifs/texts/HOW19b.html (accessed July 8, 2010).

  Colony of Avalon. www.colonyofavalon.ca (accessed September 12, 2009).

  Cooper, Afua P. “Black Women and Work in Nineteenth-Century Canada West: Black Woman Teacher Mary Bibb.” In We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History, edited by Peggy Bristow, 143–170. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

  Cormack, W.E. Narrative of a Journey Across the Island of Newfoundland in 1822. London/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Company, 1928.

  Creighton, Helen. A Life in Folklore: Helen Creighton. Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1975.

  Cruikshank, Julie. Life Lived Like a Story: Life Stories of Three Yukon Native Elders. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1990.

  Dannett, Sylvia. She Rode with the Generals: The True and Incredible Story of Sarah Emma Seelye, alias Franklin Thompson. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1960.

  Day, Helen G., and Kenneth J. Beaton. They Came Through. Toronto: United Church of Canada.

  Desjardins, Sergine. Robertine Barry: La femme nouvelle. Trois-Pistoles: Éditions Trois-Pistoles, 2010.

  Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, circa 1987.

  Downie, Jill. A Passionate Pen: The Life and Times of Faith Fenton. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996.

  Duncan, Jennifer. Frontier Spirit: The Brave Women of the Klondike. Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2003.

  Duvall, Paul. Canadian Impressionism. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1990.

  Edgeller, Evelyn. Mary Belle Barclay: Founder of Canadian Hostelling. Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 1988.

  Edmonds, Sarah. Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse and Spy: A Woman’s Adventures in the Union Army. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999.

  Fiamengo, Janice. The Woman’s Page: Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.

  Freeman, Bill. Casa Loma: Toronto’s Fairy-Tale Castle and its Owner, Sir Henry Pellatt. Toronto: Lorimer, 2005.

  French, Maida Parlow. Kathleen Parlow: A Portrait. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967.

  Gorham, Deborah. “Flora MacDonald Denison: Canadian Feminist.” In A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada, 1880s–1920s, edited by Linda Kealey. Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1979, 47–70.

  Green, H. Gordon. Don’t Have Your Baby in the Dory! A Biography of Myra Bennett. Montreal: Harvest House, 1974.

  Hacker, Carlotta. The Indomitable Lady Doctors. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd., 1974.

  Hall, M. Ann. The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002.

  Hamdani, Daood. In the Footsteps of Canadian Muslim Women 1837–2007. Canadian Council of Muslim Women: 2007.

  Hill, Beth. The Remarkable World of Frances Barkley, 1769–1845. Sidney: Gray’s Publishing Ltd., 1978.

  Hoare, Philip. Oscar Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1998.

  Hotchkiss, Ron. The Matchless Six: The Story of Canada’s First Women’s Olympic Team. Toronto: Tundra Books, 2006.

  Horsfield, Margaret. Cougar Annie’s Garden. Nanaimo: Salal Books, 1999.

  Howley, J.P. The Beothuks or Red Indians: The Aboriginal Inhabitants of Newfoundland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915.

  Ito, Roy. Stories of My People: A Japanese Canadian Journal. Hamilton: Promark, 1994.

  Jones, Mrs. E.M. Dairying for Profit; or, The Poor Man’s Cow. Montreal: John Lovell & Son, 1892.

  Kitagawa, Muriel. This Is My Own: Letters to Wes & Other Writings of Japanese Canadians, 1941–1948, edited by Roy Miki. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1985.

  Koritz, Amy. Gendering Bodies/Performing Art: Dance and Literature in Early Twentieth-Century British Culture. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1995.

  Lambert, Gavin. Norma Shearer: A Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

  Layton, Linda G. The Passion for Survival: The True Story of Marie Anne and Louis Payzant in Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia. Halifax: Nimbus, 2003.

  Leonard, Elizabeth D. All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999.

  Lévesque, Andrée, ed. Madeleine Parent: Activist. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2005.

  Luckyj, Natalie. Expressions of Will: The Art of Prudence Heward. Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1986.

  MacDonald, Cheryl. Abigail Becker: Angel of Long Point. Nanticoke: Heronwood Enterprises, 2008.

  Macpherson, Susan, ed. Encyclopedia of Theatre Dance in Canada. Toronto: Dance Collection Danse, 2000.

  Marshall, Ingeborg. A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.

  McCrosson, Sister Mary. The Bell and the River. Palo Alto: Pacific Books, 1956.

  McFarlane, Brian. Proud Past, Bright Future: One Hundred Years of Canadian Women’s Hockey. Toronto: Stoddart, 1994.

  Millar, Ruth Wright. Saskatchewan Heroes & Rogues. Regina: Coteau Books, 2004.

  Mitchinson, Wendy. “The WCTU: ‘For God, Home and Native Land’: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Feminism.” In A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and Reform in Canada 1880s-1920s, edited by Linda Kealey, 151–67. Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1979.

  Morgan, Henry J. Types of Canadian Women Past & Present. Toronto: William Briggs, 1903.

  Neufield, James. Power to Rise: The Story of the National Ballet of Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996.

  Patton, Brian, ed. Tales from the Canadian Rockies. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1984.

  Pilgrim, Earl B. The Day Grenfell Cried. St. John’s: DRC Publishing, 2007.

  Pope, Peter E. Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

  Prakash, A.K. Independent Spirit: Early Canadian Women Artists. Buffalo/Richmond Hill: Firefly, 2008.

  Preston, Dave. The Story of Butchart Gardens. Victoria, BC: Highline Publishing, 1996.

  Render, Shirley. No Place for a Lady: The Story of Canadian Women Pilots 1928–1992. Winnipeg: Portage & Main Press, 2000.

  Rooke. P.T., and R.L. Schnell. No Bleeding Heart: Charlotte Whitton, A Feminist on the Right. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1987.

  Sack, B.G. History of the Jews in Canada. Translated by Ralph Novek. Montreal: Harvest House, 1965.

  Sandford, R.W. High Ideals: Canadian Pacific’s Swiss Guides 1800–1999. Canmore, AB: The Alpine Club of Canada & Canadian Pacific Hotels, 1999.

  Sanger, Clyde. Lotta and the Unitarian Service Committee Story. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd., 1986.

  Sauriol, Charles. Remembering the Don: A Rare Record of Earlier Times Within the Don River Valley. Scarborough, ON: Consolidated Amethyst Communications Inc., 1981.

  Savigny, Mary. Bon Echo: The Denison Years. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 1997.

  Schäffer, Mary T.S. Old Indian Trails of the Canadian Rockies. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911.

  Shearer, Benjamin, and Barbara S. Shearer, eds. Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, ON: Greenwood Press, 1997.

  Sidney, Angela. Tagish Tlaagu: Tagish Stories. Whitehorse: Council of Yukon Indians and Government of Yukon, 1982.

  Smardz Frost, Karolyn. I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railro
ad. Toronto: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2007.

  Spring, Joyce. Daring Lady Flyers: Canadian Women in the Early Years of Aviation. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 1994.

  Stabler, Arthur P. The Legend of Marguerite de Roberval. Washington: Washington State University Press, 1972.

  Stacey, Robert, and Stan McMullin. Massanoga: The Art of Bon Echo. Manotick, ON: Penumbra Press, 1998.

  Strang, Lewis Clinton. Famous Actresses of the Day in America. Boston: L.P. Page and Company, 1899.

  Takata, Toya. Nikkei Legacy: The Story of Japanese Canadians from Settlement to Today. Toronto: NC Press Limited, 1983.

  Tarasoff, Koozma J. Spirit Wrestlers: Doukhobor Pioneers’ Strategies for Living. Ottawa: Legas, 2002.

  Taylor, Alan. The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

  Tulchinsky, Gerald. Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community. Toronto: Lester Publishing Ltd., 1992.

  Vacon, Shirley Irene. Giants of Nova Scotia: The Lives of Anna Swan and Angus McAskill. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press, 2008.

  Voyageur, Cora. Firekeepers of the Twenty-First Century: First Nations Women Chiefs. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.

  Walters, Evelyn. The Women of Beaver Hall. Toronto: Dundurn, 2005.

  Wang, Jiwu. “His Dominion” and the “Yellow Peril.” Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

  Waters, Bob. Four Generations That Walked the Walk. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing Co., 2010.

  Wheelwright, Julie. Esther: The Remarkable True Story of Esther Wheelwright. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2011.

  Whittaker, Herbert. Canada’s National Ballet. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967.

  Wild, Marjorie. Elizabeth Bagshaw. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1984.

  Wix, Edwards. Six Months of a Newfoundland Missionary’s Journal. London: Smith, Elder and Co., Cornhill, 1836.

  Woodhead, Lindy. War Paint: Madame Helena Rubinstein & Miss Elizabeth Arden. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

  Wyman, Max. Dance Canada: An Illustrated History. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1989.

  Youmans, Letitia. Campaign Echoes: The Autobiography of Mrs. Letitia Youmans. Second Edition. Toronto: William Briggs; Montreal: C.W. Coates; Halifax, S.F. Huestis; 1893?

  Periodicals

  Adams, Annmarie and Petra Tancred. “Designing Women: Then and Now.” The Canadian Architect, Vol. 45, Iss. 11 (November 2000): 16–17.

  Anderson, J.W. “Beaver Sanctuary.” The Beaver, June 1937: 8–11.

  Backhouse, Constance. “Clara Brett Martin: Canadian Heroine or Not?” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 5, Iss. 2 (1992): 263–79.

  Backhouse, Constance. “Response to Cossman, Kline, and Pearlman.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 5, Iss. 2 (1992): 280–97.

  Backhouse, Constance. “To Open the Way for Others of My Sex: Clara Brett Martin’s Career as Canada’s First Woman Lawyer.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 1 (1985): 1–41.

  Betcherman, Lita-Rose. “Clara Brett Martin’s Anti-Semitism.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 5, Iss. 2 (1992): 263–79.

  Blackburn-Evans, Althea. “Helen Hogg: Great Discoverers.” EDGE Magazine, Winter 2000.

  Blanton, DeAnne. “Women Soldiers of the Civil War.” Prologue 25 (Spring 1993): 27–33.

  Bren, Linda. “Frances Oldham Kelsey: FDA Medical Reviewer Leaves Her Mark on History.” FDA Consumer magazine, March–April 2001.

  Brown, Wayne. “Mary Two-Axe Earley: Crusader for Equal Rights for Aboriginal Women.” Electoral Insight, November 2003.

  Burleigh, H.C. “Ontario’s First Lady.” Historic Kingston, Vol. 14 (1966): 67–77.

  Churchman, Jim. “Initio.” RCMP Quarterly, Vol. 38, No. 3 (July 1972): 20–25.

  Cossman, Brenda, and Marlee Kline. “And If Not Now, When?”: Feminism and Anti-Semitism Beyond Clara Brett Martin.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 5, Iss. 2 (1992): 298–316.

  Denmark, D.E. “James Bay Beaver Conservation.” The Beaver, September 1948: 38–43.

  Donovan, Kenneth Joseph. “Slaves in Ile Royale, 1713–1758.” French Colonial History, Vol. 5 (2004): 25–42.

  Fladeland, Betty. “New Light on Sarah Emma Edmonds, Alias Franklin Thompson.” Michigan History 47 (1963): 357–62.

  Gabriele, Sandra. “Gendered Mobility, the Nation and the Woman’s Page: Exploring the Mobile Practices of the Canadian Lady Journalist, 1888–1895.” Journalism, Vol. 7 (2006): 174–96.

  H.A. “In Memoriam: Mary Warren.” Canadian Alpine Journal 27: 108–10.

  Hall, M. Ann. “Alexandrine Gibb: In ‘No Man’s Land of Sport.’” International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 18, Issue 1 (2001): 149–72.

  Harrington, Michael Francis. “Ann Hulan: A Newfoundland Pioneer.” Atlantic Advocate, January 1981: 39–41.

  Hudes, Sammy. “The Controversial Legacy of Charlotte Whitton.” IsraelNationalNews.com, August 20, 2010.

  Jackson, Elva E. “A Legend Reconsidered.” Cape Breton’s Magazine, Issue 37: 41–52.

  Jackson, Elva E. “The True Story of the Legendary Granny Rose.” Nova Scotia Historical Review, Vol. 8, No.1 (1988): 42–61.

  Kinnear, Mary. “The Icelandic Connection: Freyja and the Manitoba Woman Suffrage Movement.” Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4: 25–28.

  Knelman, Judith. “Helen Hogg.” Graduate, the University of Toronto Alumni Magazine, Vol. XIII, No. 1 (October 1985).

  Lacombe, Michele. “Songs of the Open Road: Bon Echo, Urban Utopians, and the Cult of Nature.” Journal of Canadian Studies, Summer 1998, Vol. 33, Iss. 2.

  Lapointe, Lisette. “Robertine Barry: la rebelle.” La Gazette des femmes, Vol. 20, No. 1: 14–15.

  Lorenz, Andrea W. “Canada’s Pioneer Mosque.” Saudi Aramco World, Vol. 49, No. 4 (July/August 1998).

  MacLean, Mary R. “Colonel Elizabeth Smellie.” Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers & Records, Vol. 3 (1975): 16–18.

  Martin, Robert. “The Meteoric Rise and Precipitous Fall of Clara Brett Martin.” Inroads, Iss. 21 (Summer 2007).

  Morier, Roger. “Style and Substance: The Career of Charlotte Whitton.” Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1981).

  “Passing of a Doukhobor Martyr” and “An Interview with Anna Petrovna Markova.” Mir, May 1979, No. 17: 3–23.

  Payment, Diane P. “Onésime Dorval: ‘la bonne demoiselle.’” Saskatchewan History, Vol. 55, 1 (May 2003): 31–35.

  Pearlman, Lynne. “Through Jewish Lesbian Eyes: Rethinking Clara Brett Martin.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 5, Iss. 2 (1992): 317–49.

  Pipher, Judith L. “Helen Sawyer Hogg." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 105, No. 694 (December 1993): 1369–72.

  Reichwein, Pearl Ann. “Guardians of the Rockies.” The Beaver, Vol. 74, Iss. 4 (August/September 94).

  Reynolds, Mac. “Mrs. Butchart’s Famous Gardens.” Maclean’s, September 15, 1952: 16–17 and 36–38.

  Rooney, Frances. “Elizabeth Bagshaw, M.D.: An Interview.” Makara, Vol. 2, No. 3 (May 1977): 27–30.

  Salterio, Joe L. “Frances G. McGill, M.D.” RCMP Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 1 (July 1946): 25–32.

  Scandlers, Ian. “She’s Collecting Long Lost Songs.” Maclean’s, September 15, 1952.

  Schäffer, Mary T.S. “The Finding of Maligne Lake.” Canadian Alpine Journal 4 (1912): 92–97.

  Schmiegelow, Philippa. “Canadian Feminists in the International Arena.” Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2: 85–87.

  Sexty, Robert W., and Suzanne Sexty. “Lady Sara Kirke: Canada’s First Female Entrepreneur or One of Many?” Administrative Sciences Association of Canada — Annual Conference 2000, Vol. 21, Part 24: 22–30.

  Sinclair, Donna. “Victoria Cheung.” Touchstone, Vol. 11, No. 3 (1993): 37–43.

  Sunde, Fern. “Mrs. ‘Sparks.’” Canadians at War (193
9/45), Vol. 1: 287.

  Wallace, W. Stewart. “The Story of Charlotte and Cornelia De Grassi.” Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1941: 147–53.

  Watt, Maud. “Nascopie Honeymoon.” The Beaver, March 1938: 18–26.

  Watt, Maud. “Rupert’s March of Time.” The Beaver, June 1938: 22–26.

  Watt, Mrs. J.S.C. “The Long Trail.” The Beaver, March 1943: 46–50.

  Watt, Mrs. J.S.C. “The Long Trail — II.” The Beaver, June 1943: 16–19.

  Walkowitz, Judith R. “The ‘Vision of Salome:’ Cosmopolitanism and Erotic Dancing in Central London, 1908–1918.” The American Historical Review, Vol. 108, No. 2 (April 2003): 337–76.

  Whittier, John G. “The Heroine of Long Point.” Atlantic Monthly, May 1869.

  Whitton, Charlotte. “Will Women Ever Run the Country?” Maclean’s, August 1, 1952.

  Newspapers

  Major newspapers in Canada and the United States

  Unpublished Sources

  Anonymous. “Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkié.” Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada formulaire de demande — personne, 2000-42.

  Brown, Jennifer S.H. “Charlotte Small (1785–1857).” Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Submission Report — Person, 2007-13.

  Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame

  Hilda Ranscombe Scrapbook

  Dodd, Dianne. “Margrét Jónsdóttir Benedictsson (1866–1956).” Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Submission Report — Person, 2008-69.

  Dodd, Dianne. “Mona Gordon Wilson (1894–1981).” Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Submission Report — Person, 2007-53.

  Dodd, Dianne. “Nellie Yip Quong (1882–1949).” Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada Submission Report — Person, 2007-70.

  Eyford, Ryan. “Lucifer Comes to New Iceland: Margrét and Sigfús Benedictson’s Radical Critique of Marriage and the Family.” Presentation at Canadian Historical Association, 2007.

  Faith Berghuis Collection

  Jones Family Files

  Fort Steele Archives

  Gelly, Alain. “Marie Marguerite Rose (vers 1717–1757).” Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada rapport au feuilleton — personne, 2007-12.