Amazing Women from Atlantic Canada
Courageous, creative, and determined – meet the women whose lives shaped Atlantic Canada in ways both celebrated and overlooked.
Julia Catherine Beckwith (Hart). NB
Carrie Best. Activist & publisher. NS
Lydia Campbell. Writer. NL
Deborah Cottman – early educator and poet. AI image. NS
Nancy Coyle, the widow who tended the dead. AI image. Nfld.
Sarah Edmonds, aka Franklin Thompson. NB
May Agnes Fleming. Internationally renown novelist. NB
Rose Fortune. Entrepreneur. NS
May Furlong. Activist for veterans. NL
Louisa Haliburton. Amazing life story. NS
Mary Jane Lawson. Historian. NS
Rita Joe. Poet Laureate of the Mi’kmaq people. NS
Marie-Henriette Lejeune (Granny Ross). Herablist, Midwife and nurse. NS
Anna Leonowens. Inspiration for the movie, The King & I. NS
Grace Annie Lockhart. First BA in Commonwealth. NB
Lady Mary Love. First lithograph artist in Atlantic Canada. NB
Dr. Eliza McKenzie. First woman doctor on Prince Edward Island
Ann Harvey, 1828 heroine. AI image. Nfld.
Sarah and Mary Herbert – women who published newspapers. NS
Catherine Susan Ann McNab. Wife of Joseph Howe. NS
Mikak and son. 17th century Inuit diplomat. NL
Maria Frances Ann Miller. The Audubon of Nova Scotian field flowers. NS
Lucy Maude Montgomery. PEI’s most famous author. PEI
Christianne Morris. Amazing Mi’kmaq artist known for her quillwork.
Susannah Oland. Brewing dynasty matriarch. NS
Mona Parson. Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. NS
Georgina Pope. Nursing trail blazer. PEI
Three Sisters in Art – Annie, Minnie and May Prat. NS
Eliza Ritchie. First Phd. NS
Margaret Saunders. Animal rights activist. NS
Georgina Ann Stirling. Opera singer. NL
Anna Swan: The Giantess from Tatamagouche. NS
Georgina Whetsel. Canada’s ‘Ice Queen’. NB