Amazing Women from Atlantic Canada
Too often, women's stories have been left out of the history books. In this section, we celebrate the remarkable women of Atlantic Canada – some well known, others less so, but all deserving of recognition. In one way or another, these women were all trailblazers in their respective fields and helped move Canada forward.
Julia Catherine Beckwith. Novelist. NB
Carrie Best. Activist & publisher. NS
Lydia Campbell. Writer. NL
Deborah Cottman – early educator and poet. AI image. NS
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
Dr. Eliza McKenzie. First woman doctor on Prince Edward Island
Catherine Susan Ann McNab. Wife of Joseph Howe. NS
Mikak and son. 17th century Inuit diplomat. NL
Lucy Maude Montgomery. PEI’s most famous author. PEI
Susannah Oland. Brewing dynasty matriarch. NS
Mona Parson. Resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. NS
Georgina Pope. Nursing trail blazer. PEI
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