Book review: This book argues that Beynon Thomas — less known today than some of her early 20th-century counterparts — was a pivotal force behind Canadian women’s suffrage.
Canadian history has been shaped by amazing women whose contributions have often been ignored. Many fought for women’s rights at the same time as they were doing great things in other fields.
Choosing Canada’s Great Women is not easy. Listen to Charlotte Gray, one of the judges on our panel, as she describes the pleasures and pitfalls of ranking the great women of history.
The idea that women could drive an automobile — let alone drive around the shell holes of the frontlines — was rather revolutionary at the outbreak of the Great War. But nicety was soon driven out by necessity.