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New France’s fur-trading women dealt in luxury goods across the Atlantic Ocean.

Remembering the fiery politician who ushered in the Canada Pension Plan and championed women’s rights.

Astrophysicist Allie Vibert Douglas popularized astronomy and encouraged women in science.

Book review: Quiet Rebels brings attention to the first women lawyers of Jewish, Black, Chinese and Indigenous heritage.

The inspiring story of Canadian Kit Coleman, a female reporter who fought for women’s equality and became the first-ever female war correspondent.

Rose Fine-Meyer - 2015 Canada's History Forum Transcript

Professor shows how French Canadians and Indigenous women saved the West coast from the Americans.

Book review: Métis Matriarchs sets itself firmly within the parameters of social history, as an edited collection of “quantitative case studies” of Métis women that follow a biographical approach.

In 1847 the Irish Famine drove shiploads of sick and starving men, women, and children to Canada’s shores.