It's Int'l Women's Day. From the admittedly short list below (we only have so much space for this), please pick your favourite influential woman.

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It's Int'l Women's Day. From the admittedly short list below (we only have so much space for this), please pick your favourite influential woman.

Mary Shadd Cary (1823–1893) First black woman newspaper editor in North America 0 votes 0.00%

Mary Two–Axe Earley (1911–1996) Challenged law discriminating against First Nations women 1 vote 5.88%

Emily Carr (1871–1945) A West Coast artist who has been described as “Canada’s Van Gogh” 2 votes 11.76%

Viola Desmond (1914–1965) Challenged segregation practices in Nova Scotia 5 votes 29.41%

Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680) North America’s first indigenous saint 3 votes 17.65%

Nellie McClung (1873–1951) Novelist, reformer, journalist, and suffragist. 6 votes 35.29%

Total votes: 17
Added: Mar 8, 2018 11:17 AM

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