Test your knowledge of Notable Canadian Women:

1. Who is the first Canadian woman doctor?
2. Who is the first woman to play in the National Hockey League?
3. Who is known as "the last Beothuk"?
4. She was kidnapped by French and Mohawk forces, taken to New France, adopted by a Mohawk family, and then later refused to rejoin her Puritan family in New England. Who is she?
5. During the War of 1812 - 1814, she overheard the enemy officers planning a surprise attack on the Canadian forces. At 4:00 am she began a 20 mile journey across swamps, rain-swollen creeks and up the Niagara Escarpment to warn Canadian forces. Who is she?
6. Who was born a free black in the slave state of Delaware, who later moved Windsor, Ontario, Canada to set up a school for slaves who had escaped to Canada?
7. What well-known suffragist was first known by her pen name "Janey Canuck"?
8. Who was the first woman in Canada to graduate with a degree in electrical engineering, the first woman in North America to hold a degree in aeronautical engineering and the first woman in the world to become an aircraft designer?
9. What Canadain woman was a world authority on congenital heart ailments?
10. Who was the first female member of Parliament, championed the rights of farmers and worked hard for social and prison reform?
11. Which Canadian became an international opera superstar who worked with great composers such as Liszt, Dvorak, Brahms and Wagner? She was a personal favourite of Queen Victoria, sang at Queen Victoria's funeral service and at King Edward's coronation.
12. What did "women, children, criminals and lunatics" have in common at the beginning of the twentieth century?

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