Suggested Further Readings

One of the best sources for information about many of the women above is the three volume series called Her Story: Women From Canada’s Past edited by Susan E. Merritt (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing). Merritt also maintains a "Her Story" website.

Canadian Women in Politics and Activism

Benham, Mary Lile. Nellie McClung. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1975.

Casgrain, Therese. A Woman in a Man's World.

Duley, Margot. Where Once Our Mothers Stood We Stand: Women's Suffrage in Newfoundland.

Gwyn, Sandra. Tapestry of War: A Private View of Canadians in the Great War

Hallett, Mary and Marilyn Davis. Firing the Heather. Saskatoon: Fifth House Ltd., 1993.

Hancock, Carol. Nellie McClung: No Small Legacy. Northstone Publishing Inc. 1996

James, Donna. Emily Murphy. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited, 1977.

Mander, Christine. Emily Murphy; Rebel. Toronto: Simon and Pierre, 1985.

McClung, Nellie L. Clearing in the West. Toronto: Thomas Allen , 1935.

McClung, Nellie l. The Stream Runs Fast. Toronto: Thomas Allen, 1945

Warne, Randi R. Literature as Pulpit: The Christian Social Activism of Nellie L. McClung. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press 1993

Canadian Women in Science and Technology

Ainley, Marianne Gosztonyi editor. Despite the Odds: Essays on Canadian Women and Science. Montreal: Vehicule Press. 1990.

Rayner-Canham M.F. and G.W. Rayner-Canham. Harriet Brooks: Pioneer Nuclear Scientist. Montreal, Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1992.

Canadian Women Explorers, Adventurers, Heroines and Pioneers

Bassett, John and A. Roy Petrie, Laura Secord. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1974

Bearden, Jim and Linda Jean Butler. Shadd. Toronto: NC Press Limited 1977

Berton, Laura. I Married the Klondike. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967.

Black, Martha Louise. My Seventy Years. Toronto: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., 1938

Grant, Janet. Madeleine de Vercheres. Toronto: Grolier Limited, 1989.

Johnson, Jean. WildernessWomen. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates Ltd.,1976.

Killian, Crawford. Go Do Some Great Thing: The Black Pioneers of British Columbia. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1978.

MacEwan, Grant. And Mighty Women Too. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1975.

Marshall, Ingeborg. The Beothuk of Newfoundland. St. John's Newfoundland: Breakwater Books, 1989.

Metcalf, Vicky. Catherine Schubert. Toronto: Fitzhenry, Whiteside Limited, 1978.

Norcross, Blanche. Pioneers Every One. Burns and MacEachern Limited, 1979.

Robinson, Helen Caistor. Laura. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1981

Robinson, Helen Caistor. Mistress Molly. Toronto: Dundurn Press,1980.

Sadlier, Rosemary. Leading the Way: Black Women in Canada. Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1994.

Van Kirk, Sylvia. Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur Trade Society 1670-1870

Winter, Keith. Shawnaditti: Last of the Beothuks, J.J. Douglas Ltd. 1975

Wright, Ronald. Stolen Continents. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1993.

Canadian Women Artists

Clark, Janet E. and Robert Stacey. France Anne Hopkins 1838-1919: Canadian Scenery. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Art Gallery (art exhibit catalogue)

Davis, Angel E. No Man's Land: The Battlefield Paintings of Mary Riter Hamilton. Winnipeg: The University of Winnipeg, 1992. (art exhibit catalogue)

Eber, Dorothy, editor, Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life. Montreal: Design Collaborative Books and Oxford University Press, 1971.

Neering, Rosemary, Emily Carr. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited,

Canadian Women Musicians and Dancers

Macdonald, Cheryl. Emma Albani: Victorian Diva.

Canadian Women Writers

Downie, Jill. A Passionate Pen: The Life and Times of Faith Fenton

Feder, Alison. Margaret Duley: Newfoundland Novelist, a Biographical and Critical Study. St. John's : Harry Cuff Publications Limited, 1983.

Gillen, Mollie. Lucy Maud Montgomery. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1978.

Innis, Mary Quayle, ed. Mrs. Simcoe's Diary

Jaques, Edna. Uphill All the Way. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1977.

Rubio, Mary and Elizabeth Waterston, eds. The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery. 3 vols. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Willowby, Brenda. Pauline Johnson. Toronto: Grolier Limited 1991.

Canadian Women in Medicine and Healing

Bennett, Jennifer, Lilies of the Hearth: The Historicial Relationship between Women and Plants. Camden East, Ontario: Camden House Publishing, 1991.

Mason, Jutta. "A History of Midwifery in Canada," Report of the Task Force on the Implementation of Midwifery in Ontario, Toronto, 1987.

McCallum, Margaret. Emily Stowe. Toronto: Grolier Limited 1989

Ray, Janet. Emily Stowe. Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside Limited, 1978

Canadian Women in Sports

McDonald, David and Lauren Drewery. For the Record: Canada's Greatest Women Athletes.