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Business women /
Entrepreneurs
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Elizabeth Arden |
(Real name Florence
Nightingale Graham). Born Woodbridge, Ontario December 31, 1884 Died 1966. She left Woodbridge Ontario for the bright lights
of New York City when she was 25 years old.
After working as secretary at a cosmetic firm she decided that
she would work in the cosmetic business herself. The rest is history.
Along with her rival, Helena Rubenstein, she made make-up acceptable
to the average North American woman. You can see for yourself all
the various products her company makes at most large department stores
cosmetic sections. |
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Vicki Lynn Bardon |
Born
Halifax, Nova Scotia June 27, 1947. After studying at Acadia University in
Nova Scotia she continued her studies at the the New York School of Interior
Design. Returning to Canada she used her artistic skills and combined them
with business acumen and founded the highly successful Shuttles and Seawinds
of Nova Scotia Ltd in 1973. The stores sold designs with a Canadian maritime
flavour and soon expanded to central Canada. For her work she has received
the Design Canada Award in 1974, The Tommy Award from the American Painted
Fabrics Council in 1978, and the Commemorative Medal of the 125th
Anniversary of Canadian Federation 1992. She is married and is mother of
three children. |
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Sonja Bata |
née
Wettstein Born Switzerland. She was of a well to do historical family in
Switzerland and as a student she studied architecture. She was active in
community activities , establishing the first Swiss Rotary Club and working
for the Red Cross. In 1946 she married shoe business magnate Thomas Bata who
brought her to Canada. She helped her business and life partner husband
rebuild his family shoe business into one of the world's largest after the
devastation of World War two. In 1979 she created the Bata Shoe Foundation
for research and study of the history of footwear. In 1995 the Bata Shoe
Museum was founded. They both worked on numerous foundations including the
National Design Council of Canada and the World Wildlife Fund. Her knowledge
of 5 languages is a help with all the travel for work, volunteerism and
pleasure. They both received the Order of Canada and in 2003 the Retail
Council of Canada gave both a Lifetime Achievement Award. |
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Alice Helena Berry |
née Miller. Born New West Minster, British Columbia August 10, 1868. Died
1919. She married Henry Azariah Berry (1862-1899) on June 24, 1890. After
the death of her husband she earned a living by teaching piano and was the
“Lady Manager” of Mutual Life Insurance of Canada. In 1905 she founded The
World Printing and Publishing. With the help of her father, Jonathan Miller,
she purchased the newspaper The World in 1911. She became the only woman
managing director of a Canadian daily newspaper in this era. The newspaper,
which had originally been founded in 1888, would become the highly respected
Vancouver Daily World. It was the first Canadian paper to bypass Canadian
Press telegraph and get its news from the U.S. press associations. One of
her early partners was Louis Denison Taylor whom she married on June 9,
1916.
Source: The History of
Metropolitan Vancouver – Hall of fame
http://www.vancouverhistory.ca (accessed June 17, 2009) |
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Susan Riva Bellan. |
Born July 5, 1952. An import and retail
executive she showed promise of achievement early in life with achievements
in music at the Winnipeg Music Festival 1968. She would work early in the
field of small business and enterprise and use her knowledge and experience
to write a book, Small Business and the Big Banks. (1995) Combining
an interest in world crafts where is the owner/manager of Frida Craft
Stores. She is also a mother of a family of three. |
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Jalynn Riva Bennett |
Born March 12, 1943. Earning her B.A. degree at the
University of Toronto in 1965 but even with degree in hand she was only
hired to answer the telephone at the Manufacturers Life Company in 1965.
While the company held interviews for young men with B.A.'s to be
professionals interviews for women were only for clerical positions. Since
first breaking into the workforce, she has had a varied career that has
included being a member of the Trent University Board of Directors, a
Director at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, an executive at Sears
Canada and Canwest Global Communications Inc. In 1989 she took on being
president of Jalynn H. Bennett Associates. She was one of the 6 women to
become the first women members of the exclusive men's only York Club and the
first woman to be a member of the Toronto Club. March 4, 200 the National
Post Newspaper declared her to be one of the Power of 50 : Canada's most
influential women. |
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Martha Billes. |
Born September 7, She studied sciences at the
University of Toronto but had more of an interest in business. She has
worked her way to become the Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Tire. She
is also married and has one son. In 1996 she was the Entrepreneur of the
Year. In 1997 she bought out her two brothers from the family business. She
envisions future beyond her native Canada with perhaps expansion to China
and South America. She received an honourary doctorate from Ryerson
University in 2002. Dr. Billes has striven for the creation of, and is the
Chairman of, the Canadian Tire Foundation for Families, an organization that
is dedicated to helping families in times of crisis. She is a trustee of the
Calgary Emergency Women’s Shelter Endowment Fund and has also served as a
member of Sunnybrook Medical Centre Foundation. She has served on the boards
of several other public corporations. Dr. Billes is the Honourary Consul
Emeritus, Southern Alberta region, for the Republic of Chile. A firm
believer in encouraging entrepreneurship and in 1996 through 1998 she has
been a Judge, Entrepreneur of the Year, Prairie Region; in 2001, Ontario
Region; and in 1998, a National Judge, Entrepreneur of the Year. When she is
not working, Dr. Billes enjoys theatre, gardening and bicycling. Not
unexpectedly, she is an accomplished handyman. |
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M.A. "Jill" Bodkin |
née Madsen Born Belleville, Ontario June
18, 1943. She studied foreign languages at the University of Alberta and
enjoys speaking English, Russian, French and Spanish and is considering
learning Mandarin. She helped to negotiate Canada's historic auto pact with
the United States, played a pivotal role in EXPO 86 and founded the British
Columbia Securities Commission and was the first woman deputy minister
(Consumer and Corporate Affairs) , responsible for financial institutions.
She currently heads up Golden Heron Enterprises as CEO. In 2004 she was
presented with a lifetime achievement award from the Association of Women in
Finance. |
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Micheline Charest |
Born United Kingdom 1953. Died April 14,
2004. She and her partner Ronald Weinberg were the founders of Cinar Films
Inc. in 1976 and it became, an award-winning animation company producing
such popular children's Television shows as Arthur and Caillou. At one time
the Hollywood Reporter named her to the top twenty most-powerful women in
Hollywood. In 1993 she was awarded the Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year.
and in 1994 she was the Outstanding Achievement Award winner for Women in
Television and Film. In 2000 there were sever financial problems and the two
were ousted from the company and fined 1,000,000 dollars each while baring
them from managing any Canadian company for five years. She died during
recovery from complications experienced during recovery from some plastic
surgery. |
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Erminie J Cohen. |
Born July 26,
1926. For some 50 years she has been respected businesswoman of the Saint
John business community. In 1991 she received a Certificate of Appreciation
for distinguished service to the community from the United Nations
Association. She is married and has three adult children. She was the first
woman to be elected president of her synagogue. As a result of her work she
was elected National Vice President of the Hadassah WIZO Organization of
Canada. She was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1993. |
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Thérèse de Couagne |
Born
January 18, 1697. Died February 26, 1764. She married Francois Poulin de
Francheville in 1718 and was a widow in 1733. She became interested in
business after her husband's death. She would be known as an astute
business woman and played an active role in New France economy. She was the
owner of the slave Marie Joseph Angelique. It was this slave who while
trying to cover her escape would set fire to the widow's house in 1734 and
the fire would get out of control burning much of the settlement. |
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Sarah Debbois. |
Born
December 29, 1733. She married successful merchant,
George Debbois and raised a family. As loyalists or people who had
left the colonies in the United States because they were still loyal
to the British monarchy, her family relocated to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
When her husband died in 1799 she assumed supervision of his business.
She was somewhat of a novelty in Halifax society and the business
survived difficult times. She provided a solid foundation for the
business which continued as a family business into the 19th century. |
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Rita Deverell |
Born
1945. She started in television when she helped create a successful
children's show, All in a Tube in 1972. Her career has encompassed being an
on-air journalist, a producer, a university professor , a social activist
and visionary television pioneer. In 1988 she was one of the founders of the
world's firs multi-faith and multicultural enterprises of its kind...VISION
TV. She has mentored the careers of visible minorities and aboriginal
hopefuls. She assures positive portrayal of women of all ages on VISION TV.
Her work has been diversified from Obsidian Theatre to the Couchiching
Conference of Public Affairs. In 1993 she was included in Maclean's Roll of
Outstanding Canadians. She has received the Canadian Black Achievement Award
and is a member of both the Broadcast Hall of Fame and the Order of Canada.
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Denise Donlon |
Born
1956. She entered broadcasting in 1985 when she joined MuchMusic. In 1997
she had worked her way up the corporate ladder to Vice president and general
manager of MuchMusic. She was instrumental in taking the company to an
international audience. In 2000 she accepted a position as President of Sony
Music Canada. She has won two Gemini Awards, the Peter Gzowski Award of
Merit, 3 times she has received Canadian Music Week's Broadcast Executive
Award and she has received the Outstanding Achievement Award from Women in
Films and television. Shift Magazine 1998 listed her as one of the top 25
most important people in New Music. In 2002 she was inducted into the
Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and in 2005 she was
appointed a Member in the Order of Canada. |
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Marie-Geneviève
Drapeau |
(née
Noel) Born Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Quebec January 13,1766. Died November 17,
1829. She married Joseph Drapeau in 1782 but became a widow with his death
in 1810. As a wife she had no rights nor power but as a widow she had the
same rights as an adult male. This was a law entitled Coutume de Paris. She
took over the family businesses and rented out houses, businesses and lands.
The monies were invested in real estate. She was a well known and respected
business personality of her day. Upon her death her estate was divided
evenly among her 6 daughters who ably continued the family businesses. |
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Celia Duthie |
Born
Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied English literature at the
University of British Columbia. She began her working career as a social
worker and wrote poetry for release. Eventually she returned home to the
family business, Duthie Books Ltd. She automated the business and increased
the total number of book stores in Vancouver to 10 outlets. The company also
publishes The New Reader, a quarterly journal of book Reviews which
has run for over 20 years |
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Flora McCrae Eaton |
Born Omemee, Ontario 1881. Died July 9, 1970. As a young
woman she trained as a nurse. In 1901 she married Sir John Craig Eaton and
turned her energies to philanthropic works. She would dedicate herself to
the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The Institute for the Blind and children's
welfare. As a businesswoman she was a director of the T. Eaton Co. and
Vice-President and director of the Eaton Knitting Co. This busy mother of
four sons also found time to pen a autobiography, Memory's Wall (Toronto
1956) which was to be a legacy for her grandchildren. |
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Marie Anne Fornel |
Born August 26, 1704. Died November 16, 1793.She was a woman
of the merchant class. She and her husband would have 14 children but only
seven would survive infancy. In this era of New France it was typical for a
woman to continue in the family business after the death of a husband. When
she became a widow in 1745 she took over the family business interests to
assure the support of her family. She showed a strong business sense
entering the pottery business when the war cause a shortage of shipments
from France. She was successful in several ventures including real estate
and she expanded her affairs throughout the community and even into
Labrador. |
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Julie Frost |
Died October 3, 2002. She worked in radio in Red Deer
Alberta, and Dawson Creek, British Columbia before moving and settling in
Saskatchewan. In 1957 she and her husband, Bill founded C J F B - TV in
Swift Current, Saskatchewan. She was more than 'just' owner and general
manager and is described as a true pioneer of independent broadcasting. The
station signed over to CBC only in May 0f 2002. She was also extremely
committed to her community. She created the Kinsmen Telethon in
Saskatchewan. Now called, Telemiracle, it is recognized nationally
for the tens of millions of dollars that it has raised for individuals with
disabilities. |
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Lois Hole |
Born Buchanan, Saskatchewan 1929. Died January 7, 2005. She
moved to Edmonton in her early teens. It was here that she would meet her
husband Ted and in 1952 they purchased their farm. By 1960 they had
diversified into a vegetable and mixed garden business and by 1979 the
incorporated as Hole's Greenhouses and Gardens Ltd. Their business would
grow into one of the largest retail greenhouse operations in western Canada.
An advocate of education she was a member of the Governing Council of
Athebasaca University. She also worked on the Farm Credit Corporation, was
honourary chair for the 27th Canadian Congress on Criminal Justice and for
the Children's Millennium Fund. She also served as a board member of the
Canadian Heritage Garden Foundation, the Child and Adolescent Services
Association and the Quality of Life Commission. In 1999 Prime Minister Jean
Chrétien appointed her as Alberta's 15th Lieutenant Governor. She is the
second woman to hold this position. In her spare time, Mrs. Hole managed to
publish several books on gardening as well as being a regular contributor to
several newspapers across Canada. This in-between being an in demand
and popular lecturer throughout North America. She was also appointed
to the Order of Canada. |
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Lucille Johnstone
'Tugboat Annie' |
Annie Lucille Johnstone. Born Vancouver, British Columbia 1924.
Died December 31, 2004. In high school she was introduced to accounting and
enjoyed it. Later on she would attend night classes to follow through with
studies to become a Certified General Accountant. In 1945 she was hired by a
company called Riv Two as a “girl Friday” and she learned quickly. Through
the years she worked her way to president and CEO of the company! An
inspiration to all her staff she did whatever was required to be done. When
she was tug dispatcher she earned the nickname ‘Tugboat Annie’. After
courses in advanced management she helped prepare the company for a
successful merger doubling its size. By the time of her retirement in 1989
she was overseeing 1500 employees, one of the largest marine companies in
British Columbia. After she left the job she continued with her volunteer
positions, which included being Chair of the Vancouver International Airport
Authority, an aboriginal business foundation and a sexual assault recovery
program. She was the Woman of the Year in Vancouver in 1984 and was
appointed to the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada.
Source: The amazing story of tugboat titan Lucille Johnstone by Paul
E. Levy. (Madira Park Harbour, 2006). |
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Vickie Kerr |
Born Montreal, Quebec. A pre school teacher by profession she and
her farmer husband would settle to growing potatoes in the fertile regions
of western Ontario. In 1986 she began making her own potato chips in her
farmhouse kitchen in New Lowell. Her children were loved her potato chips
and were a real encouragement for the long work house. Her idea was to
provide a healthy snack food for children. The farm was mortgaged and the
business began in 1989. The first year Miss Vicki’s Potato Chips was a
million dollar business. She would be the Director of Blinding Hope
Foundation that was established to relieve the suffering of orphaned,
abandoned and other disadvantaged children worldwide. The business was
eventually sold and plants are now located in British Columbia and Quebec.
After the death of her husband Miss Vicki moved to the United States from
where her dream of living on a beach in Mexico finds her on the Sea of
Cortez near Puerto Penasco ,Mexico only a i/2 day drive from San Diego. She
is a certified notary and a student of Spanish language and culture. She is
an investment specialist encouraging opportunities by the beach in Mexico.
Suggest source: I know that Name: The People Behind Canada’s
Best-known Brand Names by Mark Kearney and Randy Ray (London: Hounslow,
2002) |
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Catherine Kim McArthur |
Born Simcoe Ontario. 1953. She attended the University of Western Ontario ,
London, Ontario, for her B.A. and earned a Gold Medal for her studies. She
then attended Alehouse College in Toronto, earning her B. Ed. and started
her high school teaching career. By 1981 she had made the career switch that
would open a whole new world for her. She worked in book publishing with
McGraw Hill- Ryerson, Carswell, and Methuen Publishers. Married in 1982, she
would become a working mother of two children and switched to Little Brown
Publishers. When an American firm took over Little Brown in 1998 she looked
for a way to continue working where her passion was. McArthur and Company
Publishers was born. She is a strong supporter of Canadian writers and the
Company publishes a an impressive list of best-selling and award-winning
authors of fiction and non-fiction and wears the lave of one of the top
three Canadian owned publishers of Canadian fiction in the country. She was
awarded the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the year for start up 2001-2 and
has been listed on the Chatelaine top 100 women Business Owners for
several years. She served on the Book and Periodical Council for Canada in
1999 through 2002. She also chaired the first Book Lovers Ball in February
2006 for the Toronto Public Library Foundation. She has been recognized with
the Consumers Choice Award for Business Woman of the Year in 2005. In
November 2007 , the Woman’s Executive Network recognized her as one of the
top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada.
Sources University of Western Ontario Alumni Gazette Spring 2008; Canadian
Who’s Who (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006) |
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Ann Kirby
Macaulay |
Baptized Knaresborough, England November 11, 1770 Died January 20,
1850. She married Robert Macaulay February 13, 1791 and the couple settled
in Crown Point, in the Colony of New York. With the American Revolution this
loyalist Family moved Upper Canada. By 1800 Ann was a widow with three sons.
She became a successful overseer of her estate. She was a strong supporter
of the Anglican Church and worked for relief of victims of disasters. At the
age of 76, after the death of one of her daughters-in-law, she assumed
responsibility for her four grandchildren. She was a strong community
activist and businesswoman who primarily cared for her family.
Suggested
source: Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Toronto, University of Toronto
Press) |
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Marguerite_Magdelaine LaFramboise Pioneer fur
trader and businesswoman |
née Marcot. Born February 1780. Died April 4, 1846. Born to a fur
trader father and the daughter of an Ottawa Chief she was raised to learn
the life of a fur trader. On October 11, 1804 she married Joseph LaFramboise
but the marriage only lasted a couple of years when in 1806 she became a
widow. She became on of the leading fur traders of the Upper Lakes Region.
She would retire in 1822 as a wealthy woman devoting herself to education of
young people and to her Church. At one time she even was hostess to the
famed traveller and author, Alex deTocqueville.
Source: Online Dictionary of Canadian Biography (accessed June 2008) . |
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Amanda Lynn Mayhew |
Born Manitouwadge, Ontario September 3 1974. As a youth she had a
thyroid condition that resulted in looking like a bean pole and then her
condition switched and resulted in excessive weight gain. To combat her
health issues she become motivated not only to keep fit herself but to help
others to keep fit and healthy. She turned to establishing a web site to
answer all the questions she was receiving. With a few years she founded
Fytness Fanatk magazine that runs with no commercial advertising and
uses real people and real stories. Her career as an editor of the magazine
run concurrent with her career as a successful model. She lives with her
husband and three sons in Waterloo, Ontario. Her web page is :
www.amandalynnmayhew.com
(Accessed May
2008) |
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Susannah Oland |
Born England Born 1798(?) Died 1886. Susannah and her husband
John immigrated to Canada from England in the 1860’s.She first brewed her
brown October ale in her back yard in Nova Scotia in 1867. By the
1870’s Susannah found herself a single parent with 6 children to care for.
She renamed her small brewing business to S. Oland and Sons to hide the fact
that a woman was in charge of the company. She proceeded to build the
company into the dominant brewer of beer in the Maritimes. She used her own
personal recipe for her beer, a recipe which is still the base for the beer
produced in the company that is the owner of the Oland beer label today.
Moose Head Beer is enjoyed across Canada. |
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Janice G. Rennie |
Born June 29, 1957. She
describes herself as a self employed financial consultant. She won numerous
scholarships and awards for her university studies. She won the Commerce Cup
from her peers and in 1980 she won the Provincial gold medal and the
national silver medal from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
She is also giving of her time and talents to her community having worked
with the YMCA and the United Way campaigns. She is married and mother of two
children. |
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Charlotte Francoise Juchereau de Saint Denis |
Comptesse de Saint-Laurent. Baptized February 4, 1660. Died December 28,
1702. In 1702 she purchased the Ile d'Orleans becoming the Comptesse. She
was a strong business personality of New France. She was also the mother of
16 children. Check out her story in the Dictionary of Canadian
Biography. |
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Marie Saint Pierre. |
Born
August 25, 1961. Her enjoyment of
designing cloths has lead her to establishing her own company Marie Saint Pierre
Design Inc. in 1987. Within a few years her work won recognition and awards from
the industry including Vidal-Sasson-sponsored Buyer’s Designer of the Year in
1995. She has been subject of numerous newspaper and TV interviews and has been
cited as “Canada’s most promising designer” (Globe and Mail). Watch the labels
of clothing you buy…it might just be from… |
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Rose Marie Reid Fashion designer and entrepreneur
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née Yancey Born Cardston, Alberta September 12, 1906 Died
November 18, 1978. This mother and homemaker was asked in the 1930’s by her
husband to make him a new swim suit that was not itchy like the woolen suits
of the day. The old wool suits also became baggy once wet. Rose Marie cut an
outfit from an old water resistant coat and provided a lace for a snug fit.
Everyone wanted one! Mr. Reid soon approached a local department store and
the reluctant Rose Marie began a lifetime entrepreneurial journey. She would
enter the fashion world of women’s bathing suits changing women’s swim gear
on an international scale. Hollywood embraced her designs and it is said the
Marilyn Monroe credited Reid’s designs for her success as a pin up girl.
Rose Marie kept personally in touch with the designing of her swim suit
lines until the business was taken over in 1968. By then the bikini was
taking on the ladies swimsuit fashion and the small two piece suits were not
of her liking. However her legacy of changing the fashions for several
decades still remains and her name line still continues to sell among modest
bathers.
Source: Succeeding in swimwear by Julie Gedeon in The Beaver
August/September 2007pg. 13. Also:
www.vintagevixen.com/articlesDesigners/vintageRoseMarieReid.asp
(accessed May 21, 2008) |
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Claire Samson |
Born April 12, 1955. She studied for her
Masters of Business at the University of Montreal. Communications and
broadcasting were the area of her career choice She has worked for Telemedia
Communications, Société Radio Canada and Tele-metropole. In February 1995
she became Executive Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer for TQS
(Télévision Quatre-Saisons) in Quebec and retuned to Radio Canada as
Director Genera of Programs in 1999. She was also President of the Quebec
Association of Television and Film Producers. A person in demand by her
profession!! In 2004 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Canadian
Association of Broadcasters. |
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Sophie Strub |
Born Kharkov, Ukraine Died 1949. The
family immigrated to Canada in 1921 but by the end of the decade the country
was immersed in the Great Depression. Butcher Michael Stub traded a barrel
of his wife Sophie's homemade pickles with a local grocer for food for his
family. The grocer wanted more!!! A family business Strub Brothers Ltd. was
born. Today the family empire works out of Brantford, Ontario and still uses
Sophie's recipe!!! |
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Barbara G. Stymiest |
Born
June 13, 1956. This businesswoman held the Senior Vice President and Chief
Executive Officer of Nesbit Burns Inc. from 1992 to 1999. It was during this
time that she was the first woman to be Governor of the Toronto Stock
Exchange. In 1999 she became President of the Toronto Stock Exchange! In
2000 she was on the top 10 list of Canadian businesswomen presented by the
National Post. |
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Eira Thomas
Geologist and Entrepreneur |
Born Eira Margaret Thomas Calgary, Alberta. Eira enjoyed geology
and earned her B Sc at the University of Toronto in 1990. In 1994 she was
chief geologist for Aber Resources Ltd when she discovered what proved to be
the highest grade cluster of diamond pipes the world has ever seen. This
discovery led to the founding in the Northwest Territories of the Diavik
Diamond Mine, estimated to be a 10 billion dollar mine. By the turn of the
century she was Director of Strongbow Exploration Inc. Chief Executive
Officer of Stornoway Diamond Corporation and until 2006 she served as
Director of Aber Diamond Corporation. Her mining firm, Sternway Ventures,
has diamond rights to more than 7,000,000 Arctic acres. Her dream is to find
diamonds and develop a mine as the first Canadian owner and diamond
operator.
Sources: Ottawa Citizen January 17, 2004 p. B3; Canadian Who’s Who 2005
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005) p 1306. |
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Rose-Anna Vachon |
Born 1870 (?). Died December 2, 1948. It was Rose Anna who
convinced her husband to borrow money and purchase a bakery just outside of
Quebec City. It was her donuts, sweet-buns, shortbreads, cakes and pies made
in her own wood burning stove in her home kitchen that kept clients coming
back for more. In 1932 she made a delicious chocolate cake with a cream
filling and named it after two of her sons...Jos -Louis! By 1937 the
business had expanded throughout their home province as well as Ontario and
the Maritimes. After the death of her husband in 1938 , it was Rose-Anna who
expanded the business even farther. In 1945 she stepped down from the
business and turned it over to her four sons. Her home, wood stove and all,
in Sainte Marie de Beauce is now a museum. Canada Post issued a
commemorative Millennium postage stamp featuring Rose-Anna and her husband
in 2000. |
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Michelle Valberg |
Born January 8. Michelle studied fine arts at the University of
Ottawa and took photography at Algonquin College, Ottawa She has become
renowned for her unique portraiture and spectacular landscapes. She has
also written two books: Look beyond…the faces and stories of people with
HIV/AIDS and Dare to dream…a celebration of Canadian women. The
funds raised by these books have been donated to Charity. An entrepreneur
she owns and operates a gallery and studio as well as a publishing and
special events business called Dare to Dream. She is active on Boards and
Committees for local charities. She has received the Woman of Distinction
Award from the Ottawa YM/YWCA in 200, Ottawa’s Business woman of the year
award, 2004, and the St. Joe’s Women Stellar Quality of Life Award as well
as being Algonquin College Alumnus of the Year. In 2005 the Ottawa Business
Journal listed her in the Top 40 under 40 achievers.
Sources: Ottawa Citizen October 18, 2005 p. D3 also Correspondences with
Michelle Valberg. |
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Shirley Westeinde. |
She studied to become a Public Health Nurse and
worked for the Victoria Order of Nurses. She took time off from her career
to stay at home and raise her family and also studied business
administration. She became interested and involved with the construction
industry. In 1994 she joined the board of the Canadian Construction
Association. In March 2004, she became the first woman to Chair the Canadian
Construction Association. |
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