Events
listed relate to Canadian women with a few extra items added
to give the timeline perspective.
This timeline is not all inclusive.
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1960
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1960 - The Canadian Bill of Rights
become law. It
grants the
right to vote to Indigenous women without them losing their ‘Indian
status'. Previously any aboriginal Canadian wishing to have
the right to vote had to give up their ‘Indian Status
February 17, 1960 - The National Art Gallery opens in
Ottawa
February 28, 1960 - Anne Heggtveit (1939- ) wins Canada's 1st Olympic gold medal in skiing at the
Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, Colorado,
U.S.A. Anne is awarded the Bobbie Rosenfeld
Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the year by the Canadian Press & the Lou Marsh Trophy
as Canada's Top Overall Athlete of the Year
March 2, 1960 - Barbara Wagner
(1938- ) & Bob Paul
(1937- ) win gold medals in pairs
figure skating at the Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley,
California, U.S.A.
June 7, 1960 - Gladys Muriel Porter
(1894-1967) is the 1st woman elected to the Nova Scotia
Provincial Legislature
July 1, 1960 - Women & men identified
as Status Indians under the Indian Act are granted the right to vote
in federal elections without losing their treaty status
1960 -
Canadian Voice for Women for Peace is founded as a challenge from
Toronto Star columnist Lotta Dempsey
Source: Lisa
Wajna, Great Canadian Women: Nineteen Portraits of Extraordinary
Women (Folklore Publishing, 2005)
1960 - Isabel Janet Macneill / MacNeill
(1908-1990) becomes the 1st woman prison warden when
she is appointed to head the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario.
Source: Herstory 2006: The Canadian Women’s Calendar. Coteau
Books, 2005) ; Macneill, Isabel 1908-1990. Fonds. Memory Nova
Scotia. Nova Scotia Public Archives. Online (Accessed October 2014)
October 1960 - Fernande Saint-Martin
(1927-2019) becomes the first woman
editor-in-chief of Châtelaine
1960- Mary Jane Wright (1915-2014)
becomes the 1st woman to chair a major psychology department at a
university
Source: Obituaries. Globe and Mail April 26, 2014; Laura
Bell,(2010) Mary Jean Wright
In A. Rutherford (Ed.), Psychology's Feminist Voices Multimedia
Internet Archive.
Online (Accessed August 2014)
1960 - The Ontario Training Schools for Girls,
established in 1952 for young female offenders under the age of 16
are closed
December 1960 - Birth control pills, the first oral
contraceptive pills, are available
for purchase to the general public
1960 - Marie Daria Haust (1921-
) becomes the first woman on the Medical Faculty, Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario
Sources: Science.: Profile
(Accessed June 2011); Canadian Who’s Who 2006 Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2005.
1960 - The 1st self-cleaning oven arrives in the home sales market.
Finally!!!!
1960 - Toronto Policewomen begin wearing wearing derby
style hats to prevent them from being mistaken for airline
stewardesses of Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) guides
Source: Herstory: Milestones in the
History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online Accessed June
2011.
Births 1960:
1960 - Born Nicole Bruinsma (1960-2002) activist and
physician
1960
-
Born Aaju Peter (1960- ) social activist,
fashion designer, & Inuk lawyer
1960 - Born Annie Louisa Prat (1861-1960) Nova Scotia
artist
1960 - Born Amanda C. J. Vincent (1960- ) marine
biologist & scientific researcher who works with seahorses.
1960 - Born Lauren Waters (1960 - )
acclaimed wood worker
1960 - Born Jin-Me Yoon (1960- ) visual artist
January 9, 1960 - Born Lisa Young Walters (1960- )
champion golfer
February 14, 1960 - Born Meg Tilly1960- ) actor
March 13, 1960 - Born Judie Barbara Alimonti (1960-2017)
scientist who developed Ebola vaccine
March 22, 1960 - Born Rebecca Belmore (1960- )
Aboriginal visual artist
March 30, 1960 - Born Laurie Graham-Flynn, 1960- ) world
ski racing champion
April 2, 1960 - Born Stephanie Lemelin, (1960- ) international
renowned
musician
April 2, 1960 - Born Sheri-Lyn Plewes (1960-2014) civil
engineer
April 8, 1960 - Born Pat Duncan, (1960- )Premier of the
Yukon 2000-2002
April 30, 1960 - Born Judy Illes (1960- )
neuroscientist
May 28, 1960 - Born Gail Asper (1960- ) social
activist.
June 1, 1960 - Julie White (1960- ) track & field
high jump champion
June 22, 1960 - Born Denyse Julien,(1960- ) medal winning
badminton player
July 13, 1960 - Born Gail Greenough (1960- ), champion
equestrian rider and member of the Order of Canada
July 19, 1960 - Born Jan Betker ( 1960- ) Member
of medal winning curling Team Schmirler
August 7, 1960 - Born Deborah Ellis (1960- )
Governor General Award winning author
September 18, 1960 - Born Gayle Frieson (1960- )
Award winning author of books for youth
October 2, 1960 - Born Sonja Skarstedt (1960-2009) Poet &
author of short stories
Deaths 1960:
1960 - Died
Maude Annie Andrews (1887-1960) World War 1 Nursing Sister
1960 - Died Mary Letitia Lamb (1879- 1960)
missionary to China
February 26, 1960 - Died
Mary Emily MacLeod More (1871-1960) World War l correspondent
April 1, 1960 -
Died Katherine Constance Barbour-Hoburn (1915-1960) poet
April 4, 1960 - Died
Marie Rose Delorme-Smith (1861-1960) Métis pioneer
April 25, 1960 - Died
Elizabeth Dafoe (1900-1960) librarian
June 10, 1960 - Died
Ellen ‘Nellie’ Fulton (1887-1960) author
June 20, 1960 -
Died Jane 'Jean' Thompson-Stevenson (1877-1960) journalist &
poet
July 1960 - Died Carmen Elizabeth Clarke (1911-1960) 1st woman to write a son that sold over 1,
000,000 copies!
July 10, 1960 - Died Edith Louise Marsh ( -1960) historian
July 20, 1960 - Died Maud Leonora Menten (1879-1960) 1st
Canadian woman to receive a medical doctorate in 1911
August 29, 1960 - Died
Jessie Helen Weir-Short (1892-1960) World War l Nursing Sister
October 3, 1960 - Died Helena Rose
Gutteridge (1879-1960) 1st woman elected to Vancouver City Council
October 14, 1960 - Died Gertrude May Hall (1897-1960) nurse &
nursing director
November 12, 1960 -
Died Gertrude Seton Usborne (1886-1960) World War l Nursing
Sister
November 16, 1960 - Died
Leonora Herrington (1873-1960) World War l Nursing Sister
November 24, 1960 - Died Olga Alexandrova
Kulikovsky,(1882-1960) Russian Grand Duchess of the Romanoff family,
she immigrated to Canada to live & work a farmer
December 7, 1960 - Died Bertha Oxner (1895-1960)
educator in Saskatchewan
December 13, 1960 - Died
Emma Murton (1878-1960) World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 15, 1960 - Died
Florence Katherine Whittick-McKeen (1895-1960) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
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1961 |
1961 - The population of women in Canada is 9,019,000 or
49.4% of the population
1961 - The average family size, including adults is 3.9
people
1961 - The average life expectancy for women is 76.65 years
1961 - The Average age of marriage for women is 24.7
years
1961 - The number of women self-declared having been
born outside Canada is 972,000
1961 - The number women participating in the formal
work force is 2,961,210 or 34.3% of the paid work force but their
pay is some 2/3 of that of a Canadian man
1961- The
percentage of university students who are women is 26.5% of the
overall student population.
4.6% of Canadian girls graduating high school continue to
university studies. 11.3% of male high school graduates go on to
university studies Source: Canadian Chronology
Online (accessed April 28,
2003)
1961 - 25% of Canadian engineers
are women: 2.64% of Canadian lawyers are Women: 4.49% of Canadian
dentists are women; 7.33% of Canadian medical doctors are women
Source: Canadian Chronology
Http://tdi.uregina.ca/~maguirec/chron.html (accessed April 28,
2003)
February 1, 1961
-
Gladys Muriel Porter
(1893-1967)
is the 1st woman elected to the Nova Scotia House of
Assembly
August 12, 1961-
Mary Stewart (1945- )
breaks the world record in Women's 100 m butterfly. Mary is
awarded the Robbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Tope Female Athlete
of the year by the Canadian Press
May 21, 1961 -
Died Theresa Frances Cherrier (1890-1961) first woman lawyer
in Hamilton, ON
December 14, 1961 - Marie-Claire Kirkland
(1924-2016) is the 1st woman elected to the
Quebec National Assembly
1961- Fitness and Amateur Sport Act outlines
involvement in development & promotion of fitness and amateur sport
December 21, 1961 - Mary
Stewart (1945- )
is named Canada's woman athlete of the year
1961 - Pauline
Johnson (1861-1913.)
becomes the 1st individual Canadian woman to
appear on a Canadian postage stamp
1961 -
Jean Casselman -Wadds
(1920-2011) is the 1st woman appointed by
the Canadian Government as a delegate to the United Nations
Sources: Obituary. Ottawa Citizen December 3, 2011.
1961 - E. V. 'Billie' Mitchell is the 1st woman
elected chair of the British Columbia Section of the Canadian Figure
Skating Association becoming the 1st woman on the National Board of
Directors
1961 - The C.C.F (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) party
becomes the New Democratic Party
1961 - Pampers disposable diapers become available to
purchase Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas :
women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and
Co., 2002.
Births 1961:
1961 - Born Francoise Baylis (1961- ) academic
1961 - Born Silvia Pecota (1961- ) photographer
January 10, 1961 - Born Ruth Taylor (1961-2006) poet
January 16, 1961 - Born Marie Bottrell (1961-
) country music writer & performer
January 27, 1961 - Born Margo Timmins (1961- ) lead
singer in the award winning group the Cowboy Junkies
February 21,1963 - Born Rebecca "Becky" Grambo (1963-
) acclaimed nature author & photographer
March 21, 1961 -
Died Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon (1883-1961) Titanic survivor
March 23, 1961 - Born
Marta Nielson (1961-2014) producer &
director of documentary films
June 2, 1961 - Born Susan Jane Budge (1961- )
orienteering champion
August 13, 1961 - Born Carolyn Ann Young (1961- )
historical researcher & author
August 25, 1961 - Born Marie Saint Pierre
(1961- ) award winning
designer of clothing
August 31, 1961 - Died Ruby Gordon Peterkin McKay (1887-1961)
World War ! Nursing Sister
September 24, 1961 -
Born Nancy Ellen Garapick (1961- ) Olympic medal
winning swimmer
September 25, 1961 - Born Tracy Wilson (1961- )
international champion figure skater in ice dance, 1st pair to win
an Olympic medal for Canada
Deaths 1961:
1961 - Died
Flora Ann Campbell
(1883-1961) 1st policewoman hired by Ottawa Police Force
1961 - Died
Jessie Winnifred Cochrane-Coombe (1888-1961) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
1961 - Died
Isabel McKinnon (1882-1961) World War l Nursing Sister
January 4, 1961 -
Died Maria Vogt (1881-1961) nurse
February 10, 1961 - Died
Mary Ether MacGregor (1872-1961) novelist in south western Ontario
February 15, 1961 - Died
Evelyn
Jane Tanner Burns (1890-1961) Politician, and civil servant,
municipal official Rosser Manitoba for 48 years
March 21, 1961
- Died Ethel Flora Fortune Gordon (1883-1961) Titanic
survivor
April 8, 1961 - Died
Phyllis Dewar(1916-1961) swimmer and member of the Canadian Sports
Hall of Fame
May 10, 1961 - Died Anne Wilkinson
(1890-1961) author, biographer & poet
May 21, 1961 -
Died Theresa Frances Cherrier (1890-1961) first woman lawyer
in Hamilton, ON
June 5, 1961 -
Died Edith Anne Liddy (1882-1961) indomitable early woman
doctor
July 12, 1961 - Died Mazo de la Roche (1879-1961) author of the
famous Jelna series
July 23, 1961 - Died Flora Lawford-Nesbitt (1883-1961) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
August 2, 1961 -
Died Martha Mary Edith Timlick (1889-1961) World War l
Nursing Sister
August 28, 1961 - Died Born Mary
White-Murdock (1883-1961) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 31, 1961 - Died Ruby Gordon Peterkin-McKay
(1887-1961) Nursing Sister World War l
September 3, 1961 -
Died Lylia Miller Drummond-Plunkett (1886-1961) World War 1
Nursing Sister
October 9, 1961 - Died Anna
Sprott (1879-1961) founder of West Coast Radio School and Vancouver
alderman
November 6, 1961 - Died Hortense Crompton Gordon (1887-1961)
early Canadian abstract artist and teacher
November 7, 1961 -
Died Wilhelmina 'Mina' Alexander (1871-1961) painter
December 2, 1961 - Died Lily J. Laverstok (1880 ? -1969) west
coast theatre impresario
December 21, 1961 - Died Hughena
Dickson Elliott McCorquodale (1881-1961) journalist & editor of the
High River Times, Alberta
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1962 |
January 1, 1962 -
The United Church Women (United Church of Canada) came into being.
Its purpose to unite women of the congregation for the total mission
of the United Church and to provide a medium through which they may
express their loyalty and devotion to Jesus Christ in Christian
Witness, study, Fellowship and Service
Source: Voices of United Church Women 1962-2002.
Edited by Elizabeth Gillian Muir. (Toronto; United Church of Canada,
2002.)
January 19, 1962 - Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Ellen
Fairclough (1905-2004), dismantled Discriminatory Policy.
Perhaps her most significant accomplishment was the radical reform
of the government's "White Canada" immigration policy. Regulations
tabled in 1962 helped to eliminate racial discrimination in Canada's
immigration policy Source: Historica : Black History-
Timeline
http://blackhistorycanada.ca/timeline.php?id=1900 (Accessed March
2007)
July
1, 1962 - Saskatchewan introduces socialized Medicare
July 28, 1962 - Mary Stewart (1945- ) breaks the
world record in butterfly swimming, a record she will hold through to
August 16, 1963.She is the 1962 Top Female Athlete of the Year as
voted by the Canadian Press for the second year in a row
Source: British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame Online (Accessed
June 2008)
1962 - Norah Louise Hughes
(1905-1989) becomes the 1st woman to be
head of a Conference in the United Church of Canada
September 3, 1962 -
The Trans-Canada Highway opens
December 5, 1962 - Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain
(1924- ) is the 1st woman
appointed to the Quebec provincial cabinet when appointed as
Minister without portfolio
December 11, 1962 - The last execution in Canada
takes place in Toronto
1962 - The Voice of
Women for Peace organizes an international conference in Mount
Donat, Quebec.
1962 - The Canadian
Nurses Foundation is established to promote health and patient care
in Canada by supporting nursing education and research
Source :
http://www.canadiannursesfoundation.com/
1962 - The drug Thalidomide that caused birth defects in
new born babies, is removed from the Canadian market Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002.
1962 -
Canadian inventor Edward Asselbergs introduced his instant
mashed potatoes Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg
19.
1962 - Canadian food scientist pioneers a different
process for preserving potatoes. Potatoe flakes broke down into hot
liquie providing a smooth riche finished product
Births 1962:
1962 -
Born Wafa Dabbagh (1962- 2012) 1st woman to wear a
religious head covering in the Canadian Armed Forces
1962 - Gloria Macarenko (1962- )award winning
broadcast journalist, Order of Canada.
1962 - Died
Ida Lewis Siegel
(1885-1962) social activist in the Toronto Jewish community
February 28, 1962 - Born
Rae Dawn Chong (1962- ) actor
February 29, 1962 - Born Sylvie Daigle,(1962-
), Olympic medal winning speed skater
March 13, 1962 - Born Rukhana "Roxy" Khan (1962-
) author
March 20, 1962 - Born Tina Keeper (1962- ) actor,
director, producer & politician
March 24, 1962 - Born Meredith Marks (1962-2012) physician and
medical educator
March 28, 1962 - Born Jann Arden (1962- ), award winning singer
April 22, 1962 - Born Suhana Meharchand (1962-
) award winning television news journalist
June 12, 1962 - Born Camilla Scott (1962- ) TV
personality & actor
June 24, 1962 - Born Barbara Underhill
(1962- ) champion
skater in pairs with partner Paul Martini
August 12, 1962 - Born Robin Marie Corsiglia-Scholefield (1962-
) champion & Olympic medal winning swimmer
October 28, 1962 - Born
Brenda Taylor (1959- ) Olympic medalist in rowing
December 23, 1962 - Born Sarah 'Sass' Jordan (1962-
) Canadian rock singer
Deaths 1962:
1962 -
Died
Susan Mellett Bowen (1870-1962) Anglican Church
missionary to the Canadian northwest
1962 - Died
Ah Fung 'Agnes' Chan (1904?-1962) is the
first Chinese Canadian nurse
1962 -
Died Frances Emily Lynch (1900-1962) one of the 1st Roman
Catholic women lawyers in Ontario
1962 -
Died Lady Elsie Elizabeth Allardyce (1878-1962) founder of Girl
Guides in Newfoundland
1962 - Died
Mary Helen Irwin Rutnam (1873-1962) Medical
missionary in Ceylon who established the Women's Institute in
Ceylon
1962 - Died Alice Mary Schneider (1875-1962) pioneer of
Northern Ontario
March 1962 - Died Emma Eliza Dempsey (1886-1962) first woman
mayor of Cochrane, Ontario
March 2, 1962 -
Died Margaret Ethel Fraser (1871-1962) indomitable early
woman doctor
March 3, 1962 - Died Cairine Wilson (1885-1962) First woman
appointed to the Canadian Senate
March 16, 1962 -
Died Alice Lucy Bodkin (1887-1962) World War 1 Nursing Sister
March 24, 1962 - Died Janet McClung (1885-1962) World War 1
Nursing Sister
May 1962 - Died
Mary Helen Irwin Rutnam (1873-1962) medical missionary in Ceylon who
established the Women's Institute in Ceylon
June 1962 - Died Margaret Wilhelmina MacRae (1882-1962)
June, 1962 - Died
Sandra Tewksbury (1942-1962) Olympic figure skater
August 17, 1962 -
Died Helen Shackleton - Brietzcke (1882-1962) poet
August 21, 1962 -
Died Nora Birkett-Rose (1886-1962) World War l Nursing Sister
September 12, 1962 - Died
Maude Stappleford (1884-1962) social activist
November 3, 1962 -
Died Harriet 'Hattie' Brydon (1881-1962) World War l Nursing
Sister
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January 1, 1963 -
Status Indians gain the right to vote in New Brunswick elections
April 1963 - Federal Social Insurance Cards are given
to Canadians.
1963 - C U P E = Canadian Union of Public Employees is
formed with the merger of NUPE = National Union of Public Employees
& NUPSE = National Union of Public Service Employees.
1963 - Fern Alexander of the Toronto Police is the 1st
woman in Canada to be appointed to the rank of Inspector
Source: Herstory: Milestones in
the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online Accessed
June 2011.
1963 - Marlene Streit
(1934- ) wins three tournaments,
including the Canadian Open and Canadian Closed Golf tournaments &
is awarded the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award by the Canadian Press as
Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the Year
1963 -
Ringette, an on ice women's sport invented in Canada, is introduced
in North Bay Ontario by the town's Parks & Recreation Director, Sam Jacks. The
1st-ever- "game" was
played in the winter in Espanola, Ontario. Source:
Ringette Canada.
1963 -
British Empire/Commonwealth Games - Mary Stewart
(1945- ), wins a
gold medal (100 m butterfly), 2 silver medals & a bronze medal in
swimming.
Source: British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame Online (Accessed June
2008)
1963 - The Voice of Women for Peace organizes a tour to
the U S S R to meet with Russian Women in defiance of the Cold War
1963-1965 - Jocelyn Bourassa (1947-
) wins the Quebec Junior Golf Championships beginning her
long championship career.
1963 - Nancy McCredie at just 17 breaks the Canadian
women's shot put record by 10 feet!
1963 - The Miss Canada Pageant is televised for the
1st time
Births 1963:
1963 -
Born Judy McClintock-Messer (1963- ), World Champion
water skier
1963 - Born Urszula Torkarska (1963- )
international mountain climber, first Canadian to climb the world's
7 tallest peaks
January 13, 1963 - Born Linda Frum (1963- ) Gemini Award
winning journalist February 15, 1963 - Born Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond
(1963- ) Legal council for the Native Women's
Association of Canada
February 21, 1963 - Born Lori Fung(1963- ) Gold medalist in Rhythmic Gymnastics in 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
February 26, 1963 - Born Gillian Johnson Shakespeare (1963 -
) award winning author of books for youth
March 29, 1963 - Born Patricia Gwen Barlee
(1963-2017) British Columbia environmentalist
June 11, 1963 - Born Sandra Schmirler (1963-2000), World
& Olympic Champion curler
September 1963 - Born
Kirsten Bishopric (1963-2014) actor of
stage, television & movies
September 6, 1963 - Born Angela
Chalmers (1963- ) medal winning track & field star September 12, 1963 -
Born Shannon Crawford (1963- ) Olympic medalist in rowing
December 1, 1963 -
Born Natalie Lambert (1963-
) Olympic medalist in speed skating
Deaths 1963:
1963 -
Died Jane Bell (????-1963) doctor in Nova Scotia
1963 - Died Margaret Dryer (1921-1963) architect
1963 - Died
Alice Maude Dyer (1879-1963) first woman
pharmacist in Prince Edward Island
1963 -
Died Bylee Fay Lang (1908-1963)
sculptor
1963 -
Died
Jean Ethel MacLachian (1875-1963/1964) 1st person to
be a Saskatchewan Juvenile Court Judge
1963? -
Died
Caroline 'Carol/Carrie' Cassidy Cole Manchee (1871-1921) author of
children's novels
1963 -
Died Martha Ostenso, (1900-1963) author & social worker
1963 -
Died Grace Rice (????-1963) early woman doctor
1963 -
Died
Kate Rice (1883-1963) pioneer prospector
& member
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
1963 -
Died
Jessie Florence Reinholdt-Himmelman (1891-1963) World War l Nursing
Sister
1963 -
Died
Laura Rose Stephen
(1866-1963) Canada's 1st dairying instructor
1963 -
Died
Helena Walker (1867-1963) 1st woman elected as
alderman in Regina Saskatchewan
1963 -
Died Gertrude Balmer Watt (1873-1963) journalist
1963 - Died Mary Matilda 'Tildy' Windslow (1880-1963)
first Black woman to graduated from University of New Brunswick
January 3, 1963 - Died Dorothy Sproule (1868-1963) poet
January 6, 1963 -
Died Kathleen 'Kate' Creighton Starr Rice (1883-1963) pioneer
prospector. Member Canadian Mining Hall of Fame
January 19, 1963 -
Died Robertina Lee-Thompson (1889-1963) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
January 14, 1963 -
Died Ida Marion Davidson (1887-1963) playwright of historical
plays
January 22, 1963 - Died Irma LeVasseur (1878-1964) 1st woman to
practice medicine in the province of Quebec & pediatric care pioneer
February 14, 1963 - Died
Margaret Stirling Wallace (1859-1963) physician, medical missionary
February 20, 1963 - Died
Nonie Winnifred Milburn (1873-1963) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 21, 1963 -
Born Lori Fung Methorst (1963- ) Olympic Gold medalist in
Rhythmic Gymnastics
February 25, 1963 -
Died Edith Berkeley (1875-1963) world authority on the
classification of marine worms & noted botanist March 17, 1963 - Died Jeanne
Lydia Branda - Sister Marie Thomas d'Aquin (1877-1963) religious
leader & poet April 6, 1963 -
Died
Thais Frémont (1886-1963) social activist
April 10, 1963 - Died Anna Judson Rossborough Mair (1889-1963)
nurse
April 10, 1963 - Died Ether Seath (1879-1963) artist
May 1963 - Died
Dorothy Webb-Cummings (1887-1963) World War 1 Nursing Sister
May 30, 1963 -
Died Ellie Elizabeth Love (1884-1963) World War l Nursing
Sister
May 31, 1963 - Died
Grace MacLennan Grant Campbell
(1895-1963) award winning novelist
June 4, 1963 -
Died Ivy Griffiths (1891-1963) World War l Nursing Sister
June 25, 1963 - Died Martha 'Mona' Isabel Loder
(1884-1963) Nursing Sister World War l, 1st nurse to register for
war in Newfoundland
July 3, 1963 -
Died Hilda Corelli (1884-1963) World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 27, 1963 - Died Henrietta Hancock Britton (1873-1963)
painter & teacher
August 17, 1963 -
Died Irene Pearl Courtice-Lambert (1887-1963) World War 1
Nursing Sister
August 19, 1963 - Died Kathleen Parlow (1890-1963) international
violinist September 24, 1963 - Died
Lillian Foster (1893-1963) fashion editor Toronto Telegram
October 17, 1963 - Died
Agatha Louise Chapman (1907-1963) economist
December 12, 1963 -
Died Barbara Reed/Reid (1917-1963) actor in movies
December 30, 1963 - Died Isabel Constance Mary
Stanley (Lady Stanley (1875-1963) daughter of Governor General
Stanley & proponent of hockey
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1964 |
1964 -
The province of Quebec passes a law to give wives full legal rights
including having joint control with her husband over marital
property and full control over her own property allowing her the
right to make a contract in her own name
(Statutes of Quebec 1964
c. 66 s.1)
1964 -
The Ontario Female Refugee Act, in effect since 1894, allowed an
person to bring before a judge any female under the age of 21 who
was considered ‘unmanageable’ or ‘incorrigible’ ( including unwed
mothers) so that the individual’s fate could be determined. (i.e.
that she should become committed to an institution or not) An
Ontario
Grand
Jury was convened to investigate controversial allegations against
the Ontario Mercer Reformatory for Women
1964 - Jeanne Fisher Manery (1908-1986.) is the 1st woman appointed professor in the
Department of Biochemistry at the University of
Toronto
1964 - Mary "Bonnie" Baker (1919?-2003)
member of the All American Girls Baseball
League becomes the 1st female sports caster
on CKRM Radio in Regina, Saskatchewan
Source: Baker, Mary "Bonnie", City of Regina: 2008
www.Regina.ca (accessed September
2008)
1964 - Rachel Browne
(1934-2012)
founds the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers
1964-1967 -
Pearl Steen
(1893-1988) is president of the National Council of
Women
1964 -
Olympic
Games women are finally allowed to play team sports when women’s
volleyball, considered a non contact sport, is accepted into the
games
1964 - Petra Burka (1946- )
the Canadian Champion and Bronze Medal winner at the Winter
Olympic Games in figure Skating wins the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award from
the Canadian Press as Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the Year Births 1964:
1964 -
Born Sherry Hawco Delanty (1964-1991) Canadian Olympian in
gymnastics.
1964 -
Born Hana Zalzal (1964 - ) award winning businesswoman
1964 -
Born Cornelia Wieman (1964- ) Canada's 1st female aboriginal
psychiatrist in 1993.
January 9, 1964 -
Born Lorie Kane (1964- ) champion golfer.
January 31, 1964 -
Born Sylvie Bernier (1964- ),
1st Canadian to win a medal in Olympic diving.
April 15, 1964 -
Died Laura May Hubley (1875-1964) World War l nursing matron
May 7, 1964 - Born Kathy Shaidle (1964-2021) journalist &
blogger
July 25, 1964 - Born Lisa Laflamme (1964- )
journalist and TV broadcaster with CTV National news
September 11, 1964 - Born Leah Pells (1964- ) Track and field athlete.
October 27, 1964 - Jill Hetherington-Hultquist (1864-
) Olympic
tennis player
December 25, 1964 - Born Kathryn 'Kat' Pennington Teasdale
(1964-2016) champion auto racer
Deaths 1964:
1964 - Died Alice
Marion Curtis (1877-1964) social activist in Home and School
associations.
1964 - Died
Marie Laurent dit Poirier-Laflamme (1872-1964) Quebec businesswoman
1964 - Died Eileen Magill - Cera (1906-1964) first woman
pilot in Manitoba
1964 - Died
Mary Isabel Ross Pinkham (1878-1964) social activist
and volunteer.
1964 - Died
Henriette Tassé (1879-1964) journalist & author
February 22, 1964 -
Died Grace Helen Mowat (1875-1964) author & playwright
March 24, 1964 -
Died
Clara Cynthia Benson (1875-1964) professor of food chemistry and
promoter of university women's athletic
March 25, 1964 - Died Pearl McCarthy, (1895-1964) journalist and art
critic.
April 4, 1964 - Died
Sarah Ramsland (1882-1964) is the 1st woman elected
to the Saskatchewan legislature.
April 15, 1964 -
Died Laura May Hubley (1879-1964) World War l Nursing Matron
April 15, 1964 - Died Alice Wilson
(1881-1964) a paleontologist, the 1st woman elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
June 29, 1964 - Died
Laura Emma Jamieson (1883-1964) British Columbia
Juvenile court judge, Vancouver alderman and Member of B.C.
Legislative Assembly
August 1964 - Died
Elizabeth 'Elsie' Montizambert
(1875-1964) World War l correspondent
August 10, 1964 -
Died Constance Winnifred Travers Sweatman (1879-1864) author,
playwright, & poet
August 13, 1964
- Died Agnes McKeague (1886-1964) World War l Nursing Sister
August 26, 1964 - Died
Cora Bell Ahrens
(1891-1964) teacher, lecturer, and pianist
September 6, 1964 -
Died Cora Taylor Casselman (1888-1964) first Liberal Party
woman MP and first woman speaker of the House
November 1964 - Died Muriel Caroline Harman (????-1964) medical
missionary
October 23, 1964 -
Died Jean Dickson Lyall (1880-1964) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
October 25, 1964 - Died
Christina Irene Parker (1888-1964) World War l Nursing Sister
November 19, 1964 - Died Miriam Green Ellis (1879-1964) celebrated
journalist in the Canadian prairies
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1965 |
January 1, 1965 - Status Indians gain the
right to vote in Prince Edward Island & Alberta elections
February 15, 1965 - The now familiar red
maple leaf flag becomes the official national flag of Canada. It is
flown for the 1st time today
March 4, 1965 - Petra Burka
(1946- ), wins the women's title at the world figure skating championships in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. She is declared winner of the
Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year by
the Canadian Press for the second year in a row & winner of the Lou
Marsh Trophy as Canada's Top Overall Athlete of the Year
1965 - The Canadian government will continue to
recruit women for the Canadian Armed Forces but with a limit of
1,500, or 1.5% of the military force
1965 - The Ontario Federation of Labour
establishes its first women’s committee, chaired by Grace Hartman,
then a Vice-President of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE
1965 - Grace MacInnis
(1905-1991) is the
1st woman elected to the British Columbia House of Commons.
Source: British Columbia
Federation of Labour.
1965 - Phyllis
'Pat' Grosskurth (1924-2015) is the 1st woman professor hired in the English
Department of
the University of Toronto
Sources:
Lisa Fitterman, ’Phyllis Grosskurth: Brilliant biographer relished a
challenge’ , The Globe and Mail, August 28, 2015; Diana Hall,
‘Biographer Phyllis Grosskurth a fiery literary force ‘, The
Toronto Star, August 9, 2015.
1965 -
Allene Gorforth
(1943- )
becomes the 1st deaf student to graduate a university in Canada
1965 - The Government of Canada decides to continue to
employ women in the Canadian Armed Forces. A ceiling of 1500
members, including women in all three services, is established. This
limit represents about 1.5% of the total Canadian Armed Forces of
the day Source
"Women throughout Canadian military history." in Canadian Forces
Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23 February 2005.
1965 - Jocelyn Bourassa (1947-
) wins the Quebec Golf Championship as well as Canadian
Ladies Amateur top title as part of her national and international
golfing career
Births 1965:
1965 - Born Jane Young Cooper (1965- ) tennis
champion
1965 - Born Beverley K. Jacobs (1965- ) Aboriginal
lawyer & social activist
1965 - Born Bonnie Schmidt (1965- )
scientist who is able to popularize her field for youth, Order of
Canada
1965 - Mary Matilda
'Tillie/Tilly' Winslow-MacAlpine (1885-1963) the 1st Black woman to
graduated from a Canadian university
January 21, 1965 - Born Jackie
Shymanski (1965-2016) journalist with CTV & CNN
January 31, 1965 - Born Ofra Harnoy (1965- ) cellist
February 7, 1965 - Born Barbara Sue Turnbull (1965-2015)
quadriplegic journalist
March 16, 1965 - Born Sarah Hunter, (1965- )
wheelchair tennis player
March 20, 1965 - Born Mary Shaw (1965- ) author of
children's books with hockey themes
March 27, 1965 - Born Jean Chamberlain Froese (1965-
) medical doctor founder of 'Save the Mothers'
April 11, 1965 - Born Yonah Martin (1965- ) 1st Korean Canadian Parliamentarian, appointed to the Senate.
June 7, 1965 - Born Hélène
Desmarais (1965- )
businesswoman
June 8, 1965 - Born Joan Elizabeth McCusker (1965 -
) member of medal winning curling Team Schmerler
July 9, 1865 -
Born Jennie Carson (1865-1933) indomitable early woman doctor
July 17, 1965 - Born Carrie Serwetnyk, (1965- ) Award
winning international soccer star.
August 7, 1965 - Born Elizabeth Manley (1965- ) Olympic medalist in figure
skating.
August 22,1965 - Born Patricia Hy-Boulais (1965-
) Canadian champion tennis player
August 28, 1965 -
Born Shania Twain (1965- ) country/Pop singer &
song writer
September 8, 1965 - Born Marcia Gudereit (1965- )
medal winning team member of of Team Schmerler in Curling
November 10, 1965 -
Born Marni Abbott-Peter (1965- ) medal winning
para-athelete in Swimming & wheelchair basketball
November 27, 1965 -
Born Kathleen Heddle (1965-2021) Gold medal Olympic
rower
December 4, 1965 -
Born Theresa Breen (1965- ) champion curler
December 6, 1965 -
Born Theresa Breen (1965- ) champion in the sport of
curling
December 12, 1965 - Born Mina Shum (1965- ) award winning
independent film director
Deaths 1965:
1965 -
Died Daisy Baig (1916-1972) teacher & painter
1965
-
Died
Eleanor Christopherson (1893-1965) Nursing Sister world War l
1965 -
Died Susan 'Susie' Mae Elliott (1889-1965) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
1965 -
Died
Marjorie Mews (1902-1965) renowned Maritime librarian
1965 -
Died Regina Mary "Polly" Rowell Craig (1882-1965) pioneer land
owner in Regina Saskatchewan
1965 -
Died Viola Desmond (1914-1965) first black woman to
challenge discrimination successfully in Canada
January 1965 - Died Eleanor Christopherson (1893-1965)
Nursing Sister World War l
January 6, 1965 -
Died Sadie Ferguson-Hook (1888-1965) World War 1 Nursing Sister
January 17, 1965 - Died Annie Johnston-Argue (1879-1965) World War 1
Nursing Sister
January 27, 1965 - Died Laurette Laroque-Auger
(1906-1965) French language script writer, actor, playwright, & critic
January 31, 1965 -
Died Eva Bradley (1886-1965) World War l Nursing Sister
January 31, 1965 - Died Isabella Preston, (1881-1965) 1st
professional hybridist in Canada
March 19, 1965 - Died
Violet Pooley Sweeny (1886-1965) champion west coast
golfer
March 30, 1965 -
Died Lillian Lynch (1889-1965) World War l Nursing Sister
April 12, 1965 - Died Hilda Mary Slayter
(1882-1965) survivor of the Titanic
April 23, 1965 - Died Annie Ella Higbee (1864 -1965)
indomitable early Canadian woman doctor
April 28, 1965 - Died
May Lawson (1901-1965) singer for choirs
& opera in Manitoba
May 4, 1965 - Died Annie Grant Hill Ridout (1871-1965) early
doctor & dentist
May 8, 1965 -
Died Mary Shaw (1887-1965) World War l Nursing Sister
June 16, 1965 -
Died Helen Lauder Fowlds-Marryat (1889-1965) World War l
Nursing Sister
July 12, 1965 - Died Irene Parlby (1868-1965) one of the
"Famous Five" who worked on the Persons Case 1929
July 17, 1965 -
Died Lilian Gibson Spence (1885-1965) Nursing Sister World
War l, awarded the Croix de guerre
September 20, 1965 - Died
Madge MacBeth (1878-1965) multimedia author with over
20 novels to her credit
October 10, 1965 -
Died Ellanore Parker (1883-1965) World War l Nursing Sister,
inventor, & author
November 22, 1965 - Died Edith Stewart-Murray 1900-1965) journalist
on the Canadian west coast
November 24, 1965 - Died
Born Marcelle Barthe (1904-1965) 1st bilingual woman announcer hired
by CBC Radio
November 25, 1965 - Died Gwethlyn Graham Erichse-Brown
(1913-1965) award winning author
December 9, 1965 - Died
Muriel Shirecliffe
Parker Ellis-Sliven (1887-1965) World War 1 Nursing Sister
December 12, 1965 -
Died Jean Kathleen Boyce-Fisher (1889-1965) World War 1
Nursing Sister
December 24, 1965 - Died
Edith Rice-McKenney (1877-1965) nurse,
librarian & businesswoman
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1966 |
1966 -
The declaration of Elimination Discrimination Against Women
is adopted by the United Nations.
1966 -
Limited
career choices sees the number of women in the Canadian military drop
to 900 members in the regular services. . Source: Women in the
Military. The Canadian Encyclopedia Online
1966 - The Ontario provincial government passes legislation
for universal Health Care.
1966 - The Government of British Columbia passes the
Maternity Protection Act giving women rights to maternity leave
May 3, 1966 - Representative of 32 different women's groups
forms the Committee for the Equality of Women in Canada. It is to
lobby the federal government. for a Royal Commission on the Status
of Women
1966 - Jessie
Gray ( - 1978) is the
1st woman elected to the Science Council of
Canada.
May 25, 1966 - Irene Parlby
(1868-1965)
is declared an National Historic Person
June 6, 1966 - The
Presbyterian Church of Canada agrees to the ordination of women as
elders and ministers.
1966 -
The Canadian government establishes the Canada Pension Plan
which is payable to eligible persons dependant on earning paid to
all Canadians over 65 years of age.
1966 -
There are
only 530 women enlisted in the RCAF
Source: A Brief History. RCAF Women.
www.rcafwomen.ca
1966 - The Osler School of Nursing is established at Weston
Hospital, Toronto. In 1980 is becomes West Park Hospital & in 2000
it became West Park Healthcare Centre
1966 - Dr Marion Powell
(
-1997), helps launch the 1rst municipally
funded birth control clinic in the country.
1966 - Jean Sutherland Boggs (1922-2014) is appointed as Director of the
National Gallery of Canada and becomes
the
1st woman in the world to head up a national art gallery.
Source Canada Women's
Foundation. History of the women's movement: selected moments of
importance in the history of Canadian women , 2004
http://cdnwomen.org.
1966 - Jean
Edmonds (1921- ) is the 1st woman
executive in the federal government as an executive director with
the Department of Manpower and Immigration
1966 - Marjorie Bowker
(1906-2006)
is appointed Alberta's 1st woman Family
Court Judge
1966 - Elaine Tanner-Watts
(1951- ) at 15 becomes Canada's
outstanding athlete of the year, the youngest person to ever receive
this Lou Marsh Trophy. She also won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as
Canada's Top Female Athlete
1966 -
A federal government committee considers amendments to the
Criminal Code of Canada on abortion. It is estimated that 35,000 to
120,000 illegal abortions are performed each year
Source : A History of Abortion in
Canada
(accessed July 30, 2003)
Births 1966:
1966 -
Born Heather Erxleben (1966- ) first Canadian women
combat soldier
1966 -
Born
Marie E. Tracey
O'Donnell (1966- ) 1st Aboriginal woman elected a bencher of
the Law Society of Upper Canada
March 16, 1966 - Born Chrissey Redden (1966 - )
champion medal winning cyclist
May 12, 1966 -
Born Anne
Ottenbrite (1966- ) 1st Canadian woman to win an Olympic
gold medal in swimming
May 21, 1966
-
Born Lori-Ann Muenzer (1966- ) Gold medal Olympic
athlete in Cycling, businesswoman & author
May 31, 1966 - Born Jessica Monroe-Gonin (1966- )
medal winning Olympic rower
June 1966 - Born Linda Hasenfratz (1966- ) 1st
woman to be Canada's E Y Entrepreneur of the year.
September 9, 1966 - Born Alison Sydor (1966- ) world
champion mountain biker
September 21, 1966 - Born Kerrin Lee-Gartner (1966-
) Olympic gold medalist in downhill skiing
December 16, 1966 -
Died Mary Irene Burns-Thomas (1883-1966) World War 1
Nursing Sister
Deaths 1966:
1966 - Died Emma Mary Turner (1885-1966) World War l Nursing
Sister
1966 - Died Dr.
Rowena Grace Douglas Hume (1877-1966) indomitable woman doctor
January 6, 1966 - Died Yvonne Millicent Firkins ( - 1966)
theatre producer & director
January 27, 1966 - Died
Elizabeth Wyn Wood (1903-1966) sculptor who left a
legacy of statues & fountains in municipalities across Canada
February 1966 -
Died Ellen Neel (1916-1966) carver of totem poles
February 24, 1966 -
Died Ruth Adelaide McClelland-Moody (1884-1966) World War l
Nursing Sister
April 21, 1866 -
Died Victoria Belcourt
Callihoo (1861-1966) Métis historian
May 1966
- Died
Victoria Chung (Cheung) (1897-1966)
Canadian medical doctor who helped modernize medicine in China
May 12, 1966 -
Died Grace Irene Harriott-Tickell (1888-1966) World War 1
Nursing Sister
June 5, 1966
- Died Dorothy
Stevens (1888-1966) portrait & figure painter
August 31, 1966 - Died Ethel Eva Cutler-Jackson (1888-1966)
world War 1 nurse with American Red Cross
September 4, 1966 -
Died Annie Ross (1872-1966) early woman doctor
September 10, 1966 -
Died Blondwen Davies (1897-1966) author & historical
researcher
October 2, 1966 -
Died Rowena Grace Douglas Hume (1877-1966) physician
October 29, 1966 -
Died Roberta Bond-Nichols (1901-1966) the 1st woman to
lecture in anatomy in Canada
November 14, 1966 - Died
Jeanne St Laurent (1886-1966) wife of Prime Minister
Louis St Laurent (1882-1973)
December 4, 1966 -
Died Mabel Aileen Mortimore (1888-1966) doctor & medical
missionary
December 6, 1966 - Died Yoshiko Kasahara (1912-1966) noted
population statistician
December 15, 1966
- Died Florence Katherine Whittick-McKean (1885-1966) World War 1
Nursing Sister
December 16, 1966 - Died Mary Irene Burnes-Thomas (1883-1966)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
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1967 |
January 1, 1967 -
The Equal Rights for Indian Women Association is created by
Mary Two-Axe Early (1911-1966)
February 16, 1967 - the Royal Commission on the Status of
Women is created . The commission would produce a report with 167
recommendations relating to such issues as birth control, family law
equal pay and maternity leave
1967
- Marianne Linnell
(1914-1990) is the only woman member on Canada's Centennial
Committee
Source: The Vancouver Hall of Fame online (Accessed November
2012)
1967 - The United Nations adopts the Declaration of
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
1967 - Canada's Secretary of
State Judy LaMarsh (1924-1980)
presides over Canada's Centennial events with great flair
April 25, 1967 - The Canadian Armed Forces unites the army,
air force and navy
April 27, 1967 - Expo '67
opens in Montreal
June 20, 1967 - The National
Library and Public Archives Building is officially opened at 395
Wellington St., Ottawa
July 1, 1967 - Canada
Centennial of Confederation is celebrated
- The Order of Canada is established
1967 - Mary Elizabeth Kinnear (1898-1991)
is appointed to the Senate of Canada. She retires from the senate in
1973
Source: Obituary, New York Times, December 28, 1991. ; Senate
of Canada Biographies Online (accessed July 2014)
1967
-
Women
who married while they were employed by the New Brunswick provincial
government lost their jobs; some married women could be hired as
casuals but not as permanent employees. Women had to be separated or
divorced or married to an unemployable man before they could be
considered for permanent employment. This was a common practice
among employers. Note that men who married often received a bonus
from their employer
Source:
New
Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Celebrating
Achievers; Behind Every Successful Woman Are All the Women Who Came
Before Her., September 2002. Online (accessed January 2016)
1967 - Anna Minerva Henderson
(1887-1987)
became the 1st Black woman in Canada to publish a book of poetry
September 9, 1967 -
Mary Walker Sawka
(1916- ) member
of the Progressive Conservative party, is the 1st woman
to run for party leadership, she won 2 votes
September 11, 1967 - Jean Gordon
(1918-2008)
becomes the 1st woman elected to the Yukon Territorial
Council
October 23, 1967 - Brenda Robertson
(1929- ) is the 1st woman elected
to the New Brunswick legislature
1967 - The village of Tweed, Ontario, is the 1st in Canada to
have an all women municipal council
1967 - Elaine Tanner-Watts (1951- ) is the
1st Canadian woman to win 2 gold and 3 silver medals in swimming at
the Pan-American Games
1967 - Joni Mitchel
(1943- ) releases her 1st album
Song to a seagull
1967 - The Canadian TV
show, Mr. Dressup is aired for the 1st time. Generations of
children will grow up watching this show Source :
Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North
by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002.
1967 - Nancy Greene (1943-
) wins the 1st woman’s season
championship in the World Cup of ski racing. She wins the final race
of the season by seven-hundredths of a second. The Canadian Press
votes her winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Tope
Female Athlete of the Year & the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Top
Overall Athlete of the Year
1967 - The 1st Dominion Ladies Hockey
Tournament is held in Brampton, Ontario, with 22 teams and players
ranging in age from 9 to 50 competing Sources:
www.femalehockey.ca :
A history of Women's Hockey for Dummies. On line accessed January
2013.
1967 - Canada's Women's Basketball team wins is 1st
medal, a bronze
1967 - Pat Messner (1954-
) earns the Ontario Centennial Sports Achievement Award. Pat
is an Nation, international and Olympic medalist in water skiing
Births 1967:
1967 - Born - Julia S. Shin Dol (1967- ) lawyer &
co-founder of the Korean Canadian Lawyers association
1967 - Born ManJusha R. Pawagi (1967 - )
journalist, Lawyer & author of children's books
January 4, 1967 - Born Marina Orsini (1967- ) actor
of radio, TV, film & stage
January 27, 1967 - Born Susan Aglukark (1967- )
renowned Canadian entertainer
January 31, 1967 - Born Shauna Rolston ( 1967- )
internationally known cello player
February 1, 1967 - Born Jo-Anna Downey (1967-2016) comedienne
February 13, 1967 - Kate Pace Lindsay (1967- )
competed internationally with the Federation International du ski
(FIS) World Cup circuit
February 19 1967 - Born Natalie Bondil (1967- )
award winning museum curator
February 20 , 1967- Born Theresa Anne Luke (1967- )
medal winner & member Canadian Olympic rowing team in the 1990"s.
May 27, 1967 - Born Tracey Wainman (1967- ) champion
figure skater
July 1, 1967- Born Pamela Anderson (1967- ) actor
July 12, 1967 - Born Tonya Lee Williams (1967- )
award winning actor
October 9, 1967- Born Carling Bassett-Seguso (1967-
) award winning tennis player
December 29, 1967 - Born Ashleigh Banfield (1967- )
Emmy winning news anchor
Deaths 1967:
1967 - Died
Donalda Charron (1886-1967) early women's union leader
1967 - Died Margaret Davidson (1915-1967) journalist & news
photographer
1967 - Died
Jessie Margaret Gent-Newton (1883-1967) World War ! Nursing Sister
1967 - Died Belinda
Mulrooney (1872-1967) astute Klondike businesswoman
1967 - Died Eudoxia Sorochan Shewchuk ( -1967) Ukrainian
- Canadian pioneer
1967 - Died Geraldine Bertram Wright ( -1967)
3rd woman called to the Bar in Ontario 1907
1967 - Died
Florence Harvey (1878-1968) member of Canada's Golf
Hall of Fame
February 9, 1967 -
Died Kathryn/Katherine Dorothy Ross (1894-1967) World War l
Nursing Sister
February 10, 1967 -
Died Alexandra Birkiukova (1895-1967) architect
February 12, 1967 - Died
Edith
Deason (1889-1967) World War 1 Nursing Sister
February 19, 1967 - Died Lilly Naomi Gray (1881-1967) World
War l Nursing Sister
February 24, 1967 -
Died Vera Harrison
Prindle-Chappell (1891-1967) World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 30, 1967 - Died
Gladys
Muriel Porter (1894-1967) 1st woman elected to the Nova Scotia
Provincial Legislature
May 8, 1967 -
Died Christine Elizabeth Jenkins-Howson (1898-1967) Black
woman newspaper owner & editor
May 11, 1967 - Died Margaret McTavish Konantz (1899-1967)
International welfare organizer & member of the Canadian parliament
June 15, 1967- Died Ellen
Harris ( 1904-1967) prominent west coast broadcast journalist
June 19, 1967 -
Died Marie Albertina Wallace (1867-1967) Black pioneer in
British Columbia
July 10, 1967 - Died
Donalda Charron (1886-1967) pioneer union leader & activist
July 27, 1967 - Died Mildred Valley Thornton
(1890-1967) an artist who captured Canadian Native life on the
prairies & the west coast
August 30, 1967 - Died
Elizabeth Matilda Melvin-Symondson (1890-1967) World War l Nursing
Sister
September 6, 1967 - Died Katherine Pinkerton
(1887-1967) author of books about wilderness living in Northern
Ontario
September 19, 1967 - Died Monica Proiette (1940-1967) 'Machine
Gun Molly '
November 8, 1967 -
Died Elsie Redford (1872-1967) philanthropist
November 1967 - Died Jessie
Gertrude Macey (1891-1967) World War l Nursing Sister
November 26, 1967 - Died Laura Beatrice Berton
(1878-1967) author
December 13, 1967 - Died Ann Maria Williams-Rawson
(1888-1967) World War l Nursing Sister
December 28, 1967
- Died Wilhelmina Smith (1890-1967) World War l Nursing Sister
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1968 |
1968 - The Olympic Committee conducts
gender tests for the first time in internationals sports at the
Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France Source
www.womenwarriors.ca timeline.
February 17, 1968 - Nancy Greene (1943-
) wins gold medal
in the giant slalom at the the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble,
France.
March 26, 1968 - Nancy Greene (1943-
) world winning skier announces her retirement from
competition. The Canadian Press votes her winner of the Bobbie
Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year & the Lou
Marsh Trophy as Canada's Top Overall Athlete of the Year for the
second year in a row
July 2, 1968 - The Canada Medical Care Act comes into effect
nationwide This Act brings universal healthcare to Canada through
the creation of the Nation's Medicare System.
1968 - Sandra Post (1948- ) beats Kathy Whitworth by seven strokes in a
playoff to become the first non-US player and
rookie to win the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA)
Championship.
Source
Women
Warriors imeline
1968 - The Canadian Association of
Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) is
conceived and was incorporated as a voluntary non-profit
organization in 1978. By 2000 there are 22 member societies across
Canada.
1968 - Canadian divorce laws are
reformed allowing for divorce on the basis of marital breakdown as
well as for adultery and mental or physical cruelty.
1968 -
The Royal Commission on the Status of Women begins.
August 28, 1968 - Les belles-soeurs, a play written in
1965 by Michel Tremblay is staged for the first time at Montreal's
Théâtre du rideau vert. The controversial dramatic comedy will be
considered a landmark play with the first use of joual (slang to
delve into the daily lives of working-class women of the 1960's
1968 - Elaine Tanner-Watts (1951-
) becomes the 1st Canadian women to win an Olympic Medal in
swimming bringing home two silver and one Bronze medal at the Summer
Olympic Games, Mexico.
Sources: The Canadian Encyclopedia. - online. Information
provided by Thomas Brandenberg.: ;The Elaine
Tanner-Watt website (Accessed January 2013)
1968 - The International Stokes
Mandeville Games for the Paralyzed (now Paralympic Games) is held in
Tel Aviv, Israel. Hilda May Torok Binns wins two gold
and a silver medal in wheelchair racing.
1968 - Bea Irwin,
previously a partner in her husbands toy
business, takes over the business when her husband dies.
Source: I Know that name: the people behind Canada's
Best known Band Names...by Mark Kearney and Randy Ray (Toronto,
Hounslow Book, 2002.
1968 - Michaelle Jean, (1957- ), a future
Governor General of Canada, emigrates to Canada with her family from
Haiti Source: web pages of the Governor General of
Canada. (accessed March 2007)
.
1968 - The Chargex credit Card (later renamed VISA)
in now available in Canada.
Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg
19.
Births 1968:
1968 -
Born Shelley Gauthier (1968- ) 1st woman
tricycle (T1) rider on international para Cycling scene
1968 - Born Qui Xai Her (1968- ) musician
1968 - Born Isabella Pain (1968- ) Inuit mediator
1968 - Born Megan Witfield (1968-2020) Black unionist
January 28, 1968 - Born Marnie McBean (1968-
) medal winning rower
January 28, 1968 - Born Sarah McLachlin (1968-
) a singer whose songs convey a passionate honesty
March 14, 1968 - Born Megan Fallows (1968- )
TV and movie actor
March 26, 1968 - Born Jennifer Kristen Barnes (1968-
) medal winning Olympic rower
March 30, 1968 - Born Céline Dion, international singing star
August 5, 1968 - Born Terri Clark (1968- )
award winning country singer
September 1, 1968 - Born Michelle Buckingham (1968-
) medal winning Judo champion
December 4, 1968 - Born
Candy Palmater (1968-2021) actor, comedian, & broadcaster
Deaths 1968:
1968 -
Died Julia Crawford (1896-1968) artist & teacher.
1968 - Died Margaret Adele Keeling Fairley (1885-1968)
author
1968 - Died
Florence Lyle Harvey (1878-1968) champion golfer
1968 - Died
Beatrice Mary MacDonald (1881-1968) most decorated woman in U.S.
army during World War l
1968 -
Died Gladys Elizabeth Matheson Crim (1892-1968) respected nurse on
Canadian prairies.
1968 -
Died
Nellie Langford Rowell (1874-1968) social activist &
philanthropist.
1968 - Born Wendy Sloboda (1968 - ) paleontologist.
1968 - Died
Mary Barrett Speechly (1873-1968) social activist & member Women's
Institutes.
January 2, 1968 -
Died Hattie May Mastin-McLennan (1888-1968) World War 1
Nursing Sister
January 9, 1968 - Died Kathleen May
Redman Strange (1896-1968) author
January 13, 1968 - Died Jocelyne Binet (1923-1968) composer, pianist
& teacher.
January 14, 1968 - Died Florence Wyle (1881-1968) a sculptor who made
several Canadian War Memorials and is represented in numerous art
galleries.
January 21, 1968 -
Died Marie-Claire Daveluy (1889-1968) librarian, historian &
novelist
February 3, 1968 - Died
Margaret MacDonald (1910-1968) Member of Parliament who filled the
seat of her husband.
February 5, 1968 - Died Frances Loring (1887-1968) artist and
sculptor, co-founder of the Sculptors Society of Canada.
February 7, 1968 -
Died Berthe Chaures-Louard (1889-1968) social activist with
cooperative movement in Quebec
March 1, 1968 - Died
Emma Henry Sister St. Victor (1881-1968) social activist
March 9, 1968 - Died
Kathleen Wilhelmina Ellis
(1887-1968) nurse & nursing author.
March 22, 1968 - Died Margaret Iris Duley (1895-1968) author, first
woman of Newfoundland to be recognized outside her home province.
May 24, 1968 - Died Katherine N. Newton
(????-1968) businesswoman & milner
June 10, 1968 -
Died Marie Alice 'Ayls'
Charlotte Mailhot / Malhiot - Ross (1889-1968) first Canadian woman
architect
July 6, 1968 - Died Mabel
Hanway (1893-1968) social activist & pacifist
July 24. 1968 - Died Mary Agnes Best (1884-1968)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
July 26, 1968 - Died Mary Agnes Best (1884-1968) World War 1
Nursing Sister
August 9, 1968 - Died Dr. Norma Ford Walker (1893-1968) well known
medical researcher of childhood diseases.
August 11, 1968 - Died Isabelle Atkinson
(1891-1968) feminist, journalist President of the Canadian Consumers
Association.
August 21, 1968 - Died Germaine Gévremont (1900-1968)
French language journalist & award winning author.
September 2, 1968 - Died Ethel Johns (1879-1968) nurse,
teacher &
administrator.
September 22, 1968 -
Died Mary Claire Wallace (1900-1968) journalist & broadcaster
October 18, 1968 - Died Elizabeth "Betsey" Flaherty (1881?-1968)
pioneer woman pilot
October 26, 1968 -
Died Mary Elizabeth Scott-Williams (1882-1986) World War 1
Nursing Sister
November 18, 1968 -
Died Norma Turina Walker Elsey (1879-1968) World War l
Nursing Sister
December 16, 1968 - Died
Marcelle Gauvreau (1907-1968) botanist
December 16, 1968 -
Died Christine Margaret Lighthall Henderson (1868-1968) poet
December 26, 1968 - Died Maryon Elspeth Pearson (1901-1968)
wife of Lester Bowels Pearson (1897-1972) winner Nobel Peace Prize &
Prime Minister of Canada
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January 1, 1969 -
Status Indians gain the right to vote in Quebec elections
1969 -
The Federal government amends the Criminal Code of Canada so
that it is no longer an offence to disseminate information on birth
control. Abortion is legalized in certain limited circumstances. A
therapeutic Abortion Committee of doctors is required to approve
abortion. Also the same sex sexual acts between consenting adults are
no longer a criminal offence
1969 -
36% of the students attending undergraduate studies at university
are women
Source: Canadian Chronology
(accessed April 28,
2003)
1969 - Patricia Marsden-Dole becomes Canada's first woman
Trade Commissioner
May 1969 - Toronto Police Commission Chairman, C.O. Bick,
states that, although there is no rule, he feels that "The woman's
place is in the home with her child." A woman is refused
employment on the grounds that she has young children
Source: Herstory: Milestones in the
History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online Accessed June
2011.
1969 -
Dorothy
Lidstone (1938- ) is 1st Canadian to win
a World Target Archery
Championships in Valley Forge,
U.S.A. Source: Federation of Canadian Archers.
August 9, 1969 -
The Government of Saskatchewan names four small islands in the
North Saskatchewan River, near North Battleford, for
Onésime Dorval
(1845-1932) the 1st certified teacher in Red
River territory
Source: Dorval, Onésime (1845-1932) Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan.
Online (Accessed May 2014)
1969 -
Canadian Women’s Intercollegiate Athletic Union is formed to oversee
events & sanction national championships. This group merged with the
Canadian Intercollegiate Athletic Union in 1978
September 1969 - Pedestal, one of Canada's 1st
feminist periodicals is published as the voice of the Vancouver
Women's Caucus that was known for starting the Abortion Caravan
that closed down the Canadian Parliament. The publication ceased in
1974 and was resurrected for one more year in 1975
November 28, 1969 - 200 women march in Montreal
against a ban on public protests. 165 women are arrested
December 1, 1969 -
The Quebec Women's Liberation Front is established as a result of
the November 28 women's protest & arrests
1969 - Debbie Brill
(1953- ) is the 1st North American woman to clear 6' in the high jump
Source: British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame Online (Accessed March
2014)
1969 - Beverly Boys
(1951- ) Canadian champion &
winner of the English diving championships is voted by
the Canadian Press winner of the Bobbie
Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the Year
1969 - Margaret Atwood
(1939- ) publishes her 1st novel
Edible woman
1969 -
Access to abortion is applied unevenly and often unfairly across the
country. Women can wait an average of 8 weeks for an abortion. Some
provinces refuse to provide any abortion services at all and
abortion is largely unavailable to women outside major cities
Source : A History of abortion in Canada.
http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/history.html
(accessed July 30, 2003)
1969
-
The
Ontario Mercer Reformatory for Girls, originally opened in 1872 is
closed after controversial allegations of torture, beatings and
experimental drugs and medical procedures were investigated
Births 1969:
1969 - Born Leanne Allison (1969- ) social activist,
filmmaker, & environmentalist
January 19, 1969 - Born Angela Cutrone (1969- )
Olympic medalist in speed skating
March 12, 1969 - Born Karen Marie Connelly (1969- )
author & poet
March 20, 1969 - Born Caroline Brunet (1969- ),champion in
kayak and one of Canada outstanding Female Athletes of the Year
March 30, 1969 - Born Susan Juby(1969- ), author
May 11, 1969 - Born Annie Pootoogook (1969-2016) award winning
Inuit artist
August 3, 1969 - Born Anne Marie Loder (1969- )
accomplished TV and movie actor
August 6, 1969 - Born Kristyn Dunnion (1969 - ) author
of books for young readers
August 21, 1969 - Born Josée Chouinard(1969- )
champion Canadian figure skater
October 1969 - Born Samantha Nutt (1969- ) medical
doctor & founder of War Child Canada
November 7, 1969 - Born Tanya Dubincoff (1969- )1st
Canadian woman to be World Champion in track cycling
Deaths 1969:
1969 -
Died Elizabeth Rebecca Laird (1874-1969), a
Physics teacher & college administrator. who after she retired she
became a researcher
1969 - Died
Louise M. Saunders (1893-1969) first
woman lawyer in Newfoundland
1969 - Died
Margaret Watkins (1884-1969) commercial photographer
January 29, 1969 -
Died Blanche Olive Lavallée-Trudeau (1891-1969) World War l
Nursing Sister
February 4, 1969 - Died
Audrey Jean Garland-Wray (1912-1969) medal winning pairs figure
skater
February 12, 1969 - Died Ida Georgina Denmark-MacNutt
(1886-1969) World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 11, 1969 -
Died Winnifred Estella Bamback (1892-1969) award winning
author & harpist
May 5, 1969 - Died
Sara Corning (1872-1969) a nurse and
heroine who save 5000 Armenian children in 1922
June 9, 1969 -
Died Lillian Gertrude Halladay (1890-1969) World War l
Nursing Sister
July 23, 1969 - Died
Ada Jane Fairlina Kent (1888-1969) musician
and composer
July 29, 1969 - Died Ruth
Josephine Northcott (1913-1969) astronomer
August 15, 1969 - Died
Jean McWilliam-Macdonald (1877-1969) activist for women's rights &
pensions
August 21, 1969 - Died Lillie Fern Bowman (1893-1969)
Saskatchewan politician
September 17, 1969 -
Died Daisy Louise Saunders (1885-1969) poet
November 1969 - Died
Margaret Watkins (1884-1969) early
woman commercial photographer
November 4, 1969 - Died Violet Alice Dryvynsyde (1888-1969) An
educator who opened her own school and published books
November 11, 1969 -
Died Elizabeth Kilpatrick (1892-1969) pioneer psychiatrist
November 19, 1969 - Died Vera Cryderman (1897-1969) an
artist who worked in several medium helped establish Visual Arts in
college
November 23, 1969 -
Died Jean Alexandrina MacDonald (1888-1969) World War 1
Nursing Sister
December 21, 1969 - Died Ellen Ballon (1898-1969) child
prodigy and internationally renowned pianist
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