EVENTS

August 1990-1991 - The Gulf War is the 1st conflict in which Canadian women take part in combat

August 16, 1990 - Marion Loretta Reid (1929-   ) is appointed the 37th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, the first woman to hold this position.

October 1, 1990 - Zanana Akande (1937-   ) is the 1st Black women to be appointed to a provincial cabinet position when she joins the Ontario Cabinet on this date

December 6, 1990 is proclaimed as a National Day of Mourning and Action on Violence Against Women.

December 9, 1990 - Pope John Paul canonized Mother Marie d'Youville, founder of the Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns). She is the first Canadian to become a saint.

1990 - Carol Lees refuses to fill out her census form. She knew she spent at least 50 hours a week doing housework--- she simply could not fill the Canada Census form saying she did not work!! She sends the Prime Minister a bill for $95,843.76 for three years housework! Source: Herstory: A Canadian Woman's Calendar 2000 (Silver anniversary edition) Coteau Books, 1999 Page 2.

1990 - The Minister of National Defence establishes the Minister's Advisory Board on Women in the Canadian Forces to monitor the progress of gender integration and employment equity in Canada's forces. Source "Women throughout Canadian military history." in Canadian Forces Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23 February 2005.

1990 - A provincial court in Nova Scotia declares the provincial medical Services Act as unconstitutional and Dr. Henry Morgentaler is acquitted of all charges that had been laid the previous year. Source : A History of Abortion in Canada (accessed July 30, 2003)
 
1990 - Jean Edmonds (1921-   ) releases her federal government Report of Task Force on Barriers to Women in the Public Service : Beneath the Veneer.

1990 - The federal government releases The Report of Task Force on Federally Sentenced Women: Creating Choices.

1990 - The federal government releases The Report on Child Sex Abuse: Reaching for solutions.

1990 - The National Research Council, part of the federal government, creates new science and engineering training programs for women. Source: Progress towards equality of women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women Canada. 1995.

1990 - The National Film Board of Canada (N F B) releases a New Initiatives in Film, a program that provides filmmaking opportunities for women of colour and the First Nations. Source: Progress towards equality of women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women Canada. 1995.

1990 - Canada makes changes in Canada's Food Guide and Canada's Guidelines for Healthy Eating. The goal is to be simple, positive, clear, adaptable and acceptable to consumers. The look of the guides changes from a sun/circle to a rainbow.

1990 - Rosella Bjornson (1947-   ) is the first woman to be promoted to Captain with a major Canadian air carrier.

1990 - Susan Nattrass,  (1950-   ) is the 1st woman to be entered in a shotgun event in the Commonwealth Games.

1990 - Helen Kelesi (1969-   ) the 1st woman to win four consecutive national senior tennis championships is voted by the Canadian Press as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year for the second year in a row

1990 - The Yukon Gay & Lesbian Alliance (G A L A) is established. It includes transgender people despite the name Source: Indicators of Yukon Gender equality, Timeline Online (accessed 2022)

1990 - Mabel M. DeWare (1926-   ) is appointed to the Canadian Senate .

1990 - k. d. Lang (1961-   ) a well known country singer, participates in a "meat stinks" ad campaign.

1990 - Eileen Regina Twain (1965-   ) signs her first recording contract and changes her name to Shania.

1990 - The Nova Scotia Library Association establishes the Ann Connor Brimer Award to be given to a resident of Atlantic Canada for a book published in Canada that has made an outstanding contribution to Children's literature.

1990 - Ms. Adrienne McLennan becomes the 1st female unit commander of Public Affairs for the Toronto Police Force. Source: Herstory: Milestones in the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online Accessed June 2011.

1990 -  The Mary Peck Arthritis Society Chair in Rheumatology is established at the University of British Columbia, names in honour of the woman who had worked so hard to form the Canadian Arthritis Society. Source: The history of Metropolitan Vancouver Hall of Fame online (Accessed November 2012) :Pioneers every one by E. Blanche Norcross (Burns and MacEachern Ltd, 1979)

1990 - Maureen Maloney becomes the 1st woman Dean of a Law School in British Columbia at the University of Victoria

Deaths 1990:
1990 - Died Dr Lotta Hitschmanova (1909-1990) international humanitarian who had so many awards that there were 5 rows of ribbons representing the awards on her uniform!
1990 - Died Lillian Beatrice Love-Knapp (1887-1990) prospector in the porcupine, Ontario
1990 - Died Elizabeth Rankin-Bemrose (1911-1990) nurse in British Columbia
1990 - Died Muriel Victoria Roscoe (1897-1990) educator at Acadia University and McGill University
1990 - Died Nan Shipley (1902-1990), author 
January 11, 1991 - Died Regina Seiden - Goldberg (1897-1991) rancher
February 17, 1990 - Died Jessie Caldwell (1901-1990) social activist
March 28, 1990 - Died Beulah Vernon Bourns (1906-1990), nurse and missionary with the United Church of Canada
April 25, 1990 - Died Kathryn 'Kay' Emilor Burns-Rodga (1906-1990)
May 1, 1990 - Died Margaret Vitaline Foster-Harston (1894-1990) World War 1 Nursing Sister
June 6, 1990 - Died Marianne Linnell (1914-1990), Vancouver politician was the only woman on the committee for Canada's Centennial Commission
June 7, 1990 - Died Ester Isabelle Clark Wright (1895-1990), Maritime academic
July 9, 1990 - Died Sarah Evelyn Florence 'Flora' Eaton (1879-1990) philanthropist
August 18, 1990 - Died Isabel Janet Macneill / MacNeill (1908-1990), the 1st woman in the British Commonwealth to hold a command of a ship.
August 20, 1990 - Died Madeleine Alberta Fritz (1896-1990) paleontologist
September 30, 1990 - Died Alice Parizeau (1930-1999) award winning French language novelist
October 26, 1990 - Died Winnifred Mary Stewart (1908-1990), a nurse who conducted experimental research into new teaching methods for disabled children, OC
November 10, 1990 - Died Lillian Margaret Perry (1900-1990) first woman alderman in Lethbridge, Alberta
December 17, 1990 - Died Evelyn Spice Cherry (1906-1990) filmmaker
December 31, 1990 - Died Robina Higgins-Haight (1915-1990) track & field champions of the 1930's

October 28, 1991 - Nicole Dunsdon (1971-  ) is crowned as the last Miss Canada. The beauty pageant was cancelled a few months later due to changes in public perception and acceptance of such pageants

November 1991 - The Canadian Palliative Care Association is formally established as a national charitable organization Source: Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (Accessed January 2011)

November 14, 1991 - Nellie J. Cournoyea (1940-    ) is the 1st Indigenous woman to lead a provincial territorial government in Canada when she is elected Premier of the Northwest Territories Nellie J. Cournoyea, Collections Canada. National Library of Canada, (accessed 2006).

1991 - The government of Canada declares December 6th as the National Day of Commemoration to End Violence Against Women. The White Ribbon Campaigne is organized for people to wear white ribbons to support the end of violence against women

1991 - House of Commons Bill C- 43, an amendment to the Criminal Code of Canada relating to abortion, is defeated in the Senate of Canada in a tie vote. Abortion will now be treated like any other medical procedure Source : A History of Abortion in Canada  (accessed July 30, 2003)

1991 - The Family Law Reform Commission is established Source: Progress towards equality of women in Canada . Canada. Status of Women Canada. 1995.

1991 - Canadians spend 31% of food dollar in restaurants

1991 - In the Yukon a week of school-based workshops & and presentations is held as the First Sexual Assault Prevention week. It evolves into Sexual Assault Prevention month every May Source: Indicators of Yukon Gender equality, Timeline Online (accessed 2022)

1991 - Myriam Bedard (1969-   ) is the 1st Canadian to win a World Cup in Biathlon

1991 - Silken Laumann (1964-   ) World Champion in single skulls rowing and World Cup winner is voted by the Canadian Press as 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

1991 - The HMCS Nipigon becomes the first mixed gender warship to participate in NATO exercises

1991 - Lieutenant Anne Reiffenstein (née Proctor), Lieutenant Holly Brown and Captain Linda Shrum graduate from artillery training in the Canadian Forces as the 1st women officers in combat arms Source "Women throughout Canadian military history." in Canadian Forces Personnel Newsletter Issue 2/05 23 February 2005.

1991 - HMCS Nipigon is the 1st Canadian mixed-gender warship to participate in exercises with Nato's Standing Naval Forces Atlantic  Source: National Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces, Fact sheet. Online (Accessed March 2014)

1991 - Dormer Ellis (1925-  ) is the 1st woman to be awarded the University of Toronto Engineering alumni gold medal Source The Toronto Business and Processional Women’s Club. Online Accessed February 2013.

1991 -  The New Democratic Party of British Columbia institutes the 1st stand-alone Ministry of Women's Equality in Canada. Penny Priddy is the 1st appointed Minister to hold this position  Source: British Columbia Federation of Labour. 

1991 - Newfoundland and Labrador declares the home of nurse Myra Bennett (1890-1990) in Daniel's Harbour an Historical Site Source: 100 more Canadian Heroines by Merna Forster, Dundurn Press, 2011. ; Heritage Newfoundland ( accessed June 12, 2012)

1991 - Judi Johnny of the Yukon establishes Women on Wings: A Feminist Disability Collective Source: Indicators of Yukon Gender equality, Timeline Online (accessed 2022)

1991 - Gretta Chambers (1927-2017) becomes the 1st woman to be appointed chancellor of McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Deaths 1991:
1991 - Died Fern Blodgett Sunde (1918-1991), June 13, 19 the 1st Canadian woman to serve in the Merchant Marines
1991 - Died Joyce Margaret McCulloch Booker (1921-1991), played piano in the Bookers Bombshells, a leading dance band in Manitoba
1991 - Died Lily I. Sherizen (1906-1991), one of the earliest Jewish women lawyers in Ontario
January 18, 1991 - Died Margaret Paton Hyndman (1901?-1991), 1st Toronto woman to be appointed King's Council and second in the British Empire
January 26, 1991 - Died Mary Lile Benham (1914-1991), author and historian
April 1991 - Died Katherine Lucy Ball (1904-1991), librarian and professor at the University of Toronto
April 9, 1992 - Died Lydia Emélie Gruchy (1894-1992), in 1936 she became 1st woman ordained as a minister in the United Church of Canada
April 17, 1991 - Died Helen Dorothy Beales (1897-1991) artist & educator
April 28, 1991 - Died Clara 'Dolly' Scott (1919-1991), sideshow personality
May 9, 1991 - Died Rena Lasnier (1910-1991), poet
June 24, 1991 - Died Anne ‘Annie’ Margaret Angus (1901-1991) poet
July 10, 1991 - Died Grace MacInnis (1905-1991), social activist and politician
July 17, 1991 - Died Angela Sidney (1902-1991) aboriginal storyteller
July 22, 1991 - Died Gladys Elizabeth Matheson-Crim (1892-1991) World War 1 Nursing Sister
August 1991 - Died Bonnie E. Shadd - Emerson (1943-1991) early Black nurse
August 5, 1991 - Died Jagdish Kaur Singh (1912-1991), Businesswoman
August 11, 1991 - Died Dorothy Somerset (1900-1991), theatre director
August 23, 1991 - Died Phyllis Georgie Haslam (1913-1991) social activist with Elizabeth Fry Society who worked with female prisoners
September 23, 1991 - Died Kathleen Coburn (1905-1991), professor at Victoria College editor, and order of Canada
October 29, 1991 - Died Sherry Hawco Delanty (1964-1991), Canadian Olympian in gymnastics
December 18, 1991 - Died Mary June Storey (1918-1991) actor in movies 1930'3 & 1940's
December 29, 1991 - Died Mary Elizabeth Kinnear (1898-1991), member of Senate of Canada 1967-1973
December 31, 1991 - Died Nina Cohn (1907-1991) volunteer. Woman of the Century (1867-1967) for Nova Scotia & National Council of Jewish Women

January 11, 1992 - Rita Johnston (1935-   ),  the 1st woman to serve as a provincial premier in Canada resigns and leaves politics after her Social Credit Party loses the election in October 1991

January 22, 1992 - Dr. Roberta Lynn Bondar (1945- ) becomes the first Canadian woman in space when she is a payload specialist onboard the space shuttle Discovery January 22 - 30, 1992

February 8-23 1992 - Winter Olympic Games, Albertville, France: Gold Medals: Karen Lee-Gartner (1966-   ) women's downhill alpine skiing; Angela Cutrone (1969-   ), Sylvie Daigle (1962-   ), Nathalie Lambert  (1963-   ) & Anne Perreault  (1971-   ) short track speed skating women's 3000 meters relay.
Bronze Medals; Myriam Bedard (1969-   ) women's 15 km biathlon; Isabelle Brasseur (1970-   ) & Lloyd Eisler, figure skating pairs Source: Canadian Olympic Committee

April 22, 1992 - A brief, violent confrontation took place at the Kingston, Ontario’s Prison for Women (P4W) between 6 inmates and several of the correctional staff. The inmates were moved to the segregation unit and had criminal charges laid against them Source: The night Raid at Kingston’s Prison for Women by Sierra Baquie. Section15.ca (Accessed  2009)

May 1992 - The Morgentaler Abortion clinic on Harbord St., Toronto, is firebombed using gasoline as fuel and  a firework to set the explosion off. It is a night attack and no one is hurt.

June 1992 - Julie Payette (1963-   ) joins the Canadian Space Agency as an astronaut

1992 - The Honourable Madam Justice Micheline Rawlins (1951 -   ) is the 1st Black woman appointed the bench in Ontario

1992 - Corporal Marlene Shillingford becomes the 1st woman selected to join the Snowbirds, the Canadian Air Force's aerobatic demonstration flying team as a technician.. In 1993-94 show season she serves as a technician Source: National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, Fact sheet. Online (Accessed March 2014)

1992 - The Winnipeg, Manitoba, Wesman Women's Basketball team achieve unmatched women's record of 88 straight wins and three straight championships from 1991-1994

July 25 -August 9, 1992 - Olympics Games Barcelona, Spain: Gold medals; Marnie McBean (1968-   ) and Kathleen Heddle (1965-   )in Coxless pairs rowing. and another gold in in rowing women's eight team ; Kay Worthington (1959-   ), Kristen Barnes (1968-   ), Jessica Monroe (1966-   ) and Brenda Taylor (1979-   ) in women's Coxless fours rowing. ; Sylvie Fréchette (1967-   ) in synchronized women's solo swim.
Silver medals; Penny Vilagos (1963-   ) and Vicky Vilagos (1963-   )  in synchronized swimming women's Duet.
Bronze medals; Angela Chalmers (1963-   ) in women's 3,000 meters run. Silken Laumann  (1964-   ) in womens' rowing single sculls. Source: Canadian Olympic Committee

August 16, 1992 Jocelyne Gros-Louis is elected Grand Chief of Huron-Wendat Nation of Wendake (near Quebec City) She is the 1st woman named as a leader of a First Nation.

1992 - The Yukon Territory distributes a supplementary Grade 10 high school text, by Carolyn Moore and Karen Jean Braun, which highlights women's contributions to society

September 23, 1992 - Manon Rhéaume (1972-  )  is the 1st woman to play hockey  professionally. She is a  goalie with the Tampa Bay Lightening of the National Hockey League

1992 - The second International Ice Hockey Federation Women's World Championships is held in Ottawa, Ontario with Canada playing the USA and winning the gold medal

November 17, 1992 - the International Olympic Committee announces that it will include women's ice hockey ad a full medal sport beginning in 2002  

1992 - Silken Laumann (1964-   ) winner of Bronze medal at the Summer Olympics, less than three months after a serious accident that was predicted to end her career is voted by the Canadian Press as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year for the second year in a row

1992 - The Miss Canada Pageant is discontinued

1992 - Paule Gauthier (1943-   ) is the 1st woman president of the Canadian Bar Association in its 77th year history

1992 - The Canadian Athletes Association (Now Athletes CAN) is founder to represent Canada's nation team athletes Source:  (accessed May 20, 2005)

1992 - The Leonard and Reva Brooks (1913-2004) Foundation is formed at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

1992 - Herizon, Canada's feminist magazine returns to publication after a publishing hiatus that started in 1987 Source: Herizon.ca (accessed July 2011)

Births 1992:
1992- Born Katee Lee (1992-   ) up and coming singer


Deaths 1992:
1992? - Died Agnes Bertha Alfred (1890?-1992?) Indigenous crafter & storyteller
1992 - Died Rosalind Mabel Long-Simpson (1899-1992) World War l Nursing Sister
1992 - Died Dorothea Palmer (1908-1992) nurse arrested 1936 for distributing birth control literature
January 1, 1992 - Died Florence Isobel Matheson (1911-1992) president National Women's Institutes
February 9, 1992 - Died Sally Potter-Clubb (1917-1992) historian
February 19, 1992 - Died Janet Leys Shaw MacTavish (1925-1972) architect
February 26, 1992 - Died Florence Li Tim-Oi (1907-1992) priest in the Anglican Church
March 26, 1992 - Died Barbara Frum, (1937-1992) award winning multi media journalist
April 14, 1992 - Died Jessie Robina Gilchrist-MacDonald (1893-1992) World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 27, 1992 - Died Louise de Kiriline Lawrence (1894-1992) nurse & acclaimed ornithologist
April 30, 1992 - Died Marion Bell Macrae (1921-2008) historical architect & teacher at the Ontario College of Art
May 1, 1992 - Died  Mary Peck (1904-1992) founder of the Canadian Arthritis Society
May 20, 1992 - Died Eleanor Brass (1905-1992) social activist & author
May 25, 1992 - Died Evelyn Cudmore (   -1992) organized the 1st Red Cross Water Safety course in Canada 1945
June 14, 1992 - Died Beatrice Agnes Bickley - Stroyan (1889-1992) World War l Nursing Sister
July 18, 1992 - Died Beatrice Fordham Johnson - Wood (1899-1992) nurse
August 7, 1992 - Died Grace Blue (1891-1992) educator
August 15, 1992 - Died Martha Blackburn-Hughes (1944-1992) broadcaster & businesswoman
November 1992 - Died Carol Coates Cassidy (1906-1992) author
December 8, 1992 - Died Helen Callaghan (1923-1992) member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
December 21, 1992 - Died Sybil Andrews-Morgan (1898-1992) artist and printmaker
 

1993 – The United Nations World Conference on  Human Rights is Held in Vienna, Austria. Women prepare the Vienna Declaration stating that human rights of women and the girl-child are an inalienable, integral and indivisible part of the Universal Human Rights

Deaths 1993:
1993 - Died Florence Diamond Bean (1910-1993)  journalist & active member Women's Institutes internationally
1993 - Died Josephina Kelleo (1920-1993) artist in Labrador
1993 - Died Gail Harvey Moore (1943-1993) champion golfer.
1993 - Died Helen Frances Okuloski (1912-1993) one of the1st women lawyers in Hamilton, Ontario
1993 - Died Margaret Mary Street (1907-1993) nurse, teacher, & historian
January 1, 1993 - Died Gweneth Lloyd (1901-1993) renowned choreographer
January 18, 1893 - Born Katherine Maud 'Christy' Macdonald (1893-1918) first Nursing Sister World War l to be killed in action
January 18, 1993 - Died Simonne Monet-Chartrand (1919-1993) feminist, unionist and pacifist
January 26, 1993 - Died Agnes C. O'Dea (1911-1993) librarian & bibliographer
January 26, 1993 - Died Jeanne Sauvé (1922-1993) 1st woman Speaker House of Commons &1st woman Governor General of Canada
January 28, 1993 - Died Helen Battles Hogg-Priestley(1905-1993) astronomer, 1st Canadian to have a minor planet named for her
February 6, 1993 - Died  Helen Saniford (1919-1996) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
February 11, 1993 - Died Pearl Violet Borgal (1910-1993) social activist
February 28, 1993 - Died Ruby Keeler (1909-1993) singer, dancer & performer
April 24, 1993 - Died Katherine Boehner Hockin (1910-1993) religious leader & educator United Church of Canada
April 25, 1993 - Died Doris Giller (1931-1993) pioneer journalist & newspaper editor
May 1, 1993 - Died Clare Bernhardt (1911-1993) author & journalist who composed Canada's Centennial Hymn
May 5, 1993 - Died Marguerita 'Rita' Spencer (1892-1993) musician & composer
May 26, 1993 - Died Helen Maude Dallas (1898-1993) entertainer, singer sang to troop during the war
June 9, 1993 - Died Gladys Alexis Smith (1921-1993) early movie actor
June 19, 1993 - Died Margaret L. McLeod (   -1993) social activist for disabled persons
July 10, 1993 - Died Anne Macdonald (1930-1993) social activist
August 6, 1993 - Died Nadine Hunt (1926-1993) 1st woman to lead a labour federation in Canada
August 26, 1993 - Died Viola R. Macmillan (1903-1993) prospector who found gold in Timmins , Ontario
October 1, 1993 - Died Mildred Vera Peters (1911-1993) acclaimed oncologist
November 11, 1993 - Died Mildred Fizzell-Walker (1915-1993) track & field star
November 15 - Died Viola Lillian Myers-Richardson (1927-1993) medal winning sprinter in 1948 Olympic Games
November 28, 1993 - Died Marian Mildred Dale Scott (1906-1993) painter of landscapes & portraits
December 1993 - Died Adèle de Guerry Languedoc (1904-1993) accomplished Associate National Librarian of Canada
December 7, 1993 - Died Margaret Mary Street (1907-1993) nurse, teacher, biographer & recipient, Order of Canada
December 9. 1993 - Died Helen Constance Hnatyshun (1909-1993) social activist
December 17, 1993 - Died Elizabeth Josephine Allin (1905-1993) 1st woman appointed in Physics at the University of Toronto
December 18, 1993 - Died Grace Hartman ( 1918-1993) social activist & union member
December 28, 1994 - Died Ursula Appolloni (1929-1994) first Irish Canadian woman elected to the Canadian Parliament

1995 - Kathleen 'Kay' Christie (1911-1994) and fellow nurse, Ms. Waters were honoured by a plaque erected in the Police Academy in Hong Kong in recognition of their outstanding service Sources: Women of Courage 1812-2012 Reading and Remembrance. Online (Accessed March 2015. ; Veterans Affairs Canada. Nursing Sister – Kay Christie. Online (Accessed March 2015)

1995 -  Sandy Brown (1941 -  ) becomes the 1st woman of the Jewish Federation of Toronto 1995/6

1995 - The Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies issues a indecisive Report

1995 - Setting the stage for the next century: the federal play for gender equity, is published by the Canadian government Source Canada Women's Foundation. History of the women's movement: selected moments of importance in the history of Canadian women , 2004

July  1995 -  10 of the 90 universities in Canada are headed by women Presidents Source: Canadian Chronology  (accessed April 28, 2003)

1995 - 56% of students attending university are women

1995 - The average women's salary is 75% of men's salaries

September 4-15, 1995 - The 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. It is the 2nd UN conference and it has been 20 years since the UN declared the international year of the women.

October 14, 1995 - Alexa McDonough (1944-   ) is elected leader of the federal New Democratic Party

1995 - The Rt.  Hon. Kim Campbell (1947-   ) is appointed Canadian Council for Los Angeles 1996-2000

1995 - 521,000 Canadians participate in their sport of 5-pin bowling on a regular basis and 63% of participants are women  Source: 5-pin Bowline History  (accessed May 2005)

1995 - Filmmaker Mina Shum  (1966-   ) wins a prize for Best First Film at the Berlin International Film Festival with her work Double Happiness Source: Canadian Chinese National Council. Moments of Chinese Canadian History. (accessed July 7, 2003)

1995 - The Collaborative Program in Women's Studies at the Master's Level is created at the University of Ottawa, The third post graduate established program in this area it is the first Bilingual program in the field. Source A Chronology of the development of women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network  (accessed April 28, 2003. )

1995 - Dr Emily Stowe (1831-1903), the 1st woman to practice medicine in Canada is designated a National Historic Person by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board. A plaque is erected in 1997 in Truro, Nova Scotia

1995 - Dr Jenny Trout (1841-1921), the 1st woman licensed doctor in Canada is declared a National Historic Person by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board. A plaque is erected in 1999, in Kingston, Ontario

1995 - Portia May White (1911-1968), a renowned singer is designated a National Historic Person by the Historic Sites and Monument Board. An historic plaque is erected in 1997 in Truro, Nova Scotia

1995 - Jessie Louise Beattie (1896-1895) poet and novelist with over 20 books to her credit, is inducted into the City of Cambridge (Ontario) Hall of Fame

1995 - Kate Pace (1967 -   ) competes in Italy and wins gold medal at world ski event  Source: The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame Online Accessed June 2013.

1995 -  The 1st International Ice Hockey Federation (I I H F) Pacific Rim Women's Hockey Championship is held in San Jose, California. The USA, Canada, China and Japan compete. Canada wins the Gold medal by defeating the USA in a shootout

1995 - Susan Auch (1966-   ) winner of a Silver and Bronze Medal at the World Speed Skating Championships and is second overall in the World Cup is voted by the Canadian Press as Female Athlete of the Year

1995 - LES ESSENTIELLES, a non-profit organization, is established to represent the interests of francophone women in the Yukon Source: Indicators of Yukon Gender equality, Timeline Online (accessed 2022)

1995 - The Adelaide Hoodless Childhood Home is designated as a National Historic Site. The museum itself had opened in 1960. Hoodless (1857-1910) was the founder of the Women's Institute

Deaths 1995:
1995 - Died Maude Anderson 1915-1995) nurse & administrator
1995 - Died Katherine Banham (1897-1995) 1st woman to earn a PhD from the University of Montreal
1995 - Died Margaret Jean Gee (1927-1995) 1st Chinese-Canadian woman lawyer in British Columbia
1995 - Died Marie-Rose ‘Miemose’ Girard (1906-1995) author and pioneer in northern Ontario
1995 - Died Vera Lysenko (1910-1995) nurse, journalist, & novelist
1995 - Died Leola Ellen Neal (1911-1995) psychologist
March 7, 1995 - Died Charlotte Augustine Cadoret ,Sister St-Jean-du-Sacre Coeur, composer.
March 11, 1995 - Died Belle Shenkman (1928-1995) promoter of the arts
March 26, 1995 - Died Margaret Millar (1915-1994) mystery writer
April 4, 1995 - Died Marion Orr (1918-1995) pioneer aviator & 1st woman to own & operate a flying school in Canada
April 17, 1996 - Died Helen Danylchuk (1944-1996) teacher & activist
April 20, 1995 - Died Margaret Louise Sutherland (1909-1995) community activist
April 23, 1995 - Died Marion Margaret Graham (1903-1995) World War ll Squadron Leader, R C A F
April 27, 1995 - Died Katherine De Mille (1911-1995) movie actor
April 27, 1995 - Died Helen Marcelle Harrison-Bristol (1909-1995) 1st woman to hold commercial pilot's license in four countries
May 9, 1995 - Died Marguerite Davis (1917-1995) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
June 22, 1995 - Died Eleanor Georgina Luxton (1908-1995) author, archivist, & historian
August 1, 1995 - Died Ruby Martz (1918-1995) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
November 12, 1995 - Died Bobbie Steen (1946-1995) sport administrator
December 3, 1995 - Died Andrée Maillet (1921-1995) author
December 23, 1995 - Died Helen Severson McKay Anderson (1919-1995) painter
 

February 28, 1996 - Canadian singer Alanis Morissette wins four Grammies...Best Rock Song, Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, Best Rock Album and Album of the year. This is a 1st for Canadian entertainers

1996 - The Canadian Human Rights Act is amended to include sexual orientation as a prohibited ground for discrimination Source Canada Women's Foundation. History of the women's movement: selected moments of importance in the history of Canadian women , 2004
May 28, 1996 Ida Chong (1956/57-   ) & Jenny Kwan (1967-   ) are the 1st Chinese Canadian women elected as members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

July 6, 1996 - Canada Post issues two commemorative stamps in celebration of the lives of Ethel Catherwood (1908-1987) and Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld (1903-1969), who were members of the "Matchless Six" women's team, and gold medal winners, in the 1928 Olympic Games.

July 19 - August 4, 1996 - Olympic Games, Atlanta, U.S.A. Gold Medals:  Kathleen Heddle and Marnie McBean for double sculls and bronze in quadruple sculls.
Silver Medals: Caroline Brunet women's K1 500 meter kayak singles; Alison Sydor women's cross-country mountain bike; Silken Laumann  (1964-   ) women's single sculls rowing; Lesley Thompson (1959 -   ), Tosha Tsang (1970-   ), Anna van der Kamp (1972-   ), Heather McDermid (1968-   ), Jessica Monroe  (1966-   ), Emma Robinson (1971-   ), Alison Kom, Theresa Luke and Maria Maunder (1972-   ), women's eight row; Marianne Limpert  (1972-   ) in womn's200 swimming; Erin Woodley (1972-   ), Kasia Kulesza (1976-   ), Cari Read (1970-   ), Janice Bremner (1974-   ), Lisa Alexander (1968-   ), Sylvie Fréchette (19670 -   ), Valerie Hould-Marchand (1980-   ), Christine Larsen  (1967-   ) and Karen Forsythe in synchronized swimming women's team event
Bronze Medals: Clara Hughes (1972-   ), Cycling women's road race and women's cycling time trial.

1996 - Alison Sydor (1966-    ) winner of a Silver  Olympic Medal, World Champion in Cycling & World Cup winner is voted by the Canadian Press as Female Athlete of the Year

1996 - Lieutenant Commander Wafa Dagbbagh is the 1st Canadian Muslim woman to wear the hijab in the Canadian Armed Forces  

1996 - Elizabeth Parr-Johnston (1939-   ) becomes 1st woman president of the University of New Brunswick Sources: Canadian Who’s Who (University of Toronto, 2006

1996 - There are 41 undergrad and 16 graduate programs and research institutes in Canada in the field of Women's studies Source A Chronology of the development of women's studies in Canada. The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network  (accessed April 28, 2003. )

1996 - Statistics Canada included trial questions about housework in the long census forms sent to Canadian households. Being included in the long form did not fully get a the question of unpaid housework done by women but it was a start Source: Herstory: A Canadian Women's Calendar 2000 (Silver anniversary edition) Coteau Books, 1999 page 12.

1996 - From 1936  to 1996 only 25% of the Governor's General Awards for literature were given to women Source: Herstory: A Canadian Women's Calendar 2000 (Silver Anniversary Edition) Coteau Books, 1999 page 98.

1996 - Following the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan, author Debora Ellis found Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan. It is a solidarity group committed to supporting the empowerment efforts of Afghan women and to raising awareness in Canada of the need to protect their human rights.

1996 - Sarah McLachlan (1968-   ) founds an all-female music festival called Lilith Fair, which toured widely for three years. Because of this initiative and her efforts to advance the careers of women in the music business, Sarah McLachlan received the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award in 1998.The fairs raised over 1 million dollars for women's causes Source: The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts by Valerie Wyatt (Toronto : Kids Can Press, 2001) pg.39.

1996 - Leilani Muir (1944-   ) is awarded $75,000.00 damages for pain and suffering of an illegal sterilization under the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act (effective 1928-1972)  Source: Herstory: A Canadian Woman's Calendar 2000 Page 72.

1996 - Gail Greenough (1960-   )  is the 1st Canadian and 1st woman to win the world equestrian show jumping championships

1996 - Winnie Roach Leuszler (1926-2004) internationally acclaimed swimmer & the 1st Canadian woman to swim the English Channel receives the Order of Ontario and is inducted into the Ontario Swimming Hall of Fame

1996 - Carol Lees, a Saskatchewan housewife and mother  convinces Statistics Canada to start collecting data about hours Canadians spend on such unpaid tasks as housework, yard work, childcare and eldercare Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002.  pg 21.

1996 - Bev Busson (1951-  ) is promoted to the rank of Superintendent in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the highest ranking woman in the RCMP at that time Source: Senior executives, RCMP. Biography: Beverley (Bev.) Busson; also available in French. (Accessed June 23, 2008)

1996 - Kim Campbell (1947-  ) publishes her political memoirs: Time and Chance (Doubleday)

1996 - The 1st women's boxing Club opens in Canada source: Herstory 2010.

1996 - The 1st Three-Nations Cup for women’s ice hockey in Ottawa features the USA, Canada and Finland. Canada beats the USA 1-0 in the Gold medal final. 1998 -- Women's ice hockey makes its first appearance at a Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan as a full medal sport. The USA, Canada, Finland, China, Sweden and Japan compete and Team USA wins the 1st Gold medal

Deaths 1996:
1996 - Died Gertrude de la Verne - Tanner (1906-1996) early pilot in Alberta
1996 - Died Laure Eva Rièse (1910-1996) becomes the 1st woman faculty member to earn her PhD
January 5, 1996 - Died Elma Hazel Grotes (1928-1996) teacher
January 7, 1996 - Died Monique Merastry (1924-1996) Indigenous artist
January 26, 1996 - Died Yvonne McKague Housser (1898-1996) artist
February 16, 1996 - Died Dorothy Goldman (1904-1996) social activist
March 1, 1996 - Died Naomi Yanova Adaskin (1908-1996) journalist, pianist & teacher
March 6, 1966 - Died Luella Saunders Creighton (1901-1966) writer of historic novels
March 28, 1996 - Died Edith Margaret Fowke (1913-1996) folklorist, collector, writer, &  teacher
April 25, 1996 - Died Claire Culhane (1918-1996) social activist & protestor of war
June 3, 1996 - Died Aloha Wanderwell-Baker (1906- or 1908-1996) travelogue actor, director. & producer
June 27, 1996 - Died Mary W. Grey (1927-1996) astronomer
July 13, 1996 - Died Iphigenie Arsenault (1908) - 1996) worked 70 years with the Canadian Red Cross, Order of Canada 1977
August 1, 1996 - Died Lucille Teasdale-Corti (1929-1996) international renowned medical doctor
August 31, 1996 - Died Julia Fischer (1911-1996) entrepreneur
September 14, 1996 - Died Louise Olson (1903?-1996) stage actor, producer, & director in Saskatchewan
September 14, 1996 - Died Rose Alma Ouellette (1903-1996) actor, comedienne, & theatre director
September 27, 1996 - Died Catherine Mulligan , Sister Mary Henry, (1909-1996) educator and activist in P E I
October 17, 1996 - Died Laura Sabia (1916-1996) feminist & social activist
October 18, 1996 - Died Frances Louise Bertram-Hulbig (1908-1996) international champion pairs figure skater
October 30, 1996 - Died Agnes Davidson (1900-1996) social activist
November 17, 1996 - Died Hedley Maude 'Jay/Jim' Smith-McDougald (1905-1996) Olympic pairs skater
December 5, 1996 - Died Helen Jean Baxter-Marsereau (1925-1996) first woman engineer in New Brunswick
December 29, 1996 - Died Dorothy Livesay (1909-1996) journalist, author, & literary critic

1997 - Martha Billes now has majority control of Canadian Tire, having bought out her brothers who wanted to sell Source: Women in History: A timeline by Kirsten Smith Postmedia News March 3, 2011.

1997 - Marge Linden (1935-3013) is inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. the 1st woman all night disc jockey on Montreal Radio and the 1st woman to appear in regular TV programs in Montreal
Source: “Broadcast pioneer charmed all she met…” by Susan Ferrier MacKay and Allison Lawlor. The Globe and Mail May 4, 2013.

1997 - Kate Pace (1967-   ) takes 1st at the European Cup ski downhill in Switzerland Source: The Canadian Ski Hall of Fame Online Accessed June 2013.

1997 - Lorie Kane (1964-   ) eared a Canadian record $426,000 on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Tour is voted by the Canadian Press as Female Athlete of the Year

1997 - Celebrations are held for the 100th anniversary of Jell-O

1997 - A Karen Kain Barbie Doll is produced to commemorate her farewell tour

Deaths 1997:
1997 - Died Cecile Elaine Eustance Smith Hedstrom (1908-1997) 1st Canadian to win a world figure skating championship medal
1997 - Died Malvina Marjorie Bolus (1906-1997) writer, editor, & novelist
1997? - Died Alma Houston (1927-1997?) Inuit art promoter
1997 - Died Thelma Jo Walmsley (1918- 1997), layed for the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
January 1997 - Died Dorothy Hurst (1914-1997) acclaimed dancer, baton twirler & teacher
February 2, 1997 - Died Phyllis Campbell Abbott (1900-1997) painter
February 10, 1997 - Died Eleanor Boyce (   -1997) one of the 1st women school inspectors in Manitoba
February 17, 1997 - Died Lois Catherine Marshall (1924-1997) International opera singer
February 26, 1997 - Died Lynda Adams-Hunt (1920-1997) British Empire Games medal winning diver
April 11, 1997 - Died Muriel McQueen Fergusson, (1899-1997) member of the Canadian Senate
April 12, 1997 - Died Margaret Helen McDougall (1898-1997) journalist & librarian
April 27, 1997 - Died Eva Waddell Mader-Macdonald (1902-1997) indomitable woman doctor
May 9, 1997 - Died Rina Lasnier (1915-1997) award winning poet
May 9, 1997 - Died Marie-Therese Paquin (1905-1997) award winning concert pianist
August 10, 1997 - Died Marie-Soleil Tougas (1970-1997) actor on Quebec television
August 11, 1997 - Died Twyla Elizabeth "Tees" Hendry (1928-1997) social activist
August 25, 1997 - Died Jean Cuthand Goodwill (1928-1997) 1st Aboriginal women in Saskatchewan to graduate in nursing
September 1, 1997 - Died Cheryl Marlene Davidson (1951-1997) lawyer & judge in Manitoba
September 11, 1997 - Died Cheryl Marlene Davidson (1951-1997) lawyer & Judge in Manitoba
September 25, 1997 - Died Hélène Baillargeon-Coté (1919-1997) entertained children on TV in Bilingual format well before her time
September 26, 1927 - Died Thurley Mary Duck (1928-1997) nurse & nursing administrator
November 9, 1997 - Died Cecile Elaine Eustace Smith-Hedstrom (1908-1997) champion figure skater in pairs & solo 1st to participate in Olympics
December 21, 1997 - Died Marion Powell (??-1997) medical doctor & leader in public information for Birth Control

January 12, 1998 - Louise Frechette becomes Deputy Secretary of the United Nations. where she serves from 1998-1006

March 2, 1998 - Louise Frechette (1946-   ) was the 1st person to be appointed to the position of Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations. She held this position until March 31, 2006

1998 - Nova Scotia Arts Council Creates the Portia White Prize to be awarded annually to recognize cultural and artistic excellence of a provincial artist

1998 - Yukon Women in Music is established to organize concerts, workshops, & fund raising events. It provided networking opportunities for Yukon women in music Source: Indicators of Yukon Gender equality, Timeline Online (accessed 2022)

Deaths 1998:
1998 - Died Patricia 'Pat' Cole (1943-1998) archivist for Regent Park, Toronto
1998 - Died Francoise Desrochers-Drolet (1921-1998) artist who worked in ceramics.
1998 - Died Norma Fleck (1906-1998) for whom the Canadian Children's Non fiction Book Award is named
1998 - Died Anna Veronica 'Bonnie' Kines (   -1998) journalist
1998 - Died Wanda Wyatt (1895-1998), social activist & volunteer
1998 - Died Marion Adams Macpherson (1924-1998) Foreign Service Officer, 1st woman Secretary of the High Commission in Accra
1998 - Died Alice Smith (1910-1998) nurse with Canadian government working in far north
January 9, 1998 - Died Kathleen Shannon (1935-1998) film director with National Film Board
March 5, 1998 - Died Ada Youlton Barnes (1906-1998) social activist
March 16, 1998 - Died Louise Wilhelmina Fotheringill-Payne (1933-1998) acclaimed professor
March 30, 1998 - Died Greta Kraus, (1907-1998), harpsichordist
April 2, 1998 - Died Evelyn Agnes Pepper (1905-1998) nursing sister & order of Canada
April 18, 1998 - Died Audrey Elinor Miller-Phalan (1918-1998) champion figure skater
April 24, 1998 - Died Alice Elizabeth Jean Lunn 1910-1998) librarian who 1st headed up cataloguing at the National Library of Canada
May 1998 - Died Isabelle Cohen Ketchum Percival (19031998) businesswoman
May 23, 1998 - Died Grace Armstrong Hartman (1900-1998) Sudbury city Councilor 1950-1967
June 27, 1998  - Died Joyce Wieland ( 1931-1998) artist with works covering a multitude of media from canvas, quilting, embroidery and film
July 1, 1998 - Died Florence Isabel 'Jane' Bell (1910-1998) member of Matchless Six 1926 Olympic Games
July 12, 1998 - Died Addie Aylestock (1909-1998) religious leader, first Black woman ordained in Canada
July 25, 1998 - Died  Mabel Adeline 'Abbie' Aylestock (1909-1998) fist Black woman ordained as a minister in Canada
October 1, 1998 - Died Dr. Phyllis Jean McAlpine (1941-1998) genetic researcher
October 1, 1998 - Died  Pauline Julien (1920-1998) singer & actor from Quebec
December 9, 1998 - Died Elizabeth Shaughnessy Cohen (1948-1998) member of the Canadian parliament
December 16, 1998  - Died Irene Spry (1907-1998) respected historian & author
December 18, 1998 - Died Evelyn Laura Brandon (1911-1998) historian

1999 - Canadian women who have a university degree and work full time all year earned 69% of what men with a university degree earned Source: Statistics Canada, Income Trends in Canada, 1980-1999

1999 - Eaton's department stores goes bankrupt. 13,000 loose jobs

1999 - Ione Christensen (1933- ) former Commissioner of the Yukon Territories is appointed to the Senate of Canada

1999 - The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell (1947-  ) is the Chair (1999-2003) of the Council of Women Work (The Council's membership consists of women who have held the office of President or Prime Minister in their own country.) Source: Club de Madrid Kim Campbell  (accessed January 2006)

October 7, 1999 - Adrienne Clarkson ( 1939-   ) becomes the 1st non-white Canadian & the 1st immigrant to be appointed as Governor General

October 18, 1999 - The Women are Persons Monument is unveiled in Calgary Alberta by Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. “I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of woman than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.” Source: Speech on the unveiling of the Women are Persons Monument, Calgary Alberta, October 18, 1999

November 18-20, 1999 - The Circumpolar Women's Conference is held in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory bringing 400 women from around the north Source: Indicators of Yukon Gender equality, Timeline Online (accessed 2022)

December 9, 1999 - Lois Hole (1929-2005) is appointed as Alberta's 15th Lieutenant Governor
Source: (Accessed  March 2003)

1999 - The National Women's Hockey League becomes official Source: Status of Women Canada.  Adult fact Sheet Women and sports in Canada: an historical overview. (Ottawa, 2002)

1999 - Nancy Greene (1943-   ) Olympic Gold Medalist, two-time Alpine World Ski Cup Champion and six time Canadian Ski Champion is voted as Athlete of the Century by the Canadian Press

1999 - Caroline Brunet (1969-   ) Olympic medalist in sprint kayak is voted by the Canadian Press as winner of the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's Top Overall Athlete of the year

1999- The Canadian Women's Mentor Awards holds its inauguration event in Calgary, Alberta.  It is sponsored by the Globe and Mail newspaper and the YWCA's across Canada Source: The first Canadian Women's mentor Awards held in Calgary (accessed July 2005)

1999 - Jean Paré (1927-   ) published the 50th cookbook: Company's coming: Low - fat Pasta

1999 - Dr Noni MacDonald is the first woman in Canada to be Dean of a Canadian Medical School at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Source: The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts by Valerie Wyatt (Toronto : Kids Can Press, 2001)

1999 - Thanadelthur (Ca 1717), an Aboriginal woman who played a major role in establishing the fur trade in the 18th century Canadian north, is designated an National Historical Person by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board

1999 - The Canada Supreme Court rules unanimously that British Columbia forest firefighter Tawney Mclorin had been discriminated against by a requirement of run 2. k in 11 minutes and ordered her reinstated Source: "Fit to be a firefighter" Vancouver Sun  April 2, 2006 Online accessed June 2013.

1999 - The Historic Sites and Monuments Board erects an historic plaque for National Historic Person, Dr. Jenny Trout (1841-1921), the first woman licensed doctor in Canada, in Kingston, Ontario

1999 - SchoolNet,  originally established in 1993, goes on-line allowing Canadian School children  to connect electronically to the world Source: The Kids Book of Canadian Firsts by Valerie Wyatt (Toronto : Kids Can Press, 2001) pg. 24.

1999 - Men who worked full time in a managerial position in New Brunswick earned $51,726 per year on average, while women earn $29,365 on average Source: Statistics Canada, Income Trends in Canada, 1980-1999

Deaths 1999:
1999 - Died  Mary 'Kawennatakie' Adams (1917-1943) Indigenous basket weaver
1999 - Died Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) psychologist
1999 - Died Evalyn Bowen (1911-1999) stage actor who organized & directed the1rst all Negro drama group in Canada
1999 - Died Brenda Beryl 'Blossom' Caron (1905-1999) still life photographer
1999 - Died Jean Bruce Dawson (1912-1999) nurse by training she became an artist
1999 - Died Antoinette Hope Harris Millholland (1901-1000) Red Cross Volunteer
1999 - Born Lauren Donna 'Becca' Schofield (1999-2018) social activist on social media
1999 - Died Anne Szumigalski (1922-1999) poet a& winner of the Governor General's Award in poetry
1999 - Died Stella W. Tate (1922-1999) 1st Occupational therapist in Canadian Navy
January 1, 1999 - Died Alice Girard (1907-1999)
January 21, 1999 - Died Vera Lyla Helen Ayling (1906-1999) journalist & author
January 23, 1999 - Died Elsie Park Gowan (1905-1999) accomplished playwright
January 26, 1999 - Died Ruby Mercer Por (1906-1999) operas singer, administrator, broadcaster, author, & editor
February 15, 1999 - Died Margaret Isobel Drynan (1945-1999) musician & composer
February 18, 1999 - Died Margaret Isobel Drynan (1915-1999) teacher, composer, organist/choirmaster & writer
February 22, 1999 - Died Ida M. Petterson (1912-1999) 1st women to be a mayor in Saskatchewan
February 25, 1999 - Died Blanche Margaret Meagher (1911-1999) pioneer Canadian diplomat
February 28, 1999 - Died Una Stella Abrahamson (1922-1999) author & domestic historian
March 20, 1999 - Died Eileen Tallman Sufrin (1913-1999) social activist who led Eaton's Employees in an attempt to unionize
March 21, 1999 - Died Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) psychologist
May 4, 1999 - Died May Kearney (1924?-1999) professional figure skater
May 16, 1999 - Died Mary Kustra (1925-1999) played with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
June 10, 1999 - Died Norda Bennett (1923-1999) Jewish woman serving R C A F World War ll
July 29, 1999 - Died Veronica Clark (1912-1999) champion figure skater
August 19, 1999 - Died Kathleen ‘Kay’ Margaret Macpherson (1913-1999) feminist & pacifist
August 21, 1999 - Died Bridget Morin (1923-1999) social worker
August 25, 1999 - Died Hilda Ranscombe (1913-1999) hockey player & member of Canadian Sport Hall of Fame
September 4, 1999 - Died Anna Afanasyevna Bhatjkin (   - 1999) medical doctor, cardiac specialist
September 5, 1999 - Died Gertrude 'Trudi' Le Caine (1911-1999) social activist in Ottawa, Order of Canada
September 10, 1999 - Died Gabrielle Bertrand (1923-1999) Member of the Canadian parliament
September 11, 1999 - Died Marjorie Barmby (1904-1999) social activist in Saskatchewan
September 20, 1999 - Died Elizabeth 'Beth' Margaret Forbes (1917-1999) physician and researcher in radiology
October 4, 1999 - Died Stella W. Tate (1921-1999) 1st Occupational Therapist in the Canadian navy
October 12, 1998 - Died Mary Dyma (1899-1998) social activist & Manitoba Trailblazer
November 14, 1999 - Died Margaret Ruth Pringle Carse (1916-1999) ballet dancer
December 1, 1999 - Died Edith Evelyn Turner (1907-1999) nurse & inventor
December 5, 1999 - Died Isobel Anderson (1910-1999) Deaconess & leader in the United Church of Canada
December 13, 1999 - Died Alice Katrina Loewen Chambers (1937-1999) scientist & community activist for the environment