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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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DATE |
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2016 |
2016 -
Women in the Canadian Armed Forces account for only 15% of the
Canadian Military
2016 -
The Manitoba legislature passes law to give victims of domestic
violence paid and unpaid leave
2016 -
Women in Prince Edward Island finally get access to abortion
services
February 2, 2016 - Melanie Mark
(1976- ) is the 1st Aboriginal woman elected to the Legislature of British Colombia
February 15, 2016 -
The formation of the Preston Rivulettes Women's Hockey Club is named
a National Historic Event. A federal historical marker reflecting
this status is unveiled in Cambridge, Ontario December 22, 2017
April 2016 - Ratma Omidvar (1949-
) is appointed to the Canadian Senate
August 5 - 21, 2016 - The summer Olympic Games were held in
Rio. For Team Canada 16 of the 22 medals won were won in women's
events.
Rosie MacLennan, a trampolinist, becomes the first
Canadian athlete to successfully defent a gold medal at the summer
Olympic Games and the firs Canadian woman to win two gold medals in
an individual even at the Olympic Summer Games
August 19, 2016 - Bardish Chagger (1980-
) is sworn in as Leader of the Government, the 1st woman to
hold this position
October 14, 2016 - Janet Morrison Miller-Murray
(1891-1946) who had applied to be examined for the Barr in 1910
was proclaimed an honourary lawyer by the Newfoundland and Labrador
Law Society
November 2016 -
Ontario is the 1st province to pass the Al Families are Equal Act,
which allows up to four people to be legal parents of a child they
plan, conceive & raise together. The legislation protects the
relationship between the children and all their parents, including
non-biological parents
December 8, 2016 - Viola Desmond
is chosen as the 1st Canadian woman to appear on the face of a
circulating Bank of Canada note. The ban note will be issued in 2018
2016 - Wanda Thomas Elaine Bernard
(1953- ) is
the 1st Black Nova Scotia woman to serve in the Senate of Canada
2016 - Penny Oleksiak (2000- )
wins four Olympic Medals in swimming
is voted by the
Canadian Press as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's
Top Female Athlete of the Year & winner of the Lou Marsh Trophy as
Canada's Top Overall Athlete of the year
Deaths 2016:
2016 -
Died Hazel Elizabeth Caley-Waite-McTavish (????-2016) figure
skater
2016 -
Died Nancy Mackay (1922-2016) medal
winning sprinter in 1948 Olympic Games
January 2, 2016 -
Died Dorothy Dearborn (1927-2016) well known New Brunswick
journalist & author
January 9, 2016 -
Died Margaret Martha Brooks (1915-2016) only nursing sister
to receive Order of the British Empire for heroism during World War
ll
January 16, 2016 - Died
Constance Elizabeth Beresford-Howe
(1922-2016) author of short stories & novels
January 19, 2016 - Died
Felicitas Svejda (1920-2016) geneticist
January 23, 2016 -
Died
Susan Violet Groves (1953-2016) military pharmacist
February 3, 2016 -
Died Mercedes Tharam Richards (1955-2016) astronomer
February 9, 2016 - Died
Elizabeth Joan Smith (1928-2016) Ontario politician & cabinet
minister
February 15, 2016 - Died Constance Glube (1931-2016) 1st woman
appointed to the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
March 12, 2016 - -
Died Hilda Patricia Barry (1921-2016) World War ll decoder
March 24, 2016 -
Died
Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain (1924-2016) 1st woman appointed to the Quebec provincial cabinet
March 27, 2016
- Died Isabel George Auld (1917-2016) acclaimed volunteer
April 14, 2016 - Died Elsie Basque (1916-2016) Indigenous
social activist
April 19, 2016 -
Died Darlene Cherry (1935-2016) civil servant and
businesswoman
April 23, 2016 - Died
Madeleine Louise Helene Sherwood
(1922-2016) 1st woman to direct a short film for the American Film
Institute
April 24, 2016 - Died Christine Lorna Beckett (1926-2016) played
with the All American Girls Baseball League
May 8, 2016 - Died
Geneviève Salbaing (1922-2016) co-founder of Les
Ballets Jazz de Montréal
May 13, 2016 - Died Jackie Shymanski (1965-2016) journalist with
CTV & CNN
June 2, 2016 - Died Kathryn 'Kat' Pennington Teasdale
(1964-2016) champion auto racer
June 11, 2016 - Died
Edith R. Henry (1925-2016) Black nurse
June 16, 2016 - Died
Mildrid Winnifred Munro (1917-2016) businesswoman in Red Deer,
Alberta
July 2, 2016 - Died Simone Eileen Roach (1922-2016) nun &
nursing educator
July 5, 2016 - Died
Penelope 'Penny' LaVaughn-Hodge
(1920-2002) Black activist
July 9, 2016 -
Died Geneviève Castrée-Elverum (1981-2016) cartoonist,
illustrator, & musician
July 13, 2016 - Died Elsie Doreen Wingrove Earle (1923-2016)
played with the All American Girls Baseball League
July 17, 2016 - Died
Joan Mary Harland (1914-2016) architect in interior design
July 18, 2016 - Died Margaret Elizabeth Cooper
(1919-2016) decoder during World War ll
July 29, 2016 - Died
Lucille Dumont (1919-2016) acclaimed French Canadian singer
August 1, 2016
- Died Elaine Ling (1946-2016) photographer
August 29, 2016 - Died
Rose Weingarten-Fogel (1921-2016) Jewish member CWAC in World War ll
August 30, 2016 - Died Elsie Eleanor Wayne
(1932-2016) 1st woman Mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick &
Member of Parliament
September 2, 2016 - Died Margaret 'Marmie'
Perkins Hess (1916-2016) specialist in Inuit art and aboriginal
crafts
September 12, 2016 - Died Ellen Burka (1921-2016) sport coach who is a member
of the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
September 15, 2016 - Died
Thelma Finlayson (1914-2016) professor emeritus in biology at Simon
Fraser University
September 19, 2016 - Died
Annie Pootoogook (1969-2016) award winning Inuit artist
September 22, 2016 - Died Ursula Martius Franklin (1921-2016)
scientist, researcher, & professor
September 23, 2016 - Died Frances Helen Dafoe-Mellik (1929-2016)
champion pairs figure skater.
September 24, 2016 - Died
Raymonde 'Ray' Bowen (1919-2016) social activist for peace and
women's rights
October 1, 2016 - Died Daphne Odjig, (1919-2016) prolific
Aboriginal artist
October 9, 2016 - Died
Susan Aeron-Grey (1972-2016) actor
October 29, 2016 - Died Paule Clouthier-Daveluy (1919-2016)
author of French language books for young readers
October 30, 2016 - Died
Tammy Grimes (1934-2016) actor on stage & in movies
November 14, 2016 - Died
Janet Wright (1945-2016) award winning actor of stage, film, & TV
November 26, 2016 - Died Jean Elinor Stenton Portugal (1921-2016)
journalist & author who chronicled stories of war veterans
November 30, 2016 - Died Kay Sigurjonsson
(1933-2016) feminist & activist for women's rights
December 1, 2016 - Died
Jo-Anna Downey (1967-2016) comedienne
December 2, 2016
- Died Margaret Joan Chalmers (1928-2016) activist for the arts
December 14, 2016 - Died Shirley Theresa Dysart (1928-2014)
1st woman to serve as leader of the opposition in New Brunswick
legislature |
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2017 |
January 2017 -
Friends Natasha Bakht & Lynda Collins
make legal history in Canada as the 1st platonic co-parents named on
a birth certificate. They call each other 'co-mommas' of their child
2017 -
The Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science, and
Technology begins hearings on maternity home system and forced
adoption practices that became even more popular after World War ll in 1945
January 11, 2017 -
New Brunswick leaders for Women for 50% to ensure 50% of
candidates from all parties in New Brunswick 2018 election are women
2017 - Gabrielle Bouchard
is elected President of the Federation des femmes du Québec,
the first trans woman to lead the feminist organization
July 14, 2017 -
The prime Minister announces the appointment of Canadian Astronaut
Julie Payette (1963- ) as the 29th
Governor General of Canada
2017 -
Chatelaine magazine reduces publication frequency from 12
issues to six issues a year citing falling pring advertising revenue
& declining circulation
October 2, 2017 - Canadian astronaut Julie Payette
(1963- ) is installed as the 29th Governor General of
Canada
October 17, 2017 -
Stratford Shakespearian Festival, Stratford, Ontario announces
it will put female actors in traditional male roles for 2018 season
October 23, 2017 -
The founding of the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
in 1897) is recognized an Event of National Historic Significance
October 25, 2017 -
Ontario's safe access to abortion services act allows for safe
access zones to be established around facilities that offer abortion
services as well as the homes and offices of regulated abortion
providers
November 5, 2017 - Valerie Plant
(1974- ) is elected as the 1st woman mayor of the city of
Montreal.November 15, 2017 - Valerie Plant
(1974- ) is sworn in as 1st woman mayor of the City of
Montreal
November 15, 2017 -
The 1st G7 Ministerial meeting on Gender Equality is
held
November 16, 2017 - Halifax Women's History
Society unveiled a bronze monument, a tribute to the women
volunteers during World War ll. It is the 1st monument dedicated to
women in the City of Halifax
2017 - Brooke Henderson
(1997- )
winner of two Ladies Professional Gold Association (LPGA) events
is voted by the
Canadian Press as winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's
Top Female Athlete of the Year
December 22, 2017 -
A federal historical marker reflecting the Formation of the
Preston Rivulettes Women's Hockey Club as a National Historic Event
is unveiled in Cambridge, Ontario
Deaths 2017:
2017 - Died
Rafina 'Rita' Cox (1935-2017) Black nurse
January 8, 2017 - Died
Dorothy Charlotte Johnson (1925-2017)
president of the Women's Institutes & community volunteer
January 18, 2017 - Died
Marjorie Skidmore (1926-2017) home child
January 20, 2017 - Died
Joy Dorothy
Coghill-Thorne (1926-2017) actor & promoter of theatre arts
January 26, 2017 - Died
Barbara Howard (1920-2017) track runner, 1st Black
Canadian to compete internationally
January 27, 2017 -
Died Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017) author
January 27, 2017 - Died Betty Stanhope-Cole (1937-2017)
champion amateur golfer
February 6, 2017 -
Died Norah McClintock (1952-2017) author of young adult
fiction
February 17, 2017 - Died Dorothy Elizabeth 'Dodi' Robb
(1921?-2012) queen of Canadian children's television
February 21, 2017 -
Died Barbara A. Humphreys (1918-2017) architect & historical
conservationist
March 4, 2017 - Died Bonita 'Bonnie' Amelia Burnard (1945-2017)
award winning author
March 4, 2017 - Died
Edna Rose Ritchings (1925-2017) Sweet Angel, Mother Devine of the
International Peace Mission movement
March 8, 2017 -
Died
Daphne Rose Hockings (1928-2017) Royal Canadian Navy Nurse
March 8, 2017 -
Died Margaret Mitchell (1925-2017) Member of the Canadian
parliament
March 14, 2017 - Died Arleene 'Johnnie' Johnson (1924-2017
played with the All American Girls Baseball League
March 20, 2017 - Died
Betty Kennedy
(1926-2017) well known radio & television personality, appointed to
the senate in 2000
March 21, 2017 -
Died Astrid Gertrude 'Trudy' Vik (1934-2012) Nurse in the
Royal Canadian Navy
March 24, 2017 -
Died
Daphne Lennox Grafton (1919-2017) architect
March 28, 2017 - Died Janine Sutto (1921-2017) award winning
Quebec actor
April 24, 2017 - Died
Anne Marguerite Squire (1920-2017) Moderator of the United Church of
Can
April 30, 2017 - Died
Flora Minnie Leone Bagnall (1923-2017) award winning teacher & provincial politician
May 1, 2017 - Died Madeleine
Morgan (1930-2017) social activist & nurse
May 7, 2017 - Died Faye Burnham Eccleston
(1920-2017) champion basketball player
June 5, 2017 -
Died Marilyn Hall (1927-2017) producer of TV & film,
author, & philanthropist
June 12, 2017 - Died
Mary Dohey (1933-2017)
stewardess & heroine saving lives of passenger & crew from a
hijacker in 1971
June 21, 2017 - Died Born
Patricia Gwen Barlee (1963-2017) British Columbia environmentalist
June 26, 2017 -
Died Janet Lunn (1928-2017) author
July 7, 2017 -
Died Pam McConnell (1946-2017) Toronto politician
July 11, 1917 -
Died Diane Brushette (1942-2017) member of the Canadian parliament
August 8, 2017 - Died Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923-2017)
award winning mathematician
August 11, 2017 - Died
Daisy Elitha Peterson Sweeney (1920-2017) piano teacher
September 3, 2017 - Died
Shirley Alice Gib (1924-2017) first Canadian woman bank manager
September 4, 2017 - Died
Beatrice 'Bea' Caroline Rowly (1917-2017) R. H. Grenville, poet
September 7, 2017 - Died Adele Wilson ( -2017) local
singer and TV personality in Kirkland Lake, Ontario.
September 9, 2017 - Died
Gretta Chambers (1927-2017) university leader, columnist,
broadcaster, & 1st woman chancellor of McGill University
September 22, 2017 - Died
Thelma Chalifoux (1929-2017) Aboriginal member of Canadian
Senate appointed 1997
October 2, 1917 - Died Vicki Bisaro (1917-2017) community
volunteer
October 15, 2017 -
Died Cathy Elliott (1957-2017) Mi'kmaq activist, artist, playwright,
& actor
October 17, 2018 -
Died Margaret Becklake (1922-2018) academic & epidemiologist
October 26, 2017 - Died
Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi (1926 -2107) singer & CBC TV
personality
November 26, 2017 - Died
Francess Marie Gage (1924-2017) acclaimed sculptor
November 30, 2017
- Died Unity Langford Bainbridge Brewster (1916-2017) portrait &
landscape painter & poet
December 21, 2017 - Died June Rowlands (1925-2017) 1st
woman to be mayor of Toronto
December 25, 2017 - Died Francess Georgina Halpenny (1919-2017)
editor & educator
December 26, 2017 -
Died Judie Barbara Alimonti (1960-2017) scientist who
developed Ebola vaccine
December 29, 2017 -
Died Esther Mendelshon-Magee (1917-2017) Jewish Member RCAF
in World War ll |
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2018 |
January 31, 2018 - The Canadian
Senate passed a bill to make the national anthem 'O Canada' gender
neutral. The words ' In all our sons command' became ' In all of us
command'
April 1, 2018 -
New Brunswick modernizes its records policy allowing adult
adoptees to access names of birth parents
April 14, 2018 - Elizabeth Bruyère
(1818-1876) is declared Venerable by Pope Francis, a major
step to sainthood
June 7, 2018 -
49 out of 124 ridings in Ontario elect women candidates to sit
in the provincial legislature. This is 39.5% the highest of any
provincial legislature in Canada & the hightest in Ontario's history
July 19,
2018 -
The Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science, and
Technology
releases its report; The Shame is Ours; Forced Adoptions of the
Babies of Unmarried Women in Post-War Canada, outlining reparations
for survivors of Canada's maternity homes. The government takes no
action on the recommendations.
From the 1940's though to 1970 it is estimated that 300,000 mothers were systematically
separated from their children though coercion, threat, or force
August 24, 2018 - Hailey
Wickenheiser (1978- ) is hired as a coach by
the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey team
December 12, 2018 - Pat Duncan (1960- )
former Premier of the Yukon Territory, is appointed to the Senate of
Canada
Deaths 2018:
2018 - Died
Mary Andrews (1916-2018) textile artist
January 23, 2018 - Died Rosaleen Diana
Dickson (1921-2018) journalist & playwright
January 27, 2018 - Died Mary
Patricia Weaver (1927-2018) 1st woman lawyer to be a partner in a
law firm in Northern Ontario
February 2018 - Died
Jacqueline Park (1925-2018) author
February 13, 2018 -
Died Ester Bubis-Thorley (????-2018) C W A C World War ll
February 17, 2018 - Died Lauren Donna 'Becca' Schofield
(1909-2018) social activist on social media
February 17, 2018 - Died Dorothy Wetherald Rungeling
(1911-2018) pilot & author
February 20, 2018 - Died
Irene Marie Strong-Watler (1929-2018) record setting Canadian
swimmer
February 24, 2018 - Died
Betty Peterson (1917-2018) pacifist &
social activist
February 27, 2018 - Died Violet Alice Lovelace
(1936-2018) archer & archery businesswoman
March 2, 2018 - Died
Jessie 'Jess' Hermione Lang (1916-2018) social activist
March 7, 2018 - Died
Marjorie Jane Hodgson (1932-2018) artist
March 10, 2018 -
Died Renete Wera Pratt (1929-2018) activist for peace
March 15, 2018 -
Died Beverly 'Bev' Faye Desjardins (1955-2018) member of the
Canadian Parliament
March 20, 2018 - Died Ina Ethel Cummings (1939-2018)
pioneer doctor in palliative care
March 20, 2018 - Died
Vera M. Good (1915-2018) executive producer of TVOntario, Polka
Dot Door.
March 28, 2018
- Died Joan Grant Dillon (1934-2018) social activist
April 2018 - Died Geralyn Wraith (1955?-2018) makeup artist
April 5, 2018 -
Died Cynthia Chalk (1913-2018) nature photographer
April 12, 2018 -
Died Margaret McGee (1930-2018) social activist
April 21, 2018 -
Died Hugette Tourangeau (1938-2018) acclaimed international
opera singer
April 24, 2018 - Died
Christine Lorna Beckett (1926 -2018) member of the All American
Girls Professional Baseball League
May 13, 2018 - Died
Margaret 'Margot' Ruth Kidder (1948-2018) actor in film & TV
May 18, 2018 - Died
Rolande Allard-Lacerte (1929-2018) journalist & author
May 21, 2018 -
Died Allyn Ann McLerie (1926-2018) actor
June 14, 2018 -
Died Sonia Scurfield (1928-2018) owner Calgary Flames hockey
team
June 20, 2018 -
Died Irene Chabot (1930-2018) defender of Saskatchewan
Francophonie
June 23, 2018
- Died Gisele Lamoureux (1942-2018) photographer, botanist, &
ecologist
July 4, 2018 - Died Carmen Champagne (1959-2018) singer of
songs for children
July 11, 2018
- Died Miriam Frances Rossi (1937-2018) acclaimed Black
pediatrics doctor
July 14, 2018 - Died Lyn Cook (1918-2018) pioneer author of
books for youth
July 22, 2018 - Died
Kathleen 'Kay' Jean MacRitchie-MacBeth
(1922-2018) played basketball with the Edmonton Grads
July 24, 2018 - Died Corinne
Gallant (1922-2018) university professor & devout feminist
August 12, 2018 - Died
Ola Shanks Black (1926-2018) contemporary dancer
August 13, 2018 -
Died Ola Marie Skanks (1926-2018) choreographer
August 14, 2018 - Died
Mary Frances Pratt
(1935-2018) her paintings
look so real you think they are photographs!
August 28, 2018 -
Died Phyllis Platnick (1932-2018) archivist & librarian
September 5, 2018 - Died
Lise Payette (1931-2018) journalist, social activist
October 12, 2018 - Died
Linda Kay (1951-2018) Pulitzer Prize
winning journalist & author
October 17, 2018 - Died Margaret Rigsby Becklake (1922-2018)
academic & epidemiologist
November 17, 2018 - Died Margaret Isobel McBurney (1931-2018)
social activist & author
December 9, 2018 - Died
Elisapee Ishulutag (1925-2018) Inuit artist |
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2019 |
March 2019 - The Smithsonian National Museum of the
American Indian, Washington D C, U.S.A. displays 35 red dresses
outside of its building. The Red Dress campaign is a North American
campaign which started in Canada in 2010 to raise Awareness for
Missing and Murdered women, girls, and two spirited people. Red is
traditional thought to be the only colour spirits can see thus a red
dress is a way of calling the spirits of Missing and Murdered
Indigenous women, girls, and two spirited back to their loved ones.
March 7, 2019 - Canada Post issues a series of commemorative
stamps, Canadian in Flight, that includes Elizabeth Muriel 'Elsie'
Gregory McGill (1905-1980)
May 30, 2019 - The Canadian Coast
Guard introduces its new vessel, icebreaker Captain Molly Kool.
In 1939 Molly became the first woman in North America registered as
a sea captain
2019 - Kylie Masse is the first Canadian swimmer to win back
-to-back world titles in the same event (100 m backstroke) with wins in 2017 and 2019
September 7, 2019 - 19 year old Bianca Andreescu
becomes Canada's first ever tennis Grand Slam Champion in the
singles event
2019 - The GIST,
a 4 X weekly sports newsletter, is launched as a fan first
sports media brand that wants to shake up the male-dominated sports
industry.
November 2019 -
Women in Mining organization is founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
as a not for profit to advance the interests of women in minerals
exploration & mining sector
December 2019 - Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless
become the first woman to compete in a World Cup double luge
race. Previously, doubles was an open gender event but only men had
ever competed
Deaths 2019:
January 4, 2019 -
Died
Doris Veillette-Hamel (1935-2019) Quebec Journalist & feminist
January 11, 2019 -
Died Margaret ‘Marge’ Callaghan-Maxwell (1921-2019) All
American Girls Baseball League & member of the Canadian Baseball
Hall of Fame
January 25, 2019 -
Died Elizabeth Selena James (1922-2019) opera singer,
teacher, & coach
January 26, 2019 - Died
Jane Millgate (1937-2019) author &
academic
February 2019 - Died
Jackie Shane (1940-2019) soul singer who filled nightclubs in Toronto
in 1960's.
February 4, 2019 -
Died Lucia Tweedie Kowaluk (1934-2019) social activist in
Montreal
February 13, 2019 -
Died Edith Iglauer Hamburger Daly (1917-2019) author
February 15, 2019 - Died
Erminie Cohen
(1926-2019) social activist & Senator from New Brunswick
February 17, 2019 -
Died Marie Aiken-Barnes (1926-2019) tapestry artist
February 19, 2019 -
Died Janet Lang Boland
(1923-2019) second woman to become a judge in 1972 in County Court
February 22, 2019 -
Died Chantal duPont (1942-2019) photographer, Painter, sculptor &
graphic artist
March 14, 2019 -
Died
Theresa 'Terry' Paz Donahue (1925-2019) played
with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League
April
5, 2019 -
Died
Daphne Veronica Clarke (1933?-2019) social activist
April 13, 2019 -
Died Marsha Hanen (1936-2019) academic
May 2019 - Died
Catherine Norah McCarthy-Kirby (1923-2019) champion figure skater
May 13, 2019 - Died Velma Demerson (1920-2019) activist for
minority rights
May 22, 2019 - Died
Jessie Annie Middleton
(1912-2019) World War ll Nursing Sister
May 24, 2019
- Died Mary Emilie Thone - White (1922-2019) Champion figure skater
May 25, 2019 - Died Margaret-Ann Armour (1930-2019) science
educator
June 2019 - Died Beryl Elizabeth March (1920-2019)
agricultural professor
June 7, 2019 -
Died Eva Côté (1934-2019) Member of the Canadian parliament
June 7, 2019 -
Died Lorna 'Nonnie' Margaret Jean Griffin (1933-2019) stage,
TV, & movie actor
June 15, 2019 - Died
Joan Weir (1928-2019)
author of novels for youth
June 27, 2019 -
Died Diane Foster (1928-2019) accomplished television actor
June 30, 2019
- Died Isabelle M. Butters (1929-2019) Mayor of Weyburn Saskatchewan
July 15, 2019 - Died Margaret Agnes Todd (1918-2019) champion
golfer
July 17, 2019 -
Died Edna Viola Anderson (1922-2019) politician, member of
Canadian parliament
July 23, 2019 - Died
Rella Braithwaite (1923-2019) Black historian
August 19, 2019
- Died Bette Stephenson (1924-2019) 1st woman president Canadian
Medical Association
September 2019 - Died
Freida Parker Steele (1929-2019) early Black Canadian nurse
September 13, 2019
- Died Constance A. Timberlake (1930-2019) American Civil Rights
leader
September 28, 2019 - Died
Evelyn Robson Strahlendorf
(1931-2019) Canadian doll collector & researcher
October 4, 2019 -
Died
Keiko Margaret Lyons
(1923-2019) businesswoman with the C B C
October 4, 2019 -
Died Shelley Harding Smith (1955-2019) electrician & advocate
for women in skilled trades
October 10, 2019 -
Died Patricia Lawson (1929-2019) basketball hall of fame
October 15, 2019 - Died
Bonnie Catherine Korzeniowski (1941-2019) activist and provincial
politician
October 27, 2019 - Died
Diane Foster, (1928-2019)
accomplished television actor
November 11, 2019 -
Died Christine 'Chris' Mary Burrows (1940-2019) community activist
December 11, 2019 - Died Fernande Saint-Martin (1927-2019)
journalist, art critic, & author
December 15, 2019
- Died Monique Leyrac (1928-2019)1st great international star from
French Canada
December 17, 2019 -
Died Dorothy Marshall (1934-2019) nurse & nursing teacher
December 29, 2019 - Died
Florence Lavina Smith-Bauld (1927?-2019) respected Black teacher of
Nova Scotia
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2020 |
Winter 2020 - Corona virus / Covid 19 pandemic rears
its ugly head with millions of deaths. While the virus does not
differentiate race nor age deaths seem highest among seniors
April 29, 2020 - Canada Post issues a commemorative
postage stamp for the 75th anniversary of V E Day May 8 featuring
Veronica Foster (1922-2000)
2020 - The summer Olympic Games scheduled to be held
in Tokyo, Japan were postponed for a year with the world consumed
with the Covid 19 pandemic
July 2020 - The Generation Equality Form is
established to mark Being +25, and Canada, along with The
Netherlands, are named co-leads on the Feminist Movement and
Leadership Coalition. The goal is to press for action on issues
where progress still needs to be made, to honour those who have
paved the way, and celebrate those who are working to advance gender
equity in their communities.
September 10, 2020 - Canada Post issues a
commemorative postage stamp
celebrating the life and work of oncologist
Dr. Vera Peters (1911-1993)
2020 - There are 265,000 nurses in Canada.
Source: Canadian Museum of History
Deaths 2020:
2020 - Died
Reva Gerstein (1917-2020) academic
January 6, 2020 -
Died Rose Blanche Fleury (1927-2020) Indigenous genealogist
January 15, 2020 -
Died Edna Lenora Perry (1923-2020) Anglican Priest
January 26, 2020 - Died
Loa Henry (1938-2020) social activist,
teacher, theatre director, & choir director
January 29, 2020 - Died Pearl
Keenan (1920-2020) preserved and taught of Tlingit language
February 9, 2020 -
Died Lois Daley Laycock (1924-2020) poet
February 12, 2020 - Died
Christie Marie Blatchford (1951-2020) award winning journalist,
first woman sports columnist
February 21, 2020 -
Died Lois Etherington Betteridge (1928-2020) acclaimed sculptor
March 5, 2020 - Died
Edith Hayman (1932-2020)
acclaimed badminton coach
March 7, 2020 - Died Marjory 'Marj' McGillivray Gilles
(1923-2020) journalist
March 12, 2020
- Died Dorothy Maclean (1920-2020) author of spiritual works
March 21, 2020 - Died
Joyce Lola Milgaard (1930-2020)
determined mother for wrongfully incarcerated
April 5, 2020 - Died Shirley Douglas (1934-2020) actor on stage
& movies
April 6, 2020 - Died
Patricia 'Pat' Capponi (1949-2020)
activist on behalf of mental illness & author
April 6, 2020 -
Died Jean Little (1932-2020) blind award winning children's
author
April 15, 2020 - Died Margaret
'Peggy' Letty Gillard Colonello (1922-2020) acclaimed golfer
April 17, 2020 -
Died
Shirlee Anne Smith (1926-2020) Hudson Bay Company archivist
April 17, 2020 - Died Irene Winogron ( -2020)
war survivor & single mom
April 19, 2020 - Died Margaret Aileen Carroll (1944-2020) Member
of the Canadian Parliament & the Ontario legislature
April 23, 2020 -
Died Wilma Leone Morrison (1929-2020) local Black historian,
Niagara area, ON
April 27, 2020 -
Died Beverly Elaine Pearson-Murphy (1929-2020) Black
endocrinologist
ay 7, 2020 -
Died
Sylvia Ostry (1927-2020) economist
May 16, 2020
- Died Monique Mecure (1930-2020) award winning French Canadian
actor
May 24, 2020 - Died
Megan Witfield (1968-2020) Black unionist
May 25, 2020
- Died
Charlotte Beatrice Louise Feltman (1935-2020) first woman reeve in
Alberta a& Member of Canadian parliament
May 30, 2020 - Died Dolores Wawia (Muk Ke
Queh) (1944-2020) Indigenous educator & social activist
June 1, 1920 -
Died Jessie McEwen (1845-1920) social activist
June 6, 2020 - Died
Andrée Chapman (1939-2020) politician & actor
June 5, 2020 -
Died Janis Elaine Lockwood (1954-2020) social activist
June 16, 2020 -
Died
Helen Dalziel Saravanamutto (1935-2020) social activist
July 1, 2020 -
Died Ida Haendel (1924-2020) musician
July 12, 2020 -
Died Karen Murawsky (1943-2020) social activist
July 15, 2020 -
Died
Margaret Harris (1931-2020) Aboriginal activist
July 15, 2020
- Died Bernice Redmond (1938-2020) first Black women to work as a
nurse in Canada
July 22, 2020
– Died Marguerite Helen 'Margo' Fournier (1919-2020) choirmaster &
director
July 30, 2020 - Died
Irma Ellen Wansbrough-Kalela (1930-2020)
August 1, 2016 -
Died
Elaine Ling (1946-2016) photographer
August 8, 2020 -
Died Salome Bey (1933-2020) Lady of the Blues
August 24, 2020 -
Died Nancy Guptill (1941-2020) politician in P E I
September 4, 2020 -
Died Lucille Marie Raymonde Savoie Starr (1938-2020) 1st
Canadian women to sell 0ne million copies of a country hit song
September 6, 2020 - Died Suzanne Tremblay (1937-2020)
politician, Member of the Canadian Parliament
September 9, 2020 - Died Nancy Jane Drake (1943-2020) stage
actor, director, & teacher
September 12, 2020 -
Died May 14, 1936
Aline Chrètien (1936-2020) academic administrator & wife of Prime
Minister Jean Chrètien (1934- )
September 23, 2020 -
Died
Brenda Mary Robertson (1929-2020) first woman elected to the
legislature of New Brunswick
September 24, 2020 -
Died Doreen "Betty" Allen Mullins (1930-2020) played with All
American Girls Professional Baseball League
October 8, 2020 - Died Sylvie Belanger (1951-2020)
multidiscipline artist
October 18, 2020
- Died Naomi Ruth Binder-Wall (1939-2020) activist supreme
October 20, 2022 -
Died Blanche Lemco van Gingle. (1923-2022) architect
October 29, 2020 -
Died Roslyn 'Lyn' Marcies-Greg (1925-2020) World War ll RCAF
October 31, 2020 - Died Sigrid Dahle-Kusch (1955?-2020) visual
art curator
November 5, 2020 - Died Christine Elizabeth Byquist
(1922?-2020) public health nurse
November 6, 2020 -
Died Helen Margaret Calverly (1942-2020) pediatric nurse
November 7, 2020 - Died
Mariette Orlov (1932-2020)
acclaimed pianist & master class teacher & mentor
November 18, 2020
- Died Patsy Rodgers-Henderson (1925-2020) first Queen of the
Calgary Stampede
November 20, 2020 -
Died Patricia Beatty (1936-2020) dancer & founder of the New
Dance Group of Canada
December 1, 2020 - Died
Thelma Vivian Pepper (1920-2020)
portrait photographer
December 3, 2020 - Died
Janice Acoose (1954-2020)
journalist, author, filmmaker & professor
December 8, 2020
- Died Mary Martha Cecilia McCarthy (1932-2020) historian
December 17, 2020 - Died Lorraine Althea Constance Monk
(1922-2020) National Film Board of Canada
December 29, 2020 -
Died Elaine Jean McCoy (1946-2020) MLA in Alberta and member
of Canadian Senate |
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2021 |
2021 - Covid -19 continues to decimate
the country but there is light at the end of the tunnel as people
become vaccinated against the virus
January 21, 2021 - Governor General Julie Payette
(1963- ) announces her resignation after the
the completion of an independent workplace review of several claims
of workplace harassment
March 11, 2021 - To help prevent the
Covid-19 pandemic from rolling back progress on gender equity,
Minister Monsef announced over $250K for the Woman Abuse Council of
Toronto (WomanACT) and over $250K for the North York Women's Centre
(N Y W C). These organizations are part of more than 250 women's and
Indigenous organizations which receive funding under Women and
Gender Equity Canada Capacity-building Fund so they can continue to
provide vital programming and supports for women and girls across
Canada
July 1, 2021 - the Canadian Museum of Women's History was
incorporated under the Canada Not-for-propit Corporations act
(Corporation Number 1311603-4)
July 6, 2021 - Mary Simon (1974- ) is
appointed 30th Governor General of Canada. She is the first
Indigenous to be appointed to this position
July 9, 2021 - RoseAnne Archibald of Taka Tagamou Nation
near Cochrane, Ontario, is elected as the first woman to be National
Chief of the Assembly of First Nations
July 21 - August 8, 2021 -
The 2020 summer Olympic Games , which were postponed a year due to
the pandemic, were held without spectators in Tokyo, Japan. 75% of
Team Canada's Medals (18 out of 24) were won in Women's Events.
Penny Oleksiak wins three medals in swimming . Combined
with her four medals won at Rio in 2016 (the most ever by a Canadian
athlete at one Olympic Summer Games), she becomes Canada's all-time
most decorated Olympian
July 26, 2021
-
Mary Jeannie Mary Simon
(1947- )
becomes the 30th Governor General of Canada, the first Indigenous
person to hold the position
September 2021 - The University of Saskatchewan
launches a new app, website to broadcast full season of women's
hockey for the first time in Canada
December 29, 2021 - Judy Cameron (1954-
) a pioneer woman commercial pilot is named as a Member of
the Order of Canada
Deaths 2021:
January 4, 2021 -
Died Anne Pennington Mayer (1936-2021) businesswoman
January 9, 2021 - Died Kathy Shaidle (1964-2021) journalist &
blogger
January 11, 2021 -
Died Kathleen Heddle (1965 -2021) gold medal Olympic rower
February 10, 2021 - Died Jean Hamilton Kennedy Campbell
(1930-2021) nurse & educator
March 10, 2021 - Died Joan
Bart (1930-2021) first woman to graduated U of T architecture
March 19, 2021 - Died Budge Marjorie MacGregor Wilson
(1927-2021) award winning author
March 26, 2021 -
Died Carole Lavallée (1954-2021) member of the Canadian
parliament
April 2, 2021 - Died JoAnn Lee MacMorran
(1934-2021) nurse
April 7, 2021 -
Died Jeanne Maranda (1926-2021) feminist & nurse
April 15, 2021 - Died Clotilda Addessa Coward
Douglas-Yakimchuk (1932-2021) 1st African Canadian nurse
to graduate from the Nova Scotia School of Nursing
April 20, 2021 - Died Fajel 'Faye' Lazebnik
Schulman (1918-2021) member of Polish resistance, photographer during World War ll
April 24, 2021 - Died
Faigel 'Faye' Lazebnik Schulman (1919-2021) World War ll
photographer
April 27, 2021 - Died Minou Petrowski (1931-2021) broadcaster
& actor
April 24, 2021 -
Died Katherine Patricia Mary Barber (1959-2021) lexicographer,
‘Canada’s Word Lady’
May 1, 2021 - Died
Nancy McCredie (1945-2021) track & field star
May 22, 2021 - Died
Corneila Hahn Oberlander (1921-2021) award winning landscape architect
June 2, 2021 -
Died
Kathryn 'Kat' Pennington Teasdale (1964-2016) champion auto racer
June 3, 2021 - Died
Catherine 'Kay' Isobel Hawkins (1926-2021) Justice of the Peace
June 11, 2021 -
Died
Katherine 'Kate' Mary Craven Clark (1926-2021) actor on TV & movies
June 20, 2021 - Died Jeanne Lamon (1949-2021) violinist &
award winning Director of Tafelmusik
July 4, 2021 -
Died Françoise Landry (1928-2021) volunteer and environmentalist
July 17, 2021 -
Died Delores Clayman (1927-2021) composer of 'Hockey Night in
Canada'
July 24, 2021 -
Died Pitalose Saila (1942-2021) Inuit artist
July 25, 2021
- Helen Nicol Fox (1920-2021) played with the All American Girls
Professional Baseball League
July 31, 2021 - Died
Angela Bailey (1982-2021) track & field sprinter
August 3, 2021 -
Died Jocelyn Bourassa (1947-2021) golfer
September 13, 2021 - Died Estelle
Lacoursiere (1935-2001) Sister Vert, environmentalist & social
activist
September 16, 2021 -
Died
Shirley Martin (1932-2019) Member of Canadian parliament & cabinet
minister
September 27, 2021 - Died Fernande Chiocchio (1929-2021)
mezzo-soprano
October 11, 2021 - Died
Joan Mildred Powers - Rickerd (1933?-2021) public relations officer
October 21, 2021 - Died Martha Henry (1938-2021) leading
stage & film actor
October 23, 2021 - Died Wendy Lynn Mitchinson (1947-2021)
historian
November 20, 2021 -
Died Rita Letendre (1928-2021) artist
November 21, 2021-
Died
Lilly Ann Koltun (1941-2021)
archivist, photographer & historian
November 30, 2021
- Died Marie-Claire Blais (1939-2021) one of Quebec's finest
contemporary authors
December 5, 2021 - Died
Marie Rose Yvette Thuot (1918-2021) Quebec actor of stage, TV, &
film
December 9, 2021 -
Died
Alice Pamela McGuire (1935-2021) first First Nations woman elected
to Yukon legislature
December 14, 2021 -
Died Annie Janzen (1930-2021) author
December 18, 2021 - Died Renee Martel (1947-2021) Queen of
Quebec country music
December 22, 2021 - Died
Joan Frances Mcdonald (1943-2021) acclaimed archery coach
December 25, 2021 -
Died Candy Palmater (1968-2021) actor, comedian, & broadcaster
December 29, 2021 -
Died Judith Anne LaRocque (1956-1921) public servant & diplomat |
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2022 |
January 2022 - Tim Horton's Donuts sells trading cards
for Team Canada Hockey members including members of Team Canada
women's team
February 4 - 20, 2022 - The winter Olympic Games were
held in Beijing, China. 106 out of 215 Team Canada members made up
the largest ever women's team
2022 - Ellie Black, Laurie Denommée, Denelle Pedrick,
Emma Spence, and Sydney Turner win the bronze medal in the
women's team event at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World
Championships. It is the first time Canada has ever won a team
medal at the artistic gymnasices worlkds and it qualifies a full
Canadian women's team for the Olympic Summer Games in 2024, Paris,
France
July 15, 2022 - Camryn Rogers wins a silver
medal in women's hammer throw at the world Athletics Championships.
She is the first Canadian woman to win a world medal in a field
event
July 2022 - Sarah Mitton, the first Canadian woman to
surpass the 20-m mark in shot put (20.23) at the World
Athletics Championships. She was pushed off the podium by a
tiebreaker and was Canada's best ever result in women's shot put at
the worlds
December 2022 - Caitlin Nash and Natalie Corless win a
bronze medal at World Cup Luge, Park City, Utah, U.S.A. This is
Canada's first ever world Cup medal in a women's double luge event
2022 - Women make up 15% of the
Canadian military, with over 7,900 female personnel serving in the
regular force and more than 4,800 women serving in the primary
reserve. Out of that number, 225 women are part of the regular
combat force and 925 are enlisted in the primary reserve combat
force
Deaths 2022;
January 6, 2022 - Died Miriam 'Mern' Coveny
(1955-2022) first Captain of Women's National Hockey team
January 6, 2022 -
Died Maxine McVey (1947-2022) Minister in the United Church
of Canada
January 9, 2022 - Died
Sonya Biddle (1957-2022) Montreal politician & actor
January 11, 2022 - Died
Maria Daria Haust (1921-2022) pioneer of Paediatric Pathology
January 15, 2022 -
Died Alexa McDonough (1944-2022) first woman to lead a
Canadian political party
January 29, 2022 - Died
Anne 'Anna' Lowenthal (1918-2022) artist
February 3, 2022 - Died
Erna Paris (1938-2022) journalist,
broadcaster, & novelist
March 22, 2022 - Died
Rayleen V. De Luca (1942-2022) psychologist with international
acclaim in sex abuse of children
March 30, 2022 - Died Patricia 'Pat' Ukrainetz
(1931-2022) archery organizer & national judge
March 26, 2022 - Died Claudette Bradshaw (1949-2022) Member
of Parliament from Moncton & activist
April 20, 2022 - Died
Marie Elizabeth DeYoung (1952-2022) librarian
April 23, 2022 - Died
Sheila Isabelle Brown
(1935-2022) Canadian champion in archery
April 25, 2022 - Died Susan Jacks (1948-2022) member of the
musical duo "The Poppy Family" & telecommunications executive
May 23, 1922 -
Died Audrey Loretta Downie - Williams (1932-2022) champion
skater & renowned judge for skating
July 4, 2022 - Died
Lucinda Turner (1952-2022) carver &
social activist
July 21, 2022 -
Died Janice Elizabeth Bick (1946-2022) author & librarian
August 17, 2022 - Died
Mabel M. DeWare (1926-2022) appointed to the Canadian
Senate 1990.
October 11, 2022 -
Died Phyllis Marion Boyd (1946-2022) 1st woman and 1st non
lawyer Attorney-General in Ontario
October 16, 1922 -
Died Isabelle Jean Thomson Kemp-Todd (1928-2022) R C A F para-rescue
nurse
October 22, 2022 -
Died Cynthia Lai (1954-2022) Asian Canadian municipal councillor
October 28, 2022 - Died
Marguerite 'Grete' Hale
(1929-2022) businesswoman and philanthropist
November 6, 2022 -
Died Marketa Gotz-Stankiewicz (1927-2022) award winning educator
November 20, 2022 -
Died Flora Sikotan Zaharia (1927-2022) Indigenous academic &
storyteller of her people
December 8, 2022 - Died
Sylvia Cruess (1930?-2022)
physician with Order of Canada
December 14, 2022 - Died
Liana Van der Bellen
(1925-2022) rare books librarian
December
15, 2022
- Died Shirley Rose Elkhard (1955-2022) musician and songwriter
December 24, 2022 -
Died Jean Pare (1927-2022) author of Company's Coming
Cookbooks
December 31, 2022 - Died
Glenda Simms (1940-2022) Black feminist & activist
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2023 |
January 2023 - Brooke Henderson wins the
season-opening Ladies Professional Gold Association Tournament of
Champions putting her achievements over any Canadian man in
professional golf.
January 2023 - Alexandria Loutitt becomes the first
Canadian woman to win a World Cup ski jumping event at the normal
hill competition in Zao, Japan
January 2023 - Megan Oldham becomes the first skier or
snowboarder to ever land a triple cork (three flips and four
rotations of axis) in competition as she won ski big air gold medal.
The historic trick earned her the first ever perfect score of 50 in
women's big air at the X Games
January 2023 - Laurie Blouin lands the first cab triple
underflip 1260 in women's snowboarding winning a bronze medal
in big air
January 14, 2023 - Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Mazime
Deschamps win top place Canadian senior pairs championship
February 2023 - Alexandria Loutitt becomes the first
Canadian Woman to win a world junior title in ski jumping
March 3, 2023 - Alexandria Loutitt wins Canada's first
women's large hill ski jumping event at the Nordic World
Championships, Planica, Slovenia
Deaths 2023:
January 16, 2023 -
Died
Ann Thomas Callahan (1935-2023) nurse
January 29, 2023 -
Died Hazel McCallion (1921-1923) first woman Mayor of Mississauga,
Ontario. She holds office for 12 consecutive terms
March 16, 2023 - Died
Sharon Acker (1935-2023) actor
April 27, 2023 - Died Tina VanNorman (????-2023) Personal
Support Worker
June 22, 2023 - Died Marion Loretta Reid (1929-2023)
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island
June 28, 2023 - Died
Susan 'Sue' Johanson (1930 -2023) nurse & sex- educator
July 5, 2023 -
Died Nadia Kazymyra-Dzioba (1951-2023) archivist
July 9, 2023 -
Died Margaret Cockshutt (1927-2023) librarian & administrator
July 24, 2023 - Died
Elizabeth Rose Murray (1941?-2023) cook book author
September 8, 2023 - Died
Monique Bégin (1936-2023) cabinet minister responsible for old age
security increases and the child tax credit
September 29, 2023 - Died Anne Kahane - Langstadt (1926-2023)
sculptor
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