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Events
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to give the timeline perspective.
This timeline is not all inclusive.
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January 1940 - The 1st
marriage between a British woman and a Canadian serviceman was
celebrated at Farnborough Church in the Aldershot area of England.
Some 48,000 such marriages followed over the next 6 years.
These marriages formed part of a most unique immigration
movement in Canada. This generation of women, many with infants,
mostly British, these war brides are an important part of
Canadian history that has gone relatively unnoticed by historians
and journalists. As the women approach their senior years, they are
just beginning to tell their stories Source :
Canadian War Brides online (accessed May 20, 2005)
April 25, 1940 -
The Quebec government passes a law allowing women of the province
the right to vote in provincial elections and the right to run for
election in the provincial legislature
(Statutes of Quebec 1940 c.7)
Winter 1940-
the Preston Rivulettes and the Winnipeg Olympics
both default in attending the Dominion Women's Hockey Championships.
Neither team could raise the fund to attend the championships. The
great depression and the effort for World War ll had taken the wind
out of the sails of women's hockey. There would not be another
national event in women's hockey until 1967
Source "Queens of the Ice Lanes: the
Preston Rivulettes and women's hockey in Canada 1931-1940 " by Carly
Adams in Sport History Review 2008 Vol. 39 pages 1-29.
1940 - The Canadian Press votes Dorothy Walton
(1909-1981), who won the Toronto, Ontario &
Canadian Badminton Championships, winner of the Bobbie
Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year
June 5, 1940 - The famous winning
Edmonton Grads women's basketball team played its last regular game
in Edmonton, Alberta
1940 -
Edra Ferguson (1907-2011) is the 1st woman
judge to be named to the small Claims Court of Ontario when it is
established
1940 - Canadian General Electric's
Fred Moffatt invents the electric kettle
Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002.
pg 17.
1940 - The 1st female clerk is
appointed to work for the Toronto Police Force
Source: Herstory: Milestones
in the History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online
Accessed June 2011.
1940 - Ethel Stark (1916?-
) founds the Montreal Women's Symphony.
Although denied even the most basic financial assistance, the
Montreal Women's Symphony continued to perform until the late 1960s
1940 - Tillie Hosken of Toronto is the 1st woman to bowl
a score of 450 in 5-pin bowling
Source: 5-pin Bowling History online (accessed May4, 2005)
1940 - Artist Emily Carr
(1871-1945)
publishes Klee Wyck which wins the Governor's General Award in
literature
Births 1940:
1940 - Born Ann Conner Brimer (1940-1988) educator & promoter of
books for children
1940 - Born Elizabeth Magdalena 'Lena' Pederson (1940-
)
1st woman and the 1st Inuit woman to be elected to the Northwest
Territories Council
1940 - Born Jackie Shane (1940-2019) soul singer who filled
nightclubs in Toronto in 1960's
1940 - Born Glenda Simms (1940-2022) Black feminist & activist
1940 - Born Rosemary Speirs (1940- ) journalist
January 10, 1940 - Born Margaret L. Bridgman (1940-2009) member
of Canadian parliament
February 15, 1940 - Born Marilyn Edythe Broughton (1940-
) educator musician & composer
February 25, 1940 - Born Monica Proiette (1940-1967) Machine
Gun Molly
March 1940 - Born Mary Hart
Gilliland (1940-2010) social activist
March 4, 1940 - Born Nellie J. Cournoyea (1940-
), 1st aboriginal women to become Premier of a Canadian Territory
March 12, 1940 - Born
Cathie Anne Oberholtz (!940-2012) anthropologist
April 6, 1940 - Born Maria Campbell (1940- )
author of books and screenplays
April 23, 1940 - Born Diane Mary Loomer (1940-2012)
Choirmaster, composer, Order of Canada recipient
July 27, 1940 - Born Bharati Mukherjee (1940-2017) author
August 24, 1940 - Born Francine Lalande (1940-2014) federal
politician who championed assisted suicide
September 7, 1940 - Born Martha Biles (1940- ) C E
O Canadian Tire Corp
September 19, 1940 - Born Sylvia Tyson (1940 - )
folk & country music singer
October 3, 1940 - Born Cynthia Jean Durance (1940-2005)
Librarian who worked at the National Library of Canada
Deaths 1940:
1940 -
Died
Agnes Marion Miller Ayer (1890-1940) artist & social activist
from Newfoundland
1940 - Died Agnes Elizabeth Wetherald (1857-1940)
freelance journalist.
January 3, 1940 - Died Jean Anne Pinkham (1849-1940)
Social activist and volunteer in Saskatchewan and Alberta
February 18, 1940 - Died
Margaret Elizabeth Hunter (1848-1940) nursed wounded during 1885
insurrection
February 20, 1940 - Died
Janet Murray (1856-1940) Indomitable early woman doctor
March 18, 1940 - Died Maud Abbott (1869-1940)
acclaimed medical doctor who specialized in the study of heart
disease.
April 2, 1940 - Died
Olive Gertrude Stewart (1890-1940) World War l Nursing Sister
May 14, 1940 -
Died Emma Goldman (1869-1940) social activist & anarchist
writer
June 1940 - Died Rosemonde Desjardins (1885-1940) Quebec singer
June 8, 1841 - Died Helen Richmond Young Reid (1869-1941) social
activist
August 7, 1940 - Born Christine 'Chris' Mary Burrows (1940-2019)
community activist
August 17, 1940 - Died
Amanda Matilda
Nilsson (1864-1940), pioneer in Canadian northwest
August 24, 1940 - Died Janet Chisholm Lee (1862-1940) worked
with Adelaide Hoodless to establish Womens Institutes.
August 28, 1940 - Died
Margaret O'Hara (1855-1940) indomitable early woman doctor
September 4, 1940 - Died
Mary Gamble Bryson (1874-1940) indomitable early woman doctor
September 8, 1940 - Died Laura Bordon (1889-1940) wife of
Prime Minister Robert Laird Bordon (1854-1937)
September 12, 1940 - Died Annie Mackinnon Fitch (1868-1940)
noted mathematician
October 4, 1940 -
Died Victoria Sarah Ernst (1856-1940) early woman
doctor in Nova Scotia
October 18, 1940 -
Died Mary Henderson Flett Dickson (1857-1940) cultural
activist in Toronto
November 2, 1940 -
Died
Lillian Freiman (1885-1940)
1st Canadian Jew to be awarded the Order of
the British Empire
December 18, 1940 -
Died Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison (1868-1940) dean of
women Victoria College, University of Toronto |
| 1941 |
1941 -
The National Selective Service (NSS) is established and would
regulate the recruitment of civilians, providing a way to fill the
labour shortage by recruiting women to fill positions vacated by men
who were serving overseas during World War ll. The NSS
would breakdown stereotypes of workers allowing women both single
and married to occupy jobs that were traditionally held by men
1941 -
Legislation is changed to allow women
to enlist in the Canadian Forces More than 45,000 women volunteer
for full-time military service other than nursing. All three
services establish women's divisions and the range of duties
broadens during the war from traditional trades such as clerks,
cooks, drivers, and telephone operators to include mechanics,
parachute riggers, and heavy mobile equipment drivers.
Source: National Defense and the Canadian Armed
Forces, Fact sheet. Online (Accessed March 2014)
1941 -
Married women form 10% of the Canadian work force but by 1941 they
made up 23% of the Canadian work force.
Source:
Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
April 29, 1941 -
Premier Joseph-Adèlard Godbout established
legislation to amend the Bar Act to allow women to be called to the
Bar in the Province of Quebec. Source: Elizabeth
Monk B C L '23 by Kathryn Lèger. Montreal Gazette, October
28, 2011. (accessed June 2013)
June 2, 1941 - Cora Taylor Casselman
(1888-1964) is elected the first Liberal Party
woman Member of Parliament
in a By-Election
June 13, 1941 - Fern Blodgett
(1918-1991) became the 1st Canadian woman
to serve in the Merchant Marines. Source: 100
more Canadian Heroines by Merna Forster (Dundurn Press, 2011)
May 24, 1932
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Federal legislation brings the Canadian Radio Broadcasting
Commission into existence.
1941-1945 - During World War ll 4, 480 Nursing Sisters
served
July 2, 1941- The Canadian Women's Army Corps
(CWAC) is formed. 21,000 women served in the CWAC during World War
ll. Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Women in the Military. online
July 31, 1941 - The Royal Canadian Navy, Women's Division are formed Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia.
Women in the Military. online
August 13,1941 - The Royal Canadian Air Force Women's
Division (WD) is
established. 17,000 women served in the WD
1941 -
The Defence Industries Ltd. plant in Pickering,
Ontario, the biggest complex of its kind in the entire British
Commonwealth, is completed and 2, 300 women known as 'Bomb girls'
begin working the assembly lines making military explosives
for the war
Winter 1941 -
The Ladies Ontario Hockey Association amalgamates with the Ontario
Branch of the Women's Amateur Athletic Federation. It is too
expensive for women's hockey teams to raise funds for travel to
games
Source "Queens of the Ice Lanes: the Preston Rivulettes and women's
hockey in Canada 1931-1940 " by Carly
Adams, Sport History Review 2008 Vol. 39 pages 1-29.
1941 -
Kirkland Lake, Ontario, miners are forbidden to march when on
strike. 500 armed police are sent to stop miner's marches. The next
day mothers, wives, and children, families of miners, march down the
streets of the town. They won the right to collective bargaining
1941 -
The Canadian Press votes
Mary Rose Thacker (1922-1983), who
has won the North American Figure Skating Championship for three
years in a row, her second Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top
Female Athlete of the Year
1941 - Jessie
Gray ( -1978)
is the 1st Canadian woman to become a "fellow" in
the Royal College of Surgeons and the first woman member of the
Central Surgical Society of North America.
1941 - Mary Margaret "Margery" Booker
(1901-1955) becomes
the 1st Canadian woman to be appointed as a School Inspector
when appointed in Virden District, Manitoba.
Source: Memorable Manitobans
Profile by Gordon Goldsborough. Online (Accessed December 2011)
1941- Lucile Garner Grant (1910-2013) establishes the stewardess programme
for Yukon Southern Air Transport (later Canadian
Pacific Airlines)
Source: “She was Canada’s firs airline stewardess” by Nora Ryell
The Globe and Mail, March 29, 2013.
Births 1941:
1941 -
Born Sandy Brown (1941- ) Social activist and volunteer she
was the first woman to be appointed to the Jewish Federation of
Toronto.
1941 -
Born Anne Golden (1941- ) administrator and social activist
for the homeless.
1941 -
Born Julie Johnston (1941- ) author award winning
author
1941 -
Born Mari-Lou MacDonald (1941- ) actor in movies and
TV also a stunt person.
1941 -
Born Elizabeth "Betty" MacRae (1941- ) Canada's first woman neurosurgeon
January 3, 1941 - Born Christien Stewart (1941-2015) federal
politician
January 18, 1941 - Born Denise Bombardier (1941-
) journalist, novelist & media personality with French language CBC,
Montreal.
January 19, 1941 - Born Charlotte Vale-Allen (1941- ) prolific
author with works sell in some 20 countries.
January 25, 1941 - Born Sara Barber (1941- ) medal winning swimmer.
February 10, 1941
- Born Susan Mann (1941- ) academic & historian
February 20, 1941 - Born Buffy Sainte-Marie
(1941- )
folk singer and social activist for Native Peoples.
March 9, 1941 - Born Donna Arlene Chow (1941-
) A research scientist with an interest to recognizing women's work
in her field
April 1, 1941- Born Bonnie Sherr Klein (1941- )
Quadriplegic social activist who does not give up.
April 10, 1941 - Born Janet "Jay" Barbara Acton (1941-2012)
skier
April 14, 1941 - Born Nina Raginsky, (1941- )
photographer
April 28, 1941 - Born Nancy Guptill (1941-2020) politician in P
E I
April 29, 1941 - Born Paula Ross (1941- ) international prima ballerina.
May 15, 1941 - Born Vivienne Poy (1941- ) Senator
May 21, 1941 - Born Lise Boucher (1941- ) award
winning pianist
June 6, 1941 - Born Doris Jean Saunders (1941-2006) editor
& local historian
July 21, 1941 - Born Eva L. J. Rosinger (1941- )
environmental scientist
August 25, 1941 - Born Carol Bolt (1941-2000) Canadian
playwright
August 29, 1941 - Born Dr. Phyllis Jean McAlpine (1941-1998)
Genetic researcher
September 1, 1941 - Born Gwendolyn MacEwen(1941-1987), award winning poet.
October 29, 1941 - Born Beverly Sharon Masscoll
(1941-2001) Black social activist & businesswoman
December 18, 1941 - Born Marguerite McDonald (1941-2015)
1st female national reporter at CBC TV’s
parliamentary bureau in Ottawa
Deaths 1941:
1941 -
Died Gertrude E. Cutts (1858-1941) well known artist.
1941 - Died
Margaret Lewis (1873-1941) social activist for women factory
workers
1941 - Died
Ann 'Annie' Lowden Gordon
(1865-1941) pioneer in British Columbia
1941 - Died Margaret Mackellar (1861-1941) an indomitable
early lady doctor.
1941 - Died Annie Sadie Mackenzie (????-1941) early woman
dentist
January 6, 1941 -
Died Alice Ashworth Townley (1860-1941) Vancouver social
activist, author, & journalist
January 29, 1941 - Died Elizabeth Hurdon ((1868-1941) medical
doctor holding the Order of the British Empire
February 20, 1941 - Died Mary
Travers (La Bolduc) (1894-1941) popular vocalist and composer of her
era.
March 31, 1941 - Died
Marguerite Martha Allan
(1895-1942) amateur dramatist.
May 16, 1941 -
Died Margaret Anne Lewis (1874-1941) social activist for working
women
May 17, 1941 -
Died Margaret Amanda Flemming (1863-1941) indomitable early
woman doctor
June 14, 1941 - Died Margaret Lillian Foster (1867-1941)
indomitable early woman doctor
June 26, 1941 - Died
Annie Hollis (1871-1941) feminist & journalist
July 31, 1941 - Died Muriel Marguerite Fell (1889-1941)
World War 1 Nursing Sister
October 23, 1941 - Died
Helga Steinvor Baldvinsdotir (1855- 1941) penname Undine, author and
poet
November 2, 1941 -
Died Amanda Maria Shaw (1864-1941) poet
December 11, 1941 - Died
Mary Ann Gyves (1854-1941) Aboriginal pioneer in
British Columbia |
| 1942 |
January 10, 1942 - Elizabeth Monk
(1898-1980), Constance Garner-Short,
Suzanne Filion and Marcelle Hémond-Lacoste are the 1st women admitted to the Bar in Quebec.
Source : Herstory: A Canadian Womens Calendar2006,
Coteau Books, 2005.
1942-1945 -
Women on the home front were encouraged to enter the work force and
hundreds of thousands of women stepped in jobs in wartime industry
in jobs typically held by men
July 31, 1942 -
The Women's Royal Canadian Navel Service (WRENS)
is established. 7,000 WRENS would serve during World War ll
1942 -
45,423
women entered wartime forces in Canada.
Source
Female roles in World War ll online
(Accessed May 13, 2009)
1942 - Mary Greyeyes-Reid
(1920-2011) is the 1st Aboriginal
woman to enlist in the Canadian Womens Army Corp.
Sources: Women’s History Month: Women in Canadian Military Forces: A
proud Legacy. Status of Women Canada. October 2011. Online (Accessed
March 2014)
1942 -
All Canadian women between ages of 18 to 24 were registered for
Selective Service in case of a shortage of manpower in the war
effort. Source: Herstory: The Canadian Women's
calendar 2008 (Saskatoon women's calendar collective/Coteau
Books, 2007)
1942 -
On the home front food rationing begins
1942 -
The province of Quebec passes legislation to allow women to hold
office as school trustees
October 2, 1942 -
Marion Orr
(1918-1995)
is the 1st Canadian woman to operate a flying
club
when she is hired as Manager and Chief Flying Instructor by the St
Catherines Flying club
1942-1945 -
The Canadian Press discontinues awarding the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award
for Canada's Tope Female Athlete of the year because the sports
writer decided athletes could not rate as heroes while young
Canadian men were fighting for freedom in the shadow of death during
World War ll
1942-1945 -
Women were asked to reduce their consumption of goods that were in
short supply, and to recycle to support those serving overseas. Tons
of used rubber products were recycled into vitally needed tires and
other necessary war products. Gasoline was rationed. Ration books
were distributed to keep track of what people were allowed to have
1942 - Canada's 1st nutrition guidelines are introduced.
They are called CANADA'S OFFICIAL FOOD RULES. In 1944 the name was
changed to Canada's Food Rules. They came about with wartime food
rations and an economic recession , coupled with a physically active
Canadian Lifestyle led to a country of people with relatively poor
eating habits
1942 -
Songwriter
Ruth Lowe
(1918-1981) pens Put your Dreams Away for
Another Day which becomes Frank Sanatra's
(1915-1998) closing theme as his concerts
Births 1942:
1942 -
Born Ethel Weiss Auster (1942-2005) librarian
1942 - Died
Ann/Annie Baillie (1888-1942) World War l Nursing Sister
1942 - Born Sandra Louise Birdsell (1942- )
novelist
1942 -
Born Chantal duPont (1942-2019) photographer, Painter, sculptor, &
graphic artist
1942 -
Born Carol Anne Letheren (1942-2001) trailblazer in women's sports
and Canadian Olympic administrator
1942 -
Born Virginia Dobson Shrivastava (1942- ) social
activist working in India
1942 -
Born
Sandra Tewksbury (1942-1962) Olympic figure skater
January 6, 1942 - Born Nancy Ruth (1942- ) , Canada's
1st feminist philanthropist served in Canadian senate
January 27, 1942 - Born Mona Fleur Winberg (1942-2009)
journalist & activist for the disabled
January 28, 1942 - Born Anne-Marie Comeau (1942-
) founder
& artistic director of La Baie en joie dance group & school
February 5, 1942 - Born Gail Fox (1942- )
poet & editor
February 21, 1942 - Born Lenka J. Husa (1942- ) veterinarian
& educator
March 4, 1942 - Died
Sarah Schilstra (1871-1942) doctor who served in World War 1
March 6, 1942 -
Born Lorna Marsden (1942- academic, author, & member of the
Canadian Senate
March 3, 1942 - Born Menaka Thakkar (1942- )
classical dancer who has received awards in Canada & India
March 6, 1942 - Born Irene F. Whittome (1942- ) award winning sculptor
March 10, 1942 - Born Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré (1942-
) lawyer & 1st Black woman to teach at the University of Montreal.
March 19, 1942 - Born Mary Eleanor Nichols Bales (1942-2014)
award winning realtor.
March 25, 1942 - Born Sheila Diane Rose (1942-2014) educator
March 27, 1942 - Born Arlene Billinkoff (1942-2009) long time
legislative reporter for Winnipeg Free Press.
April 3, 1942 - Born Linda Crutchfield-Bocock (1942-
) champion water skier, alpine skier and in luge
April 10, 1942 - Born Donna Jean Hennyey (1942- )
champion fencer.
April 16, 1942 - Born Linda Crabtree (1942- ) founder of C M T International
April 26, 1942 - Born Sharon Carstairs (1942- ) member of the Canadian Senate
April 29, 1942 - Born Rayleen V. De Luca (1942-2022)
psychologist
June 6, 1943 - Born Paulette Kay Jiles (1943- ) poet,
novelist, playwright, & journalist
June 21, 1942 - Born Jeannette Vivian Lavell (1942-
) courageous woman who
fought to improve the status of aboriginal women.
June 24, 1942 - Born Mary Dawson (1942- ) lawyer &
civil servant
July 1, 1942 - Born Genevieve Bujold (1942- ) actor
July 11, 1942 - Born Daphne Marlatt (1942- )
prolific poet
July 11, 1942 - Born Pitalose Saila (1942-2021) Inuit artist
July 27, 1942 - Born Edith Butler(1942- )
Acadian singer & appointed to the Order of Canada
August 10, 1942 - Born Louise Forestier (1942- )
singer, songwriter & actor
August 25, 1942 - Born Mary Elizabeth Steinhauser (1942- 1975)
heroine of a prison break
September 1, 1942 - Born Nycole Trumel (1942- ) 1st
women to be president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada
September 22, 1942 - Born Gail Dianne Bowen (1942-
) author of mysteries and adventure novels for young readers
September 25, 1942 - Born Helen Margaret Calverly (1942-2020)
pediatric nurse
October 5, 1942 - Born Gisele Lamoureux (1942-2018)
photographer, botanist & ecologist
October 11, 1942 - Born Diane Brushette (1942-2017) member of
the Canadian parliament
October 13, 1942 - Born Danielle Juteau (1942- )
academic, pioneer of ethnic studies in Canada
October 26, 1946 -
Born Ranee Lee (1946- ) jazz singer, author, & educator
November 12, 1942 - Born Janet Turner Hospital (1942-
) author
November 14, 1942 - Born Connie Rooke,(1942-2008) Canadian
academic
Deaths 1942:
1942 -
Died
Mary Richmond Kerr Austin (1860-1942) cultural activist
1942 -
Died Azilda Belanger (1893-1942) pioneer of Northern Ontario &
educator
1942 -
Died
Juliette Rose Anne 'Dollie' Belanger (1856-1942)
activist and pioneer of northeastern Ontario
1942 -
Died Alma Isobell Sebastapol Balaclava Forbes Hodder (1859-1942)
Alberta pioneer
1942 -
Died Rosalind Goforth (1864-1942) author
1942 -
Died
Ida Steinberg (1885-1942) business woman whose family built an
international business
January 13, 1942 - Died
Anna Jane Henry (1863-1942) indomitable early
woman doctor & medical missionary
January 25, 1942 - Died
Agnes Lockhart Hughes (1866-1942) journalist & poet
March 31, 1942 -
Died Ricca Allen (1863-1942) stage & film actor
May 27, 1942 - Died Mary Sollace Saxe (1868-1942) librarian
Westmount Public Library, author, & playwright
May 30, 1942 - Died
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942) 1st woman
photojournalist in North America
May 31, 1942 - Died
Florence Rosalind Goforth (1864-1942) 1st Presbyterian Missionary to
China with her husband
June 10, 1942 - Died
Lady Grace Julia Parker Drummond (1860-1942) social
activist
October 4, 1942 - Died Mary Emily Macow (????-1942) indomitable
early woman doctor
October 5, 1942 - Died Winnifred Brenda Braine-Reynolds
(????-1942) early woman doctor
October 6. 1942 - Died
Ella Cora Hind, (1861-1942) first woman journalist in
the Canadian west & women's rights activist
October 14, 1942 - Died Agnes Wightman Wilkie (1904-1942)
only World War ll Nursing Sister killed in action
December 1, 1942 - Died
Mary Alfretta "Retta" Gifford Kilborn
(1864-1942) Methodist Medical Missionary in China
December 9, 1942 - Died
Lilian Yoemans (1861-1942) first woman doctor in Winnipeg
December 15, 1942 - Died Harriett Armine Nutting-Gosling (1861-1942) social activist,
community volunteer & suffragette
December 18, 1942 - Died Exilda Paquette Desjardins (
-1942) wife of worker who dies in fire of Parliament 1916 |
| 1943 |
January 3, 1943 - Kateri Tekakwitha (1656-1680) is
declared venerable ( a stage to being declared a Saint in the Roman
Catholic Church) by Pope Pius Xll. She is the 1st Native American
woman and the first North-American lay-woman considered for
sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church
January 19, 1943 - Dutch Princess
Julianna gives birth to a baby girl. The Canadian Government
prepared a document declaring the place of birth at the Ottawa Civic
Hospital as 'extraterritorial'...meaning outside Canadian territory,
allowing the baby to be born as a Dutch citizen
May 30, 1943 - The
All American Girls Professional Baseball League plays its 1st game.
The League lasted to 1954 with over 50 young Canadian women scouted
to play baseball
1943 - Dr. Jean Flatt Davey (1909-1989)
becomes the second woman to enlist and the 1st woman doctor to
enlist.
Source: The Indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker
(Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Co Ltd, 1974) ; Order of Canada,
online (Accessed February 2014)
June 1943 -
There are an estimated 795,000 women in the work force in Canada up
159,000 since 1939
Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd,
1981.
June 1943 - Isabel Janet Macneill / MacNeill
(1908-1990) became commanding officer of HMCS Conestoga, the
1st woman in the British Commonwealth to hold such a command.
The Canadian Navy commissioned land based facilities as 'ships' with
the HMCS Conestoga being located in Galt, 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)
1943 - Monique Leyrac (1928-
) using her natural gifts of
music and drama starts her acting career on radio. She is the
first great international star from French Canada
1943 - 261,000 women are involved in production
of Canadian war goods
1943 - Colossus 1 is Built, It is the first
electronic programmable computer
Births 1943:
1943 -
Born Sally Armstrong (1943- ) acclaimed award winning
journalist, author &
documentary film maker
1943 - Born Patricia 'Pat' Cole (1943-1998) archivist for
Regent Park, Toronto
1943 - Born Shirley Elford (1943-2011) acclaimed glass
sculptor
1943 -
Born Janice Filmon (1943- ) 2nd woman to be appointed
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
1943 -
Born Allene Goforth (1943- ) 1st deaf student to graduate
university in Canada
1943 -
Born Sharon Johnston (1943- ) wife of 28th
Governor General, David Lloyd Johnston.
1943 - Born Daurene Lewis (1943-2013) 1st Black
woman in Canada to become a mayor when elected mayor of Annapolis,
Nova Scotia
1943 - Born Anne Lindsay ( 1943- ) Renowned home economist and
health eating advocate
1943 - Born Sheila Ann Martin (1943- ) wife of
Prime Minister Paul Martin
1943 - Born Constance Rooke (1943-2008) author & academic
administrator
1943 - Born Bonnie E. Shadd - Emerson (1943-1991) early
Black nurse
1943 - Born Janice Gross Stein (1943- )
educator inducted into the order of Canada 2006
January 19, 1943 - Born Allison Ruth Gordon (1943-
) journalist &
author
January 22, 1943 -
Born Nancy Jane Drake (1943-2020) stage actor, director & teacher
January 23, 1943 - Born Joy Langan
(1943-2009) social activist, feminist & Member of Parliament
January 24, 1943 - Born Rosalind Blauer (1943-1973) economist
February 23, 1943 -
Born Joan Frances Mcdonald (1943-2021) acclaimed archery coach
March 12, 1943 - Born Jalynn Bennett (1943-2015) powerhouse
businesswoman
March 19, 1943 - Born Heather Robertson (1943-2014) author &
journalist
April 14, 1943 -
Born Eleni Skalbania (1943-2013) businesswoman
May 2, 1943 - Born Karen Murawsky (1943-2020) social activist
May 11, 1943 - Born Nancy Green (1943- ) international champion skier who has
been awarded the Order of Canada.
June 18, 1943 - Born Jill Bodkin (1943- ) business woman & financial
leader
June 21, 1943 - Born Diane Paulette Marleau (1943-2013)
federal politician
July 15, 1943 - Born Anna Maria Pellegrini (1943-
) opera soprano
July 16, 1943 - Born Sally Wishart Armstrong (1943-
) social activist, journalist, & biographer
July 21, 1943 - Born Judith Maxwell (1943- )
economist
July 20, 1943 - Born Diane Margaret Keating (1943-
) poet
August 12, 1943 - Born Anne Cools (1943- ) 1st
Black woman to be appointed to the Senate of Canada
September 7, 1943 - Born Beverly McLachlin (1943-
), 1st woman to be Chief Justice of the Canadian Supreme Court
September 29, 1943 - Born Barbara Jean McInnis (1943-
) entrepreneur and philanthropist
October 1, 1943 - Born Angèle Arsenault (1943- )
Acadian music
writer & performer
November 3, 1943 - Born Paule Gauthier (1943- )
Lawyer and public servant, Officer of the Order of Canada
November 25, 1943 - Born Evelyn Merle Nelson (1943-1987)
renowned mathematician
Deaths 1943:
1943 - Died
Aileen Isabel Bicknell (1896-1943) early Canadian
woman lawyer
1943 - Died Lovisa McDougal (1855-1943)
pioneer of Canadian northwest
1943 - Died Harriet Oliver (1863-1943)
pioneer of western Canada and political wife
January 5, 1943 - Died
Pauline Frechette-Handfield (1889-1943) poet
January 26, 1943 -
Died Rose Goodman (1919-1943) Jewish member of the Woman's
Division, R C A F
February 18, 1943 - Died
Ida Lynd (1857 -1943) indomitable early Canadian woman doctor
February 22, 1943 - Died Virna Sheard (1865-1943) poet & short
storey writer.
March 11, 1943 - Died Emily Poynton Weaver (1865-1943) historian &
author
May 25, 1943 -
Died Letitia Sirrs (1858-1943) indomitable early woman doctor
June 11, 1943 - Died Annie Crisp Bond (1854-1943)
nurse & philanthropist
June 13, 1943 - Born Gail Harvey Moore (1943-1993) champion
golfer
June 22, 1943 - Died
Mary Ellen Birties (1858-1943)
1 of 1st nurses in training program, Winnipeg General
Hospital, 1887, Order of the British Empire
August 22, 1943 -
Died Ellen Ann Sherratt (1862-1943) early woman doctor
September 24, 1943 - Died Hattie Walker (1865-1943) social
activist
September 25 - Died Augusta Stowe-Gullen
(1957-1943) 1st woman to graduate in medicine from a Canadian
university
October 21, 1943 - Died
Anne- Marie Gleason (1875-1943) pioneer journalist known mainly as
"Madeleine"
October 26, 1943 - Died Emma Sophia Baker ( 1856-1943)
psychologist
October 30, 1943 -
Died Mary Meager Southcott (1862-1943) nurse & person of
National Historic Significance
November - Died Minna
Keen (1861-1943) pioneer photographer
November 16, 1943 -
Died Jane Christina Willey (1866-1943) 1st woman qualified
pharmacist in Saskatchewan
November 29, 1943 -
Died Aileen Isabel Silk - Bicknell (1895-1943) Early woman
lawyer in Ontario |
| 1944 |
January 25, 1944 - Florence Li Tim-Oi
(1907-1992) becomes the first woman to be ordained as a
priest in the Anglican Church. She emigrates to Canada in 1983 and
is re-ordained
March
13, 1944 -
Cora Taylor Casselman (1888-1964)
becomes the first woman to be Speaker of the House of Commons
March 17, 1944 - Margaret "Ma" Murray (1888-
1982 ) begins her newspaper in the Peace District of British
Columbia, The Alaska Highway News. In 1971 she receives Order of
Canada
Sources: “Ma Murray: Fighting Editor of the Peace” by Stephen
Franklin, Weekend Magazine Vol. 8 No. 23, 1958
June
6, 1944 - Allied units, including those from Canada land in
Normandy beaches on D-Day
July 1944 - The Canadian
Wives Bureau is established within the Department of National
Defence to prepare war brides of Canadian service men for their
travels to Canada
July 17, 1944 - The 1st
nursing sisters of the Royal Canadian Army Corps, Lt M. Green, Cpt.
H. M. Boutilia & Moya MacDonald, land in France
August 2, 1944 - The federal
universal Family
Allowance Act is passed. It is a program for mothers and families in
Canada. Quebec insists that payments be made to fathers. The
Allowance will take effect July 15, 1945.
1944 - The Division of Public Health Nursing is
established by Ontario Provincial Board of Health. Nurses . Nurses
are now responsible for all public health nursing duties in the
province including maternal and infant well being, consultative
services to public health hospitals, and in-house training for other
public health nurses..
September 1944 - A teacher shortage in the Canadian prairies means that
more than 500 small schools cannot open. Source: The
Timechart of Canadian history by Meredith Macardle (2004)
1944 - Tommy Douglas (1904-1986)
leads the C.C.F Party to victory in Saskatchewan provincial
elections, they form the first socialist government in North America
1944
- Portia White (1911-1968)
is the 1st black
Canadian woman to appear in the New York Town
Hall, where she was touted as the “Canadian Marion
Anderson”
1944 - Rhona Wurtele-Gillis (1922-
) & Rhonda Wurtele-Eaves
(1922- ) champion swimmers, were
Female Athletes of the year Source: Who's Who in
Canadian Sport, Bob Ferguson Scarborough, Prentice Hall, 1977 pg. 292.
1944 - Prenatal courses are introduced. The
Victorian Order of Nurses, the Visiting Homemakers and public health
departments across Canada start to offer pregnancy and childbirth
preparation classes to mothers-to-be
Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf
Mamas : women of the Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto,
McArthur and Co., 2002.
1944 - The name of Canada's Official Food Rules (
appearing in 1942) are changed to Canada's Food Rules by the
Government of Canada.
1944 -
Olga Chumak (1919-2003) became the
1st woman lawyer of Ukrainian heritage in the province of Ontario
Source: Diversifying the bar: Lawyers making history. Biographies
of Early Exceptional Ontario Lawyers. Online Accessed January
2013.
Births 1944:
1944 -
Born Averill Piers Baker (1944- ) used her
musical abilities to overcome her Cancer
1944 -
Born Ginette Anfousse (1944- ) illustrator and author
of the children's series Mon Ami Pichou
1944 - Born Martha Blackburn-Hughes (1944-1992)
broadcaster & businesswoman
1944 - Born Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman (1944-1994)
philanthropist
January 25 1944 - Born Jolan Ezebet Szathmary. (1944-
) award winning academic
February 1944 - Born Eva Matsuzaki (1944-
) renowned architect
known for her "Green buildings"
February 11, 1944 - Born Annette av Paul (1944- )
prima ballerina
February 17, 1944- Born Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Professor and
economist
February 21, 1944 - Born Louise Beaulac-Baillargeon educator,
Pharmacologist and scientist
March 24, 1944 - Born Diana Ruth Elizabeth Moeser (1944-2023)
hospital administrator
April 16, 1944 - Born Wendy Elizabeth Griner-Ballantyne
(1944- ) international champion figure skater
April 22, 1944 - Born Dolores Wawia (Muk Ke Queh) (1944-2020)
Indigenous educator and social activist
April 28, 1944 - Born Elizabeth Ann Pacey (1944- )
an historian who was responsible for several historic sites being
preserved in Nova Scotia
May 14, 1944 - Born Catherine McKinnon (1944- )
singer
May 20, 1944 - Born Eleanor Caplan (1944- ) politician
May 22, 1944 - Born Connie Eaves (1944- ) academic
research scientist
May 28, 1944 - Born Rita McNeil, (1944-2013)
award winning country & folk singer who promoted her maritime
culture
June 1, 1944 -
Born Margaret Aileen Carroll (1944-2020) Member of the
Canadian Parliament & the Ontario legislature
July 3, 1944 - Born Lynne Cohen (1944-2014) photographer of
void interiors
July 15, 1944 - Born Leilani Marietta Muir a social activist
for those who cannot stand up for themselves
August 4, 1944 - Born Penn Kemp (1944- ) poet
August 11, 1944 - Born Alexa McDonough (1944-2022) first woman
to lead a Canadian political party
August 14, 1944 - Born Raynell Andrechuk., (1944-
) judge , ambassador and member of Senate of Canada
August 15, 1944 - Born Carole R. Moore (1944- )
librarian
August 22, 1945 - Born Anastasia Marie Shkilmyk (1945-2014)
social worker
August 24, 1944 - Born Lillian Eva Dyck (1944- )
One of the first aboriginal women to become an academic research
scientist
September 30, 1944 - Born Diane Dufresne (1944- )
celebrated francophone chanteuse and painter
October 4, 1944 - Born Madeline Hombert (1944- )
independent film producer and community volunteer
October 12, 1944 - Born Joan Fraser (1944- ) award winning journalist &
editor
October 14, 1944 - Born Nancy Riche (1944-2011) Awarded the
1992 Persons Case & known as a woman of courage.
October 28, 1944 - Born Helen Danylchuk (1944-1996) teacher &
activist
November 23, 1944 - Born Katherine Louise Wall ( 1944- )
community volunteer and inductee of the Order of P.E. I.
December 3, 1944 - Born Gayle Hitchens Borthwick (1944-
) champion golfer
Deaths 1944:
1944 -
Died
Mary Maude Bowman (1875-1944) social activists for the arts
January 12, 1944 -
Died Roberta Beatrice 'Bertha' Boyd-LeRoy (1862-1944) heroine
February 2, 1944 -
Died Margaret Morrison Ross (1869-1944) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
May 6, 1944 - Died Anna Yonker(1890-1944) social activist and
leading philanthropist
May 18, 1944 - Died
Georgina Cecelia Mary White (1877-1944) journalist know as Bride
Broder
August 26, 1944 -
Died Matilda Allyn (1880-1944) medical missionary in India
September 27, 1944 - Died Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944) founder
of the Four Square Gospel Church.
September 28, 1944 - Died Louise Bowman (1882-1944) poet
October 4, 1945 -
Died Geraldine Moody (1854-1945) pioneering photographer
October 6, 1944 - Died Marcella Dafoe
(1865?-1944) social activist
October 26, 1944 - Died
Elizabeth Fulton Parker (1856-1944) social activist |
| 1945 |
1945 -
Lieutenant Joan Bamford Fletcher (1918-1979)
leads 2,000 formed Dutch civilian prisoners through six
weeks in the Sumatran Jungle to safety commanding 70 former Japanese
soldiers. She was awarded the Order of The British Empire for her
bravery and leadership.
February 20, 1945 - The Canadian Government issues it's
first family allowance cheques to mothers. The first payment was
$5.00 a month for each child under 5 years, $6.00 for a child 6-9
years, $7.00 for a child 10-12 and $8.00 for teens 13-15 years of
age
May
5, 1945 - World War ll European hostilities cease.
June 20,
1945
-
The
Canadian government introduces the Family Allowance Act giving every
mother of a child 16 and under an allowance to help clothe, feed and
educate that child. A Youth Allowance is provided for children
between 16 and 18 years who are still attending school. These
payments are sent directly to the mother except for Quebec where the
fathers received the payments.
June 26, 1945 - Canada joins the United
Nations. The Charter of the United Nations, was the first
international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental
human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic
legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and
goals to advance the status of women worldwide.
July 15, 1945 - The federal government's universal
family allowance program takes effect in Canada.
1945 -
The Manitoba Minimum wage per hour is 35 cents for males, 30 cents
for urban women, 26 cents for rural women
1945 - Bernice Carnegie Redmon
returns to Canada after studying nursing in Virginia, U.S.A., to become the
1st Black Canadian woman to work as a nurse. She works at the Nova
Scotia Department of Public Health. She opens the door so that young
Black women could enter the nursing profession
1945 - Annie Powers (1907-1989)
becomes the 1st Francophone women in Ontario to become a medical
doctor.
1945 - By the end of the war
some 45,423 women have enlisted in the armed forces providing
support functions for the war effort Source: The Timechart history of Canada by
Meredith Macardle (2004)
1945 -
Married women form 23% of the Canadian work force where previously,
in 1941, they made up only 10% of the Canadian work force. In
total women made up 31.4% of the Canadian work force
Source:
Janet
Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd, 1981.
1945 - Jean Spears
(1921- ) founds the England,
Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Canada Club for War Brides. In 2006 she
is awarded the Order of the British Empire for her efforts on behalf
of War Brides
Sources: Canadian War Brides;
Online: Women in Ottawa: Mentors and
milestones online (accessed July 2011)
1945 -
The first maternity homes (homes for unwed mothers) open in the post
war era. While most such homes are run by religious organizations
there are a few that are privately run
1945 -
The Toronto Board of Police Commissioners order the salary range of
policewomen be the same as that in effect for policemen and that the
women be equipped with proper blue uniforms.
Source: Herstory: Milestones in the
History of the Toronto Police Service Women Online Accessed June
2011.
1945 - Dr Lotta Hitschmanova
(1909-1990)
founds the Unitarian Service Committee, Canada's first overseas
relief and development agency Source: USC Canada proposal to the
Royal Canadian Mint (Ottawa, 2005)
1945 - Gwethalyn
Graham
(1913- ) publishes her novel, Earth and High
Heaven, the
1st Canadian novel
to top the American bestseller list
1945 - Barbara Ann Scott
(1928-2012)
champion figure skater is voted by the
Canadian Press as winner of the Lou Marsh Trophy as Overall Top
Athlete of the Year
1945 -
The Ladies Auxiliary of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Veterans
Association is established in Regina Saskatchewan
Births 1945:
1945 -
Born Martha Cargo (1945- ) academic
1945 -
Born Rita Shelton Deverell (1945- ) Hall of Fame Broadcaster
1945 -
Born Victoria Henry (1945- ) civil servant & artist
1945 -
Born Gunhild "Gunnie" Hotte (1945 -
) artist
1945 - Born Kathryn Elizabeth McCallion (1945-2014) career
diplomat
1945 -
Born Karen Mock (1945- ) award winning human rights
consultant
1945 -
Born
Judy Rebick, (1945- ) journalist & social activist
1945 - Born Gene Sutton (1945-2009) award winning coach in
gymnastics
1945 -
Born
Carole Taylor (1945- ) Hall of fame broadcaster.
January 15, 1945 -
Born Bonnie Burnard (1945-2017) award winning author
January 25, 1945 - Born Elizabeth Joan Latimer (1945-2014)
renowned palliative care medical pioneer
February 2, 1945 - Born Pauline Vaillancourt Arvida (1945-
) soprano who founded Chants Libres
February 5, 1945 -
Born Nancy McCredie (1945-2021) track & field star
February 7, 1945 - Born Colette Whiten (1945- ) sculptor
March 8, 1945 - Born Elaine Minacs (1945-2006) businesswoman
March 8, 1945 - Born Janet Wright (1945-2016) award winning
actor of stage, film, & TV
March 27, 1945 - Born Anna Mae Aquash (1945-1976) activist on
behalf of Aboriginal North Americans
April 6, 1946 -
Died
Idola Saint-Jean (1879-1945) journalist & social activist
May 14, 1945 - Born Joan Lynn Hendry (1945- ) 1st
Canadian woman to jump over six meters in the long jump in field
events
June 8, 1945- Born Bronwyn Deborah Anne Drainie (1845-
) broadcast journalist
June 12, 1945 - Born Marjorie Mills (1945-2013) piano player
who recorded with Quality Records of Canada, Gemstone Records, &
Master Recordings
June 16, 1945 - Born Lucienne Robillard (1945- )
provincial & federal Liberal Party member of government with
multiple cabinet positions
June 20, 1945 - Born Anne Murray (1945- ) award winning & popular singer
June 22, 1945 - Born Marti Maraden (1945- ) stage
actress & director
July 6, 1945 - Born Rosemary Forsyth (1945- ) actor
July 31, 1945 - Born Charlotte Diamond (1945- )
children's singer.
August 10, 1945 - Born Marjorie Homer-Dixon (1945- )
champion kayaker
October 14, 1945 - Died
Mary Edith Tyrrel (1879-1945) founder of Women's Association of
Mining Industry in Canada
October 20, 1945 - Born Jo-Ellen Bogart (1945 - ) author
November 6, 1945 - Born Elizabeth Composer (1945-2014)
philanthropist & social motivator for anti-Semitism.
December 4, 1945 - Born Roberta Lynn Bondar (1945-
) Canada's 1st woman in space
December 8, 1945 - Born Mary Steuart-Mllwaine (1945-
) medal winning &
world record holding swimmer
December 10, 1945 - Born Margaret Isobel Drynan (1945-1999)
musician & composer
December 27, 1945 -
Born
Aldea Landry (1945- ) member of provincial parliament
Deaths 1945:
1945 - Died Stella Irene Boyd (1891-1945) Entertainer,
contralto & vocal teacher in Manitoba
1945 - Died
Irene Currie Love (1881-1945) journalist & one
of the founders of the Canadian Women's Press Club
1945 - Died
Antoinette Gerin-Lajoie (1870-1945) social
activist
1945 - Died
Ida Madeline 'Mattie' Gunterman
(1872-1945) amateur photographer
1945 - Died
Constance Easton Hamilton (1862-1945)
1st woman in Canada elected to serve in a large metropolitan area
1945 - Died Mary Hewitt Smart-Shenstone
(1857-1945) cultural activist in Toronto
1945 - Died
Marie Elizabeth Van Haarlem
(1867-1945) nurse
1945 - Died Elizabeth McDougall Young (1852-1945) pioneer of
the Canadian North West
January 1945 - Died
Jessica Ann MacBean (1877-1945) medical missionary
January 15, 1945 - Died Kate Simpson Hayes (1856-1945)
journalist & one of founders of Canadian Women's Press Club
January 17, 1945 - Died
Lorrie Alfreda Dunnington-Grubb
(1877-1945) pioneer in the profession of landscape architecture
February 4, 1945 - Died
Elizabeth Embury (1866-1945) indomitable early women doctor, a
founder of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada
February 21, 1945 - Died Jessie Ann Ellen McLeay Millner
(1864-1945) pioneer
March 20, 1945 - Died
Mattie Cartmell (1845-1945) educator & missionary to
Japan
March 20, 1945 -
Died Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe (1883-1946) one of the most
successful lady golfers in 20th century
April 1, 1945 - Died Mabel Annesley Johnston (1870-1945) author
May 1945 - Died
Antoinette Gérin-Lajoie (1871-1945) journalist & one of the founders of
Canadian Womens Press Club
May 5, 1945 - Died
Janet R. McClure Kilborn (1894-1945) early woman doctor and
professor in China
July 31, 1945 - Died
Elizabeth Ann Ashfield Woodburn (1865-1945) artist in Saint John
August 25, 1945 - Died Rosella Henry (1924-1945) C W A C World
War ll
September 14, 1945 - Died Irene Currie Love (1880-1945)
journalist & one of founders of the Canadian Women's Press Club
November 1, 1945 - Died Marie Gerin-Lajoie (1867-1945)
champion of women's rights in Quebec
|
| 1946 |
1946 -
The women's sections of all 3 Canadian armed service
branches are disbanded
Source: Women in the Military. The Canadian
Encyclopedia Online
February 9, 1946 - The 1st official group of Canadian War
Brides, women who had married Canadian Servicemen overseas during
World War ll, arrives. The Mauritania ll lads at Pier 21 in Halifax,
Nova Scotia with 943 servicemen's dependants on board. called
'Operation Daddy'.
Source: Canadian War Brides web pages (accessed June 2011).
1946
-
Only
46 women hold elected positions in municipal governments across
Canada
1946 -
Gladys Porter
(1893-1967)
is the 1st woman in the Canadian Maritimes to become
Mayor of a municipality, Kentville, Nova Scotia. She serves in this
position until 1960 when she became the 1st woman elected to the
Nova Scotia Provincial legislature
1946 - Laure Eva Rièse
(1910-1996) becomes the 1st woman faculty
member to earn her PhD
Sources: Laure Eva Rièce Collection. E.J. Pratt Library,
University of Victoria Campus, University of Toronto. Online.
Accessed July 2013.
1946 -
The Canadian Press resumes voting after
inactivity during World War ll and votes Barbara Ann Scott
(1928-2012), the Canadian and North American Ladies Figure
Skating Champion, winner of the
Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year
November 8, 1946 - Viola Desmond (1914-1965) was arrested in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
when she sat in the downstairs seating instead of the balcony where
Blacks were forced to sit in the segregated Roseland Theatre. This
event tool place several years before Rosa Parks took her seat on the
front of a bus in the United States! More
information: Historica: Black history
(Accessed March
2007)
1946 -
The Ontario Teachers Federation approves the principle of equal pay
for men and women teachers
Source: Canadian Chronology
onlome (accessed April 28,
2003)
1946 - Winnie Roach-Leuszler (1926-2004) internationally acclaimed swimmer is
the 1st woman to be hired by the YMCA to
set up Programmes swimming instruction and coaching.
She wins the 5 mile World Swimming Championship in
Toronto when she is 3 months pregnant
1946 - Freda Farrell Waldon (1898-1973) is
the 1st president of the Canadian Library Association
1946 - Gretta Wong Grant (1921 -
) is the 1st Chinese Canadian woman to practice law in
Canada
1946 -
The Miss Canada Pageant has its beginnings as a swimsuit contest
for the centennial of the city of Hamilton, Ontario
1946 - Gabrielle 'Gaby' Pleau
(1920-???) is the 1st Francophone woman to
join the Canadian downhill ski team
1946 -
Earle Tupperware invents Tupperware. The parties come later Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. p.
16
Births 1946:
1946 -
Born Susan Jane Anstey (1946-2005) equestrian sports
journalist
1946 -
Born Martha Cole (1946 - ) sculptor
1946 - Born Patricia Demers (1946- ) 1st woman to
serve as President of the Royal Society of Canada
1946 - Born Barbara Hall (1946- ) 1st mayor of
Toronto to march in the Pride Parade
1946 - Born Ann Meekitjuk Hanson (1946- ) film maker
1946 -
Born Janis Rapoport (1946- ) author &
playwright
February 1, 1946 - Born Mary Jo Leddy (1946- )
theologian, journalist and social activist
February 6, 1946 - Born Kate McGarrigle (1946-
) singer & recipient of the order of Canada
February 14, 1946 - Born Pam McConnell (1946-2017) Toronto
politician
February 17, 1946 - Born Denise Marie Baillargeon
(1946-2013) founder of Rescuing Our African Daughters.
February 28, 1946 - Born Med Luxton (1946- )
author & feminist, co-founder
of the of the Women's Studies Programme at the University of Toronto.
March 1946 - Died
Alice Maud Dunning Grant (1865-1946) 1st woman to receive a
masters degrees fro Acadia University.
March 7, 1946 - Born Elaine Jean McCoy (1946-2020) MLA in
Alberta and member of Canadian Senate
March 25, 1946 - Born Madeleine Dion Stoat (1946 -
) in 2008 she is listed as one of the top 100 nurses in Canada
March 26, 1946 - Born Phyllis Marion Boyd (1946- )
1st woman and 1st non
lawyer to become Attorney-General in the Province of Ontario
April 2, 1946 - Born Carol Dunlop (1946-1982) author,
photographer, & activist
April 9, 1946 - Born Bobbie Steen (1946-1995) sport
administrator
April 23, 1946 - Born Joan Marsha Donaldson (1946-2006)
journalist & broadcaster
April 27, 1946 - Born Janis Gudrun Johnson (1946- )
appointed to senate September 1990
April 28, 1946 - Born Ginette Reno ( 1946- ) chanteuse who holds
the hearts of her fans across the country
May 3, 1946 - Born Karen G. Adams (1946- )
librarian & administrator
May 11, 1946 - Born Helen Anne Henderson (1946-2015)
advocate for disabled people & journalist
May 22, 1946 - Born Ann Hanson (1946- ) film
producer
June 6, 1946 - Born Judy Jarvis (1946-1986) dancer,
choreographer, and teacher
June 14, 1946 - Born Frances Jane Wasselein (1946-2015) social
activist & feminist in British Columbia
June 22, 1946 - Born Linda Bond (1946 - ) she became
General of the Salvation Army January 31, 2011
July 1, 1946 - Born Rosalie Abella (1946- )
justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
July 11, 1946 - Born Janice Elizabeth Bick (1946-2022) author
& librarian
July 16, 1946 - Born Louise Frechette (1946- )
public Servant & Canadian Diplomat
July 22, 1946 - Born Heather Collins (1946-
) illustrator
August 4, 1946 - Born Anne A. Taylor (1946-2014) teacher,
communications administrator & volunteer
August 18, 1946 - Born Joan M. Boggs(1946- ) senior
scientist Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
September 23, 1946 - Born Anne Wheeler (1946- )
actor, filmmaker, producer, director & writer
September 29, 1946 - Born Laurie Dennett (1946-
) author & humanitarian
October 17, 1946 - Born Sylvia Gunnery (1946- ) award
winning author of books for youth.
October 27, 1946 - Born Audrey Jeanne Kunkel (1946-2009) award
winning journalist
November 3, 1946 - Born Rosalinda "Linda" Linsangan
Natividad-Cantiveros (1946-2008) community activist.
November 17, 1946 - Born Debbie Van Kiekebelt (1946-
) champion in track & field & Canada's 1st female sports broadcaster
November 26, 1946 - Born Judy Gingell (1946- )
politician, 1st Aboriginal Commissioner of the Yukon
December 16, 1946 - Born Debbi Wilkes (1946- )
international champion pairs figure skater
December 17, 1946 - Born Marilyn Palmer O'Connor (1946-
) champion golfer
December 19, 1946 - Born Elaine Ling (1946-2016) photographer,
musician, & medical doctor
Deaths 1946:
1946 - Died
Louise Alexander (1880-1946) artist
1946 - Died
Ethel Beatrice Street-Langton (1868?-1946) cultural activist
January 12, 1946 - Died
Mary Jane McDonnell (1869-1946) early woman doctor
February 10, 1946 - Died
Sophia Margaretta Hensley (1866-1946) author, lecturer, & social
activist who wrote under male pen names
March 22, 1946 - Died
Dorthea Agnes Jane Ore (1866-1946) indomitable
early woman doctor
April 5, 1946 -
Died Janet Morrison Miller-Murray (1891-1946) early applicant
for the Barr in Newfoundland
May 31,1946 - Died Nora M. Duncan
(1883-1946) western Canadian poet & radio host
July 31, 1946 -
Died Jessica Donalda Bell Dunlap (1867-1946) philanthropist &
cattle breeder
October 1, 1946 - Died
Clara Ryan (18591946)
indomitable early woman doctor
November 17, 1946 - Died
Henriette Saint-Jacques (1860-1946) journalist & author of several
books |
| 1947 |
January 1, 1947 - The Canada Citizenship
Act comes into
effect creating for the 1st time "Canadian citizens" instead
of British subjects. Prime Minister Mackenzie King is given the
1st citizenship certificate.
The Canadian Citizenship Act allowed women who married a man from
another country to retain her Canadian Citizenship. A Canadian man’s
wife who came from another country had to wait 1 year before
becoming a Canadian citizen while a Canadian woman’s husband who
came from another country had to wait 5 years to become a citizen
and their children would have to take the citizenship of their
father making them citizens of a foreign country if he had not yet
received his Canadian citizenship
1947 - Leila Wightman
(1899-1976) the 1st Canadian woman to own and run a
telephone company, Wightman Communications in Clifford, Ontario
Sources: Telecommunications Hall of Fame
(Accessed October 2011)
1947-
Barbara Ann Scott
(1928-2012) is the 1st Canadian woman to win the World
Figure Skating championships.
She is voted by the Canadian Press as winner of the Lou Marsh
Trophy as Canada's Top Overall Athlete of the Year for a second time
October 1, 1947 -
The Canadian Department of External Affairs lifts the ban on women
not working in the Foreign Service
Source: Margaret Weiers, Envoys Extraordinary: Women of the
Canadian Foreign Service (Toronto: Dundurn, 1995)
1947 -
Canadian women make up only 22.7% of the Canadian work force a drop
from 31.4%. This drop of women from the workforce is due to the
return of servicemen from the war ‘taking back’ job opportunities
and by the closing of provincial day cares which had been opened to
allow mothers to work during the war
Source:
Janet Ray, Towards Women’s Rights, Toronto, Grolier Ltd,
1981.
1947 -
The Manitoba minimum wage per hour is 40 cents for men, 36
cents for urban women, 33 cents for rural women
1947 -
The province of British Columbia gives the right to vote to
all persons except Japanese and Indian persons
October 22, 1947 -
The Montreal Women's Symphony, an ensemble of 80 women
under conductor Ethel Stark (1916?- 2012
) performed at the renowned Carnegie Hall in New
York-the first Canadian symphony orchestra to achieve this
1947 –
for the 1st time women were allowed to write Canadian
Foreign Service Examinations leading to positions in the Canadian
Foreign Service which were previously only open to men
Source: Margaret Weiers, Envoys Extraordinary: Women of the
Canadian Foreign Service (Toronto: Dundurn, 1995)
November 20, 1947 -
Canadian Photo journalist Pat Holden Collins
(1924-2011)
was one of six photographers allowed to be official photographers
for the wedding of then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip , Duke
of Edinborough at Westminster Abby, London England.
Sources: Groundbreaking wartime photographer was first woman to
shoot Eisenhower by Michael Posner. The Globe and Mail
December 9, 2011. ; Chrystia Chudczak, Documentary photographer .
Online (Accessed January 2012)
1947 -
The Canadian Press resumes voting after inactivity during World
War ll and votes Barbara Ann Scott
(1928-2012), the European & World Champion Ladies Figure
Skating Champion, winner of the
Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year
for a second year in a row
1947 -
Food rationing begun in 1942 as part of the home front war effort
is ended
1947 -
General electric invents the automatic electric clothes washer
Source : Canuck Chicks and Maple Leaf Mamas : women of the
Great White North by Ann Douglas Toronto, McArthur and Co., 2002. pg
17
1947 - Former British colonies form the British Commonwealth
of Nations with Great Britain
Births 1947:
1947 - Born Patricia Hill Bailey (1947-2017) nursing
professor
1947 - Born Angela Enright (1947- ) 1st woman to
head the Canadian Anesthesiologists Society in 1994
1947 -
Born Maude Victoria Barlow (1947- ) social activist
and "voice of dissent"
1947 -
Born Ann Blades (1947- ) illustrator and author of books for children.
1947 - Born Anne Dunn (1947 - ) world champion curler
1947 - Born Anne Garber (1947-2011) journalist
1947 - Born Judith Guichon (1947- ) 29th Lieutenant
Governor of British Columbia
1947 - Born Dr. Joyce Nsubuga (1947-2006) social activist for
the health & rights of Black women
1947 - Born Laura Sky (1947- ) award winning
filmmaker
January 3, 1947 - Died
Isabel McConville (1863-1947) indomitable early
woman doctor
January 8, 1947 - Born Eleanor Reed Townsend (1944-1988) champion
fiddler
January 15, 1947 - Born Victoria Tennant (1947- )
prima ballerina of the National Ballet of Canada
January 15, 1947 - Born Andrea Martin (1947- ) Emmy
award winning actor
February 3, 1947 - Born Marlene Philip (1947- )
poet & author of novels for young adult readers
February 7, 1947 - Born Frances Elaine Aboud (1947- )
educator & author.
February 10, 1947 - Born Louise Arbour (1947- )
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
February 11, 1947 - Born Abigail Hoffman (1947- )
Olympic athlete
& champion of athlete's rights
February 12, 1947 - Died
Annie Midlige
(1864-1947) fur trader and Pioneer in eastern Quebec
March 7, 1947 -
Born Jean Ashworth Bartle (1947- ) musician &
choral director. Founder of Toronto Children’s Chorus
March 10, 1947- Born Kim Campbell (1947- )
politician & 1st woman to become Prime Minister of Canada
March 13, 1947 - Born Judith Rose Marcuse (1947- ) prima ballerina.
April 1947 - Born Christilot Hanson Boylen (1947- )
medal winning equestrian only athlete to achieve three individual
gold medals in Pan Am Games
April 22, 1947 - Born Micheline Bouchard (1947- )
engineer and C E O, Member of Order of Canada
April 27, 1947 - Born Pauline Picard (1947-2009) Member of the
Canadian parliament
April 30, 1947 - Born Kathleen 'Kit' Margaret Pearson (1947-
) award winning author
May 12, 1947 - Born Micheline Lanctot (1947- )
actor, film director, screen writer & musician
May 28, 1947 - Born Lynn Johnson (1947- )
award winning cartoonist & comic strip artist
May 30, 1947 - Born Jocelyn Bourassa (1947 -
) 1st female Quebec & 1st Canadian Female Athlete of the Year
June 11, 1947 - Born Marsha I. Sheppard (1947-
) scientific researcher
June 14, 1947 - Born Vanessa Clare Harwood-Scully (1947-
) premier ballet dancer with National Ballet of Canada
June 19, 1947 - Born Helen Chan, physician at the Hospital for Sick
Children and professor at the University of Toronto.
June 24, 1947 - Born Suzy Lake (1947- ) award winning
visual artist
June 26, 1947 -
Born Renée Martel (1947-2021) Queen of Quebec country music
June 27, 1947 - Born Vicki Lynn Bardon (1947- ) business woman, founder of
Shuttles and Seawind
July 13, 1947 -
Born Rosella Marie Bjornson (1947- ) career pioneer in
aviation.
July 26, 1947 -
Born Arlette Lefebvre (1947- ) at Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto
she is known as Dr. Froggie
August 9,1947 -
Born Henriette Schellenberg (1947 - ) soprano
August 21, 1947 - Born Mary J. May Simon ( 1947- )
ambassador for Canada
August 24, 1947 -
Born Linda Hutcheon (1947- ) author, editor & art
critic
August 29, 1947 - Born Viola Wyse (1947-2009) Chief of the
Snuneymuxu
September 27, 1947 -
Born Lorna B. Williams (1947- ) academic &
outstanding teacher who furthers education for her peoples.
October 7, 1947 -
Born Judy Sams (1947- ) award winning golfer
October 13, 1947 -
Born Mary Gordon (1947- ) social activist &
founder of Roots of Empathy programs used internationally
November 2, 1947 - Born Maxine McVey (1947-2022) Minister in the
United Church of Canada
November 7, 1947 -
Born Lata Pada (1947- ) South Asian dancer & choreographer
November 21, 1947 -
Born Marjorie Evalena Bailey (1947- ) Canadian track & field
star
November 30, 1947 -
Born Ann Mortifee (1947- ) singer, composer, & author
December 4, 1947 -
Born Cayle Vivian Chernin (1947-2011) actor, producer, and writer
December 28,
1947 -
Born
Wendy Lynn Mitchinson (1947-2021) historian
Deaths 1947:
1947 -
Died
Idella 'Dell' Gertrude MacGregor (1880-1947) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
1947-
Died
Helen Armstrong (1875- 1947) feminist, only woman leader in Winnipeg
general strike
1947 -
Died Louise Duffield Cummings (1870-1947) renowned mathematician
1947 - Julie Lawson (1947- ) author of books for
youth
1947 - Died
Idella ‘Dell’ Gertrude MacGregor (1880-1947) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
1947- Died Jane Flett McKay (1857-1947) pioneer of the Canadian
Northwest
January 11, 1947 - Died Tanguay (1879-1947) vaudevillian &
movie star who in 1912 was the highest paid woman actor in the US
January 21, 1947 -
Died Susanna Hamilton (1868-1947) indomitable early woman
doctor
February 15, 1947 - Died
Margaret Marshall Saunders
(1861-1947) author of the 1st Canadian book to sell a million copies
March 9, 1947 - Died Roza 'Rosie' Brown (????-1947) colourful
character from Kirkland Lake, Ontario
March 19, 1947 - Died
Prudence Heward (1896-1947) acclaimed figure painter
April 18, 1947 - Died
Helen Armstrong (1875- 1947) feminist, only woman leader in Winnipeg
General Strike
April 19, 1947 - Died Edith
MacTavish Rogers (1876-1947) 1st woman elected to the Manitoba
Legislature
April 22, 1947 - Died Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947)
journalist & farmer
May 9, 1947 - Died
Louise Duffield Cummings (1870-1947) noted mathematician
May 9, 1947 -
Died Rose Pringle (1866-1947) early woman doctor
May 21, 1947 - Died
Belle Choné - Oliver (1875-1947) an indomitable lady medical
missionary
May 23, 1947 - Died Sarah 'Allie' Brock
Brick (1877-1947) pioneer in Canadian north west
May 29, 1947 -
Died Margaret Campbell McGilvary (1878-1947) World War 1
Nursing Sister
July 4, 1947 - Died Christina
Murray (1866-1947) social activist in Saskatchewan
July 9, 1947 - Died Helen Elizabeth Reynolds Ryan (1860-1947) 1st
woman doctor in Northern Ontario.
July 14, 1947 - Died Margaret Jane
"Nellie Bryant (1864/5?-1947) early photographer , possible
the 1st to use dry places in a camera
July 15, 1947 -
Susan Reynolds Crease (1855-1947) artist & diarist
August 8, 1947 -
Died Jane Flett-Mackay/Mckay (1857-1947) nurse and acting
surgeon in Peace River area, Alberta
September 12, 1947 -
Died Margaret Johnston (1868-1947) indomitable early woman
doctor
October 10 1947 - Died Joyce
Anne Marriott (1913-1947) poet
October 30, 1947 -
Died Margaret Ann Gould (1869-1947) indomitable early woman
doctor
December 20, 1947 - Died Anna Maria McPhee (1855-1947) early
woman doctor
December 24, 1947 -
Died Josephine Crease (1864-1947) Artist on Vancouver Island |
| 1948 |
1948 -
The United
Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human rights asserting
that all people are equal without distinction of any kind such a s
race, colour, sex, language…or other status. It is the 1st
international document to proclaim sex equality as a fundamental
human right
1948 -
Infanticide is declared a special crime. The killing of a newborn
child by its despondent mother is not viewed as murder sind in the
past juries had backed away from convicting on that charge.
Infanticide carries a maximum sentence of five years
1948 -
The Canadian Elections Act is changed so that race is no longer
grounds for exclusion from voting in Federal Elections. Japanese
Canadian, including women are granted the vote in Canadian elections
March 1948 - The Canadian government suspends government
sponsored travel for War Brides and children of Canadian servicemen
except in special conditions usually related to health and
availability to travel
1948 -
Women over the age of 21 in Newfoundland gain the right to vote in
elections, the same age as male voters. Prior to this date women
had to be 25 in order to vote
January 1948 -
Mary Pickford (1892-1979) holds the premier of her movie
Sleep My Love in Ottawa Canada.
She dines with prime Minister W. L. M. King the evening of the
premier Source: 100 Canadian women : famous and
forgotten faces by Merna Forster Toronto, Dundurn Press, 2004 pg 207.
February 6, 1948 - Barbara Ann Scott
(1928-2012) wins Canada's 1st gold medal in ladies' figure
skating at the Winter Olympics in St
Moritz, Switzerland. She is also European & World Champion and is
declared the Canada's Top Female Athlete of the Year for a third
year in a row. She is also awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canada's
Top Overall Athlete of the Year for the third time and second year
in a row. A day after Scott wins Suzanne Morrow
(1930-2006) wins Bronze in pairs event.
1948 - Vitamin B 12 is discovered
1948 -
A case before the Ontario Human Rights Commission opens the door for
Black women to study nursing.
Ruth Bailey & Gwennyth Barton
were the 1st black
women to graduate from a Canadian school of nursing
Source: Black History Month online (accessed May 2005)
1948 - Mary Peck (1904-1992)
begins her campaign to make people aware of Arthritis. This is the
roots of the foundation of 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)
Births 1948:
1948 - Born Marilyn Halvorson (1948- ) author
1948 - Born Susan Harrison (1948-2013) author
1948 -
Born Maryka Omatsu (1948 - ) 1st East Asian
Canadian Judge when appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice
1948 -
Born Jeanette Armstrong (1948- ) author
1948 -
Born Marie-Jeanne Bartleman (1948- ) political wife
of James Bartleman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
1948 -
Born Francoise David (1948 - ) social activist
1948 -
Born Diane Dupuy,(1948- ) founder of the Famous People
Players, a black light theatre group of young developmentally youth
1948 -
Born Charlotte Gray (1948- ) award winning author of
popular history works
January 1948
- Died
Inga Johnson (1881-1948) World War l Nursing Sister
February 11, 1948 -
Born Elizabeth Shaughnessy Cohen (1948-1998) member of the Canadian
parliament
February 29, 1948 -
Born Yolande Racine (1948- ) art history
researcher, archivist, curator, & educator
March 4, 1948 -
Born Joanna Ruth Nichols (1948- ) author of books for children
April 3, 1948 -
Born Monique Larue (1948- ) respected author in
French language
April 6, 1948 -
Born Margaret Gibson (1948-2006) award winning author
April 21, 1948 - Died
Clara May Hood-Morrison (1876?-1948) World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 22, 1948 - Born Mary Louise 'Mary Lou' Fallis (1948-
) opera singer & comedienne
April 26, 1948 - Born Erika Ritter (1948- )
playwright, writer, & broadcaster with the CBC
May 24, 1948 - Born Lorna Crozier (1948- ) award
winning poet
June 4, 1948 - Born Margaret Gibson Short (1948-2006) short
story writer & novelist
June 4, 1948 - Born
Frieda Wishensky (1948- ) author of books for
young readers
June 7, 1948 - Born Welwyn Wilton Katz (1948- )
acclaimed author of books for youth
July 31, 1948 - Born Maureen Kempston-Durkes (1948-
) president & General Manager of General Motors Canada
August 15, 1948 - Born Adrienne Patsy Gallant (1948-
) bilingual Acadian pop singer & actor
August 19, 1948 - Born Susan Jacks (1948-2022) member of
the musical duo "The Poppy Family" & telecommunications executive
September 10, 1948 - Born Margaret Joan Trudeau (1948-
) wife of Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau
September 16, 1948 - Born Lynda Maureen Haverstock (1948-
) Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan
September 29, 1948 - Born Elizabeth 'Liz' Maxwell (1948-2005)
author & teacher
October 17, 1948 - Born Margaret 'Margot' Ruth Kidder
(1948-2018) actor in film & TV
November 26, 1948 - Born Maria Beverly Lay (1948- )
world record holder swimming champion & coach
December 25, 1948 - Born Jane Marie Youngberg (1948- )
champion Badminton Player
December 27, 1948 - Born Ydessa Hendeles (1948- ) artist,
curator, & philanthropist
Deaths 1948:
1948 - Died
Friselda Caisse (1858-1948) local social activist in Ontario
1948 - Died
Cécile Laberge (1861-1948) journalist & one of the
founders of the Canadian Women's Press Club. 1904
1948 - Died
Caroline Emmy McNeill (1879-1948) first
Dean of women at Queen's University
1948 - Died Geraldine Oakley ( -1948) indomitable
lady doctor of Calgary, Alberta
1948 -
Died
Margaret 'Madge' Watt (1868-1948) founder of Women's Institutes in
Great Britain
1948 -
Died Alice Wilson (1870-1948)
businesswoman of the Gatineau & Outaouais
January 3, 1948 -
Died Inga Johnson (1881-1948) World War l Nursing Sister
January 12, 1948 -
Died Pearle Smith Chute (1871-1948) 1st woman to intern in Canada &
medical missionary to India
January 18, 1948 -
Died Anna Louise Pickering (1857-1948) World War 1 Nursing
Sister
January 27, 1948 -
Died Vivian Tremaine (1889-1948) World War 1 Nursing Matron
& nurse to the king
February 11, 1948 - Died Octavia Grace England (
-1948) 1st woman
valedictorian at McGill University
March 31, 1948 - Died
Thirza Jane Nolan (1867-1948) western pioneer rancher
April 1948 - Died
Clara May Hood-Morrison (1876-1948) World War 1 Nursing Sister
April 6, 1948 - Died Martha Wyman Brown-Shaw (1874-1948)
early woman doctor
May 4, 1948 - Died
Ada Almira Brown-Reid (1874-1948) journalist in Outaouais, Quebec
July 26, 1948 - Died Olive Maude Wease (1878-1948) indomitable
early woman doctor
August 25, 1948 -
Died Elizabeth 'Bessie' Marguerite Miller (1880-1948) author
November 6, 1948 -
Died Mary May 'Minnie' Campbell (1873-1948) indomitable early
lady doctor
November 29, 1948 - Died
Margaret Madge Rose
Robertson Watt (1888-1948) instrumental at establishing Women's
Institutes in England
December 2, 1948- Died Rose-Anna Vachon (1870 (?)- 1948) baker
&
business woman
December 6, 1948 - Died Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson
(1891-1948) artist of the modernist movement
December 16, 1948 -
Died Harriett Macmillan Cockburn (1873-1948) early doctor
serving in Syria in World War 1 |
| 1949 |
1949 - Newfoundland joins Confederation.
December 12,
1949
- Nancy Hodges is named Speaker of the British Columbia
Provincial Legislature, the 1st woman to
hold the post of Speaker in the British
Commonwealth. Source:
British Columbia Federation of Labour .online
1949 - The federal government makes changes to Canada's Food
Rules (originally introduced in 1942) to reflece living styles of post
war Canadians. The Public is exercising less and eating more, and
changes to the rules are necessary. They are the first of many changes
to be made reflecting lifestyle changes in North America.
1949 -
The Canadian Peace Congress is founded in response to the 'Cold
War'
1949 -
The Manitoba minimum wage per hour is 50 cents for urban men &
women working part-time, 45 cents for rural women part-time,
$.443 for urban women full time, $.42 for rural women full-time.
1949 -
The Canadian Press resumes votes Irene Strong
(1929- ), who holds
numerous Canadian swimming records,
winner of the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award as Canada's
Top Female Athlete of the Year for a second year in a row.
1949 -
The government requires iodine be added to table salt. It is a
known prevention of Goiter.
1949 -
Carmen Elizabeth Clarke
(1911-1960)
became the first woman to write a son that sold over 1, 000,000
copies!
1949 -
Pillsbury's Grand National Recipe and Baking contest is
introduced and is the forerunner of the Pilsbury's biennial Bake-Off
Cooking and Baking Contest.
Births 1949:
1949 -
Born Linda Marie Fedigan (1949- ) scientist & primatologist, & educator
1949 - Born Zahra Kazeml
(1949-2003) murdered photographer & documentalist
1949 -
Born Ann Klager Higgs (1949 - ) champion
water-skier
1949 -
Born
Terry
Litovitz (1949-2005) accounting teacher who was concerned for her
students
March 1, 1949 - Born Jane Haist (1949- )
medal winner in shot put and discus throw
March 4, 1949 - Born Carroll Baker (1949- ) award winning country music
singer
March 30, 1949 -
Born Liza Frulla (1949- ) provincial politician in
Quebec
April 8, 1949 - Born Claudette Bradshaw (1949-2022) Member
of Parliament from Moncton & activist
April 13, 1949 -
Born Marlyn Bowering (1949- ) award winning
author & poet
May 17, 1949 - Born Myra Freeman (1949- ) 1st
woman to be appointed Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
June 22, 1949 -
Born Jane Stopford Purves ((1949-2003) Nova Scotia politician &
journalist
June 30, 1949 -
Born Maxine Tynes (1949-2011) acclaimed Black poet
July 1, 1949 -
Born Patricia 'Pat' Capponi (1949-2020) activist on
behalf of mental illness & author
July 11, 1949 - Born Liona Boyd (1949 - )
classical guitarist
July 22, 1949 - Born Jane Purves (1949-2013)
journalist & politician
July 30, 1949 - Born Alexina Louie (1949- )
musician & composer
August 6, 1949 - Born Mary diMichele,(1949- ) poet &
writer
August 14, 1949 -
Born Jeanne Lamon (1949-2021) violinist &
award winning Director of Tafelmusik
August 20, 1949 -
Born Mobina Jaffer (1949- ) appointed to the Senate in
2001, the 1st Muslim Senator in Canada
August 21, 1949 -
Died
Constance ‘Connie’ Marie Beattie (1924-1949) physiotherapist who
served arctic Inuit
October 16, 1949 -
Born Jane Elizabeth Vasey (1949-1982) blues musician.
November 5, 1949
- Born Ratma Omidvar (1949- ) Senator & activist for
immigration
November 14, 1949 -
Born Carol Matas ( 1949- ) author
December 25, 1949 -
Born
Jane Elizabeth Proctor (1949-2014) physiotherapist to
team Canada
Deaths 1949:
1949
-
Died
E. Maud Graham (1876-1949) teacher
in South African Boer War & author
1949 -
Died Sophie Strub ( -1949) founder of a family pickle
business
1949 - Died
Nellie Yip Quong (1882-1949) social activist for
Chinese immigrants in British Columbia
January 4, 1949 - Died
Almanda Walker-Marchand (1868-1949)
founder Federation des femmes-française
January 14, 1949 - Died
Elizabeth Smith-Shortt (1859-1949) pioneer women doctor
February 18, 1949 - Died Annie Mabel Foster (1891-1949) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
March 2, 1949 - Died Alice Amelia Chown (1866-1949) suffragist
& author
March 23, 1949 - Died Nora Frances Henderson (1897-1949)
1st woman elected to Hamilton, Ontario's city council
April 21, 1949 - Died Agnes Dennis (1859-1949) social activist.
April 22, 1949 - Died
Emilie Tremblay (1872-1949)
Yukon pioneer & 1st white woman to climb the Chilkoot
trail in 1894
May 4, 1949 - Died
Marie Arzélie Éva Circé-Côté (1871-1949)
journalist, playwright, 1st Librarian for Montreal
May 16, 1949 -
Died Carrie 'Birdie' Holmes McGillivray (1871-1949) painter &
author
May 18, 1949 - Died Margaret Alexandra Shea (1863-1949) 1st
woman to be a professional nurse in Newfoundland
May 26, 1949 - Died
Alba Elizabeth Andrew (1884-1949) World War l Nursing Sister
June 4, 1949 - Died
lice Jane Jamieson (1860-1949) 1st woman in the
British Empire appointed as judge. in juvenile court
June 18, 1949 -
Died Jessie Anne Morrice (1870-1949) World War 1 Nursing Sister
June 29, 1949 - Died Ethel Frances Upton (1884-1949) World War 1
Nursing Sister
July 18, 1949 -
Died Ethel Blanche Ridley (1874-1949) World War 1 Nursing
Matron
August 10, 1949 -
Died Evelyn Frances Winnifred Fuller (1877-1949)
businesswoman
August 25, 1949 - Died
Annie Mackenzie Cleland (1859-1949) indomitable early woman doctor
September 8, 1949 - Died Annie Fisher Mitchell (1890-1949) World
War 1 Nursing Sister
November 22, 1949 - Died Bertha Hannah Wright Carr-Harris (1863-1949)
author & social activist
December 3, 1949 - Died
Caroline 'Carrie' Eleanor Wilkinson (1864-1949) poet
December 23, 1949 -
Died Mary 'Maysie' Parsons-Marcy (1899-1949) Nursing Sister
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