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 Great Women of Canada 

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Dr. Maude Abbott - medical pioneer

Canadian-born cardiac pathologist and physician, Maude Abbott became an internationally-respected expert on congenital heart disease. Order her print here

 

Mabel Hubbard Bell - aviation industry pioneer

Muse, wife and business partner of Alexander Graham Bell, she got him to patent his telephone and was the first woman to run an aviation business. 

 

 

 

Elisabeth Mann Borgese - ocean protection pioneer

Elisabeth worked tirelessly to protect the oceans and helped develop the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Order her print here

 

Harriet Brooks - nuclear energy pioneer

Canada's first female physicist pioneered the field of radioactivity research. Order her portrait print here. 

 

Esther Marjorie Hill - architecture pioneer

Canada's first female registered architect

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Frances Kelsey - medical hero

Canadian-American pharmacologist/physician single-handedly prevented a thalidomide crisis in the U.S.

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Elsie MacGill - aviation industry pioneer

Engineer, world's first female aircraft designer

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Henriette-Marie LeJeune Ross - health pioneer

Her reputation as a nurse and midwife was first established in the Little Bras d’Or area of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, when she reputedly innoculated local residents and saved them from a community smallpox epidemic. Her courage, determination, energy and love of adventure, made 'Granny Ross' a legend as a pioneering woman and healer.

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Dr. Jennie Smillie

Medical pioneer - first Canadian female surgeon,  performed the country's first major gynecological surgery

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