Canadian Women Now and Then

Elizabeth Macleod

This timely and relevant collection of fascinating stories about groundbreaking Canadian women present and past offers an inspiring one-of-a-kind look at Canadian history.Canadian women have long been trailblazers creating art making discoveries and setting records --- and often battling incredible odds and discrimination in the process. Here award-winning children's writer Elizabeth MacLeod presents biographies of more than one hundred of these remarkable women from the famous such as Margaret Atwood to the lesser known such as multi-award-winning mathematician Karen Yeats. There are stories of activists and architects engineers and explorers poets and politicians and so many more. Each category pairs a historical groundbreaker with a present-day woman making her mark in that same field. Included are stories of Indigenous women immigrants women with disabilities and women from the LGBTQ+ community. Together they tell the story of Canada. And together they offer a vision of what's possible to inspire all children to blaze trails of their own.This unique look at Canadian history is engagingly written with a storyteller's touch making this a book that will be read for both research and pleasure. Organized by profession it includes women in science the arts sports politics activism law business and more. The clean modern design along with the color portraits of each woman by Maia Faddoul make the pages accessible and inviting. This excellent resource for social studies lessons also contains a time line of significant dates in Canadian women's history a list of author's sources further resources and an index.>