It's Int'l Women's Day. From the admittedly short list below (we only have so much space for this), please pick your favourite influential woman.

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It's Int'l Women's Day. From the admittedly short list below (we only have so much space for this), please pick your favourite influential woman.

Mary Shadd Cary (1823–1893) First black woman newspaper editor in North America 9 votes 3.91%

Mary Two–Axe Earley (1911–1996) Challenged law discriminating against First Nations women 21 votes 9.13%

Emily Carr (1871–1945) A West Coast artist who has been described as “Canada’s Van Gogh” 46 votes 20.00%

Viola Desmond (1914–1965) Challenged segregation practices in Nova Scotia 59 votes 25.65%

Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680) North America’s first indigenous saint 23 votes 10.00%

Nellie McClung (1873–1951) Novelist, reformer, journalist, and suffragist. 72 votes 31.30%

Total votes: 230
Added: Mar 8, 2018 11:17 AM

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