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 7 votes 4.55%

Mary Two–Axe Earley (1911–1996) Challenged law discriminating against First Nations women 25 votes 16.23%

Emily Carr (1871–1945) A West Coast artist who has been described as “Canada’s Van Gogh” 31 votes 20.13%

Viola Desmond (1914–1965) Challenged segregation practices in Nova Scotia 36 votes 23.38%

Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680) North America’s first indigenous saint 8 votes 5.19%

Nellie McClung (1873–1951) Novelist, reformer, journalist, and suffragist. 47 votes 30.52%

Total votes: 154
Added: Mar 8, 2018 11:17 AM

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