Contribute/Women

Contribute about women in Canada Edit, improve and create content on Wikimedia projects about women and non binary people in Canada.

Two kinds of gender gap exist within the Wikimedia projects: a content gender gap (meaning that more men than women are covered in the content of the Wikimedia projects) and a participation gender gap (meaning that more men than women contribute to develop the Wikimedia projects). Wikimedia Canada has both kinds as its priorities. This page aims at helping to reduce the content gender gap by listing missing and incomplete content about women and nonbinary people in Canada on Wikimedia projects.

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Resources to learn how to edit Wikipedia

• Quick Guide for Editing on Wikipedia (guide prepared by Art+Feminism campaign in 2020)

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Canadian Women Biographies

Picture	Name	Description	To do on English Wikipedia	To do on French Wikipedia	References	Remarks
	Sandra Perron	First female infantry officer of the Canadian Army		Article to be created
	Violet Milstead	First female Canadian bush pilot		Article to be created
	Mary Martha (born Maria Bunning)	Sister in the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph, foundress and superior of the Sisters of St Joseph of the dicose of Hamilton, Ontario	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Taqulittuq (or Tookoolito)	Inuk interpreter and guide		Article to be created
	Sophia Simms	First successful woman publisher in Toronto	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Livia Thür	Hungarian sociologist and economist that had her career in Quebec	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Sylvie Bernard	First Nation artist from Quebec	Article to be created	Add references
	An Antane-Kapesh	Innu writer	Add references	Add references
	Monique Sioui	Indigenous activist	Stub to improve	Add references
	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Indigenous writer, musician and academic	Needs improvement	Needs improvement
	Christine Sioui-Wawanoloath	First Nation writer and artist living in Quebec	Stub to improve	Stub to improve
	Elizabeth Amherst Hale	Canadian artist from Lower Canada	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Sarah Evanetz	Canadian swimmer	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Roselle Knott	Canadian actress		Article to be created
	Catriona M. Steele	Canadian clinician-scientist		Article to be created
	Qingzi Ouyang	Badminton player	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Donna Jodhan	Known for her involvement in a Canadian Supreme Court case whose verdict compelled the Canadian Government to make all of their websites accessible to persons with disabilities	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Grace Skogstad	Canadian political science professor		Article to be created
	Penny Stamper-Davis	Canadian Olympic sailor	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Sarah McLean	Canadian Olympic sailor	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Begonia	Canadian singer	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Christina Ashcroft	Sport shooter	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Louisa Goddard Frothingham Molson	Philanthropist		Article to be created
	Antoinette Giroux	Actress from Quebec	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Gabrielle Roy	Franco-Manitoban author	Add references
	Thérèse-Geneviève Coutlée	Mother superior of the Sisters of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal	Stub to improve	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Josée Piché	Canadian ice dancer	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Marjolaine Hébert	Canadian actress from Quebec	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Rita Bibeau	Actress and singer from Queebc	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Julie Arel	Singer from Quebec	Article to be created	Add references
	Lucie Lachapelle	Singer from Quebec	Article to be created	Stub to improve, and add references
	Amanda Viger	Canadian religious hospitalier, pharmacist, and founder and director general of the Hôtel-Dieu of Tracadie, New Brunswick	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Margot Campbell	Actress from Quebec	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Edwige Buisson	Co-founder and superior of the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Eliza Ritchie	prominent suffragist in Nova Scotia		Stub to improve
	Kate Horn	Stage actress and theater director	Stub to improve
	Sheila Elizabeth Whitton	Coder for the Canadian Navy during the Second World War		Article to be created	The Canadian Encyclopedia
	Polly Barber	Teacher, farmer and businesswoman from Lower Canada	Stub to improve	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Marie-Esther Robichaud	Teacher, school principal and administration, and pioneer of education in French in Acadia	Article to be created
	Angela Sidney	Tagish storyteller		Article to be created
	Mikak	Inuk women		Article to be created
	Nora Bernard	Mi'kmaq activist		Article to be created
	Jean Cuthand Goodwill	Cree nurse, the first Indigenous woman to finish a nursing program in Saskatchewan		Article to be created
	Élodie Mailloux	Sister of Charity of the Hôpital Général of Montreal	Stub to improve	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Loretta Leonard Shaw	Canadian Christian missionary in Japan from 1905 to 1939		Article to be created
	Jeanne Lajoie	Teacher from Ontario	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Susanna Carson Rijnhart	Medical doctor, Protestant missionary, and explorer of Tibet		Stub to improve
	Onye Nnorom	Physician		Article to be created	The Canadian Encyclopedia
	Fannie Knowling McNeil	Suffragist and artiste from the Dominion of Newfoundland		Article to be created
	Jessie Winnifred Gourlie Hogg	Homemaker, author and impresario	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Jessie Kathleen Fischer	First woman to be elected to the municipal council of Montreal	Article to be created	Article to be created	Commission de toponymie du Québec (fr)
	Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture	First Indigenous woman to become a registered nurse in Canada and to gain the right to vote in a Canadian federal election, also the first Indigenous woman from Canada to serve in the United States military	Stub to improve	Article to be created	The Canadian Encyclopedia
	Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie	Nurse who served with the Canadian Army during the world wars, the first woman to be promoted to the rank of colonel in Canada, person of national historic significance	Stub to improve, and add references	Article to be created	The Canadian Encyclopedia
	Agnes Deans Cameron	Educator, writer, journalist, lecturer, and adventurer		Article to be created
	Molly Reilly	First female Canadian pilot to reach the rank of captain, the first female Canadian corporate pilot, and the first woman to fly to the Arctic professionally}		Article to be created
	Estelle Lacoursière	Nun, teacher and botanist	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Catherine Voyer-Léger	Writer	Article to be created
	Danielle Thibeault	Artist	Article to be created
	Sophie Létourneau	Writer	Stub to improve	Stub to improve
	Estelle Lemire	Composer	Article to be created
	France Margaret Bélanger	Lawyer and businesswoman	Article to be created
	Géraldine Bourbeau	Painter	Article to be created
	Agathe Martel	Soprano	Article to be created
	Mathilde Toupin-Fafard	Nun, nurse and teacher	Article to be created
	Samantha Hill	Basketball player	Article to be created
	Blondie B	Musician	Article to be created
	Julie Pearson	Writer	Article to be created	Stub to improve, and add references
	Catherine Vidal	Actress	Needs improvement
	Stéphanie Jasmin	Scenographer and artist	Article to be created
	Jessica Roque	Basketball coach	Article to be created
	Camille Robert	Historian	Article to be created
	Mary McGeachy	Diplomat and feminist	Article to be created
	Jeanne d'Arc Jutras	Journliast and feminist	Article to be created
	Frances Adair Mckenzie	Artist and feminist	Article to be created
	Simone Aubry Beaulieu	Painter	Article to be created
	Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo	Astrophysicist	Article to be created
	Sarah Guillemard	Politician	Stub to improve	Stub to improve
	Colette Dimic	Professor	Article to be created
	Andi Naude	Skier	Stub to improve	Stub to improve
	Haylee Wanstall	Actress	Stub to improve, and add references	Stub to improve, and add references
	Joanna Lenko	Ice dancer		Stub to improve
	Sarah Freeman	Skier	Stub to improve	Stub to improve
	Amanda Laine	Model		Stub to improve
	Lisa Cant	Model	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Melyssa Ford	Actress		Stub to improve
	Jamie Sinclair	Curler		Add references
	Heather Marks	Model	Add references	Stub to improve
	Susan Johnson	Bishop	Stub to improve	Stub to improve
	Rosemary Barton	Journalist		Needs to be updated
	Pascale Ferland	Scenarist	Article to be created
	Jill Hennessy	Actress and singer		Add references
	Cléophée Têtu (baptized Françoise-Cléophée) (named Thérèse de Jésus)	Nun that held important functions in the Sister of Charity of Providence	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Muriel Dutil	Actress from Qeuebc	Article to be created
	Louison Danis	Franco-Ontarian comedian and stage director	Article to be created	Stub to improve, and add references
	Lucie Mitchell	Actress from Qeuebc	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Laura Salverson	Writer		Article to be created
	Saskia Garel	Musician and actress		Article to be created
	Shaughnessy Cohen	Politician		Article to be created
	Marie-Claire Kirkland	First women to be elected to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec	Add references
	Suzanne Langlois	Actress from Quebec	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Edna May Williston Best	Social activist and war worker	Stub to improve	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Genevieve Lipsett	Teacher, journalist and ausffragist	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Julie-Marguerite-Lia Blanchard (known as Mother Marie-Antoinette)	Superior general of the Sisters of Charity of Providence and author	Article to be created		Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Vera Cudjoe	Trinidadian-Canadian actress, producer and educator, founder of the Black Theatre of Canada		Article to be created
	Doris Anderson	author, journalist and women's rights activist		Article to be created
	Agnes Benidickson	First woman to be chancellor of Queen's University		Article to be created
	Florence Bird	Journalist and senator, chairwoman of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women	Add references	Stub to improve, and add references
	Reva Gerstein	Psychologist and educator, first woman to be Chancellor of the University of Western Ontario		Article to be created
	Evelyn Hart	Ballerina		Article to be created
	Lotta Hitschmanova	Humanitarian		Article to be created
	Gerda Hnatyshyn	Former viceregal consort of Canada	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Renaude Lapointe	Journalist and Senator, the first French-Canadian woman to preside over the Senate	Stub to improve	Add references
	Cornelia Oberlander	Landscape architect	Add references	Article to be created
	Lily Schreyer	Former viceregal consort of Canada as the wife of Edward Schreyer	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Mary Adams	Canadian women's education reformer, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Susan Louisa Moir Allison	Author and pioneer, First Nations historian, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Mary E. Bibb	First female black journalist in Canada, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Jean Blewett	Journalist, author and poet, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Lydia Campbell	Born to an Inuit mother and an English father, one of Labrador's best known historical figures and writers, person of national historic significance	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Margaret Ridley Charlton	Medical librarian, co-founder of the Medical Library Association, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Lucille Clifton ('Wii Nii Puun)	Leader of the Gitga'ata people, person of national historic significance	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Isabella Valancy Crawford	Irish-born Canadian writer and poet, person of national historic significance}		Article to be created
	Helen Creighton	Folklorist and writer, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Onésime Dorval	First certified teacher in Saskatchewan, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Jeanne Dugas	Acadian woman, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Sara Jeannette Duncan	Author and journalist, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Dorothy Dworkin	Jewish nurse, businesswoman and philanthropist, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Lillian Bilsky Freiman	Jewish philanthropist, person of national historic significance}		Article to be created
	Josephine Mandamin (or Biidaasige-ba)	Anishinaabe elder, founding member of the water protectors movement		Article to be created
	Mary Grannan	Children's writer and radio personality, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Julia Catherine Beckwith	Credited as the first novelist in Canada, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Ella Cora Hind	Journalist, agriculturalist, women's rights activist and suffragist, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Adelaide Hoodless	Educational reformer, founder of the Women's Institute, person of national historic significance	Add references	Article to be created
	Catherine Beaulieu Bouvier Lamoureux	Métis women living in the Northwest Territories, founder and leader of a local Métis community, defender of the Métis culture, person of national historic significance	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Marguerite Vincent Lawinonkié	Huron-Wendat craftswoman who helped save the Huron-Wendat community, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Kay Livingstone	Social activist, actor and broadcaster, feminist and activist for blacks rights, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Rose Fortune	Born from slave parents fleeing from the United States, first woman to be a police officer in North America, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Catherine Callbeck	First women to be elected premier of a Canadian province during a general election	Add references
	Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie	Pioneer of the feminist movement in Quebec, person of national historic significance	Add references
	Grace Annie Lockhart	Stub to improve, and add references	Stub to improve
	Frances Loring	Scupltor, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Margaret MacDonald	Military nurse during World War I, first woman to be given the rank of Major in the British Empire, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Helen Gregory MacGill	One of Canada's first woman judges, women's right advocat who fought for female suffrage, person of national historic significance	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Agnes Maule Machar	Author, poet and social reformer		Article to be created
	Pegi Nicol MacLeod	Painter, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Helen MacMurchy	Doctor, author, pioneer in the medical field, prominent eugenicist, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Nellie McClung	Feminist, activist, suffragette and politician, person of national historic significance		Add references
	Louise McKinney	Politician and feminist activist in Alberta, first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, first woman to be elected to a legislature in Canada and in the whole British Empire, person of national historic significance		Stub to improve
	Violet McNaughton	Journalist and agrarian feminist, notable for co-establishing "The Western Producer", person of national historical significance		Article to be created
	Susanna Moodie	Author, person of national historic significance	Add references
	Nahnebahwequa (or Catherine Bunch)	Ojibwa spokeswoman and Christian missionary, person of national historic significance	Needs improvement
	Elizabeth Parker	Journalist, co-founder of the Alpine Club of Canada, person of national historic significance	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Irene Parlby	Politician and women's rights activist in Alberta, person of national historic significance		Stub to improve
	Georgina Pope	Nurse who served with distinction in the Second Boer War and First World War, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Alice Ravenhill	Educational pioneer, developer of women's institutes and author, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Harriette Taber Richardson	Invovled in the rebuilding of the Habitation of Port-Royal throughout the 1920s and 1930s, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Marie Marguerite Rose	Canadian slave born in Guinea, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Mary Anne Sadlier	Irish author who wrote for Irish immigrants in both the United States and Canada, encouraging them to attend mass and retain the Catholic faith, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Margaret Marshall Saunders	Writer and animal rights advocate, person of national historical significance		Article to be created
	Charlotte Small	Métis woman who notably joined her David Thompson on his expeditions		Article to be created
	Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie	Nurse, first woman to be promoted to the rank of colonel in the Canadian Army	Add references	Article to be created
	Mary Ellen Smith	First female Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, and both the first female cabinet minister and the first female Speaker in the British Empire, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Chloe Cooley	Young black woman held as a slave in Upper Canada whose owner forced her into a board to sell her in 1793 in the United States, the incident is believed to have led to the passage of the Act Against Slavery in 1793 in Upper Canada, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Mary Agnes Snively	Nurse, first President of the Canadian Society of Superintendants of Training Schools for Nurses, person of national historic significance		Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Mary Southcott	Nurse and hospital administrator, person of national historic significance	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Thanadelthur	Woman of the Chipewyan Dënesųłı̨ne nation who served as a guide and interpreter for the Hudson's Bay Company, person of national historic significance		Article to be created
	Justine Musk	Author		Article to be created
	Leah Gibson	Actress		Article to be created
	Yuanling Yuan	Chess player		Article to be created
	Muriel Duckworth	Feminist and activist		Article to be created
	Renee Rosnes	Pianist		Article to be created
	Meghan Murphy	Feminist writer and journalist		Article to be created
	Marguerite Maillet	Acadian writer	Article to be created	Add references
	Renée Blanchar	Acadian film director and screenwriter	Article to be created	Stub to improve
	Helen Mussallem	Nurse who served with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War II		Article to be created
	Francess Halpenny	Editor and professor	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Evelyn de Mille	First woman in Canada to found a bookstore chain	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Sheila Fischman	Translator specialized in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature from French to English		Article to be created
	Carol Spier	Production designer and art director	Stub to improve, and add references	Article to be created
	Johanne Garneau	Actress from Quebec	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Krista Bridges	Actress	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Susan Shipton	Film editor	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Thérèse Cadorette	Actress	Stub to improve	Stub to improve, and add references
	Anna Bella Peel	War mother and author	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Daniela Bobadilla	Actress		Article to be created
	Pascale Hutton	Actress	Add references	Article to be created
	Neeru Bajwa	Actress, director and producer	Add references	Article to be created
	Angela Asher	Actress	Add references	Article to be created
	Katherine Stewart-Jones	Cross-country skier		Article to be created
	Mary Dignam	Artist		Article to be created
	Stacey Dales	Basketball player and sports reporter		Article to be created
	Adelaide Sinclair	Public servant	Stub to improve	Article to be created
	Marie-Madeleine Maisonnat	Acadian figure	Article to be created	Article to be created	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Marie Barbier de l'Assomption	Catholic nun	Stub to improve	Stub to improve	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
	Edith Archibald	Writer, suffragist, leader of feminist associations, person of national historic significance		Stub to improve
	Bertha Harmer	Nurser, writer, educator, known for writing the textbook Textbook for the Principles and Practice of Nursing	Stub to improve	Article to be created	en=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|fr=Dictionnaire biogrpahique du Canada
	Agnes Forneri	Nurse	Article to be created	Article to be created	en=Dictionary of Canadian Biography|fr=Dictionnaire biographique du Canada

See also

• List of missing articles on Wikipedia in French about Canadian women generated by Les sans pagEs Project

Other topics related to women in Canada

Picture	Name	Description	To do on English Wikipedia	To do on French Wikipedia	References	Remarks
	Loi sur la capacité juridique de la femme mariée	Quebec's law from 1964 amending the Lower Canada Civil Code in order to allow married women to exerce full legal capacity without their husbands' consent	Article to be created
	Wuaneita Society	Women's group at the University of Alberta from 1908 to 1973		Article to be created
	Girls20	Association	Article to be created	Stub to improve

Resources

Selected bibliography

• (en) MacLeod, Elizabeth, Canadian Women Now and Then: More than 100 Stories of Fearless Trailblazers, 2020.

Links

• Gender gap on Meta-Wiki
• WikiProject Women in Red on English Wikipedia
• Art+Feminism on English Wikipedia