Presents the stories of 34 notable Canadian women, organized into categories of sports, new world, arts and science.

Includes index.

Cassie Campbell -- Nancy Greene -- Silken Laumann -- Barbara Ann Scott -- Abby Hoffman -- Evelyn Hart -- Marilyn Bell -- Tookoolito -- Victoria Belcourt Callihoo -- Catherine O'Hare Schubert -- Madeleine de Verchères -- Sylvia Estes Stark -- Eunice Williams --- Esther Brandeau -- Avril Lavigne -- Kathleen Parlow -- Emma Albani (Lajeunesse) -- Dorothy Livesay -- Qiu Xia He -- Emily Carr -- May Irwin -- Denise Donlon -- Ursula Franklin -- Emily Jennings Stowe -- Wendy Sloboda -- Maude Abbott -- Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko -- Sara Emma Edmonds -- Elizabeth May -- Viola Huggard MacMillan -- Eleanor (Ella) Johnson -- Kateri Tekakwitha -- Helen Gregory Macgill -- Rosella Bjornson.