English writer Ada Bessie Teetgen resided briefly in Islay, AB, where her experience with the death of her sister’s baby inspired her to write an autobiographical novel, A White Passion (1912), to...
Inuit Ada Blackstone Johnson is known for her journal of the disastrous Wrangel Island Expedition of 1921, portions of which have been cited or published.
Ada Florence Kinton immigrated to Canada to teach art, but found her calling as a member of the Salvation Army, for whom she did considerable writing and editorial work.
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, founder of the Women’s Institutes of Canada, published a ground-breaking textbook about domestic science to improve women’s knowledge about sanitation and household...
American-born Adeline Boardman Todd lived in New Brunswick after her marriage to a wealthy businessman, and was known for her Sunday school stories for children.
A devoted temperance advocate, Adeline Davis Chisholm wrote articles for the Women's Christian Temperance Union and ran its periodical, the Woman's Journal.
Best know as Canada's first female Member of Parliament and for her social activism, Agnes Macphail also held several short-term positions as a newspaper columnist.
Born in Victoria, BC, Agnes Deans Cameron broke new ground in her first career as an educational administrator before moving into journalism. Her overland trip to the Arctic Ocean led to the...
Agnes Maule Machar was Victorian Canada’s foremost female public intellectual, who wrote in many genres to advocate for social causes, including the advancement of women.
Aimee Semple McPherson, one of the most famous Christian evangelists of the twentieth century, published many religious works as well as accounts of her own spiritual journey.
Alice Elizabeth Wilson spent her entire life in Sherbrooke, QC, where she blended her interests in music and poetry. After her early death in 1934, her mother collected her poems in a posthumous...
English-born Alice Ravenhill immigrated to Canada in 1910 and became a prominent figure in Women's Institutes, domestic education, and advocacy on behalf of Indigenous peoples.
At the time of her early death, Alma Frances McCollum was a promising Toronto poet whose work had appeared in several periodicals and one volume of verse.