Great Canadian Women Crossword

Editor of Chatelaine magazine and a newspaper colmnist in the 1960s
an Inuit artist who's career began in 1958
Canada's Van Gogh born in Victoria BC
First black woman newspaper editor in North America
helped found the Provincial Franchise Committe for Woman's Suffrage in 1921
Removed from a movie theatre for sitting in a section unofficially set aside for black patrons
battled for two decades to have the discriminatory law reversed
the only female artist who signed Les Automatistes' polemical manifesto, Refus Global, in 1948
First woman elected to municipal office in the British Empire
Won the Govenor General's Award for fiction three times in Canada
Helped found the National Council of Women, The Victorian Order of Nurses and the national YWCA
Best known for her poetry celebrating her Aboriginal Heritage, her readings made her a popular ambassador for Canada
One of the giants of Canadian Literature, won the Order of Canada
First Woman elected to the House of Commons
Sat in Prime Minister Lester Pearson's cabinet as the minister of national health and welfare and minister of amateur sport
Her efforts led Manitoba to become the first province to allow women to vote.