There are many Great Women of Canada. Many have helped make Canada, Canada!
Laura Secord:
Laura Secord was a Canadian woman born on September 13, 1775 Great Barrington, Massachusetts which is also where she went to school at. Her father’s name was Thomas Ingersoll and her mother’s name was Elizabeth Dewey. She also had a brother named Charles. She later got married to James Secord and had 7 children, six girls and 1 boy.
Much later in June 1813 laura and her family were forced to look after the soldiers. She overheard plans that the Americans were going to attack the British so they could have control over Niagara. So she walked 32 km to tell the british their plan. Laura went through many challenges on the long trip because she couldn’t take the main roads to walk because she was afraid the Americans would see her and kill her.
Nellie McClung:
Nellie McClung was a political activist. She was born on October 20th, 1873. Nellie often questioned herself “why can’t the girls participate in races?” When she got older her questions still weren’t answered. When she got older she began teaching at a rural school. She often played football with her students during recess or gym time. Parents and other teachers often argued that sports aren’t for girls.
Nellie McClung was a Great Women Of Canada because she proved to everyone that girls can play sports and that not only boys have all the muscles.
Shawnadithit: 
In spring 1823 Shawnadithit, her sister and mother were taken captive by the furrier William Cull. They later decided to return them back to their tribe and people. But that included far distances of walking back to the tribe. During the journey all three of them grew sick with a plague that was among the Beothuk tribe.
Senator Vivienne Poy:
Vivienne Poy was an immigrant from hong kong to canada. She is one of the Great Women Of Canada because Vivienne Poy was the first Asian to be working in the Senate of Canada. She is an entrepreneur, author, historian and a fashion designer. Vivienne was an educator around the world. She educated places such as Hong Kong, England and Canada. Later she earned a Phd in history from the University of Toronto. She then after successfully started her own fashion label. Much later in the Senate of Canada she suggested that the month of may should be designated to the Asian Heritage month.
Emily Carr:
Emily Carr was a painter and a writer. She mostly was interested in two themes of art, Aboriginal art and the Nature art. She was often criticized on the Aboriginal art and received harsh feedback from the aboriginal tribes on how appropriate it really is. Along with Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven, and David Milne, Emily Carr was one of the preeminent, and perhaps most original, Canadian painters of the first half of the twentieth century; she was also one of the only major female artists in either North America or Europe of that period.