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In this next installment of the best-selling Canadian Heroines sequence, writer Merna Forster includes 100 more amazing tales of fantastic pictures and fantastic figures. Fulfill well-known and neglected ladies in areas such as for instance sport, technology, politics, conflict and peace, and leisure and arts, like the initial Degrassi Chief Kool, children, baseball celebrity Hilda Ranscombe, and the girl named "the nuclear bug." This guide is saturated in amazing trivia and facts about remarkable girls. You’ll find out about Second World-War heroine Joan Fletcher Bamford, who saved 2,000 Dutch captives from the prison camp in a Sumatran rainforest while requesting 70 Japanese troops. Hilwie Hamdon was the girl behind the making of Canada's first mosque, and Frances Gertrude McGill was the crime-fighter called the "Sherlock Holmes of Saskatchewan." Continue reading and learn 100 additional Canadian heroines and how they’ve transformed our nation.