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It's Int'l Women's Day. From the admittedly short list below (we only have so much space for this), please pick your favourite influential woman.

1155 total votes   Added

Mary Shadd Cary (1823–1893) First black woman newspaper editor in North America 64 votes 5.54%
Mary Two–Axe Earley (1911–1996) Challenged law discriminating against First Nations women 208 votes 18.01%
Emily Carr (1871–1945) A West Coast artist who has been described as “Canada’s Van Gogh” 227 votes 19.65%
Viola Desmond (1914–1965) Challenged segregation practices in Nova Scotia 271 votes 23.46%
Kateri Tekakwitha (1656–1680) North America’s first indigenous saint 129 votes 11.17%
Nellie McClung (1873–1951) Novelist, reformer, journalist, and suffragist. 256 votes 22.16%
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