Rebelles

When Ontario attempted to eradicate French in schools through Regulation 17, Diane and Béatrice Desloges, two young teachers at Guigues School, decided to stand up to assimilation.

At age 9, Abby Hoffman pretended to be a boy so she could play hockey. Later, she infiltrated a race track that was off-limits to women. Discover the story of an Olympian rebel who never waited for anyone to give her a place.

At a time when women, and even more so Black women, were excluded from Canadian courts, Violet King refused to bow to an unjust system.

Kit Coleman, Canada's first female war correspondent, fought for the right to write freely at a time when women had no place in newsrooms.

Long before women had a place in science, Harriet Brooks participated in a discovery that revolutionized nuclear science and changed our understanding of the atom.