1800s

Laura Smith Haviland (20 dec 1808 – 20 apr 1898 | Kitley, Ontario – Grand Rapids MI) abolitionist, suffragist, social reformer, temperance activist, Underground Railroad activist, orphanage founder / director

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1810s

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1820s

Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite (30 jan 1829 – 09 nov 1913 | Brantford, Ontario – Chicago IL) author, attorney, suffragist, women’s rights activist, founded C. V. Waite & Co. publishing firm, founder / editor Chicago Law Times magazine, president of Woman’s International Bar Association 

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1830s

Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (01 may 1831 – 30 apr 1903 | Norwich Township, Ontario – Toronto, Canada) educator, suffragist, Quaker / then Unitarian, Canada’s first practicing female homeopathic physician, founding member of Toronto Women’s Literary Guild, founding president of Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association [became Canadian Suffrage Association]

Margaretta [Maggie] Fox Kane (07 oct 1833 – 08 mar 1893 | Consecon, Ontario – New York NY) folk figure, Canadian spiritualist, Catholic convert , one of the [in]famous Fox Sisters, co-established Spiritualist movement |

Jennie Fowler Willing (22 jan 1834 – 06 oct 1916 | Burford, Ontario – New York NY) author, temperance reformer, founding member Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU], founded New York Evangelistic Training School | women.born.today © susan.powers.bourne

Agnes Maule Machar (23 jan 1837 – 24 jan 1927 | Kingston, Ontario – Kingston, Ontario) poet, author, novelist, essayist, feminist, biographer, social reformer, pen-name Fidelis 

Catherine [Kate] Fox (27 mar 1837 – 02 jul 1892 | Consecon, Ontario – Brooklyn NY) folk figure, controversial spiritualist medium, considered one of the founders of modern spiritualist movement

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1840s

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1850s

Nina Clifford (03 aug 1851 – 14 jul 1929 | Chatham, Ontario – Detroit MI) madam, folk figure, brothel owner, born Johanna Crow

Annie Le Porte Diggs (22 feb 1853 – 07 sep 1916 | London, Ontario – Detroit MI) poet, author, activist, journalist, librarian, Canadian-born American

Augusta Stowe Gullen (27 jul 1857 – 25 sep 1943 | Mount Pleasant, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) physician, social reformer, women’s rights activist, first woman to gain a medical degree in Canada, Women’s College Hospital co-founder

Alice Eastwood (19 jan 1859 – 30 oct 1953 | Toronto, Ontario – San Francisco CA) Canadian-American author, editor, curator, teacher, journal founder, self-taught botanist, plant collector / discoverer / cataloguer 

Emma Brown Malone (30 jan 1859 – 12 may 1924 | Pickering, Ontario – Cleveland OH) American Quaker, writer, social activist, co-founded Cleveland Bible School (later became Malone College), women’s ministerial activist / advocate

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1860s

Ellen Liddy Watson (02 jul 1860 – 20 jul 1889 | Aran Lake, Ontario – Natrona County WY) folk figure, aka Cattle Kate, Ella Watson, Mrs James Averell, accused of cattle rustling, only woman ever lynched in Wyoming

Emily Pauline [Tekahionwake] Johnson (10 mar 1861 – 07 mar 1913 | Six Nations Reserve, Ontario – Vancouver, British Columbia) Mohawk-English-Canadian poet

Theresa Mary Gowanlock Johnson (29 jul 1863 – 12 sep 1899 | Tintern, Ontario – Lincoln, Ontario) author, pioneer, Upper Canadian, Indian captive / survivor

Laura Hughes Lunde (13 nov 1866 – 16 jan 1966 | Toronto, Ontario – Chicago IL) pacifist, feminist, socialist, civic reformer, Canadian-American, co-founded Canadian Labor Party and Canadian Women’s Peace Party

Esther Leonora [Nora] Clench Streeton (06 may 1867 – 17 may 1938 | St Mary’s, Ontario – West Toorak, Australia) child prodigy, Canadian violinist

Emily Gowan Ferguson Murphy (14 mar 1868 – 27 oct 1933 | Cookstown, Ontario – Edmonton, Alberta) jurist, author, magistrate, women’s rights activist, one of Canada’s Famous Five 

Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison (21 oct 1868 – 18 dec 1940 | Horning’s Mills, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) diarist, educator, first dean of women at Victoria College, Ontario

Marie Dressler (09 nov 1869 – 28 jul 1934 | Cobourg, Ontario – Santa Barbara CA) Canadian actress, memoirist

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1870s

Mina Hubbard (15 apr 1870 – 04 may 1956 | Hamilton Township, Ontario – London UK) author, explorer, cartographer, public speaker

Jessie Richmond Tarbox Beals (23 dec 1870 – 30 may 1942 | Hamilton, Ontario – New York NY) photographer, photojournalist, first US female night photographer

Elsie Reford (22 jan 1872 – 08 nov 1967 | Perth, Ontario – Montreal, Quebec) art collector, pioneer horticulturist, outdoor sportswoman, WWI War Office translator, created one of largest private gardens in Canada [open to public since 1962]

Nellie Mooney McClung (20 oct 1873 – 01 sep 1951 | Chatsworth, Ontario – Victoria, British Columbia) novelist, legislator, suffragist, social activist, non-fiction author, one of Canada’s Famous Five

Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (18 may 1874 – 10 jan 1941 | Chatham, Ontario – Winter Park FL) first female recipient of Navy Cross, pioneering US Navy Chief Nurse, one of The Sacred Twenty, i.e. first Navy nurse enlistees / graduates

Ida Hawley (26 apr 1876 -09 dec 1908 | Belleville, Ontario – New York NY) stage actress, musicals singer, operatic soprano

Josephine Winder Boyland Jacobsen (19 aug 1908 – 09 jul 2003 | Coberg, Ontario – Cockneyville MD) poet, literary critic, short story writer, US Poet Laureate

Harriet Brooks Pitcher (02 jul 1876 – 17 apr 1933 | Exeter, Ontario – Montreal, Quebec) professor, researcher, first female to earn Master’s degree at McGill University, Canada’s first female nuclear physicist, focused on nuclear radioactivity and transmutations

Isabel Maitland Stewart (14 jan 1878 – 05 oct 1963 | Raleigh, Ontario – Chatham NJ) Canadian-American author, educator, researcher

Elizabeth Arden (31 dec 1878 – 18 oct 1966 | Woodbridge, Ontario – New York NY) Canadian-American author, social icon, beauty products innovator, cosmetics businesswoman, née Florence Nightingale Graham

Mazo Louise de la Roche (15 jan 1879 – 12 jul 1961 | Newmarket, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) playwright, serial novelist, short fiction writer, autobiographical author

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1880s

Gena Brascombe (04 nov 1881 – 26 jul 1977 | Picton, Ontario – New York NY) pianist, composer, music educator, choir conductor, founded Branscombe Chorale

Edith Summers Kelley (28 apr 1884 – 09 jun 1956 | Toronto, Ontario – Los Gatos CA) Canadian-born American novelist

Margaret Watkins (08 nov 1884 – 10 nov 1969 | Hamilton, Ontario – Glasgow, Scotland) Canadian photographer, photography teacher, portrait studio owner, pioneering female commercial freelance advertising photographer, née Meta Gladys Watkins

Clara Sipprell (31 oct 1885 – 27 dec 1975 | Tilsonburg, Ontario – Manchester VT) author, pictorial portrait /  landscape photographer, first female participant in Buffalo Camera Club [though not formally allowed to join as a woman]

Isabel Mary Bowler Paterson (22 jan 1886 – 10 jan 1961 | Manitoulin Island, Ontario – Montclair NJ) author, novelist, journalist, political philosopher, cultural and literary critic, one of founding mothers of American Libertarianism

Lillian Helena Smith (17 mar 1887 – 05 jan 1983 | London, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) first Canadian children’s librarian, founded children’s school libraries in Toronto, developed children’s literature library classification

Mary Susannah Edgar (23 may 1889 – 17 sep 1973 | Sundridge, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) author, hymnist, playwright, camp director

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1890s

Agnes Macphail (24 mar 1890 – 13 feb 1954 | Proton Township, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) pacifist, politician, columnist, journalist, social activist

Mildred Valley Thornton (07 may 1890 – 27 jul 1967 | Rutherford, Ontario – Vancouver, British Columbia) portrait / landscape painter

Aimee Semple McPherson (09 oct 1890 – 27 sep 1944 | Salford, Ontario – Oakland CA) evangelist, church founder, spiritual leader, media personality, née Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy

Mary Pickford (08 apr 1892 – 29 may 1979 | Toronto, Ontario – Santa Monica CA) actress, producer, screenwriter, first female movie mogul, aka America’s Sweetheart, born Gladys Marie Smith

Esther Marjorie Hill  (29 may 1895 – 07 jan 1985 | Guelph, Ontario – Victoria, British Columbia) artist, weaver, architect

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1900s

Joan Mowat Erikson (27 jun 1903 – 03 aug 1997 | Brockville, Ontario – Brewster MA) author, educator, psychologist, craftsperson, dance ethnographer, born Sarah Lucretia Serson, collaborative innovator in human psychosocial development with husband Erik Erikson

Elizabeth Wyn Wood (08 oct 1903 – 27 jan 1966 | Orillia, Ontario – Willowdale, Ontario) sculptor, known for modernist interpretation of Canadian landscapes

Isabel Grace McLaughlin (10 oct 1903 – 26 nov 2002| Oshawa, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) visual artist, arts patron / philanthropist, still life / design / landscape Modernist painter

Marion Sanford (09 feb 1904 – 01 feb 1987 | Ontario, Canada – Warren PA) artist, sculptor

Meribeth E. Cameron (22 may 1905 – 12 jul 1997| Ingersoll, Ontario – South Hadley MA) author, professor of Chinese history, Mount Holyoke College academic dean / acting president

Gertrude Moltke Bernard (18 jun 1906 – 17 jun 1986 | Mattawa, Ontario – Kamloops, BC) aka Anahareo, Mohawk-Iroquois writer, animal rights activist, conservationist

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1910s

Gwethalyn Graham Erichsen-Brown (18 jan 1913 – 25 nov 1965 | Toronto, Ontario – Montreal, Quebec) novelist, first Canadian novelist to become #1 New York Times Best Seller

Helen Margaret Oakley Dance (15 feb 1913 – 27 may 2001 | Toronto, Ontario – Escondido CA) historian, producer, journalist, musician, biographer, WWII OSS operative,  civil rights / social justice activist, Catholic Interracial Council co-founder

Elizabeth Smart (27 dec 1913 – 04 mar 1986 | Ottawa, Ontario – London UK) Canadian poet, novelist

Margaret Ellis Sturm Millar (05 feb 1915 – 26 mar 1994 | Kitchener, Ontario – Santa Barbara CA) American-Canadian mystery novelist

Edith Marion Marcombe Shiffert (09 jan 1916 – 01 mar 2017 | Toronto, Ontario – Kyoto, Japan) Canadian ex-patriate poet

Margaret Avison (23 apr 1918 – 31 jul 2007 | Galt, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) poet

Norah Roden Patterson (23 jun 1918 – 13 mar 2009 | Toronto, Ontario – Pickering, Ontario) monarch butterfly migration expert / marker

Madeline DeFrees (18 nov 1919 – 11 nov 2015 | Ontario OR – Portland OR) poet, professor, nonfiction author, former religious sister

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1920s

Dorothy Maclean (07 jan 1920 – 12 mar 2020 | Guelph, Ontario – Findhorn, Scotland) educator, spiritual writer, deva communicator, co-founded Findhorn spiritual community in Scotland

Selma Diamond (05 aug 1920 – 13 may 1985 | London, Ontario – Los Angeles CA) author, comedic actress, radio / television writer

Margaret Birch (13 jun 1921 – Leamington, Ontario) politician, child care activist, first female cabinet minister in Ontario

Mildred [Millie] Noble (13 jul 1921 – 19 jan 2008 | Ontario, Canada – Mashpee MA) author, biographer, member Ojibwe Nation, children’s book writer, Native American activist, produced local tv show called Wampanog Women Speak, co-founded Boston Indian Council [now North American Indian Center of Boston]

Cathleen Synge Morawetz (05 may 1923 – 08 aug 2017 | Toronto, Ontario – New York NY) essayist, mathematician, Canadian-American, professor emerita / former director of NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Miriam [Mimi] Schapiro (15 nov 1923 – 20 jun 2015 | Toronto, Ontario – Hamptons Bay NY) artist, author, sculptor, femmage innovator, pioneer feminist artist, pattern / decorative artist

June Rose Callwood (02 jun 1924 – 14 apr 2007 | Chatham, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) author, journalist, social activist, aka Canada’s Conscience

Marjorie Elliott Sypher de Oduber (24 jan 1925 – 16 apr 2015 | Ottawa, Ontario – San José, Costa Rica) musician, former First Lady of Costa Rica, Canadian-born Costa Rican public figure / political family member

Betty Margaret Hannah Kennedy (04 jan 1926 – 20 mar 2017 | Ottawa, Ontario – Campbellville, Ontario) author, journalist, broadcaster, retired Canadian Senator, executive film producer, political tv show panelist, former radio public affairs editor

Phyllis Gotlieb (26 may 1926 – 14 jun 2009 | Toronto, Ontario – Toronto, Canada) poet, sci-fi novelist, aka Mother of Canadian Science Fiction

Helen Aileen Hooper Cowan (11 jun 1926 – Windsor, Ontario) artist, painter, sculptor, member / former president of Scultpors’ Society of Canada

Doreen Hume (14 jul 1926 – Sault Ste Marie, Ontario) soprano soloist, voice teacher / professor, born Edith Doreen Hulme

Virginia I. Douglas (28 jan 1927 – 08 sep 2017 | London, Ontario – Halifax NS) author, psychologist, professor emerita at McGill University, research focus / contributions on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and pharmacotherapy effects on children with ADHD

Barbara Ann Scott King (09 may 1928 – 30 sep 2012 | Ottawa, Ontario – Amelia City FL) ice skater, nonfiction author

Anna P. Baker (12 jun 1928 – 28 feb 1985 | London, Ontario – Kingston, Canada) visual artist / teacher

Patricia Wilde (16 jul 1928 – Ottawa, Ontario) former principal ballerina of New York City Ballet, dance teacher

Marion Woodman (15 aug 1928 – 09 jul 2018 | London, Ontario – London, Ontario) Jungian analyst, mythopoetic author, women’s movement figure

Marie Elyse St. George (08 dec 1929 – St Catherines, Ontario) poet, artist, art teacher, etcher, painter, lithographer, printmaker, memoirist

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1930s

Susan [Sue] Powell Johanson (16 mar 1930 – Toronto, Ontario) writer, public speaker, sex educator, registered nurse, media personality

Landon [Lucy] Carter Pearson (16 nov 1930 – Toronto, Ontario) author, senator, children’s rights activist

Rosemary Kilbourn (03 apr 1931 – Toronto, Ontario) artist, engraver, printmaker

Joyce Wieland (30 jun 1931 – 27 jun 1998 | Toronto, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) experimental filmmaker, mixed media artist

Alice Ann Laidlaw Munro (10 jul 1931 – Wingham, Ontario) Canadian author, short story writer, Nobel Prize for Literature

Lois Ann Fairley (06 jul 1931 – 19 jul 2007 | Toronto, Ontario – Windsor, Ontario) nurse, labor leader, patient care advocate, community service activist

Charlotte Fielden (05 jun 1932 – Toronto, Ontario) poet, actress, novelist, playwright, retired therapist

Ruth Louise Watson Henderson (23 nov 1932 – Toronto, Ontario) pianist, choral composer, music director

Anne Innis Dagg (25 jan 1933 – Toronto, Ontario) author, biologist, feminist, zoologist, animal activist, aka the Jane Goodall of Giraffes

Marian Ruth Passmore Engel (24 may 1933 – 16 feb 1985 | Toronto, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) activist, novelist, teacher

Gisèle Deschamps Lalonde (28 jun 1933 – Vanier, Ontario) Vanier city mayor, community activist, autobiographical author

Louise Munro Foley (22 oct 1933 – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian-American, copy editor, essayist, writing instructor, children’s / young adult author

Judy Jacobson Erola (16 jan 1934 – Sudbury, Ontario) former politician, tv / radio broadcaster, first female Canadian weather reporter, first female Minister for Status of Women, Equal Voice board member, Canadian women in politics activist / advocate / supporter

Judy Jacobson Erola (16 jan 1934 – Sudbury, Ontario) former politician, tv / radio broadcaster, first female Canadian weather reporter, first female Minister for Status of Women, Equal Voice board member, Canadian women in politics activist / advocate / supporter

Marie Dionne (28 may 1934 – 27 feb 1970 | Callendar, Ontario – Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec) model, folk figure, memoirist, tourist attraction, aka One of the Dionne Quintuplets

Lorna Ann Milne (13 dec 1934 – Toronto, Ontario) academic, former physics professor, former Canadian Senator, social / political /community activist

Patricia Beatty (13 may 1936 – Toronto, Ontario) dancer, teacher, director, choreographer

Karleen Bradford (16 dec 1936 – Toronto, Ontario) children’s book author

Lola Lemire Tostevin (15 jun 1937 – Timmins, Ontario) poet, novelist, feminist, literary critic

Anne Abgott (29 apr 1938 – Oshawa, Ontario) author, watercolor artist, Canadian-American

Teresa Stratas (26 may 1938 – Toronto, Ontario) Greek-Canadian operatic soprano, humanitarian activist

Patricia Gretchen Mann Brewin (23 dec 1938 – Ottawa, Ontario) Canadian politician, first female Mayor of Victoria, British Columbia

Margaret Atwood (18 nov 1939 – Ottawa, Ontario) poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, inventor, literary critic, environmental activist

Dianne Esther Cunningham (05 dec 1939 – Toronto, Ontario) politician, former elementary school teacher, Director of Lawrence National Center for Policy and Management

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1940s

Cynthia Flood (17 sep 1940 – Toronto, Ontario) novelist, short fiction author

Francene Jen Cosman (14 jan 1941 – Windsor, Ontario) former nurse, politician, businesswoman, former president of Nova Scotia Advisory Council Status of Women

Charlotte Vale Allen (19 jan 1941 – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian-American novelist, aka Katherine Marlowe

Susan Mann Trofimenkoff (10 feb 1941 – Ottawa, Ontario) author, historian, former university president

Gwendolyn MacEwen (01 sep 1941 – 29 nov 1987 | Toronto, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian poet, novelist

Nancy Ruth Rowell Jackman (06 jan 1942 – Toronto, Ontario) women’s rights activist, gay rights advocate, former / first openly lesbian Senator in Canada

Rochel Gelman (23 jan 1942 – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian-American, psychology professor, Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University, developed Science-into-ESL program / preschool exhibit at Please Touch Museum

Jeannette Corbiere Lavell (21 jun 1942 – Wikwemikong, Ontario) Anishinaabe community worker, women and children’s rights activist, founded Ontario Native Women’s Association of Canada

Frances Susan Hill Itani (25 aug 1942 – Belleville, Ontario) poet, essayist, fiction writer

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (30 sep 1942 – Toronto, Ontario) author, scholar, museum professional, professor of Performance Studies, focus on theory / history of museums / tourism / heritage

Alison Gordon (19 jan 1943 – 12 feb 2015 | New York NY – Toronto, Ontario) author, novelist, memoirist, sports journalist, one of first female reporters to cover sports

Sheila Ann Cowan Martin (31 jul 1943 – Windsor, Ontario) literary advocate, former First Lady of Canada, former member Politics and the Pen funding Canadian writers

Margaret L. A. MacVicar (20 nov 1943 – 30 sep 1991 | Hamilton, Ontario – Boston MA) MIT-lifer, physicist, educator, metallurgist, women’s / minorities educational advocate

Shulamith [Bath Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein] Firestone (07 jan 1945 – 28 aug 2012 | Ottawa, Ontario – New York NY) artist, author, cyberfeminist, aka Shulie or Shuloma, Canadian-born American, second wave feminist, psychiatric patient in and out of institutions, founding member of New York Radical Women / Redstockings / New York Radical Feminists

Bonnie Burnard (15 jan 1945 – 04 mar 2017 | Petrolia, Ontario – London, Ontario) novelist, short fiction author

Joy Tepperman Fielding (18 mar 1945 – Toronto, Ontario) novelist, actress, screenwriter

Haruko Okano (26 mar 1945 – Toronto, Ontario) poet, artist, writer, Japanese-Canadian, process-based / collaborative / multidisciplinary / mixed-media artist

Norma Cole (12 may 1945 – Toronto, Ontario) poet, curator, visual artist, translator

Marie-Paule Charette-Poulin (21 jun 1945 – Sudbury, Ontario) researcher, university lecturer, Canadian senator, former president of Liberal Party of Canada

Roberta Bondar (04 dec 1945 – Sault Ste Marie, Ontario) Canadian author, educator, scientist, astronaut, neurologist, artistic photographer

Betty Beaumont (08 jan 1946 – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian-American site-specific conceptual / cross-disciplinary installation artist, sculptor, photographer

Joan Louise Barfoot (17 may 1946 – Owen Sound, Ontario) Canadian novelist

Shirley Caldwell Tilghman (17 sep 1946 – Toronto, Ontario) author, scholar, molecular biologist, first female president Princeton University, second female president of an Ivy League university

Maude Barlow (24 may 1947 – Toronto, Ontario) author, right-to-water activist, Blue Planet Project co-founder, Council of Canadians citizens’ advocacy chairperson

Lynn Franks Johnston (28 may 1947 – Collingwood, Ontario) cartoonist, first woman / first Canadian to win  National Cartoonist Society’s Reuben Award

Rosella Marie Bjornson (13 jul 1947 – Lethbridge, Ontario) retired airline pilot, first female commercial airline pilot in North American, first female member of Canadian Air Line Pilots Association, International

Linda Hutcheon (24 aug 1947 – Toronto, Ontario) author, literary critic, cross-disciplinary academic, first female Canadian president of Modern Language Association

Joanne Ruth Nichols (04 mar 1948 – Toronto, Ontario) children’s / young adult fantasy / historical fiction novelist

Margaret Gibson (04 jun 1948 – 25 feb 2006 | Scarborough, Ontario – Toronto, Ontario) novelist, short fiction writer

Valri Bromfield (10 feb 1949 – Toronto, Ontario) actor, writer, comedian, tv producer

Jane Urquhart (21 jun 1949 – Little Longlac, Ontario) poet, novelist, biographer, short fiction writer

Anne Ditchburn (04 oct 1949 – Sudbury, Ontario) actress, ballet dancer, Canadian, choreographer

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1950s

Penny Collenette (20 may 1950 – Oakville, Ontario) lawyer, professor, political figure, human rights activist

Kalli Dakos (16 jun 1950 – Ottawa, Ontario) teacher, children’s poet

Anne Carson (21 jun 1950 – Toronto, Ontario) poet, essayist, translator, Classics professor

Bobbi Lancaster (23 jun 1950 – Chatham, Ontario) author, physician, champion golfer, transgender woman, motivational speaker, human rights advocate

Janice Whitby (31 oct 1950 – London, Ontario) studied ballet, graphic designer, film / television actress

Marsha Canham (19 nov 1950 – Toronto, Ontario) historical romance novelist

Helen Shaver (24 feb 1951 – St Thomas, Ontario) film / television actress and director

Karin Alexandria Kain (28 mar 1951 – Hamilton, Ontario) retired ballet dancer, Artistic Director of National Ballet of Canada

Peggy A. Nash (28 jun 1951 – Toronto, Ontario) author, essayist, politician, labor official

Elisabeth Brooks (02 jul 1951 – 07 sep 1997 | Toronto, Ontario – Palm Springs CA) poet, writer, singer, actress, children’s playwright

Meredith Yearsley Quartermain (01 oct 1951 – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian poet

Elizabeth Grace Hay (22 oct 1951 – Owen Sound, Ontario) novelist, short story writer

Sarah Hall (09 dec 1951 – Hamilton, Ontario) author, stained glass artist

Janet-Laine Green (31 dec 1951 – Toronto, Ontario) teacher, actress, director, producer, voice actor, production company owner

Susan G. Cole (09 feb 1952 – Toronto, Ontario) editor, author, activist, feminist, speaker, playwright

Maureen Anne McTeer (27 feb 1952 – Ottawa, Ontario) author, lawyer, memoirist, Canadian political family member

Hilary Labow Farr (16 jun 1952 – Toronto, Ontario) tv show host, interior designer

Glory Annen Clibbery (05 sep 1952 – 24 apr 2017 | Kenora, Ontario – London UK) artist, actress, writer, cartoonist, casting director

Sharon Labchuck (25 nov 1952 – Trenton, Ontario) politician, political organizer, environmental activist, first leader of the Green Party of Prince Edward Island

Sheila Copps (27 nov 1952 – Hamilton, Ontario) actress, journalist, former politician, autobiographical author, lifestyle radio show host, political news commentary columnist

Susan R. Kadis (11 jan 1953 – Toronto, Ontario) politician, volunteer worker, newspaper publisher, children’s equal education activist

Mary Harron (12 jan 1953 – Bracebridge, Ontario) director, filmmaker, researcher, screenwriter

Sarah Sheard (13 feb 1953 – Toronto, Ontario) novelist, psychotherapist, Gestalt therapist, certified mediator, couples / family counselor

Elizabeth Hanna (02 apr 1953 – Ottawa, Ontario) voice actress, speech pathologist

Valerie Pringle (05 sep 1953 – Windsor, Ontario) journalist, television host

Sarmite Drosma [Sam] Bulte (27 sep 1953 – Hamilton, Ontario) Latvian-Canadian lawyer, politician, social activist, women’s entrepreneur advocate

Janet McNaughton (29 nov 1953 – Toronto, Ontario) novelist, folklorist

Holly Dale (23 dec 1953 – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian film producer, film / television director, independent production company co-owner

Deborah [Debbie] Van Kiekebelt (01 mar 1954 – Kitchener, Ontario) former pentathalon athlete, sports broadcaster, first Canadian female sports broadcaster

Catherine Anne O’Hara (04 mar 1954 – Toronto, Ontario) writer, actress, comedian

Chantal St-Cyr Hébert (24 apr 1954 – Ottawa, Ontario) columnist, journalist, political commentator

Diane Schoemperlen (09 jul 1954 – Thunder Bay, Ontario) novelist, memoirist, short fiction writer

Jane Eaton Hamilton (19 jul 1954 – Hamilton, Ontario)  poet, visual artist, photographer, short story writer

Sheree-Lee Olson (11 dec 1954 – Picton, Ontario) Canadian poet, novelist, journalist

Lois E. Brown (22 jan 1955 – Stouffville, Ontario) teacher, politician, consultant, businesswoman

Brenda Clark (10 feb 1955 – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian, children’s book illustrator

Eleanor Joanne Daley (21 apr 1955 – Parry Sound, Ontario) choir director, accompanist, choral clinician, composer of choral and church music

Barbara McGivern (15 aug 1955 – Toronto, Ontario) artist, painter, aka The Gold Lady

Gail Smith (04 sep 1955 – Trenton, Ontario) former television journalist and news anchor, first female weekend news anchor at CFTO

Joanna De Souza (22 oct 1955 – Whitby, Ontario) Kathak dancer, teacher, choreographer, sole Canadian artist to earn master’s degree in Kathak dance

Jan Peacock (06 nov 1955 – Barre, Ontario) author, curator, multidisciplinary artist

Janet Hetherington (19 nov 1955 – Toronto, Ontario) artist, curator, sci-fi author

Alexandra Bugailiskis (09 jan 1956 – Hamilton, Ontario) Canadian diplomat, Distinguished Senior Fellow and Diplomat in Residence

Wendy Jane Crewson (09 may 1956 – Hamilton, Ontario) actress, producer

Jennivien Diana Brebner (20 may 1956 – 29 apr 2001 | Kingston, Ontario – Ottawa, Ontario) poet

Bonnie Hurowtiz Fuller (08 sep 1956 – Toronto, Ontario) media executive, magazine editor

Sheree Fitch (03 dec 1956 – Ottawa, Ontario) poet, author, children’s writer, literacy advocate

Marie Bountrogianni (10 dec 1956 – Hamilton, Ontario) Greek-Canadian academic, politician, psychologist, university dean, former Royal Ontario Museum president / director

Carol Anne Meehan (17 dec 1956 – Ottawa, Ontario) blogger, former television news anchor

Thalia Assuras (27 may 1957 – London, Ontario) Greek-Canadian news anchor, broadcast journalist

Wendy Laurel Freedman (17 jul 1957 – Toronto, Ontario) author, professor, Canadian-American astronomer, director of Carnegie Observatories, known for measurement of Hubble Constant

Margaret Ann [Gretta] Vosper (06 jul 1958 – Kingston, Ontario) poet, atheist, author, United Church of Canada minister, founded Canadian Center for Progressive Christianity

Colette Baron-Reid (17 jul 1958 – Toronto, Ontario) author, singer, public speaker, psychic medium, spiritual intuitionist, radio personality

Angela Hewitt (26 july 1958 – Ottawa, Ontario) classical pianist, known for Bach interpretations

Alison Maclean (31 jul 1958 – Ottawa, Ontario) music videos, short films, television film director

Patricia Rozema (20 aug 1958 – Kingston, Ontario) writer, editor, producer, film director, former member of Toronto New Wave group of filmmakers

Isabelle Anna [Ziggy] Lorenc (28 dec 1958 – Toronto, Ontario) Canadian author, actress, tv / radio host / personality

Nancy Holmes (09 feb 1959 – Edmonton, Ontario) poet, educator, short fiction writer, creative writing professor

Kimberly Barber (21 dec 1959 – Guelph, Ontario) Canadian operatic mezzo-soprano, vocal pedagogue