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- Canadian #WomenInSTEM from our archives: Connie Eaves, with Terry Fox Laboratory & medical genetics prof @UBC bit.ly/1o6L9EO 4 years ago
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This week in Herstory: Tangles by Sarah Leavitt
Vancouver writer and cartoonist Sarah Leavitt always thought of her mother Midge as “powerful, protective, and joyous.” Educated at Radcliffe College, Miriam (Midge) Leavitt was a well-respected teacher living in Fredericton who designed the New Brunswick Kindergarten curriculum. Then, in … Continue reading
From the archives: LOTTA HITSCHMANOVA (Herstory 2010)
Many Canadians will remember the accented voice of Lotta Hitschmanova from her radio and television commercials in the 1960s and ‘70s that made 56 Sparks Street the second most famous address in Ottawa and perhaps all of Canada. Lotta was … Continue reading
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