Canada History Week 2018: Science, Creativity and Innovation

Ursula Franklin was a physicist, educator, feminist and social activist who pioneered the development of archaeometry, which applies modern techniques of materials analysis to archaeology.

Visit Ingenium’s Timeline of Women in STEM to learn about more remarkable women who’ve changed the world. (Image credit: Library and Archives Canada)

Harriet Brooks was a teacher and nuclear physicist. For her MA thesis, Brooks undertook research in the field of electricity and magnetism. In 1901 she received the first master’s degree awarded to a woman in physics at McGill. (Link Credit: McCord Museum)

Elizabeth “Elsie” Muriel Gregory MacGill, “Queen of the Hurricanes,” was the first female graduate of electrical engineering at the University of Toronto (1927). MacGill was also the first woman to earn her master’s degree in aeronautical engineering (1929) and become the first practising Canadian woman engineer. (Image credit: courtesy Library and Archives Canada/R4349-1)