Nellie McClung
Civil Rights Leader
Proponent of female suffrage and the temperance movement, who became one of Canada's best-known civil rights activists.
She became a fixture in the Winnipeg women's rights movement, writing the 1908 novel Sowing Seeds in Danny on the subject.
She led the so-called Persons Case, a landmark Canadian decision that established women could serve in the Canadian Senate.
She had five children with her husband Wesley, who was supportive of her work.
Alice Paul, a contemporary of hers, also led the women's suffrage movement.