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Acadian Community |
  | FRANCOISE MARIE JACQUELIN: LIONESS OF ACADIA - Episode 7 - Province of New Brunswick
16-year old Renee LeBlanc tells the story of Françoise Marie Jacquelin, an Acadian war heroine who risked her life to defend her husband's fort in 1645. [ more ] |
African Canadian Community |
  | ELIZA PARKER: FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM - Episode 0 - Province of Ontario
16-year-old Toni Parker of Buxton, Ontario, tells the dramatic tale of her great great grandmother Eliza Parker. Eliza was a runaway slave and freedom fighter involved in an armed uprising against slavery in Christiana, Pennsylvania in 1851. [ more ] |
Algonquian/Eastern Woodlands Community |
  | LYDIA CHARLES: HEALING SPIRIT, EMBRACING CHANGE - Episode 11 - Province of Saskatchewan
Kathy McMullin tells the story of her grandmother Lydia Charles. As a midwife and medicine woman, Lydia was a central figure in her Woodland Cree community but everything would change with the arrival of the European culture and economy. [ more ] |
Chinese Community |
  | MARY LEE CHAN: TAKING ON CITY HALL - Episode 2 - Province of British-Columbia
Mary Lee Chan's family had come from China in 1879. In the 1950s, they bought a home near Chinatown only to discover that their neighbourhood was slated for demolition. Mary rallied her community to stand up to City Hall.
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Doukhobor Community |
 | ANNA MARKOVA: FORGIVENESS IN EXILE - Episode 3 - Province of British-Columbia
Most of her family had already escaped persecution in Russia for a life of freedom in Canada when Anna Markova, the granddaughter, daughter and mother of three generations of Russian Doukhobor leaders, disappeared into the Soviet Gulag of the 1940s. [ more ] |
Finn Community |
 | AINA WILEN: FIGHTING FOR THE FRANCHISE - Episode 4 - Province of Ontario
21-year-old Andrea Budner explores the story of her great great grandmother Aina Wilen, a Finnish immigrant to Canada who was one of Canada's early suffragists. [ more ] |
Italian Community |
 | MARIA DIZIO: SETTING A PATTERN FOR SUCCESS - Episode 5 - Province of Ontario
Rossana Magnotta tells the story of her mother Maria DiZio, an immigrant from Italy and a pioneering woman entrepreneur who started her career in Timmins, Ontario. [ more ] |
Japanese Community |
 | KIMIKO MURAKAMI: TRIUMPH OVER INTERNMENT - Episode 1 - Province of British-Columbia
Mary Kitagawa tells the story of her mother Kimiko Murakami. The Murakami family had a successful farm on Salt Spring Island. But when Japan attacked Pearl Harbour in 1941, their lives were to change. [ more ] |
Jewish Community |
  | SARAH MAYOFF: ENTERPRISING AGAINST THE ODDS - Episode 10 - Province of Quebec
Stephanie Schiller explores the story of her great-aunt Sarah Mayoff, a pioneering career-woman who overcame anti-semitism to build a glittering career in Montreal's insurance industry. [ more ] |
Muslim Community |
 | ROSHAN JAMAL: FAITH WITHOUT BOUNDARIES - Episode 12 - Province of Ontario
Roshan Jamal grew up in a traditional Muslim community in India, but when she came to Toronto, she looked for a Muslim Centre were women were treated equally. She is now the CEO of the Noor Cultural Centre, a new Islamic centre where women and men pray and study together as equals. [ more ] |
Rwandan Community |
 | JULIET KARUGAHE: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS - Episode 6 - Province of Ontario
23-year-old Juliet Karugahe tells her story. She was a Rwandese refugee in Africa and was only able to return to her country after a genocide that left over a million of her people dead. [ more ] |
Ukrainian Community |
  | MARTHA BIELISH: GIVING RURAL WOMEN A VOICE - Episode 9 - Province of Alberta
23-year-old Katherine Bielish investigates the story of a grandmother she hardly knew. Martha Bielish was Canada's first Ukrainian woman senator and she devoted her career to working for rural women's rights. [ more ] |
Vietnamese Community |
 | MAY TRUONG: COASTING ON A DREAM - Episode 8 - Province of Ontario
24-year old photographer May Truong was born on a sinking boat in the South China Sea. Her parents were Cino-Vietnamese refugees who risked their lives to escape the communist regime in Vietnam. [ more ] |
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Mother Tongue: A woman's history of ethnic Canada is a 13-part TV series that documents Canada's multicultural history from a female perspective. Each program tells the story of a notable woman in one of Canada's communities, including a Black fugitive slave, an Acadian mail order bride, and an Icelandic suffragette.
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