Mary Ann Shadd
Mary Ann Shadd Cary was a Canadian black woman who became the first to own and edit a newspaper in 1853. She founded and edited the publication called "The Provincial Freeman."
Mary Ann Shadd
No woman of any color has walked on the moon. The twelve people who have were all men. No one has walked on the moon since 1972. Though no black woman have been on the moon, the first black woman in space was Dr. Mae Jemison.
Rosemary Brown (1930-2003) was a Jamaican-Canadian legislator in the provincial government of British Columbia. In 1972, she was the first black woman to be elected to a provincial legislature, and in 1975, the first black woman to run for the leadership of a federal party in Canada.
Linda L. Baker was the first black woman accountant.
Madam CJ Walker was the first black woman to invent the perm for women
Rebeca Stevens was the first English woman to climb mount everest. She first went there as a reporter, then she decided to climb it herself and now she is the first English woman to climb mount everest .
Kim Campbell
This is unknown because any Canadian woman could have broken the one minute and not have been recorded.
Julie Payette
Agnes Macphail
The first black woman soccer player was named Briana Scurry. She was the goalkeeper. As of 2014, she is now retired.
My idol, Serena Williams was the first black woman to win a major tennis championship.