150 Fascinating Facts About Canadian Women by Margie Wolfe
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Quickly, name three Canadian women. If you are not from Canada, do you even know three? You may know more than your think, and this book will introduce you to a whole lot more. Did you know Samantha Bee, of Full Frountal fame, is Canadian? Did you forget that K.D. Lang is Canadian? Did you remember that Buffy Sainte-Marie was?
Americans know who Rosa Parks was, but what about Viola Desmond, who would not give up her seat to a white patron in a movie theatre, and was arrested for that, and will soon have her image on the $10 bill.
And while readers might know that L.M. Montgomery wrote Anne of Green Gabeles, did you know that the book is so loved in Japan that a Japanese businessman once paid more than a million dollars for potatoes because they came from Prince Edward Island, where she lived.
It is a very short book, but very cool and can pique your interest in all these women, that you might end up reading a bio on any one of these 150 women.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.