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Mary Schäffer Warren

Mary Schäffer Warren (née Mary Townsend Sharpless), naturalist, writer, photographer, surveyor (born 4 October 1861 in West Chester, Pennsylvania; died 23 January 1939 in Banff, AB). Schäffer Warren is best known for being the first non-Indigenous person to explore Maligne Lake in the Canadian Rockies. She was one of the first non-Indigenous women to travel through much of what is now Banff and Jasper national parks. Although she had no experience as a surveyor, the Geological Survey of Canada asked her to survey Maligne Lake in 1911. As a result, Schäffer Warren is responsible for naming several of the geographic features surrounding the lake (see also Ten Mountains in Canada Named After Women). Through writing and lantern-slide presentations of her hand-painted photographs, she encouraged tourism to the Rockies.
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Mary Simmons

Mary Simmons. Soprano, b Philadelphia 29 Jul 1928. She studied violin in Philadelphia with Louis Angeloty for 10 years and voice in New York with Therese Schnabel, receiving the Marian Anderson Scholarship in 1945 and 1946.
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Mary Simon

Mary Jeannie May Simon (Ningiukudluk), CC, OQ 30th governor general of Canada, diplomat, civil servant, (born 21 August 1947 in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik, QC). Mary Simon is an advocate for international cooperation in the Arctic and Indigenous education and rights. She has held multiple roles in the civil service, including secretary and co-director of policy of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, secretary to the board of directors of the Northern Quebec Inuit Association, and member of the Nunavut Implementation Commission. She was also the first vice president of the Makivik Corporation and the first Inuk in Canada to hold the rank of ambassador. Simon has served as the president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and of what is now the Inuit Circumpolar Council. From 26 July 2021 to June 2026, Simon served as Canada’s 30th governor general and the first Indigenous person to serve in that role.
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Mary Spencer

Mary Spencer, boxer, model, humanitarian (born 12 December 1984 in Wiarton, ON). Mary Spencer is one of Canada's premier boxing champions, holding eight national titles, five Pan-American titles, and three world titles. An Ojibwe of the Cape Croker First Nation, Spencer is involved in Motivate Canada’s GEN7 Aboriginal role model initiative, and in 2013 became a mentor with the CIBC Team Next program.
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Mary T. Moreau

Mary T. Moreau, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (2023–present), chief justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta (2017–23), judge, lawyer (born 1955 or 1956 in Edmonton, AB). Mary T. Moreau has served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Canada since 6 November 2023. With her appointment, the gender balance of the Court shifted to majority women for the first time in its history. Moreau was the first woman appointed as chief justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta. She is also the first French Canadian Supreme Court justice from Western Canada. She is well known for litigating several landmark cases concerning minority language rights, as well as cases related to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. She has been actively involved in matters of judicial ethics, administration and education throughout her career.
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Mary Two-Axe Earley

Mary Two-Axe Earley, Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Elder, advocate for women and children, human rights activist (born 4 October 1911 on the Kahnawà:ke reserve, QC; died there on 21 August 1996). Elder Mary Two-Axe Earley was a pioneer and architect of the Canadian women’s movement. Her political activism helped to forge a coalition of allies to challenge Canadian laws that discriminated against Indigenous women (see Indigenous Women’s Issues in Canada). The great bulk of her political advocacy spanned the last three decades of her life, and she was particularly active in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 2025, she was designated a national historic person by the Government of Canada.
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Mary Vaux Walcott

Mary Morris Vaux Walcott, botanical artist, photographer, glaciologist, mountaineer (born 31 July 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died 22 August 1940 in Saint Andrews, NB). For over 40 years, Vaux Walcott spent nearly every summer in the Canadian Rockies, where she and her brothers conducted some of the first studies of glaciers in Canada. She also became the first woman in Canada to summit a peak over 3,000 m. An avid and accomplished botanical artist, Vaux Walcott’s crowning achievement was the publication of 400 of her watercolours in the five-volume North American Wild Flowers.
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Mary Violette Seeman

Mary Violette Seeman (née Szwarc), clinical psychiatrist, psychopharmacologist (born 24 March 1935 inLódz, Poland; died 23 April 2024).
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Mary Walsh

Mary Cynthia Walsh, actor, writer, producer, TV host, director (born 13 May 1952 in St John's, Nfld ).
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Mary Walsh (Profile)

This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 26, 1996. Partner content is not updated. It is a slow news week. While politicians bicker over the divisibility of Quebec, the big story is the weather, a cold snap that has the country frozen in a grimace of national unity from sea to shivering sea.
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Marya Fiamengo

Marya Fiamengo, poet, critic and educator (b at Vancouver 24 Oct 1926).
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Maryse Lassonde

Maryse Lassonde, O.C., C.Q., MSRC, psychologist, neuropsychologist, psychophysiologist, professor emeritus (born 5 January 1954 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC). She specializes in child neuropsychology, is a professor and is an internationally renowned researcher. She has indicated that it was her father’s brain cancer that drew her to neuroscience. She is dedicated to uncovering the secrets of the brain, promoting science and encouraging women to study it.
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Maryvonne Kendergi

Maryvonne Kendergi, Armenian pianist, broadcaster, teacher, musicologist, administrator (b at Aïntab (now Gaziantep) Turkey 15 Aug 1915, naturalized Canadian 1960, d Montreal, 27 Sep 2011).
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Maryvonne Kendergi

Maryvonne Kendergi.
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Mario Masella

Mario (Antonio Giovanni) Masella. Violinist, born Montreal 12 Aug 1934, died there 9 Mar 2009. He studied first with George Lapenson and Rachel Gilbert, in Paris 1951-3 with André Asselin (violin), and at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal 1953-7 with John Charuk.
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