{"id":706,"date":"2025-11-03T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/?page_id=706"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:43:42","slug":"international-womens-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/?page_id=706","title":{"rendered":"International Women’s Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In celebration of International Women\u2019s Day 2023 I would like to honour two Canadian women pioneers separated in time by a century, with my miniature watercolour portraits and mixed media collages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie-Anne Lagimodi\u00e8re 1780-1875<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Miniature watercolor portrait<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Birchbark Crossed Canoes & Star of Chambly<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Newly married to a dashing French-Canadian voyageur, from Chambly, Quebec, Marie-Anne traveled in 1806, with the North West Company canoe brigade from Lachine, Quebec, to the Red River, the first white woman to do so. Read More<\/strong><\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mina Benson Hubbard 1870-1956<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Miniature watercolor portrait<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Birchbark and canvas Crossed canoes on her map<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 1905, two years after her husband, Leonidas Hubbard had died while trying to explore and map parts of central Labrador, Mina Benson Hubbard, born in Bewdley on Rice Lake, set out to complete his work with the help of four Indigenous guides. Read More<\/mark><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of International Women\u2019s Day 2023 I would like to honour two Canadian women pioneers separated in time by a century, with my miniature watercolour portraits and mixed media collages. Marie-Anne Lagimodi\u00e8re 1780-1875 Newly married to a dashing French-Canadian voyageur, from Chambly, Quebec, Marie-Anne traveled in 1806, with the North West Company canoe brigade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-706","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/706\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elisabethbacque.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}