Gender Equality Trailblazers
IPI & SAKE Leading Ladies
Famous Female Firsts
PHAC 101
Potpourri
100

Decorated Canadian athlete in women’s soccer and record holder of all-time international goals scored

Who is Christine Sinclair

100

"Mom" to fur baby Penny

Who is Kelsey Lucyk

100

The first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean

Who is Amelia Earhart

100

Minister of Health

Who is Patty Hadju

100

The Canadian city for which the character Winnie the Pooh is named after

What is Winnipeg

200

A recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification 

Who is Dr. Donna Strickland

200

Raises horses on a farm

Who is Andrea Long

200

One of the first, most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust

Who Is Anne Frank

200

President at PHAC

Who is Tina Namiesniowski 

200

Best Picture winner for the 92nd Academy Awards (2020)

What is Parasite

300

Chief Science Advisor of Canada, and advocate for women and girl’s education in science

Who is Dr. Mona Nemer

300

Trained as a medical practitioner 

Who is Rosiane Simeon

300

First first African-American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature

Who is Toni Morrison

300

PHAC's vision

What is Healthy Canadians and communities in a healthier world 

300
The provincial bird of Ontario

What is the common loon

400

A Black Loyalist, a successful businesswoman and Canada's first woman police officer.

Who was Rose Fortune

400

Current or past studies at Dalla Lana School of Public Health

Who are Ifrah Abdillahi and Sandra D'Souza

400

First Canadian woman to appear alone on a bank note

Who is Viola Desmond

400

PHAC's 3 Branches

What are: Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Branch; Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Branch; and Health Security Infrastructure Branch

400

Shaped like a bow tie this pasta has a name that means butterflies in Italian

What is farfalle

500

Member of the Senate of Canada for Quebec, and decorated Paralympic Champion

Who is Senator Chantal Petitclerc

500

Collectively, the number of children between all IPI and SAKE team members

What is 11

500

The first woman to be elected to the House of Commons of Canada, and one of the first two women elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

Who is Nellie McClung

500
Main sites (cities) of the National Microbiology Lab

Where are Winnipeg (MB), Guleph (ON), St. Hyacinthe (QC) and Lethbridge (AB)

500
Winning author and book title for 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize 

Who is Ian Williams, Reproduction