This book highlights eight women in Western Canada who dared to choose their own lifestyles rather than what society prescribed. For example, Nell Shipman (1892-1970) opened an independent production company to make films in Canada; Isobel Gunn (1780-1861) was an Orkney woman who disguised herself as a man to work as a labourer for the Hudson Bay Company; and Georgina Binnie-Clark fought against unjust laws such as the Homesteaders Act that did not allow women to own land in Canada.

English language arts grade 7 (2009).