Think you know history?

Published Friday August 1st, 2008

Over the next few months, This Week will test our readers' knowledge of women's history in New Brunswick with questions from 'Celebrating Achievers: A Quiz on New Brunswick Women's History', published by the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women in 2002.

6) Name the N.B. woman, brought here as a slave, who in 1800 asked the Supreme Court of New Brunswick to free her.

7) Name the first female Speaker of the Senate.

8) Mary Matilda Winslow was the first black woman to graduate from a N.B. university. Name the year and the university.

9) Who was the first woman to attempt to run in a federal election in N.B.?

10) The first woman to run in a provincial election in N.B. attempted it in Newcastle in 1935. What was her name?

Answers to these five questions can be found on page 20. The complete 45-question quiz can be viewed on the Council's website at www.acswcccf.nb.ca.

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