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Here are the answers to this week's questions, found on page 2 of This Week.

26. In 1962, Bernadette Zigante became New Brunswick's first female police officer (rank constable) in Saint John. Born in Waterloo, Quebec, Bernadette had been a recruiting officer in the Air Force since 1956. It was not until the early 1970s that other New Brunswick cities hired female constables, although over the years women had worked as police matrons.

27. Sandra Lovelace is a Maliseet woman from the Tobique Reserve in northwestern New Brunswick who instigated the abolition of a discriminatory clause in the Indian Act.

This clause, dating back to 1869, stripped aboriginal women of their Indian status if they married non-aboriginal men. She could not regain Indian status, even if she separated or divorced her non-Indian husband, or became a widow. An Indian man who married a non-Indian woman did not lose these rights. In 1981, the UN Human Rights Committee ruled in her favour. The federal government finally removed the discriminatory clause from the Indian Act in 1985.

28. Helen Baxter was born in Herbert, Saskatchewan in 1925. She completed her early schooling in Nova Scotia, graduated from Fredericton High School in 1942 and completed her civil engineering studies at the University of New Brunswick in 1947. In 1950, she became the first female professional engineer in New Brunswick, receiving her membership in the Association of Professional Engineers of New Brunswick.

29. Molly Kool was born in Alma, on the Bay of Fundy, in 1916. She began her career as first mate on her father's scow, learning to do everything from repairing the engine and setting the sails to sewing canvas. She also studied navigation. On April 19, 1939 she received a telegram stating that she had passed the exam for her master's ticket. She became the first registered female sea captain in North America.

30. Dr. Elizabeth C. Secord was the first duly qualified and registered practicing female physician in New Brunswick, and among the first in Canada. When left a widow in early middle age she decided to train as a doctor. Canadian medical schools were closed to women, so Elizabeth went to the U.S., earning her medical degree in 1881. She registered in New Brunswick in 1883 and practiced in rural communities in the province.