Julie Payette OC, CQ

In this second instalment of the bestselling Canadian Heroines series, author Merna Forster brings together a hundred more incredible stories of great characters and wonderful images. Meet famous and forgotten women in fields such as science, sport, politics, war and peace, and arts and entertainment -- including the original DeGrassi kids, Captain Kool, hockey star Hilda Ranscombe, and the woman dubbed "the atomic mosquito." This book is full of amazing facts and trivia about extraordinary women.