In Montreal, Someone got the incredible idea to honour a woman who was a co-founder of the city ---in the late 1600's!!! Better late than never. She founded a hospital and gave the poor guys a bunch of money to stave off financial problems but it has taken a hundred years of International Women's Day's to get men to the point of recognizing that women were a part of it all - maybe even an important part.

Celebrate Jeanne Mance, who spent three month traveling across the ocean to new France to start a hospital give support the neophyte colony. She died in 1673. Yesterday she was honoured.