Rebel Women

From 1916 to 1918, daring pilot Katherine Stinson barnstormed across western Canada, wowing crowds with double loops and dangerous dives.  Actress Nell Shipman, a star of the silent screen, opened an indepedent film production company just when the major Hollywood studios began exerting their power.  Tookoolito, a quiet Inuit woman from Cumberland Sound, once sipped tea with Queen Victoria, but she also survived a nightmarish six months on a drifting ice floe in the Arctic.  Here are the inspiring stories of 11 bold women-adventurers, artists, and entrepreneurs - who faced conflict, adversity and doubt as they flouted convention and followed their dreams.