Hazel McCallion
A feisty and determined leader, she was the mayor of Mississauga from 1978 to 2014. But Hazel McCallion also used the deft footwork and stick-handling abilities that served her so well in politics on the ice as a pioneering force in women’s hockey.
As a young woman working in Montreal in 1940, Hazel McCallion had a brief professional career, getting paid $5 a game and, after moving to Ontario, spent decades on sports body boards and in volunteer positions working to elevate the women’s game to world-class status while pushing for it to be included in the Olympics, which happened at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games.