Baby Name Ideas: Famous Canadian Women

May I humbly suggest these names for the next baby in your life?

My sister is pregnant with her third baby, and as such, a great deal of conversation in the family is revolving around possible names for the baby. One of my harebrained schemes was to name the baby after a famous Canadian woman. My top picks are below - feel free to use them for the next baby shower game you participate in. 

Buffy

after Buffy Sainte-Marie, who is an  F.O.D. in so many ways and absolutely must be the first pick here.  She is the first person to breastfeed on national television (1977), according to Pitchfork, "the first person ever to make an album by sending files across what was then still being earnestly called 'the World Wide Web'," the first First Nations woman to win an Oscar and a Golden Globe, and, "the first person ever to make an album recorded using quadraphonic technology, an early precursor to surround-sound."

Joni

after Joni Mitchell, whose classic album Blue was named the #1 album made by a woman by NPR in 2018. Aside from having one of the most iconic sounds in the music, ever, she can also paint like Van Gogh. No big deal.

Celine

after Celine Dion, who, hate her or love her, is apparently (at least according to Wikipedia)  still the top-selling Canadian artist. Side note - last autumn, I was in Berlin and German folks are wild about Celine. My sister-in-law told me to be on the lookout for many buskers performing overs of Celine Dion songs and she was absolutely right, they were everywhere!

Roberta

after Dr. Roberta Bondar, the first Canadian woman in space! Bondar is also a highly renowned and accomplished photographer, speaker, and writer.

Eden 

after Eden Robinson, who is one of my very favourite writers. I freaking LOVE her bio on the Penguin Random House website. I'm not the only one - Robinson has won a ton of awards for her amazing, magical writing, including the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award, and her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

UPDATE 2020-07-31 - be sure to read this hilarious and awesome interview with Robinson over at tea & bannock.



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