She Named It Canada Because That's What It Was Called

In 1971, the Corrective Collective, a Vancouver-based feminist art group, published this single-issue comic as a sharp, satirical retelling of Canadian history from a women's liberation perspective. Blending bold, accessible cartooning with pointed political critique, it reclaims the nation's founding myths by centering the overlooked roles and resistance of women, Indigenous peoples, and working-class communities. Though brief in its run, this underground classic remains a landmark of Canadian countercultural and feminist comics, demonstrating how the medium could be wielded as a tool for grassroots historical reclamation.