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210 Women in statistics in CanadaThe other awards of the Statistical Society of Canada are also open toboth men and women. One is the afore-mentioned The Canadian Journal ofStatistics Award, for the best paper appearing in a volume of the journal.Of 23 awards from 1990 to 2012, women have been authors or co-authors of10; Nancy E. Heckman of the University of British Columbia has received ittwice, the first time (with John Rice, 1997) for a paper on line transects oftwo-dimensional random fields, and the second time (with James O. Ramsay,2000) for penalized regression with model-based penalties.Women are well represented among winners of the CRM–SSC Prize sinceits creation in 1999 (Colleen Cutler, Charmaine Dean, Grace Y. Yi). To date,three of us have received the SSC Gold Medal (Constance van Eeden, NancyReid and myself) since it was first awarded in 1985. In the first 27 awards of thePierre Robillard Award for the best thesis in probability or statistics defendedat a Canadian university in a given year, three of the winners were women(Maureen Tingley, Vera Huse-Eastwood, and Xiaoqiong Joan Hu) but sincethe year 2001 there have been eight: Grace Chiu, Rachel MacKay-Altman,Zeny Zhe-Qing Feng, Mylène Bédard, Juli Atherton, Jingjing Wu, Qian Zhou,and Bei Chen.There are just eight women who have been elected Fellow of the Instituteof Mathematical Statistics while working in Canada. The one not so far mentionedis Hélène Massam of York University, who combines mathematics andstatistics in the study of hierarchical and graphical models. I count sixteenwho have been elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, includingThérèse Stukel of the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto(2007), Keumhee C. Chough of the University of Alberta (2009), XiaoqiongJoan Hu of Simon Fraser University (2012), Sylvia Esterby of UBC Okanagan(2013), and W. Y. Wendy Lou of the University of Toronto (2013).19.5 BuildersSince the late 1980s, women in Canada have begun to find themselves morewelcome in leadership positions in academia and in the statistics profession. Itis as though society suddenly realized at about that time that to consider onlymen for such roles was to miss out on a significant resource. In some cases,despite the ephemeral nature of “service” achievements, our leaders have leftlasting legacies.One builder in academia is Charmaine B. Dean, who came to Canadafrom San Fernando, Trinidad. She completed an Honours Bachelor’s Degree inMathematics at the University of Saskatchewan and her PhD at the Universityof Waterloo. She joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics atSimon Fraser University in 1989, and several years later played a major rolein setting up the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, becoming