SK Farm Girl Leads 2,000 Dutch Civilians to Safety Through Jungle

Wow!  I have spent the afternoon perusing the "Women" section of The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan (http://esask.uregina.ca/themelist.html?themeID=885C3A20-BCD4-8C82-13D00A0551868738) and I am blown away by the amazing women that have called this place home.  I've only made it to the G section and already there have been multiple judges, hardcore advocates, senators, ambassadors, and several Order of Canada recipients (you know that it is an elite group when the Order of Canada is no biggy).

One entry that really made my jaw drop was Joan Bamford-Fletcher.  A name that most of us wouldn't know, but after reading the first sentence in the entry about her, I wanted to know more.

"In 1945 Regina’s Joan Bamford Fletcher captured headlines in Canada and Britain after shepherding some 2,000 Dutch civilian captives from a Japanese prison camp through the Sumatra jungle to safety: while commanding seventy vanquished but armed Japanese soldiers she guided the evacuees through territory swarming with hostile Indonesian rebels."

Whoa!  That is intense.

I can't wait to read through the H to Z entries!  I know it will be tough to narrow it down to 4 or 5 women to represent in my legacy performance. 

If you have suggestions of women from Saskatchewan's past that I should research and possibly perform as, please let me know.  I'm in the planning stages, so I am open to suggestions.