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Our 2008 Winners

While we’re celebrating Shirley’s success this week, we also want to celebrate the successes of all the Canadian mom entrepreneurs. So grab a cup of tea and take some time to browse the gallery of nominees from this year’s award. You’ll find 317 fantastic stories about moms taking matters into their own hands to create employment opportunities for themselves, and an incredible range of innovative products and services.

Seriously innovative, we must say. Here’s a sampling of a few of the other nominees who caught our eye this year:

• If you’re off to Calgary or Edmonton and need to rent some baby gear, you’ll want to visit Stacey Corbett’s Onetinysuitcase.ca, where you’ll find everything you need.
• Looking for a new bag? Make it an ecofriendly and stylish one with creations by Laura Jennekens, who developed her business, Echoes in the Attic with a focus on responsible consumption, using ‘rescued remnants’ from manufacturers and designers.
• Candace Derickx & Laurie St-Julien cracked the code on one of moms’ worst jobs—shopping for school supplies with their kinder, gentler (faster, online) way at Best Tools for Schools.
• Hockey mom at heart? You will definitely want to visit www.sock-cessories.com to check out unique accessories—mitts, wine totes, pencil cases and more—fashioned from hockey socks and jerseys by moms Linda Dunda, Esther Brooks and Laura Ke.
• Bet you didn’t think there was innovation needed in the girls’ underwear space? Turns out there was and Rebecca Winterhalt’s the mom who’s bringing us Girl Gotch…no more riding up!

So hats off to all our mom entrepreneurs. They’re not just dreaming the dream, they’re living it.