TORONTO, Canada, Nov. 24 -- The Royal Bank of Canada issued the following news release:

The 25th annual RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards have named six winners of this year's prestigious awards, including: the founder of a non-for-profit that pioneers STEM education for women nationally, a blue-collar CEO of one of the most successful retail maintenance businesses in the country and a restauranteur and real-estate mogul whose empire is now exploding into the US market.