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Women's organizations saw this as an opportunity for Canadian women's rights to be legally and equally represented through entrenchment in the charter. On November 20 the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) had their opportunity to speak. The NAC saw the importance of equal recognition in the Charter for both men and women as ...
Fine-Meyer, Rose. "'A Reward For Working in the Fields and Factories:' Canadian Women's Suffrage Movement as Portrayed In Ontario Texts." Canadian Issues (Fall 2016): 42-47. Gosselin, Cheryl. "Remaking Waves: The Québec Women's Movement in the 1950s and 1960s." Canadian Woman Studies 25.3 (2006) online. Gutkin, Harry, and Mildred Gutkin.
The History of women in Canada is the study of the historical experiences of women living in Canada and the laws and legislation affecting Canadian women. In colonial period of Canadian history, Indigenous women's roles were often challenged by Christian missionaries, and their marriages to European fur traders often brought their communities into greater contact with the outside world.
Buttons from the Canadian Women's Movement Archives. When the Toronto-based feminist periodical, The Other Woman: A Revolutionary Feminist Newspaper, ceased publication in 1977, its editor-in-chief, Pat Leslie, decided to keep the files and related documents, initially storing them within her Toronto apartment. Leslie and several of her ...
The Canadian Women's Suffrage Association, originally called the Toronto Women's Literary Guild, was an organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that fought for women's rights. After the association had been inactive for a while, the leaders founded the Dominion Women's Enfranchisement Association in 1889.
Representation by women has been a significant issue in Canadian politics since 1900. The first woman elected to a provincial legislature in Canada was Louise McKinney in the 1917 Alberta general election, while the first woman elected to the House of Commons was Agnes Macphail, in the 1921 Canadian federal election. Although female ...
Emily Howard Stowe (née Jennings; May 1, 1831 – April 30, 1903) [1] was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada [2] and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. [3]
Printed copies of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is part of the Constitution of Canada. [18] The Charter guarantees political, mobility, and equality rights and fundamental freedoms such as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of religion for private individuals and some organisations. [19]