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Women also established and became involved with organizations to advance women's rights, including suffrage. In 1893, the National Council of Women of Canada was formed which was designed to bring together representatives of different women's groups across Canada, providing a network for women to communicate their concerns and ideas. [9]
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.
The Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA) (French: Archives canadiennes du mouvement des femmes (ACMF)) is an archival collection documenting the second women's liberation movement in Canada. The collection includes archival documents in various media dating from the 1960s to the 1990s.
In the mid-1960s, activist Laura Sabia led a coalition of 32 Canadian women's groups in carrying out a national campaign demanding action against gender inequality in society. [2] The coalition formed the national Committee for the Equality of Women (CEW) in 1966, with Sabia as chair, and asked the government to establish a formal royal ...
Presentation of petition by Political Equality League for enfranchisement of women, Winnipeg, 23 December 1915 Political cartoon commenting on women's voting rights in Quebec, 1930. Women's suffrage in Canada occurred at different times in different jurisdictions to different demographics of women. Women's right to vote began in the three ...
The Women's Liberation Movement in Canada derived from the anti-war movement, Native Rights Movement [1] and the New Left student movement of the 1960s. An increase in university enrollment, sparked by the post-World War II baby boom, created a student body which believed that they could be catalysts for social change.
Women's rights movements started to become more relevant and popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Increased activism in Canada was partly in response to government actions, such as the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, and the 1969 White Paper. [3] Internationally, the Women's Liberation Movement began to gain ground
In 1960, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's government decided to permit all Status Indians to vote in federal elections. Since 1950, Status Indians had been allowed vote on the condition that they gave up their treaty rights and Indian status, defined in the Indian Act as "enfranchisement", or if they had fought in the First or Second World Wars.