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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.
Moses (2010, pp. 76–77) cites several key sources on the long history of women student organizing in Canada going back to the late 1800s and suggests that "NUS women's student activism of the 1970s should not be viewed as an entirely new phenomenon arising amidst the clamour and legacy of 1960s liberation struggles".
The film was named was best documentary at the Whistler Film Festival. [3] The film was streamed for free at NFB.ca in conjunction with International Women's Day, and as of March 2013, was being screened at more than 60 events across Canada, with support from the YWCA, the Canadian Federation of University Women, Cinema Politica and public libraries.
The act provides for the establishment of the province Manitoba when Rupert's Land is transferred to Canada. June–July – The 1870 New Brunswick election; July 15 – The British Privy Council's Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order transfers those territories to Canada, and Manitoba and the North-West Territories are established.
Canada sends a delegation to the Paris Peace Talks, the conference resolving war issues. Canada signs the Versailles treaty as part of the British Empire, with parliament's approval. [91] Prohibition in Canada ends federally. [92] 1919: May 15 -June 26: The largest strike in Canadian history; the Winnipeg General strike occurs. Soldiers ...
The Burning Times is the second film in the National Film Board of Canada's Women and Spirituality series, following Goddess Remembered (1989) and preceding Full Circle (1993). The opening and closing theme music, composed by Loreena McKennitt , was released as the track titled "Tango to Evora" on her 1991 album The Visit .
April 15, 1872, the Toronto Trades Assembly hold the country's first significant workers demonstration. September 3, 1872 - Ottawa unionists hold a 10,000-person-strong parade through the city. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald joins and gives a speech where he promises to abolish the sort of laws that had put the Toronto printers in jail.
One exception is Journey Among Women (1977), a feminist imagining of what life was like for convict women. [35] Alexander Pearce, the infamous Tasmanian convict and cannibal, is the inspiration for The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008), Dying Breed (2008) and Van Diemen's Land (2009).