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Watch now: this webinar examines Macphail’s remarkable life and impressive political career.

Book Review: In One Hundred Years of Struggle, Joan Sangster presents a complex and nuanced view of the efforts made by Canadian women to fully participate in democracy.

Often overlooked or misattributed, the works of Canada’s earliest women photographers are now being rediscovered.

Book Review: Compelled to Act is a collection of essays that delve into neglected areas of the history of women’s activism.

Life was a story of unending toil for many women in pioneer Canada.

In this presentation, Rose Fine-Meyer discusses her studies of the relationship between curricula, pedagogical practices, and place-based learning experiences as it relates to women’s history.

Book Review: In Mother of the Regiment author Susan Browne explores the lives of five women, fleshing out their stories with well-researched details and providing an insightful look into the times and places in which they lived.

Book Review: Each chapter of Cultivating Community looks at an aspect of fairs and women’s skilled involvement in them from the mid-1800s to the 1970s — whether in competitions for canning, baking, sewing, garden produce, or flowers; in the livestock ring; during fair queen contests; or, eventually, in the boardroom.

Post-war women went to work. They won the vote. Then the movement stalled.

Book Review: In 1970, seventeen women from Vancouver drove 4,500 kilometres across Canada to Ottawa and shut down the House of Commons.