Search

775 results returned for keyword(s) women

Free to Explore

Fiction Feature: Not everyone approves when a Victoria woman and her niece go pedalling in the park.

Bicycles

Canada’s history on two wheels.

Headstrong Heiress

Victoria’s Kathleen Dunsmuir chased fame and spent a fortune.

Gravelbourg Convent

The convent is an important historical marker of French settlement in western Canada.

Beyond Brutal Passions

Book Review: In Beyond Brutal Passions, historian Mary Anne Poutanen traces the largely ignored lives of women in the sex trade in nineteenth-century Montreal, illustrating that these women were much more than the sum of their work.


Trance Speakers

Book Review: In Victorian society, women were seen as inherently passive, but author Claudie Massicotte shows how spiritualists used the role of medium to turn this fragility into a strength.


The Volunteers

Book review: Lezlie Lowe, a Halifax-based journalist, tells the story of Halifax as it throbbed with tens of thousands of service personnel who brought both excitement and trouble in their wake.


No Votes for Men Transcript

Nellie McClung and a group of devoted suffragists stage their mock parliament to make a point about women’s equality.

The Bible Bag

Women embraced the abundance of colours of glass beads to create beautiful designs, like this elaborate and symmetrical floral pattern.


Being Kaur

Kaur Collective builds community through prayers.