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In this webinar series we heard from educators, historians, and archivists who discussed various topics in women’s history.

Watch now: This webinar showcases lesbian, bisexual, trans and queer women’s stories from the ArQuives collection. 

A hundred years ago, women in Canada took the first steps towards full participation in political life.

Choosing Canada’s Great Women is not easy. Listen to Charlotte Gray, one of the judges on our panel, as she describes the pleasures and pitfalls of ranking the great women of history.

Watch now: in this webinar historian Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag provides an overview of Canadian women's suffrage.

In this lesson, students will investigate what daily life would have looked like for women from six different settlements.

The idea that women could drive an automobile — let alone drive around the shell holes of the frontlines — was rather revolutionary at the outbreak of the Great War. But nicety was soon driven out by necessity.

A look at a few of the many “firsts” for Canadian women.

Did being a woman in the top job make a difference? Kim Campbell talks about being Canada’s first female prime minister.

Book Review: Many intricate and illuminating cases are recounted in Lorna R. Marsden’s book, Canadian Women & the Struggle for Equality. Using what she describes as a sociological approach, Marsden chronicles the women’s movement since Confederation and examines the events, individuals, and institutions that enabled social change.