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Volunteering spirit of young women in turn of the century Montreal wasn’t always what it seemed.

Book Review: This book tackles a familiar issue: the scarcity of historical references to women. As author Elizabeth Gillan Muir concludes in this case, one must piece together many sources, such as street directories, to figure out how the other half of the population of Toronto was contributing to nineteenth-century life.

These saddles were made by women, and Métis women have been credited with exceptional expertise in their creation.

Students step into the shoes of Canada‘s suffragists, pioneer newspaper women and politicians as they recreate and stage Nellie McClung’s ‘Mock Parliament’ at the Walker Theatre, and debate the 1917 Wartime Elections Act in the House of Commons.

Online project shines light on Sikh women’s stories.

The corset has had more revivals in fashion history than the Toronto Maples Leafs have had in the NHL.

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.

Fiction Feature: At a yard sale in Edmonton, young adults discover just how unfair the right to vote has been for women, people of Asian heritage, Inuit and First Nations people and others until very recently.