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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.

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

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

The goal of these activities is to give students an opportunity to explore the role that Black women play in the great Canadian mosaic.

Book Review: A new book edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw demonstrates not all women in Canada and Newfoundland experienced the Second World War in the same way.

Her natural beauty made her the perfect model for a national propaganda poster campaign.