Author: Eleanor Darke
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1896219349
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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An account of the life and varied careers of East York Mayor True Davidson a fascinating and indomitable woman who was always ahead of her time.
Author: J. Patrick Boyer
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1926577299
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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This richly detailed biography illustrates how a determined Canadian seeking justice created an enduring legacy. Through vigorous battles, Jim McRuer’s passion for justice was translated into laws that daily touch and protect the lives of millions today. James Chalmers McRuer was not easy to get along with or even much liked by many lawyers who dubbed him ’Vinegar Jim.’ Yet countless others saw him as heroic, inspirational, a man above and apart from his times. His resolute focus on justice changed the lives of married women with no property rights, children without legal protection, aboriginals caught in the whipsaw of traditional hunting practices and imposed game laws, and prisoners locked away and forgotten. Environmental degradation and those causing it, murderers, stock fraud artists and Cold War spies all came within the ambit of J. C. McRuer’s sharp legal mind and passion for justice. Upon turning 75, McRuer embarked on his most important work of all, becoming Canada’s greatest law reformer and remaining active into his 90s.
Author: Margaret Stewart
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Category : Canada Politics and government 1921-1930
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Julie Guard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487521812
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Radical Housewives is a history of Canada's Housewives Consumers Association. This association was a community-based women's organization with ties to the communist and social democratic left that, from 1937 until the early 1950s, led a broadly based popular movement for state control of prices and made other far-reaching demands on the state. As radical consumer activists, the Housewives engaged in gender-transgressive political activism that challenged the government to protect consumers' interests rather than just those of business while popularizing socialist solutions to the economic crises of the Great Depression and the immediate postwar years. Julie Guard's exhaustive research, including archival research and interviews with twelve former Housewives, recovers a history of women's social justice activism in an era often considered dormant and adds a Canadian dimension to the history of politicized consumerism and of politicized materialism. Radical Housewives reinterprets the view of postwar Canada as economically prosperous and reveals the left's role in the origins of the food security movement.
Author: Candace Savage
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited
ISBN: 1459503171
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Nellie McClung was an extremely controversial figure in the first half of the 20th century: cartoonists viciously lampooned her and Conservatives burned her in effigy. But women across the country loved her. A spirited, witty and compassionate crusader, McClung was a best-selling author, a member of Parliament and a fervent advocate of women's rights. She was also the happily married mother of five, and a woman who loved a fancy hat. In telling this story, Candace Savage has drawn a vivid portrait of Nellie McLung and the times in which she lived. Incorporating McClung's own published writings--her autobiography, novels, short stories and articles--and informed by interviews with many who knew her, Our Nell is an immediate and intimate portrait of a remarkable Canadian woman.
Author: Heather Rielly
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 1772823821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A selected bibliography of holdings (nineteenth and twentieth century, English language private papers) in the Public Archives of Canada of interest to the study of women’s history.
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Author: National Museum of Man (Canada). History Division
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Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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The family magazine of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Author: Canada. National Capital Commission
Publisher: National Capital Commission
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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