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Healthsharing

  • Corporate body
  • 1978-1993

"Healthsharing was a Toronto-based publication concerned with examining women’s health issues and alternatives to mainstream health care from a feminist viewpoint and it has been called “Canada’s first women’s health magazine”. The Healthsharing ... »

Ontario Advisory Council on Women's Issues (OACWI)

  • Corporate body
  • 1985-1993
"The Ontario Advisory Council on Women's Issues (OACWI) was founded in 1984. It was the successor to the Ontario Advisory Council on the Status of Women (OACSW), founded in 1973 in response to the 1970 federal Report of the Royal Commission on the Status ... »

Levine, Helen

  • Person
  • 1923-2018
"Helen Levine (nee Zivian) was born in Ottawa in 1923. She was a social worker, activist and professor. At the School of Social Work at Carleton University, she introduced women's issues and feminist perspectives into the curriculum for the first time. ... »

Conant, Verna Rowena

  • Person
  • April 23, 1888-May, 1992
"Verna Rowena Conant (née Smith) was born on April 23, 1888, the daughter of Ernest Disraeli Smith and Christina Ann Smith (1861-1932). Her mother was the first President of the Women Institute of Canada in Winona Division, Ontario. She has one brother, ... »

The Women's Press

  • Corporate body
  • 1971-
"The Women’s Press (also known as the Canadian Women’s Educational Press) was founded in 1971, by a subgroup of the Toronto Women’s Liberation Movement, one of the first feminist political organizations in Toronto. The initiative for a feminist press ... »

Women's Liberation Bookmobile

  • Corporate body
  • 1974-1975
"CORA was the creation of Judith Quinlan, Boo Watson and Ellen Woodsworth, three young women from Toronto who began planning the feminist bookmobile in 1973. They raised funds, promoted their plan, and bought and outfitted an old school bus, transforming ... »

The Feminist News Service

  • Corporate body
  • 1974-?
"The Feminist News Service started in December 1974, after a conference held in Winnipeg. It became a national organization with an office in all provinces except for the Atlantic and the territories. Their aim was to become a link between women's groups ... »

Women's Place (Ottawa, ON)

  • Corporate body
  • 1972-

"The idea for Women's Place/Place Aux Femmes originally grew out discussions held in January 1984 with Mayor of Ottawa, Marion Dewar. The community representatives and individuals who met with the Mayor felt there was a need for a centralized telephone ... »

Wages Due Lesbians

  • Corporate body
  • 1973-1984
"Prior to Wages for Housework’s demise, in the mid-1970s a group of lesbians which had belonged to it created a new organization, Wages Due Lesbians (also known as Wages Due). Their policies were much the same, however, their emphasis was on the rights ... »
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