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Voice of Women

  • Corporate body
  • 1960-

Voice of Women began in 1960 when women across Canada were alarmed about the threat of nuclear war and how nuclear testing was endangering their children’s lives. Lotta Dempsey wrote columns in the Toronto Star asking women to write to her if they were ... »

Serena

  • Corporate body
  • 1955-
Serena was founded in 1955 by Gilles and Rita Henry-Breault, residents of Lachine, Québec, a couple who used the sympto-thermal method to manage their fertility. They soon realized that couples in their community wished to acquire this knowledge.
In 1962,... »

Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre

  • Corporate body
  • 1974-

In 1974, three women (Rosemary Billings, Gaby Van Heusen and Diane Williams) originally active in the Ottawa Women’s Centre had the idea of starting a crisis centre for victims of rape and sexual assault in the Ottawa-Hull area. A grant was secured to ... »

Advocates for Community-based Training and Education for Women (ACTEW)

  • Corporate body
  • 1988-2008
ACTEW, originally Advocates for Community-based Training and Education for Women, was a provincial membership organization for programs that provided community training to women. It began in 1988 as an outgrowth of another provincial umbrella group, ... »

Ontario Women's Action Coalition / Coalition des femmes de L'Ontario

  • Corporate body
  • 1990-1995
The Ontario Women's Action Coalition / Coalition des femmes de l'Ontario (OWAC) was founded in 1990 as an attempt to support provincial organizing and mobilization of women in Ontario. Operating alongside the National Action Committee on the Status of ... »

Feminist Party of Canada

  • Corporate body
  • 1979-1982

The Feminist Party of Canada (FPC) developed during the feminist movement in response to a lack of representation of women in government and to the many injustices women and minorities continued to face. The party began on June 10, 1979 at an event held ... »

Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women

  • Corporate body
  • 1973-1995

The Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women (CACSW) was established by the federal government of Canada on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (RCSW) in 1973. The primary purpose of its creation was to educate the ... »

Durham International Women’s Day Committee

  • Corporate body
The Durham International Women’s Day Committee represents the communities of Oshawa, Whitby, Newcastle, Ajax, Pickering and Port Perry, Ontario. They are responsible for organizing events for International Women's Day in the region.
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Redlight Theatre

  • Corporate body
  • 1974-1977

The Redlight Theatre was Toronto’s first professional feminist theatre company, operating from 1974 to 1977. Diane Grant, Marcella Lustig, and Francine Volker, who were actors and playwrights in Toronto’s alternative theatre scene, founded Redlight ... »

Women in Trades (WIT)

  • Corporate body
  • 1979-1989

The origins of the Women In Trades organization came out of a September 1979 meeting where women from several government agencies and educational groups met to come up with a strategy to help women already working in trades or as a starting point for ... »

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