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Fallding, Helen

  • Personne
Helen Fallding is a journalist and human rights advocate. She has an honors B.Sc. in biology and an MA in journalism. She was the first coordinator of the Women's Centre at the University of Toronto (1986-1988). She also coordinated the Women's Centre in ... »

Overend, Valerie

  • CA
  • Personne
  • 1953-

Valerie Overend was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1953. During the 1990s, Valerie worked as a Red Seal Carpenter on commercial construction projects in the Regina area with the local Carpenters Union. Valerie had never met another woman on a ... »

Voice of Women

  • Collectivité
  • 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 ... »

Thomson, Aisla

  • Personne
Aisla Thomson was a project coordinator with CRIAW from 1981 to 1985, and executive director of CCLOW from 1986-1995. At CCLOW, she wrote articles for Women's Education des femmes, wrote or acted as the editor for several documents, and oversaw the ... »

Service, Office and Retail Workers of Canada (SORWUC)

  • Collectivité
  • 1971-1986
The SORWUC began in 1971 with the Working Women’s Association of Vancouver and involved mainly unorganized women themselves. The group was also involved with public education about day care, job security, and equal pay. The union became formally ... »

McPeake, Wendy

  • Personne
"Wendy McPeake was involved in the creation of cultural products, including museum exhibits, revenue-generating publications and products, promotional publications, and commercial operations. She obtained a Bachelor of Art in English Literature from the ... »

The Women's Press

  • Collectivité
  • 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 ... »