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Silvera, Makeda

  • Persoon
  • 1955-

Makeda Silvera is a Jamaican Canadian author, editor, publisher, community organizer, and oral historian. Silvera immigrated to Canada from Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 13. Silvera worked as the co-founder and Managing Editor of Sister Vision Press ... »

Sister Vision Black Women and Women of Colour Press

  • Instelling
  • 1984-2001

In 1984, Makeda Silvera and Stephanie Martin founded Sister Vision, a small, independent press dedicated to publishing and distributing works by Black women and women of colour. As the first Black Women and Women of Colour Press in Canada, the press ... »

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC)

  • Instelling
  • 1982-

The Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC) is a pan-Canadian, non-profit, membership-based organization dedicated to promoting access to quality child care for all. The CCAAC now has over 700 delegates from all Provinces and Territories. They ... »

Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW)

  • Instelling
  • 1984-present

The Regional Coordinating Committee to End Violence Against Women, originally called the Regional Coordinating Committee on Wife Assault, grew out of societal awakening to the problem of violence against women. Following the second-wave feminist movement ... »

Canadian Women's Movement Archives (CWMA)

  • Canada
  • Instelling
  • 1977-1992

The origins of what later became the CWMA/ACMF were the records of the Toronto feminist newspaper The Other Woman. When the newspaper ceased publication in 1977, Pat Leslie, editor of The Other Woman, moved the newspaper’s records into her apartment and ... »

Forsey, Helen

  • Canada
  • Persoon
  • 1945-

Helen Forsey was born in Ottawa, studied agriculture at McGill's Macdonald College and graduated in 1966 with a B.Sc. (Agr.) For two decades she worked in international co-operation in Ecuador, Ghana, and Jamaica, and in "development education" in Canada.... »

Vance, Joanie

  • Persoon
  • 1953-
In the early 1970s, the issue of violence against women gained public attention, resulting in the establishment of numerous women’s shelters and Rape Crisis Centres across Canada. In May of 1975, the 22-year-old Joanie Vance began working at the Montreal ... »

Wood, Myrna

  • Persoon
  • 1936-
"Myrna Wood is an American Second wave feminist. She was born in Grundy County, Iowa, USA, the youngest child of family of 8. Her parents were Rolly and Fern Crouse Aiken. In 1966-1967 she was a member of a group of women in Toronto who started ... »

Johnson, Donna F.

  • Persoon
  • [195?-]

Donna F. Johnson dedicates her life to advocating for women. Her deep-rooted passion for uniting women in supportive groups is evident through her extensive career. From 1986 to 2002, Johnson worked at Lanark County Interval House, where she provided ... »

Cincík, Jozef G.

  • Persoon
  • 1909-1992

Jozef G. Cincík was a Slovak painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer and art historian. He was born on March 8, 1909 in Clopodia, Romania. His parents Gabriel Cincík and Jolana Lenkeyova had moved to Romania, where Jozef was born. The family ... »

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