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Rosemary Billings fonds
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Rosemary Billings fonds

  • CA ON0034 10-136
  • Fonds
  • 1977-1987
The fonds consists of records created and collected by Rosemary Billings in her capacity as an executive member of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Canadian Women on the Constitution and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) and relate to the creation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the guarantee for women's rights under Section 28. The records illustrate the work that Billings and her colleagues did to lobby the government to ensure that section 28 was not removed.
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Le fonds comprend des documents créés et recueillis par Rosemary Billings en sa qualité de membre exécutif du Comité ad hoc des femmes canadiennes sur la Constitution et du Comité national d'action sur le statut de la femme (CNA). Ces documents portent sur la création de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés et sur la garantie des droits des femmes en vertu de l'article 28. Les documents illustrent le travail de Billings et de ses collègues pour faire pression sur le gouvernement afin que l'article 28 ne soit pas supprimé.

Billings, Rosemary

Records related to women's rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Series consists of records related to Rosemary Billings' involvement with various groups including the Ad Hoc Committee of the Canadian Women on the Constitution, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), and Voice of Women who expressed concern regarding the Canadian Constitution, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the protection of women's rights through Section 28. Includes records related to the planning of the Conference on Canadian Women and the Constitution, newspaper clippings related to the Constitution, reports and correspondence.

Constitution: Correspondence - Committees

The file contains correspondence and press releases from the Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women on the Constitution, the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), and the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) related to their concerns over the constitution.

[Women's lobby and constitutional changes]

This file contains notes for speeches and clippings related to the women's lobby and the constitution as well as a letter from the House of Commons to Rosemary Billings thanking her for leading a seminar in April of 1984 and a book outline for Penny Kome's The Taking of 28

[Telephone kit - charter concerns]

File contains a message for phone calling supporters and a call notes log, instructions for the Constitutional Telephone Team organized by NAC and the Ad Hoc Committee. The point of the calls was to contact potential supporters
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