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Ottawa Women's Lobby (OWL) fonds
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Ottawa Women's Lobby founding members video

The video is an oral history of the Ottawa Women's Lobby (OWL) founded in 1977 and active until the mid-1990s. The video features OWL founding members Shirley Greenberg, Kay Marshall, Pat Hacker, and Rosemary Billings. The video also features long-time OWL members, Carol Paschal and Wendy Lawrence. OWL was a feminist political action group whose purpose was to lobby municipal, provincial, and federal governments to improve women's rights in areas like childcare, equal pay, financial support for women's shelters, unemployment rates of women, and family law reform. Film credits list Wendy Lawrence and Anne Betz (archival research), Pat Masters (interview questions), and Rob Oehring (videographer and editor). Topics include second-wave feminism, the history of OWL, and the women's movement in Ottawa.

Media Clippings : OWL-related

File consists of press clippings pertaining to gender equality, the Royal Commission's review on the Status of Women, marital violence, an add for women's sprays, women's political rights, women's representatives in politics, and potential reforms in the 70s.

Photograph of [Wendy Lawrence?], [May, 1975?]

Items are three photographs of [Wendy Lawrence?]. In the first photograph she is seen stepping out of a car; on the backside of the photograph reads "The Women's Dilemma [sic]…to send care parcels or bombs!". In the second photograph she is standing on the front porch outside the door of a building with another woman; on the backside of the photograph reads "You're always welcome at our friends home, just as long as we don't have to clean it!". In the third photograph she appears to be in a dorm room sitting beside a bed; on the back of the photograph reads "well...in Nfld. at least we have proper drinking places!".

Photograph of women at social gathering, 1994

Item is a photograph of seven women at a social gathering sitting/standing in the kitchen. The names of the women noted on back of photograph include: Peggy, Gennie [Donovan], Carol [Paschal?], Shirley [Greenberg], and "Diane / George" (Diane George may be one name or two names).
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