The collection pertains to a wide range of feminist issues such as education, health, human rights, International Women’s Year, women and the law, mental health, marriage, women in the work force, women’s studies programmes, status of women, ISIS/women and film, etc. They were most likely collected by T.W. Dewolf in the course of her career and relate mostly to events and organisations in British Columbia (Canada), between 1971 and 1977. -- La collection porte sur un large éventail de questions féministes reliées à l'éducation, la santé, les droits de la personne, l'Année internationale de la femme, les femmes et le droit, la santé mentale, le mariage, les femmes sur le marché du travail, les programmes d'études féminines, le statut des femmes, ISIS/femmes et cinéma, etc. Ils ont probablement été collectés par T.W. Dewolf au cours de sa carrière et concernent principalement des événements et des organisations en Colombie-Britannique (Canada), entre 1971 et 1977.
This collection consists mostly of photographs used for publishing. The publication is not noted but it was likely National Action Committee on the Status of Women publications "Feminist Action" and "NAC Status of Women News. "The main subjects are young girls and children, working women, women and unions, a health care.
This collection contains records in various formats; including original organizational records, posters, buttons, t-shirts, flyers, publications, etc., from more than 2,000 Canadian women’s organizations, conferences and individuals. The records date from 1960 up until the mid-1990s and were collected by the Collective of the Canadian Women's Movement Archives. Material dated after 1992 was added after the CWMA collection was donated to the University of Ottawa Library (see Immediate Source of Acquisition for more detail). - Cette collection contient des documents de différents formats, y compris des documents organisationnels, des affiches, des macarons, des t-shirts, des dépliants, des publications, provenant de plus de 2 000 organisations de femmes canadiennes, de conférences et d'individus. Les documents datent de 1960 jusqu'au milieu des années 1990 et ont été collectés par le Collectif des archives du Mouvement canadien des femmes.
This collection consists of documents related to the membership and resource material held at York University's Nellie Langford Rowell Library. This collection includes documents collected by the Library staff on women's organizations, publication houses, individuals and subjects detailing activities, meetings and events. It contains correspondence, membership cards, meetings' minutes, agendas, reports, booklets, leaflets, flyers, donations and subscription forms, black and white and colour photographs, posters, buttons, the videotape Don't give us military solutions! by Voice of Women, the tape Feminism as a political movement by Juliet Mitchell, magazines, articles, newspaper clippings and notes. - Cette collection se compose de documents relatifs aux membres et aux ressources documentaires conservés à la bibliothèque Nellie Langford Rowell de l'Université York. Cette collection comprend des documents recueillis par le personnel de la bibliothèque sur des organisations féminines, des maisons de publication, des individus et des sujets détaillant des activités, des réunions et des événements. Elle contient de la correspondance, des cartes de membres, des procès-verbaux de réunions, des ordres du jour, des rapports, des brochures, des dépliants, des formulaires de dons et d'abonnement, des photographies en noir et blanc et en couleur, des affiches, des macarons, la cassette vidéo Don't give us military solutions ! de Voice of Women, la cassette Feminism as a political movement de Juliet Mitchell, des magazines, des articles, des coupures de journaux et des notes.
The collection consists of material collected by Mary Janes for her research on Slovak homesteaders and the community of Hunta, Ontario. Includes clippings, notes, essays. Also includes a copy of the book The Czechs and Slovaks in Canada by John Gellner and John Smerek.
The bulk of the collection is comprised of sheet music for mostly piano or orchestra, published between 1883 and 1946 (approximately a third of which was published in the 1920s) for the purposes of performance during the screening of silent films. Handwritten notes and cues, as well as stamps are found on many sheets, which have been identified. Some of the items are of collections of music specifically written and published for the purpose of motion pictures. Also included are cue sheets and instruction manuals, folders with advertisements, letters from editors, as well as a program for the 2014 screening of “The Cat and the Canary” with small orchestra at the University of Ottawa School of Music, sums up the Silent Film Music collection.
The collection consists of more than 450 theatre programs, season calendars, visitor guides, ticket stubs and magazines from 1977 to the present. Over more than 50 years, Canadian actors as Martha Henry, Sandra Oh, Shirley Douglas, Keifer Sutherland, Christopher Plummer, Richard Monette, Brent Carver, Maggie Smith, Heath Lamberts, Brian Bedford, William Hutt, but also major Canadian director and playwrights are represented in this collection.
This collection consists of articles, papers, booklets, and pamphlets produced by the women's liberation movement in the United States (most of the records are from Boston) and in Canada (most of the records are from Toronto) in the 1970s. -- Cette collection se compose d'articles, de documents, de livrets et de brochures produits par le mouvement de libération des femmes aux États-Unis (la plupart des documents proviennent de Boston) et au Canada (la plupart des documents proviennent de Toronto) dans les années 1970.
This corpus contains copies of digital records relating to the International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES). It includes proceedings for ICWES-I to ICWES-XII, as well as digitized records of conferences I through XVII, such as lists of participants, reports, testimonials, correspondence, and photographs. ICWES VIII also includes recorded tapes and their (partial) transcriptions.This corpus also includes the gathered quantitative data created in analyzing conference records and testimonies gathered in preparation for the publication, "Women’s Contribution to Science and Technology through ICWES Conferences" by Monique Frize, Claire Deschênes and Ruby Heap (Springer: December 2023). * Ce corpus contient des copies de documents numériques relatifs à la Conférence internationale des femmes ingénieurs et scientifiques (ICWES). Il comprend les actes des conférences ICWES-I à ICWES-XII, ainsi que des documents numérisés des conférences I à XVII, tels que des listes de participants, des rapports, des témoignages, de la correspondance et des photographies. ICWES VIII comprend également des bandes enregistrées et leurs transcriptions (partielles).Ce corpus comprend aussi les données quantitatives rassemblées créées lors de l'analyse des comptes rendus des conférences et des témoignages recueillis en préparation de la publication, « Women's Contribution to Science and Technology through ICWES Conferences » par Monique Frize, Claire Deschênes et Ruby Heap (Springer : décembre 2023).
The Archives and Special Collections has the largest collection of feminist publications in Canada, comprising of periodicals and newsletters produced by feminist groups and associations across Canada. It currently stands at just over 1400 titles and includes national publications like Branching Out and Broadside, as well as newsletters from smaller groups like Open Door, and Rural Lesbian Newsletter of British Columbia, etc. These periodicals represent women from diverse regions of the country, and cover social action in all its forms, and include subjects such as women’s health, the right to abortion, child-care services, as well as literature, art, culture, and assistance for immigrants. The coverage of these periodicals varies from several years of issues to other times just one or two issues.
