This fonds contains a variety of documents from the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada including meeting minutes, administrative and planning documents, mock ups for publications of newsletters and pamphlets, briefs on the state of child care and child welfare, research materials, and correspondence from regional and national partners. This fonds also includes posters, buttons, stamps, and photographs.
This fonds contains audiovisual materials produced by the Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council (NOWDC), including recordings of conferences and produced resource videos used for distribution.
This item is a published article by Janis Alton. (Alton, Janis, "We've Come A Long Way. Engendering Peace-Building and the New Diplomacy", Canadian Woman Studies/les Cahiers de la Femme, York University Publication, Vol. 22, No. 2, p.72-77.)
This item is an essay by Kay Macpherson produced with help from the Lawson Memorial Fund, reprinted from "Atlantis" a women's studies Journal, Spring, 1987, Vol. XII, 1 &2.
This item is an unpublished essay by Helen Tucker (1904-1998). It includes an answer letter from Peter Martin Associates Limited (Toronto) about the reasons of the rejections of the essay.
This recording consists of Nancy Adamson's interview with Dawn St Amant, which takes place on 1 May 1992 at a restaurant during lunch. They discuss a variety of topics, including Dawn's early work assisting victims of domestic and intimate partner violence; daycare; the role and dynamics of mothers and wives in families, including the impact of her Catholic Italian heritage; her work in Thunder Bay with the Women's Centre, Birth Control Centre at the University, and Catholic family development; lesbian women in Thunder Bay; [indigenous] women's organization and cooperation; political feminism, including socialist and radical feminism and the role of education and how it impacts roles within women's movement - women not from Thunder Bay more likely to call themselves socialists, marxists, etc.; Congress of Canadian Women; young women's involvement in social development.
This recording consists of Nancy Adamson's interview with Wendy McPeake in Ottawa on 9 September 1992. Wendy discusses her early involvement with the women's movement, and working for group and organization phone lines, predominantly with the Women's Centre in Ottawa. She notes that she was drawn into the women's movement after reading feminist literature, becoming involved in CR [consciousness raising] groups whilst in Europe, and following the birth of her child. Wendy and Nancy discuss women's newsletter; differences and controversies in the women's movement in Ottawa and in Canada; employment and volunteering; views towards marriage, relationships, children and motherhood; the formation and dissolution of groups; lesbianism and lesbian action within the women's movement; feminist consciousness and its evolution; queer identity; clothing style and perceptions; francophone women's involvement; group meetings and their historical record; left-wing politics and groups; and more. Wendy also briefly discusses her involvement with Interval House early on as a volunteer and as a board member in 1992. [There is a pause between A and B sides of the tape in this recording at 00:53:30-00:54:34.] In the second half of the recording, Wendy and Nancy revisit several of the above-mentioned topics and further discuss radical feminism's views on pornography; the Women's Centre and Upstream closures in 1980; the task force on violence against women and NAC conference; SORWUC [Service, Office and Retail Workers of Canada]; a women's strike; take back the night in Ottawa; and more. Nancy discusses the move of the women's movement archives [CWMA] to the University of Ottawa and record keeping within the women's movement more generally. [Note that throughout some sections of the recording there are pauses due to interruptions, including to eat dinner and for a telephone call (00:38:00-00:40:30)].
