Fonds 10-181 - Lois Bédard fonds

Eaton's strike rally records

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Lois Bédard fonds

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CA ON0034 10-181

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• 4.07 m of textual records

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([December 31, 1923] - December 14, 2007)

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Lois (née Dowson) Bédard was born in 1923 in Weston, Ontario – to a working-class family of 7 children. Mother, Mary Brittania Dowson worked as a stenographer and father, Walter L. Dowson, was a printer. Lois Bédard was notable for her activism in the Canadian Trotskyist movement and for promoting feminist causes, both independently, and through union activism, increasingly from the 1960s to the early 2000s.

Lois Bédard earned her Bachelor’s degree from York Memorial Collegiate and her Master’s of Education from the University of Toronto. In the late 1940s, she married Jean-Marie Bédard: a prominent Québec union activist and committed socialist, who served as president of the Quebec Socialist Party (PSQ) from 1966-1968.

Lois Bédard was one of the few women involved in the Canadian Trotskyist movement. In 1946, her fellow sibling activist, Ross Dowson, had led the Canadian branch of the Trotskyist movement, called, “The Revolutionary Workers Party (RWP.)” In 1974, Lois Bédard was among the members that split from the Canadian Trotskyist group to become a member of the Socialist League, (or the “Forward Group,”) along with founding member, Ross Dowson.

Throughout her activist career, Lois Bédard promoted feminist causes, both independently, and within the labour movement. She was a founding member of Organized Working Women, in 1977, which promoted women’s rights in the workplace and advocated for their involvement in traditional labour organizations. They adopted, “A Woman’s Place is in Her Union,” as one of their slogans. She served on the first executive council of Organized Working Women, before becoming its president, early in 1986.

Lois Bédard lobbied for pay equity between men and women and for women’s rights to free universal childcare. In 1980 she presented a brief to the Ontario Legislative Committee Hearings into Bill 3 – an Act to Amend the Ontario Employment Standards Act. The brief was entitled “Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value.”
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Lois (née Dowson) Bédard est née en 1923 à Weston, en Ontario, dans une famille ouvrière de sept enfants. Sa mère, Mary Brittania Dowson, travaille comme sténographe et son père, Walter L. Dowson, est imprimeur. Lois Bédard s'est distinguée par son militantisme au sein du mouvement trotskiste canadien et par la promotion de causes féministes, à la fois de manière indépendante et par le biais du militantisme syndical, de plus en plus entre les années 1960 et le début des années 2000.

Lois Bédard a obtenu une licence au York Memorial Collegiate et une maîtrise en éducation à l'université de Toronto. À la fin des années 1940, elle a épousé Jean-Marie Bédard, éminent syndicaliste québécois et socialiste convaincu, qui a été président du Parti socialiste québécois (PSQ) de 1966 à 1968.

Lois Bédard fut l'une des rares femmes à participer au mouvement trotskiste canadien. En 1946, son frère activiste, Ross Dowson, avait dirigé la branche canadienne du mouvement trotskiste, appelée "The Revolutionary Workers Party (RWP)". En 1974, Lois Bédard fait partie des membres qui se séparent du groupe trotskiste canadien pour devenir membre de la Socialist League (ou "Forward Group"), aux côtés de Ross Dowson, membre fondateur.

Tout au long de sa carrière militante, Lois Bédard a défendu les causes féministes, à la fois de manière indépendante et au sein du mouvement syndical. En 1977, elle est l'une des membres fondatrices de l'organisation Organized Working Women, qui promeut les droits des femmes sur le lieu de travail et plaide en faveur de leur participation aux organisations syndicales traditionnelles. Le slogan "A Woman's Place is in Her Union" (La place d'une femme est dans son syndicat) est l'un des leurs. Elle a siégé au premier conseil exécutif d'Organized Working Women, avant d'en devenir la présidente, au début de l'année 1986.

Lois Bédard a fait pression en faveur de l'équité salariale entre les hommes et les femmes et du droit des femmes à des services de garde d'enfants gratuits et universels. En 1980, elle a présenté un mémoire aux audiences du Comité législatif de l'Ontario sur le projet de loi 3 - Loi modifiant la Loi sur les normes d'emploi de l'Ontario. Ce mémoire était intitulé "Un salaire égal pour un travail de valeur égale".

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The Lois Bédard fonds reflects Bédard’s advocacy for women’s rights, as well as her professional involvement in the women’s union organization, Organized Working Women. The fonds focusses on administrative records from Organized Working Women, including Lois Bédard’s correspondence and executive reports from her time serving on the organization executive council in the early 1980s, until her resignation as president, in 1986.

The fonds reflects Lois Bédard’s efforts to lobby government and organizations to promote women’s equality. The fonds includes briefs, petitions, letters to government, and notices promoting equal pay for work of equal value, as well as women's reproductive rights, and their right to universal day care.

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Le fonds Lois Bédard témoigne de la défense des droits des femmes par Lois Bédard, ainsi que de son engagement professionnel au sein de l'organisation syndicale des femmes, Organized Working Women. Le fonds se concentre sur les documents administratifs d'Organized Working Women, y compris la correspondance et les rapports exécutifs de Lois Bédard depuis qu'elle a siégé au conseil exécutif de l'organisation au début des années 1980 jusqu'à sa démission en tant que présidente, en 1986.

Le fonds reflète les efforts de Lois Bédard pour faire pression sur le gouvernement et les organisations afin de promouvoir l'égalité des femmes. Le fonds comprend des mémoires, des pétitions, des lettres au gouvernement et des avis faisant la promotion du salaire égal pour un travail de valeur égale, ainsi que des droits reproductifs des femmes et de leur droit à des services de garde universels.

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Fonds accession number: ACC-2019-12

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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104176614

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