Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council
Parallel form(s) of name
- NOWDC
- Decade Council
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
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Description area
Dates of existence
1976-[199?]
History
The Northwestern Ontario Women’s Decade Council (NOWDC) was a feminist organization formed in 1976 to carry on the work begun by the Northwestern Ontario International Women’s Year Co-ordinating Council. The Decade Council was based in Thunder Bay. They focused on serving as a resource for, and a liaison between, area women’s group, in order to improve the economic, social and political status of women. They also provided technical assistance and resources to emerging women’s groups and to individual women working on women’s issues. This support was provided by a non-partisan volunteer-based organization composed of representatives of district women’s groups as well as individuals, serving communities of Kenora, Sioux Lookout/Hudson, Dryden, Red Lake, Atikokan, Marathon, Manitouwadge, Nipignon, Terrace Bay, Thunder Bay and surrounding townships, Geraldton and Big Trout Lake. NOWDC sponsored conferences and published materials, including audiovisual materials.
Places
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
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Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Related entity
Untinen, Leni
Identifier of related entity
Category of relationship
associative
Dates of relationship
[c.1990-1999]
Description of relationship
Coordinator of the Northwestern Ontario Women's Decade Council, c.1990s.
Related entity
Bengtsson, Lisa (1951-)
Identifier of related entity
Canada
Category of relationship
associative
Dates of relationship
[c.1985]
Description of relationship
Lisa Bengtsson managed the Northwestern Ontario Secretary of State district office, (mid-1980s).