This photo shows 1st year law students sitting in from of Osgoode Hall in Toronto Ontario, 1943. Note reads: six women in the second row, from left to right: Marg Dufresne, Gretta Grant, Ann Brown, Marg Bennett, Marg Grimshaw, Helen Carefoot. Charlie Scott is front row, 3rd from the right.
This photo shows a group of students dancing. Note reads: 1945. Toronto. Practicing for square dancing at racially-integrated Campus Cooperative Residence, [sic].
This photo shows a group of women in front of a restaurant in Toronto. Note reads: Toronto 1943 or '44 - In front of Tor. restaurant, group of female law students meeting for "support" dinner. Left to right: Helen Carefoot, Gretta Grant, Marg Grimshaw, Ann Brown, Marg Bennett, Marg Dufresne.
Gretta Grant and three other women outside in front of windows. Note reads: Toronto 1945 or '46 - "McCarthy's Harem" - articling students and women lawyer at McCarthy's law firm. Left to right: Marron Dart, Jean Oldrieve, Gretta Grant, June Ryan.
Greta and Al Grant standing in front of old Osgoode Hall when Al was called to the bar. Note reads: 1947 spring Toronto - Al Grant's call to the bar, standing in front of Old Osgood Hall.
This fonds contains records related to Gay Bell's involvement with the early lesbian movement in Toronto, prisoners' rights activism, labour activism, and women's liberation. Including brochures, pamphlets, flyers, correspondence, buttons, and photographs related to the local instantiation of these movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bell collected alternative publications and periodicals that detail their wider historical context. The fonds also contains scripts, rough notes, photographs, and newspaper articles related to Bell's theatrical performances, which were often innovative and sometimes controversial. When Bell donated these records in 2011, she included explanatory notes that provide detail and context for local events and initiative which have been lost to history. This fonds is thus invaluable for studying the early lesbian movement, queer involvement in labour organizing, prison activism, and the expanding purview of women's liberation in the last decades of the 20th century. -- Ce fonds contient des documents relatifs à l'implication de Gay Bell dans le premier mouvement lesbien à Toronto, le militantisme pour les droits des prisonniers, le militantisme syndical et la libération des femmes. Il comprend des brochures, des dépliants, des prospectus, de la correspondance, des macarons et des photographies liés à l'implantation locale de ces mouvements à la fin des années 1970 et au début des années 1980. Bell a rassemblé des publications et des périodiques alternatifs qui détaillent leur contexte historique plus large. Le fonds contient également des scénarios, des notes brutes, des photographies et des articles de journaux relatifs aux représentations théâtrales de Bell, souvent innovantes et parfois controversées. Lorsque Bell a fait don de ces documents en 2011, elle y a joint des notes explicatives qui fournissent des détails et un contexte pour les événements et les initiatives locales qui ont été perdus dans l'histoire. Ce fonds est donc inestimable pour l'étude des débuts du mouvement lesbien, de l'implication des queers dans l'organisation du travail, de l'activisme en prison et de l'élargissement du champ d'action de la libération des femmes dans les dernières décennies du XXe siècle.
