URL: http://section15.ca/

Collection: Women's History and Activism

Description: Women’s rights in Canada are enshrined in section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which came into force on April 17, 1985. The struggles for women’s rights, in public or in private, big or small, started much earlier, and they will extend into the future. The features on this web site tell the stories of women, as individuals or in groups, who saw something that needed to be done, and got it done. Those stories connect, encourage and teach us to continue to make change that addresses the historical and systemic discrimination experienced by women and girls.

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Subject:   Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,  Women’s rights in Canada,  Section 15

Title: Sing All of Us

URL: http://singallofus.ca/

Collection: Canadian National Anthem Campaigns

Description: Canada has two national anthems. The original French song is sung today just as it was composed in 1884. The English song uses the same melody, but it has different words, originally written in 1908 and subsequently changed a number of times. When the national anthems were officially adopted by Parliament in 1980, the same year that Canada adopted the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the English version of the anthem referred to “all thy sons.” This web site records the campaign, successful in 2018, to change the English national anthem to be inclusive of women, of “all of us.”

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Subject:   Canadian National Anthem,  Women's Representation

Title: Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman (1904-1994) - A Documentary

URL: https://maryjackman.ca/

Collection: Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman

Description: This web site offers open access to a documentary exploring the life of Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman (1904-1994). Spanning a century of enormous change and development for Canada, Mary’s story has both universal and unique elements, framed by acclaimed Canadian director Laura Sky. Most importantly, how did she navigate and make choices as a daughter, wife, mother, and citizen of Canada and the world? Of particular interest may be her engagement with Canadian art and craft, including the Group of Seven painters.

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Subject:   Documentary,  Biography,  Women’s education,  Social gospel,  Student Christian Movement,  Family life,  Volunteering,  Women’s Rights,  Women’s Human Rights,  Women’s History

Title: It Was Their War Too - Canadian Women in World War I

URL: https://womenwar.ca/

Collection: Canadian Women in World War 1 (WWI)

Description: This web site offers open access to an illustrated book for general readers on what women in Canada did during World War I. They served in many essential ways, supporting the war effort, their communities and organizations, and their families. They served at home and overseas as drivers, nurses and doctors. They campaigned for peace. They campaigned hard, and successfully for the right to vote, another key step in the journey to full personhood for all women in Canada.

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Subject:   World War 1 1914-1918,  Home front,  Armed forces,  Paid work,  Volunteers,  Suffrage,  Women's vote,  Women’s History,  Women’s Human Rights,  Women’s Rights

Title: For Our Sisters, For Our Daughters

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpStxeS39Ik

Collection: Women's History and Activism

Description: On February 14, 1981, over 1,000 women met on Parliament Hill in the nation’s capital to tell the government that Canada’s proposed new constitution was not good enough for women. The government had refused to support such a meeting, so on 3 weeks’ notice women organized it themselves. Known as the Ad Hoc Committee on Women and the Constitution of Canada, the resolutions passed by the women told the government how to strengthen the equality provisions. As the narrator to the film says, they gave a big “heave-ho” to the status quo. The government agreed to add s. 28 to the Constitution of Canada, which came into force on April 17, 1982: “Notwithstanding anything in this Charter, the rights and freedoms referred to in it are guaranteed equally to male and female persons.”

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Subject:   Women’s History,  Women’s Human Rights,  Women’s Rights,  Documentary,  Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,  Section 15,  Women’s rights in Canada