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No Bleeding Heart
One of this country's first generation of professional women, Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton championed the cause of child welfare across the country and worked hard for the status of women long before the word \"feminism\" had passed into everyday language.
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Rose Henderson
The political movements and social causes of the turbulent 1920s and 30s are brought to life in this study of the work and times of feminist, socialist, and peace activist Rose Henderson (1871–1937). Her commitment to social justice led to frequent monitoring and repression by the authorities but her contributions to activist thought continue to pose challenges for interpretations of the history of Canada, leftism, labour, and women.
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The Stairway
First published in 1921, and for many years out of print,The Stairwayis one of Canada's early feminist classics. It tells of an extraordinary life: suffragist, settlement worker, peace activist, journalist, labour activist, college teacher, and itinerant catalyst for social change.
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Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis
Looking at early twentieth-century westerners through the writings of an acerbic female agricultural journalist.
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A heart at leisure from itself : Caroline Macdonald of Japan
This book throws light on Japanese-Canadian relations in the first few decades of this century.
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Alice Ravenhill: making friends with the powers that be
\"10 When family finances prevented her from attending school after the age of seventeen, she carried on her own research - for example, dissecting snails, worms, and ox eyeballs in her bedroom and translating books into Braille.11 When she was thirty, her family finally allowed her to take a newly offered National Health Diploma course through the Royal Sanitary Institute (one of the first four women to do so).
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