This centennial history, sponsored by CFUW and the Feminist History Society, details more than one hundred years of an important First Wave Feminist movement organization, and takes the reader through the Second Wave and up to the present day. When I began writing in 2017, I was still working three days a week at Parks […]

Writing and self-publishing – two books Mennonite Funeral and Burial Traditions: Interviews and Personal Stories – from Waterloo Region, Oxford, Perth and Wellington Counties by Marion Roes. Self published 2019 While writing, interviewing and researching histories of undertakers in Waterloo Region – since about 2013 – I decided to include traditions of some Mennonite groups.  […]

Why did I write A Women’s History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership (2019) by Liz Muir In WOMANWORD, A Feminist Lectionary and Psalter, Miriam Therese Winter, one of the Medical Mission Sisters, wrote, “Who will retrieve our stories from the void of the unremembered? Who will believe we were who we are and […]

Seen here are many of the participants of the Ontario Women’s History Network (OWHN) conference held at Museum London on the theme of women and health – our first time in London, Ontario! At the centre is incoming Chair Sarah Hogenbirk, and second and third left of her, in the front row, are two of […]

A new historical novel, Votes, Love and War by Ruth Latta, will be published in Fall 2019. It focusses on Winnipeg journalists and sisters Lillian Beynon Thomas and Francis Marion Beynon and their participation in the Manitoba women’s suffrage movement.  Through a fictional narrator, Latta shows the warmth and vigor of the women’s suffrage movement […]