Welcome to the Ontario Women’s History Network’s news blog. We’d like to hear from you! We’re interested in all women’s and gender history-related content like conferences and events, historic site visits, new publications or exhibits, and teaching materials, among other things. Please also send along photos to accompany your news.
Materials can be sent to info@ohn-rhfo.ca
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Ontario Provincial Virtual Heritage Fair 2021
Every year OWHN collaborates with the Ontario Heritage Fairs Association (OHFA) to award a prize for women’s history at heritage fairs at schools across the province. OHFA reports that, despite COVOD disruptions, regional fairs were held in North Bay, Kingston, Ottawa, Niagara, Thames Valley and Durham. Over 40 teachers worked with their students to contribute…
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New virtual exhibit on women archives!
A new virtual exhibit is now available on the Archives and Special Collections (ARCS) website: Women’s Archives. Explore our collections! This exhibit introduces the contents of the Women’s Archives for members of the university community and for outside visitors. The exhibit will allow you to discover key actors and events involved in Canada’s second wave…
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Our 100 Years: Canadian Federation of University Women (Second Story Press, 2019) by Dianne Dodd
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…