Women's History Month Theme 2024 - Canada.ca. October is Women’s History Month in Canada, a time to celebrate the women and girls from our past, and our present, who are contributing to a better, more inclusive Canada.
Try these subject headings, electronic resources, or check with reference staff for more materials:
Check out “Notable Figures in Women’s History” on Kanopy, the ORL’s film streaming platform.
Collections:
Early Women Filmmakers: An International Anthology – highlights the work of 14 of early cinema's most innovative and influential women directors.
Pioneering Women in Film Collection – a series of 10 films showcasing the roles women have played in creating films.
Women Make Film – This epic exploration of filmmaking by women offers an essential and celebratory revisionist history of cinema told through the lenses of the world's greatest female directors.
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an interesting site to find millions of pages of digitized historical content and primary source materials such as maps, photographs, newspapers, manuscripts, pamphlets, poems, sermons, and much more. Search terms such as “women,” “feminist,” and “ladies” work well. No login is needed when accessing from within British Columbia.
Women in Canadian History | The Canadian Encyclopedia - Learn about suffrage in Canada and take some quizzes to test your knowledge.
Women in Canadian History: A Timeline - Canada.ca - Learn about the influential women in Canada’s history.
Canada's Great Women - Canada's History (canadashistory.ca) - Get an overview of some of Canada’s most important women and their contributions.
Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario - Women's History Month (etfo.ca) - An overview and brief history of Women’s History Month in Canada.
Native Women’s Association of Canada – NWAC was founded on the collective goal to enhance, promote, and foster the social, economic, cultural and political well-being of Indigenous women within their respective communities and Canada societies.