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Famous Five: The Persons Case
Legal history was made in 1929 when the British Privy Council overturned a Supreme Court decision and declared that women were persons under the law.

Persons Case
The Persons Case in Canada resulted in the finding, on October 18, 1929, that women were persons under the law. To commemorate that event, October 18 has been celebrated as Person's Day in Canada, and Women's History Month in Canada is celebrated in October.

Francis Marion Beynon
She was a social reformer, editor, writer and suffrage activist.

Boys' and Girls' Clubs
The Manitoba Agricultural Extension Service helped immigrant girls and other rural women learn homemaking and family health skills, and also served to promote a social network among otherwise-isolated rural women.

Canada reflects on the Montreal massacre
On December 6, 1989, a gunman killed fourteen women and injured thirteen other people at l'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, blaming feminists for ruining his life.

Canadian Suffrage Movement
Icelandic women led the struggle for the vote in Manitoba.

Canadian Women in Music: Selective Bibliography
A bibliography by Cheryl Gillard Music Division, National Library of Canada, on issues of women in music, including women who've made their mark in the field.

Canadian Women's History: Selective Bibliography
The National Library of Canada with suggested resources for women's history research.

Chronologie Historique des Femmes du Quebec
French-language pages with a timeline for the history of women in Quebec, 1608-present.

Cool Women
A kind of quirky site about women's history in Canada.

Dr. Mary Crawford
An obstetrician, she served in Winnipeg from 1903 and also worked for social change.

Winona Flett (Mrs. F.J. Dixon) and Lynn Flett
Sistes, they were writers and political activists who worked for suffrage.

Famous Canadian Women
Find a timeline, biographies, quotes, and more focusing on women in Canada.

E. Cora Hind
A journalist and women's rights activist, she was born in Toronto but spent her career in Winnipeg. She was also active in other social causes. Anti-immigrant feelings led her, in later years, to work for assimilation of those of non-British ancestry.

A History of Abortion in Canada
From 1869, when abortion was made illegal, to 1998, when Canadian authorities cooperated in investigating the Buffalo, NY, abortion murder of a doctor by suspect James Kopp who was seen entering Canada, this timeline details the changing legal and social history of abortion in Canada.

Little Mothers' Movement
The health department in Winnipeg in the early 20th century worked to educate school girls on hygiene and child care, to help cut the infant mortality rate.

Maternal Feminism
Some background on the domestic focus of late 19th century, early 20th century activists who valued women's role in the home and also believed that women should participate in the political arena.

Nellie McClung
A writer and feminist, she described pioneer life and was also involved in politics.

Memorable Canadians
Alphabetical list of famous Canadians includes many women.

Julie Payette
Julie Payette, an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency, is a Quebec-born pilot and engineer. She was selected by the CSA in 1992 and completed NASA astronaut training in 1998. Her first space shuttle mission was in 1999, where she was a mission specialist. She is the Chief Astronaut for the Canadian Space Agency.

Political Equality League
Women and men founded this Manitoba organization which worked not only on the vote for women but direct legislation, tariffs, prohibition, and labor laws.

Prohibition and Temperance
A brief summary of the temperance movement in Manitoba in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Lillian Beynon Thomas
An editor of a newspaper Women's Page, she was able to be an advocate for women of prairie Canada.

Women in Canadian Legislatures
From the Library of Canada, a list with biographies of twenty-five past and current female legislators.

Women in Canadian Life and Society
With a special emphasis on music and literature. Spotlights twenty-one women in Canadian history, with biographical information.

Women's History
The National Parks of Canada honor Canadian Women's History with this minisite recognizing women in Canada, especially focused on teaching Canadians about women's history.

Women's Institutes of Manitoba
Home economics societies flourished in rural Manitoba, supporting farm women.

The Women's Parliament
A publicity stunt in 1914 by Manitoba women. The absurdity of excluding women from politics was acted out by, for instance, claims that men would be corrupted by participating in the political process.

Dr. Amelia Yeomans
She worked for temperance and women's suffrage.