Women--Suffrage

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Ellen Barber interview : [Diamond, 1979]

CALL NUMBER: T3607:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ellen Barber : early union organization in the laundries, 1914-1918 : [tape 1] RECORDED: Port Moody (B.C.), 1979-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mrs. Barber was one of the first women active in the Vancouver Trades and Labour Congress (an affiliate of the Trades and Labour Congress). She was involved in organising laundry and communication workers during the First World War period. In this interview, she describes union organisation during World War One; working conditions in the laundries; bargaining procedures; organising the unions; the laundry strike and its defeat; the formation of the Minimum Wage Board; the telephone workers strike. TRACK 2: Attitudes to women within the unions; working in the war industry in WWII; post-war layoffs of women workers; piecework; CCF involvement in the unions; her family's roots, and her decision to become a unionist; women's suffrage and its effects on working women; Oriental workers and parallel attitudes to women; the Shirt, Waist and Laundry Workers' International Union in the 1940s; the streetcar strike of 1918.;

CALL NUMBER: T3607:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Ellen Barber : early union organization in the laundries, 1914-1918 : [tape 2] RECORDED: Port Moody (B.C.), 1979-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Depression use of female labour; the impact of the Russian Revolution on the labour movement; shipyard conditions; accidents in the laundries; women's organisations in the 1930s. [TRACK 2: blank.];

Heritage theatre : Votes for women : 1917

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Vote;s For Women - 1917" by Cherie Thiessen, highlights the Suffragette movement in Vancouver.;

Mary Norton interview : [Covernton, 1973]

CALL NUMBER: T0141:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mary Isabella Norton : socialist suffragette PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1920 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mary Isabella Norton was born in 1887 and discusses her family, childhood; first job; marriage and children. TRACK 2: She discusses her involvement with Worker's Compensation and various women's groups. Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Other work experiences. Husband as exploiter. Work for women's suffrage. The Pioneer Political Equality League. Helena Gutteridge.

CALL NUMBER: T0141:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mary Isabella Norton : socialist suffragette PERIOD COVERED: 1900-1973 RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-02-21 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mary Norton discusses intellectual influences and Socialism. Political activity. TRACK 2: Socialism in B.C. Current interests.

Nellie McClung papers

Ellen “Nellie” Letitia (Mooney) McClung was born in Chatsworth, Ontario on October 20, 1873. Her family moved to Wawanesa, Manitoba in 1880 and upon graduation from the Winnipeg Normal School at the age of 16, she began her teaching career at Manitou, Manitoba. In 1896 she married Robert Wesley McClung, a pharmacist in Manitou. In 1908, her first novel, Sowing Seeds in Danny, was published. Other novels, essays, short stories, and sketches soon followed and continued to appear into her seventieth year. The McClung's moved to Winnipeg in 1911 when Robert took up work with an insurance company. Nellie became active in various organizations, including the Canadian Women's Press Club and the Winnipeg Political Equality League. Her activities in temperance and women's suffrage leagues continued when they moved to Edmonton in 1914 where she campaigned vigorously for social reform and women's rights. She served in the Alberta Legislature with the Liberals from 1921 to 1926. After her political defeat she fought to establish Canadian women's rights to seats in the Senate. In 1933 the McClung family moved to Victoria, B.C.. From 1936 to 1942 she served as the first woman member of the CBC Board of Governors. In 1938 she represented Canada as a delegate to the League of Nations. She died in 1951 at the age of 77.

The fonds consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, handwritten and typescript copies of published and unpublished works, notes for speeches, scrapbooks and a photograph album. The original manuscripts (the first rough drafts) in the McClung fonds are contained in nine boxes. The articles and novels are written in scribblers. Where a title has been placed at the start of a composition, this has been noted in the list below. Each scribbler has been examined but the list of titles is not necessarily comprehensive. The photograph album was transferred to Visual Records, accession 198307-001. The over-sized address presented to the McClungs by the citizens of Manitou (vol. 63) was found in a drawer in 2008 and was added to MS-0010.

Women in B.C. politics

CALL NUMBER: T4170:0017 SUMMARY: First of two half-hour documentary programs broadcast on the CBC Radio program "Discourse". This episode includes excerpts from taped interviews with: suffragist Mary Norton, former secretary of the Political Equality League; Ned DeBeck, longtime clerk of the BC Legislature; Dorothy Steeves, CCF MLA for North Vancouver, 1935-45; Lois Haggen, NDP MLA for Grand Forks - Greenwood; and Grace MacInnis, CCF-NDP MLA for Vancouver East.

CALL NUMBER: T4170:0018 SUMMARY: Second of two half-hour documentary programs broadcast on the CBC Radio program "Discourse". In addition to further comments by Steeves, MacInnis and Haggen, this episode includes excerpts from taped interviews with: Isobel Dawson, Grace McCarthy, Pat Jordan and Agnes Kripps (Social Credit), Eileen Daily (NDP), and Jean Rands, who was a candidate for mayor of Vancouver in the late 1960s.