Visuals of Canadian Women in History

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

From: Linda Rasmussen, Lorna Rasmussen, Candace Savage, and Anne Wheeler,
A Harvest Yet to Reap: A History of Prairie Women (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976).

Women at Work

Native Women

Women at War

Women and the Vote

Miscellaneous
  


 

Women at Work.

Woman chopping firewood.

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From Susan E. Merritt. Her Story: Women from Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1993)
 

Women Miners in the Yukon.


From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story: Women from Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1993).
 
 

Women at Work in a Quebec Copper Mine.


From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story: Women from Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1993)
 
 

Women Workers in the British Munitions Supply Co. Ltd., Verdun, PQ, 1916-1918.


From: Canada's Visual History, CD-ROM, Ottawa, 1996.
 

Wash Day on the Prairies


 From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story: Women from Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1993).
 
 

It was believed that women would lose their femininity if they worked outside the home.


From: Canada's Visual History, CD-ROM, Ottawa, 1996.

Women as loggers. 

  
  From: Canada's Visual History, CD-ROM, Ottawa, 1996.
 

Native Women

Chipewyan Women on a Duck Hunt.

 
 From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story: Women from Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1993)
 
 

"Ke-Wah-Ten" (North Wind) by Paul Kane.


From: Canada's Visual History, CD-ROM, Ottawa, 1996.
 

Cree Women

 
From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story II: Women From Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1995)
 
 

Inuit Woman


From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story II: Women From Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1995).

Women at War

   World War II Recruiting Poster Depicting Madeleine de Vercheres


From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story: Women from Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1993)
 

She Who Serves: Chatelaine Cover, March 1941.
 

From: Sylvia Fraser (ed.). Chatelaine: A Woman's Place: Seventy Years in the Lives of Canadian Women (Toronto: Key Porter Books Limited, 1997).
 
 
 

Women and the Vote

Soldier: "Women are not entitled to vote. They cannot bear arms."
Mother: "No, but we can bear armies."


 From: Linda Rasmussen, Lorna Rasmussen, Candace Savage, and Anne Wheeler, A Harvest Yet to Reap: A History of Prairie Women (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976).
 
 

Girl: " Wait, isn't Mother going to have one?"


 From: Linda Rasmussen, Lorna Rasmussen, Candace Savage, and Anne Wheeler, A Harvest Yet to Reap: A History of Prairie Women (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976).
 
 


From: Linda Rasmussen, Lorna Rasmussen, Candace Savage, and Anne Wheeler, A Harvest Yet to Reap: A History of Prairie Women (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976).
 
 

Women voting at Westcott, Alberta, 1917.


From: Linda Rasmussen, Lorna Rasmussen, Candace Savage, and Anne Wheeler, A Harvest Yet to Reap: A History of Prairie Women (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1976).
 
 

Miscellaneous

A Honeymoon Couple on their way to their Homestead in Alberta, 1914.

 
From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story II: Women From Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1995).
 

Mother Bathing her Children.


 From: Susan E. Merritt. Her Story II: Women From Canada's Past (St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing, 1995).
 

Girls were educated on how to be proper homemakers.


From: Canada's Visual History, CD-ROM, Ottawa, 1996.
 

 
Women Graduates of Preston, 1910- they were among the few black women to graduate from high school at this time.


From: Canada's Visual History, CD-ROM, Ottawa, 1996.