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International Women’s Day 2013
To celebrate International Women’s Day, here is a selection of items celebrating the political and social activism of women.
You can also see a selection of material we highlighted in 2011 which included activists, community organizers, philosophers and politicians like Jean … Continue reading
Black History Month featured fonds: Jean Augustine
Jean Augustine was the first female Member of Parliament of African descent to be elected to Parliament. As MP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Augustine sponsored the bill that officially recognized Black History Month on the federal level in the 1990s. Her archives … Continue reading
Posted in Archives & Special Collections, Personal papers
Tagged Black History Month, Grenada, Jean Augustine, politics, teaching, United Nations
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Election Propaganda of Yore
Inspired by a twitter post by the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) we’ve pulled a few historical pieces of election propaganda from federal and provincial elections of the nineteenth century.
All of these items have been digitized by the Internet Archive … Continue reading
Posted in Ephemera, News, Rare Books
Tagged 1896, digitization, election, federal election, international relations, Internet Archive, Ontario, pamphlets, policy, political cartoon, political poem, politics, propaganda, provincial ridings, satire, scandal, tariffs, taxes, vote, voters
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