Celebrating African Nova Scotian Educators
The Society is having a celebration on May 23 in Truro of a public history installation to honor four trailblazing African Nova Scotia women educators and Vera Clyke, the long-serving organist of the Zion United Baptist Church.The celebration is 1 to 3 p.m. in the park at the corner of Ford and Robie streets in Truro. May 23 also is the date for the Society’s Annual General Meeting, which will be held in Truro after the celebration at 6 to 7 p.m.at the Colchester Historeum. This is an important meeting because the Society is proposing to become a funding organization, making grants available to individuals or groups for public history projects about women in Nova Scotia. We hope many members and friends will be able to join us.
Original paintings by Letitia Fraser. Painting of Vera Clyke by Bruce Wood.
Martha Eleanor Jones
Willena Beatrice (Corbin Gabriel) Jones
Donna Lee Byard Sealey
Ann Michelle (Shelley) MacLean
Vera Clyke
The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles
The Nova Scotia Women’s History Society (NSWHS) researches and makes known the untold story of the remarkable contributions that women have made to the history of Nova Scotia.
Set up in 2013, the society aims to bring women’s history to the public through a monument, conferences, lectures and broadcasts, performances and written material. The monument, The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles, was unveiled on the Halifax waterfront November 16, 2017, to honour the work of the thousands of women, who volunteered their time and labour during wartime.
The Untold Story
Read about women volunteers in Halifax during World War II.
Photo courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives
Our Research
See historical research, including some published by our committee members.
Photo courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives
The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles
Learn more about the monument, the Society’s first project.
Photo courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives