by bridget | Jul 20, 2020 | In The News
Halifax Women’s History Society Board Member Brenda Hattie will be teaching WOMS-1114 Introduction to Queer Studies this fall at Mount Saint Vincent University. Please see the following link for more information. MSVU first Canadian university to offer online...
by bridget | Apr 1, 2020 | In The News
The recent incident of Santina Rao, a black woman from Halifax, being accused of stealing and violently pushed to the ground by police while her children watched, was a horrific attack against Santina’s personhood and dignity. Research shows that racial discrimination...
by bridget | May 3, 2019 | Blog, Events, In The News
After each instalment of our Share Their Stories events, we will be doing a profile of one of the women we learned about through scanning documents about her. For our inaugural profile, we will be discussing Katherine “Kay” MacDonald (née MacLeod), the mother of our...
by bridget | Feb 27, 2019 | Blog, Events, In The News
We all know the quote “well-behaved women seldom make history” from historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. People usually interpret this as a call to action, a call for women to challenge and misbehave – something we can definitely get behind. The intended meaning,...
by bridget | Nov 19, 2018 | Blog, In The News
Almost one year ago, on an unseasonably pleasant November morning, the Halifax Women’s History Society unveiled the bronze statues of “The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles” to a crowd of several hundred: VIP guests, supporters and funders, and several of the women we wished...
by bridget | Oct 12, 2018 | Blog, In The News
Latest News from the Halifax Women’s History Society October 2018 Dear Society Members and Interested Members of the Public, What is the Halifax Women’s History Society doing now that the Woman on the Waterfront project and its beautiful monument are complete?...
