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Such Were The Times

Item number (ISN):

422755

Series title:

This Morning : [excerpt]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Item number (ISN):

422755

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Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

GRAY, Elizabeth

Accession:

2010-0012

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Release date:

2003-05-18

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

reporter, Elizabeth Gray

Description:

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Documentary about the protest in May 1972 by a group of women who wanted the right to become members of the private men-only Rideau Club in Ottawa. On 23 May 1972 the women picketed the Rideau Club to protest the club barring lawyer Jane Caskey from being served in the dining room even though she was invited by the U.S. ambassador in Ottawa to attend a lunch . Reporter Elizabeth Gray participated in the picket and shares her recollections. Actuality includes: excerpts of CBC radio news reports on the picket of the club in 1972; a speech at the founding conference of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women; and part of a song by Rita MacNeil. Interviewees include: politician Monique Bégin; lawyer Jane Caskey; former broadcaster and politician Evelyn Gigantes; retired broadcaster Betty Zimmerman; journalist and novelist Alison Gordon and businesswoman and politician Jean Piggott. Subjects discussed include: the fight for women’s rights; memories of the Rideau Club back in that era, when women were not welcome; the picket in which a group of women ate sandwiches on the sidewalk outside the club to protest; the work of the Ottawa Women’s Resource Group to further the cause of women; the discrimination women faced at the time, in areas of life such as law school and politics; the participants in the protest, including Grace McInnes, Pauline Jewett, Sylva Gelber, Alison Gordon, Jane Caskey, Betty Zimmerman, Florence Bird and Grace Hartman; newspaper coverage of the protest; a meeting by some of the women with Treasury Board President Bud Drury; the creation of the National Action Committee for the Status of Women; the subsequent careers of many of the participants, including efforts to further the rights of women; Grete Hale’s efforts to get a membership in the Rideau Club for her sister, Jean Piggott, the first woman to apply for membership, in June 1979; opposition by men to allowing women to join the club; and the Rideau Club today. <35mn 40s>

Language:

English

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1. Second track on CD.~2. Script available.
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2022-05-0002

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner : Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation holds copyright on the completed broadcasts.

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