Recherche dans la collection - Towards Equality : A History of Women in Canada = Femme en voie d'égalité : Histoire de la femme au Canada

CANADA. NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF CANADA / ARCHIVES NATIONALES DU CANADA

1983-0372

Vidéo

Towards Equality : A History of Women in Canada

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1983

1983

Revised English version
Communicado Associates Inc.

producer/scenario, Jo MacFadden

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National Archives of Canada
Women's Program Secretary of State

National Archives of Canada

TOWARDS EQUALITY : A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN CANADA provides a concise, feminist analysis of the role of women in the development of Canada. Through the use of a variety of works of art, photographs, and motion pictures, accompanied by both narration and voiceover effects, the viewer is introduced to the major events and players in Canadian women's history.~The documentary follows a chronological format, highlighting important people such as the Ursuline Nuns, pioneer Catherine Parr Traill, and suffragettes Nellie McClung and Emily Murphy. Pivotal events such as the Married Women's Property Act, the granting of suffrage to women after the First World War, the 1929 Person's Act, and the effects of World War I and II are all given due representation in this piece. Producer and writer Jo MacFadden brings her analysis to the present, including the Royal Commission on the Status of Women and its key player, Florence Bird. <20mn>

English

Libre

V1 8505-0110
V1 2001-01-0065

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictionsAs per letter of 15 August 1983: the Women's Programme is agreeable to surrendering the non-broadcast, non-theatrical world rights to Public Archives and eventually to National Film Board.As per memo of 15 July 1987: the broadcast copyright rests with the Secretary of State, Status of Women.