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Category Archives: 2007
From the archives: Akua Benjamin (Herstory 2007)
“Why don’t we have social workers at the airport? The need is so great, considering that a large majority of immigrants and refugees arrive in Toronto, yet there are no social workers attached to immigration.” – Akua Benjamin, 2005. Akua … Continue reading
Posted in 2007, From the archives, Ontario, Uncategorized
Tagged 1000 Women of Peace Project, 2001 UN Conference on Racism, African-Canadians, Akua Benjamin, Coalition of Visible Minority Women, Congress of Black Women, Lorna Benjamin, Ryerson, Ryerson University, School of Social Work, Toronto, Trinidad, University of Toronto
From the archives: Lucille Johnstone, “Tugboat Annie” (Herstory 2007)
Lucille Johnstone was born in 1924 in Vancouver. “Her grandparents advised her parents against sending her to high school, but she went anyway, working after school to pay for her books and clothes.”1 “I went to a high school that … Continue reading
Posted in 2007, British Columbia, From the archives
Tagged B.C., Banff School of Advanced Management, British Columbia, Kwantlen College Fund, Lucille Johnstone, Marine Strait Towing, Member of the Order of Canada, Order of British Columbia, Pacific Advisory Regional Council of Fisheries and Oceans, River Queen, River Queen: The Amazing Story of Tugboat Titan Lucille Johnstone, RivTow, Sexual Abuse Recovery Anonymous, Tugboat Annie, UBC, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Vancouver YWCA Woman of the Year Award
From the archives: Bonnie Jeffery (Herstory 2007)
Dr. Bonnie Jeffery has spent most of her academic career working far from the University of Regina’s main campus. She lives and works out of Prince Albert, nearly 400 kilometres north-east of Regina. Much of her time is spent travelling, … Continue reading
Posted in 2007, From the archives
Tagged Bachelor of Social Work, Bonnie Jeffery, community development, Dr. Bonnie Jeffery, Eston, Faculty of Social Work, First Nations, food security, health science, Indigenous People's Health Research Centre, northern, Peter Brook, Prince Albert, Regina, rural, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, social policy, Social Work and Health Services Research, university education, University of British Columbia, University of Regina
From the archives: The Coloured Women’s Club of Montreal (Herstory 2007)
As the Boer War ended, industrialization was intensifying in Montreal – also the social ills it brought with it. Charities, usually women either religious or well-to-do, arose to addres society’s new needs; Black women, genearlly excluded from these, formed their … Continue reading
Posted in 2007, From the archives
Tagged Anne Greenup Solidarity Prize, Black history, Black Studies Library, Black women, Coloured Women's Club of Montreal, CWC, CWC Millenium Cookbook, Depression, immigrants, Montreal, Negro Community Centre, Quebec, Shirley Gyles, Underground Railroad, Union United Church
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