If you lost your job, where would you turn? If your house was destroyed in a fire where would you go? If life as you knew it was interrupted, where would you seek solace? In 2006, 572 women turned to The Salvation Army Florence Booth House.

Located in Toronto’s downtown core, Florence Booth House was opened [...]

The latest exhibition at the Women’s Library, “Prostitution: What’s Going on?” marks the centenary of the death of Josephine Butler (1828–1906), the Victorian social reformer who fought for the rights of prostitutes. The question “What’s going on?” aims to prompt debates on the complex issues surrounding prostitution today.

Prostitution is probably one of the oldest “professions” [...]

The early part of the 20th century marked major advances in the position of women in Canada. Perhaps most famously, women fought for and won the right to vote in federal and most provincial elections by the early 1920s but there were many other important changes such as minimum wages for women and property [...]

London is a city full of museums, historic houses, and heritage sites dedicated to prominent characters in history. Intriguingly, one can find far fewer places that are associated with eminent historic female figures in this capital, which no doubt has been the home or workplace for many remarkable women in the past. The Florence Nightingale [...]

Women have long been a part of the education process in Canada. In the mid-1600s, Marguerite Bourgeoys (who later founded the Congregation of Notre Dame, the first group of uncloistered nuns in North America) was the first school-teacher in Montreal. By the early 1800s, schools employed women to teach young children all over the country, [...]

Burnaby Lake is located at the centre of Burnaby, an economic tributary to Vancouver, British Columbia, and exists as an urban sanctuary for wildlife. In particular, this unique area is an important stopover for over 200 species of migrating birds and waterfowl travelling on the Pacific Flyway. There are laws now in place for protecting [...]

When the news broke about the Vancouver police sealing off Robert Pickton’s Coquitlum, B.C. pig farm searching for bodies of more then 50 missing women from the Vancouver area, I was immediately glued to the news. In the weeks and months that followed, the number of murder charges against Pickton grew to 27. [...]