Teacher Resources

Click here to access a free PDF of “It Was Their War Too: Canadian Women in WW1” or order a hard copy for your classroom. 

Click on any link below to access a summary of the Cafe, speaker biographies, and suggestions for further reading. You’ll also find curriculum suggestions for grades 1-12 (including Historical Thinking Concepts and Critical Thinking Challenges), written by Rose Fine-Meyer and Kate Zankowicz.

• Nina Bascia, “Women & Unions” (November 23, 2010)

• Afua Cooper, “Routes to Freedom” (January 20, 2010)

• Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, “Women: Health, Peace, and the Environment” (March 8, 2011)

• Cara Krmpotich, Janet Carding, Lynne Teather, “Women & Museums” (April 8, 2011)

• Emily Beliveau, “Women’s Work and Child’s Play: Women and Children at the CNE, 1879-present” (May 12, 2011)

• Keith Walden, “Late Victorian and Edwardian Society Teas in Toronto” (June 15, 2011)

• Steve Brearton & Evalyn Parry, “History of Women and Bicycles” (August 18, 2011)

• Archives of Ontario, “Women of Record at the Archives of Ontario” (September 27, 2011)

• Cecilia Morgan, “Among the Six Nations: Celia B. File and the politics of memory, history, and home in southern Ontario” (October 27, 2011)

• Franca Iacovetta, “Women and Food in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s” (November 24, 2011)

• Adrienne Shadd, “Searching for Heroines: Black Women and Community in 19th Century Hamilton-Wentworth” (January 31, 2012)

• Dawna Pym, “Bind or Breathe: The Great Corset Debate” (February 22, 2012)

• Alysa Procida, “Inuit Women and their Art” (March 8, 2012)

• Andrea Hanson, Marion Langford, “Women and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra” (May 3, 2012)

• Patricia Beatty, “The History of Women and the Toronto Dance Theatre” (June 25, 2012)

• Pat Staton, “Toronto Women: A Walk Through History” (October 11, 2012)

• Naomi Smith, “Beauty and the Bead” (November 21, 2012)

• Janet Schwartz, “Women in the life of William Lyon Mackenzie” (January 30, 2013)

• Abby Bushby, Josee Bouchard, “History of the Women’s Law Association” (February 21, 2013)

• Elizabeth Semmelhack speaks at the Bata Shoe Museum (March 6, 2013)

• Ontario Women’s History Network’s Annual Conference and General Meeting (no HerstoriesCafe for April 2013)

• Kaitlin Wainwright, plaques and markers program coordinator for Heritage Toronto (May 23, 2013)

• Dorothy Duncan, “You feed your pigs and cattle more scientifically than you feed your families: the history of Women’s Institutes” (June 6, 2013)
• Additional talks soon to be added here
• Documentary: The Life of Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman: A Person in Her Own Right (1904-1994) (documentary film and teaching resources) (April, 2018)

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