Clippings.

Series consists of newsletters, histories, regulations, clippings, and material from the Vancouver W.R.C.N.S. Association such as membership lists and
correspondence.

Files in this subseries reflect the activities of the Women’s Rights Committee of the BC NDP, including its various subcommittees, committee liaisons, and coordination with the federal NDP Participation of Women Committee.

According to a 1992 document prepared by Anne Frost, past WRC Chair, and Charley Bersford, WRC Chair (“Women’s Rights Committee: Herstory”, 1992, in file 450-12), the Women’s Rights Committee was officially made a standing committee of the New Democratic Party of BC by a motion passed at Convention in 1971, building on previous women’s councils and federal women’s committees in the BC NDP and the CCF. The Committee’s mission statement in 1992 was “To guarantee fairness and equality for women in British Columbia; to address the roots of systemic discrimination and initiate legislation, services and programs to ensure women equal participation in all aspects of society; and to ensure access for all women to social justice” (“Mission Statement & Goals for Women’s Equality in a New Democratic Government,” WRC, spring 1992; in file 455-04). The Committee sought to achieve these goals through a variety of activities reflected in the files contained within this subseries, including authoring white papers on women’s issues, producing handbooks (such as the “Winning Nominations” handbook, created to assist women seeking to run for and win nominations in provincial elections; found in files 449-17 and 449-20), organizing workshops, producing and distributing a publication focused on women’s issues (entitled “Priorities” and launched in 1972; see for example file 450-05), introducing motions on gender-related issues at Convention, and more.

The Committee has its own executive structure, including Table Officers (Chair, Vice-Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer), Past-Chair, Priorities Coordinator, Democrat Page, POW Representative (the federal NDP women’s committee, known as Participation of Women), a Women’s Rights Organizer (WRC paid staff position), as well as regional representatives for the electoral constituencies, members at large, and representatives from and to other committees, such as the Young New Democrats, the Policy Review Committee, etc. Further, the WRC also formed its own subcommittees to engage with particular issues, such as the Nomination Support Committee, or the Committee on Sexist Behaviour. Like the BC NDP itself, these positions were generally elected at Convention, and “all women who are members in good standing of the B.C. New Democratic Party are eligible to attend Women’s Rights Committee Steering Committee meetings and have both voice and vote, except on money matters.” (“Women’s Rights Committee – Membership & Structure,” June 24, 1992; in file 450-07).

File 449-18 contains a copy of the “WRC Objectives -1992/93,” which gives a general sense of the goals and strategies of the WRC at the time, while file 456-05 contains the most recent draft constitution of the WRC included in this accrual (January 2003). Other materials in this subseries include meeting minutes and agenda, handwritten notes, correspondence, financial documents, reports, convention materials, memoranda and public communications, clippings, and other related materials.

Contains meeting minutes and agenda, memos and correspondence, handwritten notes, financial and budget documents, resolutions, reports, discussion about the creation of a Women's Organizer for the NDP, and other related materials.

Women's Naval Services (Commonwealth) 1951, Typescripts about the service in New Zealand,South Africa, and India.

Sub-series contains materials gathered or created by den Hertog on numerous issues of relevance to second wave feminists in the 1970s, including women's health care, family law, legislative issues, labour, immigration, etc. Records also document den Hertog's activism and advocacy for women's rights, such as her participation in planning the Women Rally for Action in 1976, and feminist study groups. Her research for a piece on the history of women's political activism in BC, and other articles, speeches and writing on women's issues are included here.

Records consist of newspaper clippings, notes, ephemera, diaries, calendars, reports, correspondence, minutes and the like.

RBSC-ARC-1582-SPC-09: Side 1 Theresa, An Eskimo Woman. Talks of her life. Side 2: Reminiscences of an English Militant: Mrs. Nell Hall-Humpherson
RBSC-ARC-1582-SPLP-01: A Union maid / Madeline Parent
RBSC-ARC-1582-SPLP-02: They are playing a game
RBSC-ARC-1582-SPLP-03: They are playing a game
RBSC-ARC-1582-SPLP-04: Family Court & Training School. Experiences of a 16 year old girl.
RBSC-ARC-1582-SPLP-05: Nell Hall: Suffragette
RBSC-ARC-1582-SPLP-06: Nell Hall: Suffragette

Women’s Kit is a 23” × 14” × 5” cardboard box full of materials (pamphlets, records, posters, postcards, newspaper reprints, biographies, short stories, poems, drawings, plays, filmstrips, photographs, slides, historical documents, collages, etc.) that are all directly or indirectly about women’s histories, achievements, oppression and socialization. There are roughly 150 items in the kit, which were collected and produced between 1972-1973. Two hundred test packages were distributed to Ontario high schools and colleges. After the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) published the Women’s Kit in 1974, a thousand copies were produced and sold at $50 per unit” (https://factoronto.org/participants/womens-kit/).

Women’s Kit is a 23” × 14” × 5” cardboard box full of materials (pamphlets, records, posters, postcards, newspaper reprints, biographies, short stories, poems, drawings, plays, filmstrips, photographs, slides, historical documents, collages, etc.) that are all directly or indirectly about women’s histories, achievements, oppression and socialization. There are roughly 150 items in the kit, which were collected and produced between 1972-1973. Two hundred test packages were distributed to Ontario high schools and colleges. After the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) published the Women’s Kit in 1974, a thousand copies were produced and sold at $50 per unit” (https://factoronto.org/participants/womens-kit/).

Women’s Kit is a 23” × 14” × 5” cardboard box full of materials (pamphlets, records, posters, postcards, newspaper reprints, biographies, short stories, poems, drawings, plays, filmstrips, photographs, slides, historical documents, collages, etc.) that are all directly or indirectly about women’s histories, achievements, oppression and socialization. There are roughly 150 items in the kit, which were collected and produced between 1972-1973. Two hundred test packages were distributed to Ontario high schools and colleges. After the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) published the Women’s Kit in 1974, a thousand copies were produced and sold at $50 per unit” (https://factoronto.org/participants/womens-kit/).

Women’s Kit is a 23” × 14” × 5” cardboard box full of materials (pamphlets, records, posters, postcards, newspaper reprints, biographies, short stories, poems, drawings, plays, filmstrips, photographs, slides, historical documents, collages, etc.) that are all directly or indirectly about women’s histories, achievements, oppression and socialization. There are roughly 150 items in the kit, which were collected and produced between 1972-1973. Two hundred test packages were distributed to Ontario high schools and colleges. After the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) published the Women’s Kit in 1974, a thousand copies were produced and sold at $50 per unit” (https://factoronto.org/participants/womens-kit/).

Women’s Kit is a 23” × 14” × 5” cardboard box full of materials (pamphlets, records, posters, postcards, newspaper reprints, biographies, short stories, poems, drawings, plays, filmstrips, photographs, slides, historical documents, collages, etc.) that are all directly or indirectly about women’s histories, achievements, oppression and socialization. There are roughly 150 items in the kit, which were collected and produced between 1972-1973. Two hundred test packages were distributed to Ontario high schools and colleges. After the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education (OISE) published the Women’s Kit in 1974, a thousand copies were produced and sold at $50 per unit” (https://factoronto.org/participants/womens-kit/).

Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me
And Look Pretty Too
Can You Many and Live?
Corner On First Things
Do You Want A Happy Marriage? (2 versions)
Equal Pay and Equal Promotion
Free and Equal
Freedom Is No Lady
Great Expectation, The
I Love Me
Marriage Fails the Woman
Marriage On Earth
Modern Woman, The Lost Sex (review)
Non-Conformist, The
One and One Are Two
Our Best Could Be Better
So This Is Freedom
Stranger, The
Why Not Try Equality?
You Can't Divorce Yourself