Feminist History Society, Toronto, ON

The Feminist History Society is a project of the Women’s Education and Research Foundation of Ontario Incorporated (“WERF”), a registered charitable organization in Canada.* The members of the volunteer steering committee for the project are: Beth Atcheson, Constance Backhouse, Lorraine Greaves, Diana Majury and Beth Symes.

In February 2008, a group of feminist activists from across Canada met in the Senate Room of the University of Ottawa to discuss how we could describe, document, preserve and celebrate the work and character of our times, of the women’s movement in Canada over the last 50 years, since the founding of the Voice of Women (now the Voice of Women for Peace). We took as one of our inspirations for this journey the six-volume history of the American suffrage movement, written by the women who participated in it, and published in a beautiful hardcover edition.