International Women's Day

For International Women's Day, here are some resources where you may find your women ancestors. 



Relevant Links

Agenda for the quinquennial sessions of the International Council of Women, to be held at Toronto, Canada, June, 1909

Report of the International Council of Women: Assembled by the National Woman Suffrage Assoc., Washington DC 1888

Int’l Council of Women; Report on the quinquennial meetings in Rome 1914

Woman's who's who of America : a biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915

Rules of the Aston female sick club, w/members, England 1863

Woman's Morning Music Club, Ottawa Ont 1894-95

General Federation of Women's Clubs

Woman's Reading Club - Fort Wayne, Ind.

Woman's City Club bulletin (Chicago)

Woman's Club, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Women Telegraph Operators in the Civil War

New Zealand: Suffregette Petition

Canada 150 - International Women's Day

During our country's 150th anniversary celebration of confederation I will write posts titled Canada 150 with a link to a publication or website I find that may help you tell the story of your Canadian ancestors.
Click on the Canada 150 label on the right or at the bottom to see all the posts.

Today I have for you...

Women of Canada

These are the strong independent women who came before me and made me who I am...

My 3x great grandmother Mary Johnston who was born in Armagh, Ireland in 1819, married William Johnston and immigrated to Canada. 

My 2x great grandmother Susanna Johnston born in South Durham, Quebec in 1846 and married John Porter.

My great grandmother Mary Jane Porter born in Ulverton, Quebec in 1867 and married Clement King.

My grandmother Sarah Myrtle King born in 1894 in Montreal and married Herbert James Mavor.

My Mother Jean Audrey Mavor born in 1925 in Verdun and married Thomas Ray Edward Seale.

How do you honour your female line of amazing women?


Relevant Links

Women of Canada, their life and work, 1900

Les Femmes du Canada: leur vie et leurs oeuvres, 1900

The National Council of Women of Canada: What it means and what it does, 1900

Year books - National Council of Women of Canada

Regulations of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, 1918

Reception and protection of female immigrants in Canada 1879

Industrial House of Refuge for females, Toronto 1855

Annual report of the Toronto Magdalen Asylum, or Female House of Refuge 1862

Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada, 1903 (biographies and portraits)



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See what is going on in your area for International Women's Day and get involved. If you have an event, you can publish and promote it on their website.

Each country has their theme, and in Canada it is #youareempowerment

Women share and help each other with empowerment for a balanced life!

First the males came and fought over the feeder, dumping the nectar on the ground. Then the female oriole and gila woodpecker came and shared the feeder - hummingbird was waiting patiently nearby.

My parents got it half right... the boys had to do housework as much as the girls and the girls had to do yard work.  But no way could the girls build something or work on a car. Although I must say, when I learned to drive my Dad made me change all four tires on the car... just in case. Too bad he didn't show me about changing the oil, I wouldn't have been stuck on the highway for a few hours!!

When my children were grown I was working at a wholesaler that sold hardwood flooring. My boss had gone for the day and it was almost quitting time when the phone rang. It was a gentleman who ordered all parts of a house (windows, doors, flooring, counters, etc), put them in a container and shipped them to Japan.  He wanted to look at our flooring. Since I had just recently started I asked a salesman to help me out, as he knew all the inventory.  So the gentleman arrived a half hour late, at almost 6 pm. Asking questions about the flooring he kept looking at the salesman even though I was answering.  While I was answering the third question he looked at me and asked "Don't you have a husband and children to get home to?"

It is also Women's History Month in some parts of the world, and here below you may discover some empowered women in history!

Thank goodness some women defied all barriers (and in some cases parents or husbands) and heeded their calling. I empowered my four daughters to be independent and to do whatever they wanted and I am so proud of them!

Who are the women that made a difference in your life??



Relevant Links


The Married Woman's Property Acts of Ontario 1874 

US Women Lighthouse Keepers

Women in Aviation

The Ninety-Nines Club

Wake up Alone and Like it!! 1936

The secret life of women spies

Women of the Red River

Directory of women-owned construction contractors and truckers 1984

200 Remarkable Alberta Women 

Women in Milling

Women in the Police Force UK (scroll to see what is online, click on MEPO numbers, find women officers from 1919-1958)

Alaska Women in the Itarod

Patents Issued to Women

"Classified" List of Vocations for Trained Women 1917

History of Women in Firefighting

History of Women Firefighters PBS

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Journals, diaries, and letters written by women on the Oregon Trail 1836-1865

A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life 1893

What's your coal miner nickname?

The Home Front

Original post date: 7 Jun 2014

Women at War and Men at Home - Not all good soldiers fight in the war!
 
My great uncle George John Seale was born in Kingston, Ontario.  George was a Stenographer and went to Montreal in early 1900 to work for the Royal Bank. He boarded with the Jackson family, and in 1902 he married Clara Annie Jackson. George John and Clara Annie had one daughter, Clara Eleanor in 1904, and soon after he was asked to manage their Niagara Falls branch. By 1907 George was named the manager of their Grain Exchange branch in Winnipeg.

At the onset of WW I in 1914 George, coming from a long line of military men, was eager to enlist, but he was refused by the medical examiner. He was very disappointed.  Then in 1918 the call went out across Canada for help to the armies through the Red Cross.  George was asked by his fellow citizens to give up his business and become the administrative manager of the Red Cross in Manitoba. That very day a room was secured for Red Cross administration and money started pouring in from people all across the province. Besides their relentless help to soldiers fighting overseas and their families at home, George had the insight to know that when the soldiers came home from war they were going to need special help.  Before the war even ended he set up a Hospice as temporary lodging for returning soldiers heading west.  He got help for wounded soldiers and their dependents. He also conceived of the idea of Sheltered Workshops where soon he had over forty men deemed unfit for work earning an honest living along commercial lines.

One night George was talking to his wife and daughter at the dinner table about new ideas he had. Wanting to do some chores later he went upstairs to changes out of his good clothes and dropped dead suddenly of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 43.  George John Seale, The Commissioner for the Red Cross of Manitoba had died, and the whole province mourned.

During times of war the women are asked to help out by rationing food, rolling bandages and knitting socks. You know…. women’s work.  Those who could became nurses to help out at home and abroad however they could. Then came the call for real work.  Men’s work.  

My Mom worked at the Canadian Power Boat Company that made motor torpedo boats used in war. When there were no longer orders for boats coming in, the company retooled and made parts for de Havilland Mosquito bombers. My mother’s sister joined the RCAF Women’s Division.  These women worked as clerks, cooks, equipment assistants, fabric workers, hospital assistants, drivers, photographers, meteorologists and telephone operators, and overseas in Operations plotting locations of RCAF planes and enemy German aircraft. Their motto was “Women who serve so men can fly!”

Mom and her sister

What did your stay-at-home ancestors do during time of war?

Relevant Links:

Volunteering in the First World War   

WW2 service women in Canada

Women in the RCAF

RCAF Women

Canadian war women on videos

CBC Digital archive - women at war

Canada Remembers Women in the Canadian Military

MSN Women in War  photos

Forgotten Women of War

US War Jobs for Women

US Women Marines In World War I

Silver Cross Mothers

Queen Alexandra’s Royal Navy Nursing Service

British Army Nurse Records

Nurses and Serving Women Australia

8 Female fighters of WW2

Scottish Nurses in Roumania 1918