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SUMMARY:Ontario Women’s History Network Conference "Women Navigating Civic Engagement in Canada"
DESCRIPTION:Women Navigating Civic Engagement in Canada\nOntario Women’s History Network (OWHN) Conference\nDate: October 24-25\, 2025\nLocation: Fanshawe Pioneer Village – Enter at 1424 Clarke Road\, London\, Ontario\nBreakfast and Lunch Included Saturday with Registration \nFriday October 24\, 2025:\n7:00-8:30pm: Bonnie Sitter\, “FINDING THE FARMERETTES: Recovering the Story of Teenage Girls Who Worked the Farms” \nShe was downsizing when it happened. Going through some old family photographs\, Bonnie Sitter found a black-and-white photo of three teenage girls sitting on the running board of a car with a hoe\, wide-brimmed hats\, and bandanas. On the back was written “Farmerettes\, about 1946”. Curious and intrigued\, Bonnie recounts that she “went into research mode” and discovered that these three girls were among thousands of young Ontario women who were part of an extensive\, government-sponsored war (and postwar) effort from 1941 to 1952. Together with her collaborator\, the late Shirleyan English who was a former farmerette herself\, they uncovered hundreds of stories and co-authored the 2019 book entitled Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: Memories of Ontario Farmerettes. That work has since been honoured by CANADA POST with a commemorative stamp\, presented as a stage play\, and more recently an award-winning documentary “We Lend a Hand.”  We will hear from Bonnie about the process of researching\, interviewing\, and celebrating the story of the farmerettes and the significant contributions they made to the war effort and the provincial economy as agricultural labourers. With so many firsthand accounts and photographs to share\, this will be an unforgettable evening that highlights a significant\, yet little-known part of Ontario women’s history. \nSaturday October 25\, 2025:\n9:00–10:00am – Paper Set #1: Cook Books\, Common Law and Morro Castle Disaster (3 X 15 min presentations + 15 Q & A) \n\nRebecca Beausaert\, U Guelph\, “‘The Spartan Cook Book’ and the ‘great public issue’ of Temperance in Small-Town Ontario\, 1902-1915”\nMonda Halpern\, Western\,  “By the Power Vested in Us:  Self-Styled ‘Marriage’ in the Family of Bessie Starkman”\nSonia Halpern\, Western\, “Digging Deeper:  How my Civic Engagement with a Cemetery Inspired Research about Morro Castle Victim Eva Hoffman\,”\n\n10:00–10:15am – break\n10:15–11:15am – Teachers’ Panel: “Teachers’ Best Practices for Integrating Women’s History and Critical Thinking Pedagogy.”\n11:15–11:30am – Break\n11:30am–12:30pm – Keynote Address – Constance Backhouse:  “Reflections on Chilly Climate Activism”\n12:30pm – 1:00pm – Lunch\n1:00pm – 2:00pm – AGM \n2:00pm – 3:00pm – Paper Set #2:  Life Stages and Civic Engagement \nSarah Kittilsen\, McGill\, “’A Small Contribution to Speeding the Victory’:  Rural Women and Girls in Wartime Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs\, Nova Scotia\, 1940 – 1945” \n\nTifanie Valade\, UOttawa\, “’L’ecole maternelle\, adjointe de la mere\,’ (Kindergarten\, the mother’s assistant”).  Women’s roles in promoting kindergarten education in Quebec in the 1960s”\nKate Bradley\, UOttawa\, “The Raging Grannies:  A (Historical) Bedtime Story for Raging Girls”\n\n3:00 –Wrap-Up Comments
URL:https://ontariohistoricalsociety.ca/event/ontario-womens-history-network-conference-women-navigating-civic-engagement-in-canada/
LOCATION:Fanshawe Pioneer Village\, 1424 Clarke Rd\, London\, ON\, N5X 4A1\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Ontario Women's History Network":MAILTO:info@owhn-rhfo.ca
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