Celebrating African Nova Scotian Educators
The Society is looking forward to a busy and transformative 2025. We are in the process of arranging for a permanent home for the original portraits (below). Plans also are under way for an official unveiling of the portraits this spring in Truro in a series of panels in a beautiful new park at the corner of Ford and Robie Streets. Watch for a date for the unveiling … coming soon. A major initiative is also in the works. The Society is creating a new program to fund external projects. The pilot version of the program will be announced at our 2025 AGM in early spring and will be posted on this web site. Watch for updates and more detailed plans.
Original paintings by Letitia Fraser. Painting of Vera Clyke by Bruce Wood.
Martha Eleanor Jones
Willena Beatrice (Corbin Gabriel) Jones
Donna Lee Byard Sealey
Ann Michelle (Shelley) MacLean
Vera Clyke
The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles
The Nova Scotia Women’s History Society (NSWHS) researches and makes known the untold story of the remarkable contributions that women have made to the history of Nova Scotia.
Set up in 2013, the society aims to bring women’s history to the public through a monument, conferences, lectures and broadcasts, performances and written material. The monument, The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles, was unveiled on the Halifax waterfront November 16, 2017, to honour the work of the thousands of women, who volunteered their time and labour during wartime.
The Untold Story
Read about women volunteers in Halifax during World War II.
Photo courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives
Our Research
See historical research, including some published by our committee members.
Photo courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives
The Volunteers/Les Bénévoles
Learn more about the monument, the Society’s first project.
Photo courtesy of the Nova Scotia Archives