by bridget | May 3, 2019 | Blog, Events, In The News
After each instalment of our Share Their Stories events, we will be doing a profile of one of the women we learned about through scanning documents about her. For our inaugural profile, we will be discussing Katherine “Kay” MacDonald (née MacLeod), the mother of our...
by bridget | Feb 27, 2019 | Blog, Events, In The News
We all know the quote “well-behaved women seldom make history” from historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. People usually interpret this as a call to action, a call for women to challenge and misbehave – something we can definitely get behind. The intended meaning,...
by admin | Mar 20, 2017 | Events, In The News
March 9, 2017 City Hall, Halifax Photos by Bruce Bottomley
by admin | Feb 4, 2016 | Events, In The News
Photos by Jessie Redmond Photography
by admin | Oct 30, 2015 | Events
Halifax group launches national campaign to erect monument to honour Second World War women volunteers Oct. 29, 2015 HALIFAX: The Halifax Women’s History Society (HWHS) has launched a national campaign to erect a monument — the first to actual women in Halifax —...