Politics & Government

This poster celebrates the 1st anniversary of the Feminist Party of Canada shows women.

This section contains material on women’s engagement with and organizing through electoral politics, political parties, and governmental institutions. Items address party platforms, participation in election campaigns, representation in government, as well as lobbying, making submissions, and involvement with government programs.

More about Politics & Government

Key themes include:

  • Encouraging women’s participation and representation within political parties, as well as in governmental institutions at all levels
  • Challenging male-dominated perspectives on political, economic, and social issues
  • Raising awareness of the government’s role in promoting women’s equality through laws, policies, and agencies
  • Championing feminist causes during election campaigns

Sub-Issues

Political Parties
Government Programmes
Elections

Archival Materials

Buttons
Alderwoman

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Elect More Women

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fairy Godmothers against Mike Harris

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This button marks the publication of Kay Macpherson's memoir When in Doubt, Do Both. Macpherson is a respected feminist, pacifist, and political activist with a long history of working for women's rights and organizing for social justice through organizations such as the Voice of Women, the Action Committee on the Status of Women, and Women for Political Action.
Kay Macpherson – When in Doubt, Do Both!

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This button was produced by Organized Working Women (OWW) during the free trade debate in 1988.
Organized Working Women Say No! Free Trade is Rambo Economics

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women Unite – March on May 10, 1975

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Documents
A Women’s Bureau

  • Year created:

    1971

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
AGM & Lobby (1988): Feminism and Political Power – Annual Report

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
AGM & Lobby (1972): Strategy for Change – Conference Materials

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
AGM & Lobby (1972): Strategy for Change Conference – Emergency Statement

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
AGM & Lobby (1978): NAC President’s Report

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
AGM & Lobby (1991): NDP Federal Caucus response to NAC Lobby Questions, June 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
AGM & Lobby (1991): Annual Report (1990-1991)

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Author(s):

    Judy Rebick, Janet Maher

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
AGM & Lobby (1991): Liberal Party – Questions and Answers, 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Background Paper – Women in Politics: Becoming Full Partners in the Political Process

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Background Paper: Bill C-31, Equality or Disparity? The Effects of the New Indian Act on Native Women

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Joan Holme

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Concerned Aboriginal Women on Their Occupation

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Concerned Aboriginal Women: Telex Messages and Letters in Support of the Occupation

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Conference Program (1988): Child Care: Meet the Challenge

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
For our families and our future!

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    Nunavut

  • Language:

    English
For our families and our future! (Inuktitut)

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    Nunavut

  • Language:

    Other
For Universally Accessible Publicly Funded Non-Compulsory Day Care in Canada

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Gender-Related Persecution in Canadian Refugee Determination

  • Year created:

    1997

  • Author(s):

    Judith Ramirez

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1988): Free Trade is a Women’s Issue

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Issues & Campaigns (1973): What Can One Person Do?

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1979): Questions and Answers on the Goods and Services Tax

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1988): Women Vote!

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1988): Women Vote! Vote No to the Free Trade Deal

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1988): Women Vote! What every woman needs to know about Free Trade

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1989): Breaking the Social Contract Statement and Campaign

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1993): A Great Debate

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Author(s):

    Judy Rebick

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns (1995): There is Another Way – A Very Political Budget

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns: Action Canada Caravan – Join the Fight for Jobs, Justice and Equality

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Issues & Campaigns: Reclaim Our Future – Make It Work/Prendre notre avenir en main – Au boulot!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Issues and Campaigns (1986): News Bulletin and Update on Federal Campaign

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues and Campaigns (1988): Federal Election News Bulletin

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Issues and Campaigns (1992): Canadian Panel on Violence

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Author(s):

    Judy Rebick

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Letter – OSSOMM Women’s Program Grant (1985)

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Frances Adams

  • Region:

    Alberta

  • Language:

    English
Letter on Abortion and the Nova Scotia Task Force on Status of Women

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Author(s):

    Terry Roane

  • Region:

    Nova Scotia

  • Language:

    English
Letter to Trudeau Government on Abortion

  • Year created:

    1970

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
New Feminists Letter on Human Rights Code

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Newsletter (1988): Federal Election Kit

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) – International Women’s Day Pamphlet 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Organization (1987): Memo to Ontario Members

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Larry Katz, Julie Mathien

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Our Story: The Brief presented by Women Rally for Action

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Politics in Women’s Liberation: is it necessary?

  • Year created:

    1970

  • Author(s):

    Anne Roberts

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Regional (1988): Update for NAC Southern Ontario Members

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Janet Maher

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Regional (1989) Southern Ontario Regional Newsletter

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    Janet Maher

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Report (1988): Critique of Bill C-144

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Report (1988): To Deputy Ministers by provincial/territorial officials

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Provincial/territorial officials

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Reports (1972): National Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of Women Submission to Government of Canada

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of NAC Presentation to Standing Committee on the Secretary of State, 1986
Reports (1986): Presentation By NAC to Standing Committee on the Secretary of State

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Reports (1993): Review of the Situation of Women in Canada

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Author(s):

    Punam Khosla

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Shocking Pink Paper – Promises are not enough (1993)

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Shocking Pink Paper – Women want more than promises (1988)

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Shocking Pink Paper: Women Want More Than Promises

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Statement of The Concerned Aboriginal Women

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
The Schvester: International Women’s Day (1989)

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Tired of Waiting on Tables/A bout de patience

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Author(s):

    Anne Molgat

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Women Against Free Trade – Manifesto

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Women Offer “52% Solution”

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Women Plan Toronto Kit: Our Needs, Our Communities, Let’s Plan

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
 National Ballot For Women’s Equality

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Author(s):

    National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Ephemera

Violence Is Everybody’s Business

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Films

Le premier congrès de la Féderation des femmes du Québec en 1966

  • Year created:

    1966

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Femme d'aujourd'hui

  • Language:

    French

  • Region:

    Quebec
Still from the film "Love Affair with Politics" depicting Marion Dewar, a middle aged white woman with curly light brown hair, speaking to the camera.
Love Affair with Politics: A Portrait of Marion Dewar

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Terre Nash

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario

Periodicals

Mayor's Task Force on the Status of Women in Toronto Newsletter

Posters

Government of Canada poster created for International Women's Year 1975
International Women’s Year – Année internationale de la femme (1975)

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
This poster celebrates the 1st anniversary of the Feminist Party of Canada shows women.
Make The House Into A Home

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Mothers of Confederation Poster

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Visual Artist:

    Moira Armour

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English