Partner Violence

This subsection contains material on organizing efforts to name and combat partner and domestic violence, including creating support systems and services for women and their children fleeing violence, and bringing attention to the legal, political and social landscapes and attitudes that did not adequately recognize abusive relationships.

Archival Materials

Buttons

A button showing support for the Emily Stowe Shelter for Women and Children. The Scarborough emergency shelter for women escaping violence was named after the first woman doctor to practice in Canada.
Emily Stowe Shelter for Women

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Interval House was founded in 1973 by a feminist collective and is Canada’s first centre for women survivors of intimate partner violence.
Friend of Interval House

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The December 6th Fund was created as a memorial to the fourteen women murdered on December 6, 1989 at L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. It provides interest free loans to women fleeing abuse.
Help women build lives free from violence – The December 6th Fund

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This undated button was produced by the Ontario government stating that there is no right allowing that allows a man to assault his wife.
Wife Assault – No Man Has the Right

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Documents
Breaking Free: A Proposal for Change To Aboriginal Family Violence

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Education Wife Assault – Resource List for the Native Community

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Education Wife Assault Resources (2002)

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
India Mahila Association – Call for Action on Violence Against Indian Women

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
NDP House of Commons Memorandum: Details of Cuts to Women’s Centres

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Author(s):

    Denise Blinn

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Paying for Violence: Some of the Costs of Violence Against Women in B.C.

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Author(s):

    Richard Kerr, Janice Mclean

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Report on Violence in the Family – Wife Battering (1982)

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Marcel Roy

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Technical Report: Legal Information and Wife Abuse in Immigrant Families

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Author(s):

    San San Sy, Sudha Choldin

  • Region:

    Alberta

  • Language:

    English
The Incidence and Prevalence of Woman Abuse in Canadian University and College Dating Relationships

  • Year created:

    --

  • Author(s):

    Walter DeKeseredy, Katharine Kelly

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Violence Against Immigrant, Refugee, and Racial Minority Women Phase II and III – 1995

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Author(s):

    Indra Maharaj

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Violence Against Women: Breaking the Silence

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Violence in Aboriginal Communities

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Author(s):

    Emma D. LaRocque

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Vis-À-VIS – Vol. 5, Number 4 – Winter 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Author(s):

    Raymond Obomsawin , Marte-Louise Obomsawin

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
What to do if you are abused and/or battered

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Wife Assault (1991)

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Wife Battering in Immigrant Communities for Status of Women Canada (1986)

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Monica Riutort, Diana Marjuri

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Women in crisis

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Kit Booklet 7: Violence in the Home

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Films

Still from the film "A Safe Distance" featuring an Indigenous woman sitting with her young child in her lap with a lake in the background.
A Safe Distance

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Tina Horne

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Manitoba, Ontario
Still from the film "Moving On" featuring an image of the London, Ontario skyline and the words 'Moving On' in neon teal.
Moving On

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Tina Horne

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario
Still from "Sylvie's Story" depicting Sylvie, a white woman with short brown hair, speaking to a shelter worker, a black woman with short black hair.
Sylvie’s Story

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Tina Horne

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Quebec
Un Espacio Para Todos (A Space for All)

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario

Periodicals

Sisterhood: Women for Unionism, Solidarity

Sisterhood – Vol. 17, No. 5 – May 1994

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Publisher:

    British Columbia Federation of Labour Women's Committee

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English

Photos

This banner was part of the Banner Project and focuses on the extent of wife assault and homicide in Canada. The Banner Project asked women's groups across Canada to produce a protest banner that would become part of a huge banner in Ottawa. The goal was to show the strength and solidarity of women during the Third Commonwealth meeting of Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs in October 1990.
The Banner Project (1990): Wife assault a leading cause of homicide

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Posters
Interval House Benefit Dance

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English