Women Have Shaped Canadian History

The history of Canada spans over hundreds of years. There have been endless defining occasion’s in our country's history that have constructed, and shaped our country. Canada has shaped as a nation politically, economically and socially through many consequences we have faced and many moments we have celebrated. Events such as the women's suffrage, Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope, and Stephen Harper apologizing to aboriginal people regarding what happened with the Residential School System have had

through Black-Canadians Black-Canadians have shaped Canadian heritage and identity through their involvement in Canada’s legal system, athleticism, and representation as powerful role models. Looking back at the history of Black-Canadians, African-Canadians have suffered from constant discrimination in the 1800s - a time where slavery was the number one form of racism-as well as during the Human Rights Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The vivid historical backgrounds of Black-Canadians, who come from

Women have had many difficult times throughout history. All the while they have come out strong, changing the way Canada treats women. They have fought to be equal in the eyes of politics, along with changing their social status and improving their equality within the work force. Women have made a huge impact on Canada and have shaped the country we know and love today. Women for the duration of Canadian history have fought for equality in the eyes of politics. First of all, a group of women’s

History Culminating - “X” Assignment: The Women’s Movement Throughout history, Canada’s identity has changed in many ways and there have been many historical events that have greatly shaped and impacted Canada’s history and identity. The Women’s Movement and women’s contribution in the past and throughout history has had the greatest impact on shaping Canada into what it is today. Among many identifying qualities like being multicultural, bilingual, and world leaders, Canada is also country that

struggle for equality between women and men. The struggle is to allow women to live free from violence, slavery, and discrimination. The struggle for the right to be educated, to own and sell property, to vote, and to earn a fair and equal wage. The right to vote, allows women to voice their own opinion and to vote for what they believe is right. The right to work, lets women be employed and receive equal pay and treatment in the workforce. The right to equality, allows women to be defined as persons

Culture has a significant place in any nation’s history. Canada is a diverse country and it is considered as a mosaic due to its diverse identity, culture and heritage. During 1500-1800, there were many dramatic changes occurred in this mystical land, which left a huge impact on the forth coming Canadian generations. Before any interaction with varied cultures, Canada belonged to the Aboriginal people, who were living in Canada since thousands of years. The Aboriginal people were had a strong tribal

“The battle for Canadian liberty and autonomy is being fought today on the plains of France and Belgium,” Borden said while introducing conscription. (Cook, 2011 3 ed., Vol. 13, p.13) At the beginning of the twentieth century, many Canadians were still adjusting to its new ways and ideas. Then the Greatest War the world had ever seen transformed the map of Europe and changed the nations, and the people, who fought in it forever. In Canada, for example, during the war the government faced great challenges

She has carved a pathway where other young, old, married, or single black women have a direction where they can follow her lead to unimaginable distances. Being born in Barbados in 1943 has given Senator Anne Clare Cools, a cultural background which she has retained even when she moved to Montreal at the age of 13. Cools was introduced to politics at an early age with both of her parents being involved in the government. Her father, Lucius Cools, ran for the Barbados Labour Party in 1938 while her

existing of the world’s history; and tragic loss as nation attack on any occasion with allied countries alongside. It left behind numerous amounts of deaths, injuries, and damages. The modern propagation of people concededly regards this event as an ordinary sequence of history that has absolutely no use to them. You know who this is geared towards people from the early decade that weren’t affected by this event. However, little do people realize how this event has shaped the world in what it is

“Breast is best” is an ideological framework that enabled the Canadian government to control and dictate the bodies of marginalized peoples. Despite the associated benefits to both the child and the mother, breast milk rhetoric in the Canadian context was developed by breastfeeding supporters to reclaim infant-feeding. Since the early 1960s, the Canadian government, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) argued for a return to breastfeeding because of