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The past informs the present. As hard-won civil and reproductive rights face renewed threats, records of historical struggles serve as blueprints for action, reminding us that history is not just something to study but something to carry forward.

The term “intersectionality” had not yet been coined in 1988, when a small publishing house in Toronto called The Women’s Press underwent a very public existential crisis.

Helen Forsey was 34 years old when she committed her first act of civil disobedience.

Photographer Judith Lermer Crawley is among the hundreds of Canadian women and organizations whose work and records are housed in the Canadian Women’s Archives, a sweeping and ongoing collection of physical and digital artifacts, the goal of which is to bring women’s lives and contributions out of the shadows and give them their rightful place in history.

In the summer of 1974, Judith Quinlan and Ellen Woodsworth commandeered a bright red school bus named Cora and hit the road. 

In the summer of 1963, Monique Frize (née Aubry) applied to study electrical engineering at the University of Ottawa.