Women's voices that shaped Canada. Women's stories that shape us.
Our Vision To build a future where gender equality is a lived reality and women’s stories—past and present—are honoured, amplified, and deeply woven into Canada’s collective consciousness. Our ambition is to ensure the next generations of women see their role in our history fully reflected in the stories that are told.
About Us
Launched in 2021, The Women’s History Project is a not-for-profit organization focused on public education through an events program and development of Women’s History productions.
We believe that by knowing our shared history, women in Canada can be better advocates today and change-makers for tomorrow. By using an inclusive, intersectional, and inter-generational feminist perspective, we create experiences across various platforms to make history relevant.
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Our next series
From Resistance to Redesign: Women Transforming Work
The Women’s History Project invites you to join a powerful three-part webinar series that confronts issues and barriers women have faced in the labour force. Together, we’ll explore the past, present, and future of women’s work in Canada—through the voices of those who have researched it, lived it, and fought to change it.
This series is for anyone committed to gender justice: Students, educators, researchers, labour organizers, advocates and activists, policymakers, and emerging leaders who believe that understanding women’s history is essential to transforming the future.
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The late Honourable
Monique Begin
Former Executive Secretary
Royal Commission on the Status of Women
Minister of Health and Welfare,
It was the women’s movement in the sixties that forced the government to create the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Substantial progress has been made since then. But not all women have been made to feel included and there is still so much to do. Learning about the past is good and mobilizing more people to make changes today even better.
The Honourable Nancy Ruth
Former Senator
Nancy’s Very Own Foundation
Storytellers are essential agents of change. Stories of equality, and inequality, raise questions, and make clear the need for action. The Women’s History Project is all about telling stories, and that is why I became one of its early supporters.
The Women’s History Project showcases the stories of feminists - their challenges and their achievements. It mobilizes visual content, through conventional and digital means, to explore the women’s movement.
Storytelling, as advocacy, will receive powerful support from The Women’s History Project, and mobilize our next generations of women’s advocates.
The Right Honourable
Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Women have been advocating for social justice and change for generations dating back hundreds of years. Their voices have largely remained silent, and their faces faded against those men who write about great victories.
Today we need to change that narrative and remind women and allies that we are here because a great many women led the charge, led change and led the campaigns for women’s equality. They led the campaigns in education, industry, public life and human rights. The Women’s History Project will allow us to hear voices and see their faces again and again.
Events Program
There are many great women whose campaigns, achievements and contributions have led to substantial change in Canadian history. Their stories need repeating!
The Women's History Project wants to shine a light on those stories of past changemakers in a modern way, capturing the hearts of those new to history and the equality movement and honouring the women who came before us.
The Women’s History Project, with partners, will stage four virtual events annually based on five themes.
Women and health
Women and the economy
Women in the media and public life
Women and social justice
Canadian women in the world
We need to revisit history through a more inclusive and intersectional feminist lens.
There are a thousand voices that need to be heard and a thousand stories that need to be told!
Our landmark video podcast series, 1000 Voices, 1000 Stories, is an opportunity to reshape oral histories by and for women - exploring women's past, leading to their activism and reflecting on how they made a difference.
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The Women's History Project is developing a style guide and advisory notes so that YOU can also produce oral histories that leave another marker in the path to bringing women's stories to wider audiences.
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Contact us for more information.
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