In the 1970s, women demonstrated in support of Dr. Henry Morgentaler and their right to safe abortions. | image: Jude MacDonald, based on the frame of a CBC TV news item

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historySecond Wave Archives Projectif we don’t tell our own stories, they might not be told at all

by Mary Breen | May 1, 2008

Where are the stories, minutes, photos, briefs and buttons that tell the story of the women’s movement in Canada since 1960? The Second Wave Archives Project, launched in the fall of 2007 and sponsored by Nancy’s Very Own Foundation, began with this question. It quickly became clear that relatively few such records are on deposit in public archives, and those that exist aren’t particularly easy to find.  read more