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Articles and Books
Smith, Barbara (2019). The Famous Five: Canada’s Crusaders for Women’s Rights. Heritage House: Victoria.
This very recent book details the Famous Five women who challenged women’s rights and the legal definition of ‘persons’ in the British North America Act; Smith describes how this group was formed and the processes they underwent leading up to the 1929 ‘Persons Case.’
Weiers, Margaret K. (1995). Envoys Extraordinary: Women of the Canadian Foreign Service. Dundurn: Toronto.
Each chapter of this book describes a different trailblazing woman in Canadian foreign affairs, and explores overarching themes surrounding attitudes toward women in the public service throughout twentieth-century Canadian history.
Recommended Websites
http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/map-cda-womenpolitics/
An interactive map showing the political representation of women in the federal, provincial and territorial legislatures.
http://www.ipu.org/bdf-e/BDFsearch.asp
Contains a huge database devoted to bibliographic information about women in politics.
http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/elections/women.html
This is a database of information accumulated by Dr. Andrew Heard that considers the electoral history of women in electoral politics in Canada.
http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/politics/governorgeneral/jeannesauve.htm
This document discusses the life and times of the Right Honourable Jeanne Sauve, Canada’s first female Speaker of the House of Commons and Governor General.