Women and the First World War / Les femmes et la Première Guerre

Full Weekend Fees / Tarif complet pour la fin de semaine (includes Fr iday
visit to museum, reception with refreshments and keynote lecture, Saturday
breaks and lunch / Le tarif inclut la visite au musée, la réception avec les rafraîchissements et le discours d’ouverture le vendredi, la pause-café et le déjeuner le samedi)
Members / membres:
Student, Retired / Étudiant(e), retraité(e): by 1 April / avant le 1er avril $80;
after April 1 / après le 1er avril $90
Regular / régulier : by 1 April / avant le 1er avril $125; after April 1 / après le
1er avril $150
ONTARIO WOMEN’S
Annual Conference &
HISTORY NETWORK / General Meeting / Colloque
et réunion annuelle
LE RÉSEAU
D’HISTOIRE DES
24-25 April / avril 2015
FEMMES EN ONTARIO
Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian War Museum /
Musée canadien de la guerre
Non-members / publique générale:
Student, Retired / Étudiant(e), retraité(e): $90
Regular / régulier : $150
Saturday Only / Samedi seulement (includes coffee br eaks and lunch / Le
tarif inclut les pauses-café et le déjeuner)
Student, Retired / Étudiant(e), retraité(e): $50
Regular / régulier : $100
NOTE: Registrations at the door will only be available if space permits and
will not include meals / Les inscriptions à la porte seront seulement disponsibles si l’espace le permet et n’incluront pas les repas.
Inquiries / Renseignements: [email protected]
Hotel:
A block of 30 hotel double rooms has been reserved at Radisson Ottawa Parliament Hill, 402 Queen Street, 613-566-2314.
On booking , mention “OWHN” or the “Ontario Women’s History Network.”
The special rate is $119 CDN + tax for April 24 & 25. Book by March 24th to
get the rate. Parking is an additional $18.
Thank-you to our sponsors/partners. Merci à tous les commanditaires/
partenaires : Canadian War Museum, Carleton University History Department
and Nancy’s Own Foundation
Women and the First World War /
Les femmes et la Première Guerre
mondiale
Friday, April 24 / vendredi 24 avril
3:00 – 5:00 Registration / Inscriptions (Canadian War Museum / Musée canadien de la guerre ) Registrants may tour the Canadian War Museum free of charge
until closing at 5:00. Entrée libre au musée jusqu' à 17h00 pour les participants
inscrits au colloque.
5:00 – 6:30 Reception with refreshments and cash bar / Réception et
rafraîchissements avec bar payant
6:30 – 7:30 Keynote address / Discours d’ouverture:
Cynthia Toman, Retir ed Histor ian, Univer sity of Ottawa
“Soldiering On": Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Sisters and the
First World War
After the keynote: Optional dinner at nearby Mill Street Brewery (own expense) / Après le discours d’ouverture il y aura un souper optionnel au Mill
Street Brewery (à vos frais)
Saturday, April 25 / samedi 25 avril
8:30 – 9:00 Registration / Inscriptions
9:00 – 10:30 Session One: Representation and Commemoration of Women
in the First World War / La représentation et la commémoration des
femmes dans la Première Guerre mondiale
Chair: Gail Cuthbert Brandt, Retired, University of Waterloo
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch / Déjeuner
Annual General Meeting / Réunion annuelle
Tour of Home Front Exhibit, on your own / Visite libre de l’exposition “Le
front intérieur”
1:30 – 3:00 Session Three: Military Nurses and VADs / Les infirmières et
VADs de la guerre
Chair: Sarah Hogenbirk, Carleton University
Melanie Morin, Canadian War Museum – Public Health Pioneers: FW W Nursing sisters’ contribution to the development of public health in the Interwar
Canadian Maritimes
Linda Quiney, University of British Columbia – “This A rdent Band of Ladies”:
VADs on the Home Front of the First World War
Dianne Dodd, Parks Canada – Sixty Nurse Casualties from the First W orld
War
3:00 – 3:30 Break / Pause
3:30 – 5:00 Session Four: Women and the Home Front / Les femmes et le
front intérieur
Chair: Tina Bates, Research Associate, Canadian Museum of History
Beth Atcheson, Nancy’s Own Foundation – W ar and W omen: Road to 2017
Sarah Glassford, University of PEI – W hat More is There to Say A bout Socks?
Lessons from Women’s WWI War Work for the Canadian Red Cross and Women’s Institutes
Laura Brandon, Retired, Canadian War Museum – W omen and Canadian W ar
Art
Lorna McLean, University of Ottawa – “Conditions of a Just and Permanent
Peace”: Julie Grace Wales’ Transnational Mediations and World War One
Brigitte Violette, Parks Canada – Les travailleuses de l’A rsenal fédéral de Québec: histoire et commémoration
Debbie Marshall, Independent Scholar – Mary Macleod Moore, Elizabeth
Montizambert, and Beatrice Nasmyth: Women Journalists during the War
10:30 – 11:00 Break / Pause
5:00 – 5:30: Wrap Up and Discussion of Home Front Exhibit / Clôture et
discussion de l’exposition “Le front intérieur”
Facilitators:
Krista Cooke, Canadian War Museum
Jennifer Anderson, Canadian Museum of History
11:00 – 12:00 Session Two: Teachers’ session/session des enseignant(e)s
Chair: Sharon Cook, University of Ottawa
Barbara Brockmann & Rachel Collishaw, Ottawa-Carleton District School
Board