Practically Speaking, Grateful Reflection.
Wherever today finds you, may today’s Thanksgiving include a place at your table for a fellow neighbour.
I’m immeasurably grateful to each of you for your generosity and witnessing.
Mary Two-Axe Earley (Kahnawà:ke Mohawk)
Mary spent decades challenging the sex-based discrimination in the Indian Act that stripped Women of status for marrying non-status men. From kitchen tables to Parliament, Mary organized, wrote, testified, and endured several attempts to evict her from her own community. In 1985, Bill C-31 amended the law, and Mary became the first Woman reinstated. Mary’s courage helped open the door for thousands of Women and their children to reclaim their identity, housing, and membership. Her courage turned policy into homecoming, and re-rooted families pushed to the margins.
Learn more about Mary HERE.
Viola Desmond
Viola Desmond was a Halifax entrepreneur: a beautician, educator, and owner of a cosmetics line. Viola’s principled refusal in 1946 exposed Canada’s segregated reality. After taking a seat on the main floor of New Glasgow’s Roseland Theatre, she was arrested and fined on a technicality; courts refused to name the discrimination. Decades later, she received a free pardon and has become the face of Canada’s $10 banknote. Viola’s legacy is a blueprint of steadfast worthiness: one Woman sitting where she was told she did not belong, turning a theatre into a courtroom and a country into a witness to her courage.
Learn more about Viola HERE.
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Information Credit: Library and Archives Canada, CMHR / Beaton Institute (CBU), Canadian Museum of Human Rights, National Film Board of Canada, The Canadian Encyclopedia
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