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Military Service Election

Women (who have sons, husbands, brothers in the War) get the vote!

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Gran’s Journal…the gas mask..1917

Very cool- and only 1000+ newspaper clippings and notes to go…lol…(no.  really…lol)

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November 3, 1916 (exploring the past, and great gran’s journal)

(Excerpt of great gran’s journal) November 3, 1916 This is my birthday. I hate to tell but I am fifty-three.  Marjorie (my gran-her daughter), the darling  little girlie gave me a perfectly lovely blouse for which she sent to Toronto.  … Continue reading

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Exploring the past- what happened on this date…many years ago?  

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Human Rights vs. Money

We had a debate in history class yesterday.  What is the most important event of the 1920s?  Based on student input, the choices were: women’s rights (vote and persons case), forced enrollment of Native children in residential schools, the Great … Continue reading

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