From the 1890s to the 1930s Edith S. Watson, self-supporting, itinerant, artistic and commercial photographer, travelled across Canada documenting the lives of rural people, frequently women, at work. Working Light is her story. From outport Newfoundland to the Queen Charlotte Islands she captured images of labouring people in the precarious, poignant, often gruelling act of building a country. Her subjects and their ways of living are gone, but Watson's pictures are recognizable and compelling talismans of Canada's national psyche and a social history that is very much alive. She photographed women working the fish flakes in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia; making soap, weaving, and spinning in Quebec and across the Prairies and into British Columbia; mending fish nets outside Vancouver; caring for children from Newfoundland to northern Ontario, The Pas, and Brilliant, B.C.; harvesting beets outside Winnipeg and flax in Saskatchewan. Watson explored established communities, newly settled immigrant ones - she spent three summers among the Doukhobours in Alberta and British Columbia - and Native and Inuit life. Watson lived and worked with Bermudian journalist Victoria Hayward, who coined the phrase "Canadian mosaic" in their book Romantic Canada.

Working Light: The Wandering Life of Photographer Edith S. Watson (Women's Experience Series) (Volume 8)

Arts & Photography

Rooney, Frances

Individual Artists

McGill-Queen's University Press

Intimate first person reflections presented at their most revealing and honest. In this extraordinary collection lesbians of various ages, experiences, cultural and economic backgrounds write of their personal lives. Coming out, loving, separating parents and children, work and getting along in the world are only some of the themes explored. Our Lives is a compelling, sometimes humorous, collection of diary accounts, letters, poems and short stories by women interpreting the day-to-day occurrences of their lives through their private journals.

Our Lives: Lesbian Personal Writings

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

Sumach Pr

Extraordinary Women Explorers takes the reader across tens of thousands of miles over four continents, up to the top of the world, and through the extraordinary lives of 12 women. Their stories begin with Sacagawea, guide to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1805, and end in the present, with Mattie McNair, leader of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. These are stories of the adventure, courage, daring and determination of women who found a way to live their dreams.

Extraordinary Women Explorers (Women's Hall Of Fame Series 2005, 6)

Children's Books

Biographies

Second Story Press

There is no question we are harming our planet―grasslands in Somalia have dried up, unable to sustain agriculture; ice floes are thinning and breaking up in the north because of global warming; life-sustaining Brazilian rainforests are being clear-cut and burned at an alarming rate. Exceptional Women Environmentalists profiles ten advocates for the earth―passionate women who work tirelessly on behalf of those who have no voice. From Jane Goodall, famed primate researcher and advocate, to “Amazonian Legend” Sharon Beder, activist for the Brazilian rainforest and its people, Exceptional Women Environmentalists shows how ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Exceptional Women Environmentalists (Women's Hall Of Fame Series 2007, 11)

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