HIST 260 Lecture Notes - William Aberhart, Madeleine Parent, Maurice Duplessis
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Everyone wants to get back to normal after the war. Women"s associations still strong *conservative, labour/left, right-wing]; reform continuum. Black women formed service clubs in ontario, nova scotia. Women generally led canadian home and school associations, church groups and charitable organizations. Canadian federation of university women (cfuw) (1919) Canadian federation of business & professional women"s clubs )1930) International feminism, peace movement wilpf, league of nations, missions. Farm women advocated equal property ownership, legalized birth control, peace. Cooperative commonwealth federation (ccf) united various left-winged groups. Egalitarian ideology and agrarian feminism attracted women; most in traditional feminime part ways. 1939; 3 provinces had ccf oppositions, wlm king. Anges mcphail in a varierty of 3rd parties; became the first president of ontario ccf in. Some public sympathy for the extreme left. Many artist, writers joined the communist party and its cultural wing. Founded by evangelist william aberhart, ab premier 1935-43. Eventurally abandoned radicalism, retained right-wing polices, ruled in alberta and.
