article by Angelina Aziz https://padlet.com/angelina_aziz/4sj2yxz030ry en-us 2018-09-19 16:34:24 UTC 2023-01-21 14:43:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Nellie McClung, A Hero. angelina_aziz https://padlet.com/angelina_aziz/4sj2yxz030ry/wish/283550103 Article by Angelina Aziz
Nellie McClung was an amazing young women who did something amazing for all women across Canada. Nellie McClung was born in 1873 in Chatsworth, Ontario. She was a lecturer, teacher, author, suffragette, legislator, and temperance worker. Nellie McClung is the amazing women who won over rights for women. In the early 1900's, the law was phrased as: “No women, idiot, lunatic, or criminal shall vote.” Most men were against women voting and saw them as nothing more than property. Women had no laws that provided basic laws like the right to vote, the right to run for office, and protection against abuse. “I don’t want a hyena in petticoats talking politics to me. I want a nice gentle creature to bring me my slippers,” and “Making women equal to men would cause strife. It would break up the home. Women are too emotional,” said Rodmond Roblin. Nellie McClung was fed up with seeing women being mistreated, treated like materials and men having the upper hand and more rights and power. ]]> 2018-09-19 17:17:16 UTC https://padlet.com/angelina_aziz/4sj2yxz030ry/wish/283550103 angelina_aziz https://padlet.com/angelina_aziz/4sj2yxz030ry/wish/283551395 So she moved to Manitoba and became the leader of the Political Equality League of Manitoba. She gained massive support from women all over the province. In 1914, women gained the right to vote in manitoba. Then 3 months later, women gained the right to vote in Alberta. Nellie McClung was also a temperance worker. The temperance movement was made by women in the late 1800s to prohibit alcohol. This was because men would go to bars and spend all their money on alcohol, come home drunk, and beat their wives. Also leaving them with no money to provide for their children. She was also a suffragette. The suffragettes was created by female farmers that wanted right over their property. They also wanted the right to vote. In 1921, women gained the right to be recognized as “persons” and the right to run for office. Nellie McClung did amazing things for all women across Canada. Without her women would still be living as property and not humans. That’s a world I wouldn’t want to live in. Nellie McClung is a hero to all women. ]]> 2018-09-19 17:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/angelina_aziz/4sj2yxz030ry/wish/283551395 Residential School In Canada merna_chochana https://padlet.com/angelina_aziz/4sj2yxz030ry/wish/285333971 Article by: Merna Chochana 

Residential schools were religious schools that were government-sponsored.  They're schools that are run by churches.  An estimate of about 150,000 students attended.  The first residential facilities were first developed in New France ran by Catholic missionaries.  The schools tried to assimilate the native culture and tried to completely eliminate it.  They would take young children away from their families, and they forced children to be catholic.  The government wanted to provide natives with an education and merge them into Canadian society.  Some of the things students couldn’t do at residential schools was not being able to talk to their siblings because they isolated them, even when they see each other they can’t talk to each other. Also, they couldn’t talk in their native language, not even when sending letters to their parents, and if they do then they would get beaten.  About 6000 students died there.  Residential schools caused a long-term problems among indigenous people.  The schools shut down in 1996. Indigenous people have been through a lot because of residential schools, and it’s a good decision to shut them down, because nobody should have to go through assimilation.
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