On October 12th, 2017, Café Minerva was a guest of the City of Vancouver Archives. A panel of women’ historians (Veronica Strong-Boag, Lara Campbell, and Sherry Edmunds-Fleet) discussed “The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage in British Columbia.”

Please join the editors of Worth Fighting For (Lara Campbell, Catherine Gidney, and Michael Dawson) on Thursday 14 May, 2015 at SFU-Vancouver (Harbour Centre) Room 1600, 3:30-5 p.m. Click here to look at the book’s table of contents .

On Tuesday 28 April 2015, come hear Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag speak on women’s suffrage: “A Suffragist Trajectory from Rural Poverty to CCF MLA and Activist: The Case of B.C.’s Laura Marshall Jamieson (1882-1964). SFU-Vancouver (Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Room 2270), 7pm.

Equality Deferred: Human Rights in British Columbia History

Join SFU’s Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, the Department of History, and the Herstory Cafe for Dr. Dominique Clément’s talk on the historical origins of human rights law, with a focus on British Columbia and sex discrimination. The province was at the forefront of the women’s movement and a laboratory in human rights legal innovations, and yet nowhere else was human rights law more contested.

Funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, SFU

Thursday, 11 September 2014, 7:30 p.m. Reception and Book signing to follow

SFU Vancouver: Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street), Segal Centre Rooms (Room# 1410-1410). Free but reservation required: sfu.ca/reserve

Join the Friends of the City of Vancouver Archives for their annual fall fundraiser on Sunday 20 October, 2013, at 2p.m. The topic is “From Chaos to Control: McBride, Joly, and the Rise of Party Politics in British Columbia,” and the speakers are Dr. Jack Little and Dr. Patricia Roy.

City of Vancouver Archives, 1150 Chestnut Street in Vanier Park
All tickets $30
* ticket sales on Eventbrite beginning September 30.
Seating is limited. Light refreshments.

Description: As the 2oth century dawned, British Columbia politics were a tangled mess. Governments came and went rapidly as loose groups of supporters formed new coalitions. A young MLA in New Westminster, Richard McBride, found an unlikely ally in Lieutenant – Governor Sir Henri Joly de Lotbinière, a Protestant Québécois appointed by Liberal Sir Wilfred Laurier and formed a government under the Conservative banner on 1902. Party Politics had arrived in B.C.!  McBride’s stable administration, which lasted until 1915, oversaw the greatest economic boom of the era, and provincial politics never looked back. Drawing on material from their two recent biographies, Patricia Roy and Jack Little explain the circumstances leading to this political evolution and reflect on matters of party discipline and governance relevant today when a portion of the populace dreams of politicians “representing their constituents” and “voting their conscience.“