Free DownloadNellie McClung, "The Valiant Nellie McClung: Collected Columns by Canada’s Most Famous Suffragist"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1772031461 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 3.0 mb
Although her name today is synonymous with the womens suffrage movement in Canada, Nellie McClungs long and varied career covered several fieldsfrom social activist to elected politician, from novelist to journalist. McClung was instrumental in Canadian women gaining the right to vote before their British and American counterparts2016 marks the one-hundred-year anniversary of womens suffrage in Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewanand in women being recognized as persons eligible to sit in the Senate. McClung was a household name by the time she was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1921, a post she held for five years.
Free DownloadSanford Berman, "Not in My Library!: "Berman’s Bag" Columns from The Unabashed Librarian, 2000-2013"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0786478225 | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.7 mb
Foreword by Mitch Freedman, a reprinted Counterpoise interview and 45 of Sanford Berman’s U*L columns dealing with book-burning, genocide, government secrecy and repression, cataloging, indexing, classism, self-censorship and free speech for library staff (et cetera!). Index by Chris Dodge.