Primary Sources

Our Archive Catalogue

The Nellie McClung Foundation has begun to digitize a collection of unique source materials. What you will find in this database is a small selection of catalogued items primarily focusing on the history of Nellie McClung and the women’s movement in Canada.

Please check back regularly as we will continue to add to our archive of primary sources and expand our collection categories and topics.

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We are very interested in receiving items for use in our educational archive.

We are currently looking for stories, letters, photos, artifacts (i.e. vintage posters, newspaper articles, etc.) on Nellie McClung, the women’s movement, suffragists, the temperance movement, women’s rights milestones and victories.

We’d be happy to return your item after its been scanned and catalogued, preserving it for posterity. We’ll provide credit and ownership attribution on your behalf. See Contact for more details.

Recent Additions:

Haunting Fear

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1915
Source: Nellie McClung. In Times Like These. p. 32 1972 edition. Also http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/cartoo.html

Categories: Quote

Form a chain

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1916
Source: Candace Savage. Our Nell: A Scrapbook Biography of Nellie L. McClung. p.124. 1979 Also http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/nellie.html

Categories: Quote

Suffering from masculinity

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1915
Source: Nellie McClung. In Times Like These. p.90. 1972 ed. Also http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/cartoo.html

Categories: Quote

Chivalry is a poor substitute

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1915
Source: Nellie McClung. In Times Like These. p.42. 1972 ed. Also http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/cartoo.html

Categories: Quote

Tell the people we meet

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1919
Source: Candace Savage. Our Nell: A Scrapbook Biography of Nellie L. McClung. p.14. 1979 Also http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/nellie.html

Categories: Quote

The woman movement

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1915
Source: Nellie McClung. In Times Like These. p.66. 1972 ed. Also http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/nellie.html

Categories: Quote

For generations

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1915
Source: Nellie McClung. In Times Like These. p.45. 1972 ed. Also http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/nellie.html

Tags: quote, thought, revolution

Categories: Quote

Low Value

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1915
Source: Nellie McClung. In Times Like These. p.24. 1972 ed. Also http://library2.usask.ca/herstory/nellie.html

Categories: Quote , By Nellie

Never retract

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1915
Source: Nellie McClung. In Times Like These. p.vii introduction by Veronica Strong - Boag, 'As a campaigner whose slogan was, 'Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl', she became the foremost practitioner of sexual confrontation. Also http://www.swc - cfc.gc.ca/dates/persons/case; Jowett, Benjamin an eighteenth century English scholar - 1817 - 93, had used a similar expression.

Categories: Quote , By Nellie

Womanhood as a disease

Credit: Nellie McClung, 1915
Source: Nellie McClung. In Times Like These. p.62. 1972 ed. Also A Canadian woman's wit and wisdom. Compiled by Cori Howard New York: Nine Publishers Inc, 2004 pg 55.

Categories: Quote

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