Books: June 2012 Archives

Saturday June 23, 2012

"The Sweet Sixteen", a true Canadian story

Before women could vote in Canada, before women were even considered 'persons' under the law, there was the Canadian Women's Press Club.

The true story of how sixteen female journalists created the Canadian Women's Press Club is told in the book The Sweet Sixteen by Linda Kay.

It all started in an unusual way - on a train to the World's Fair in St. Louis back in 1904. Both Francophone and Anglophone women journalists were aboard, and they wanted to write about more than just debutante balls and etiquette.

Author Linda Kay is also Chair and Associate professor at Concordia University's Department of Journalism.  She spoke with Sonali Karnick about how she came across this story and about the women who went on that fateful trip to St.Louis.

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Categories: Books

 

• December 2012
  • Sun., 9 – Erin Balser: Best of 2012 books
     
• November 2012
  • Sun., 18 – Melanie Watt's "Scaredy Squirrel"
     
  • Sat., 17 – Nick Malgieri's Bread
     
  • Sat., 10 – Girls Night Out for mothers and daughters
     
  • Sun., 4 – Christine Pountney's "Sweet Jesus"
     
  • Sun., 4 – John Ralson Saul, part 2: PEN International
     
  • Sat., 3 – Goalie Jamie McLennan's hockey stories
     
• October 2012
  • Sun., 28 – John Ralston Saul's "Dark Diversions"
     
  • Sat., 27 – Erin Balser: spooky Halloween reads
     
  • Sat., 27 – C.S. Richardson: The Emperor of Paris
     
  • Sun., 21 – Alix Ohlin's "Inside"
     
  • Sat., 13 – The Cookbook Club launch
     
  • Sat., 13 – Burma: Rivers of Flavor
     
  • Sat., 13 – Modern Flavours of Arabia
     
  • Sat., 13 – Peter Kirby: The Dead of Winter a few weeks early
     
  • Sun., 7 – Jonathan Goldstein turns 40
     
  • Sat., 6 – The Selector of Souls by Shauna Singh Baldwin
     
• September 2012
  • Sun., 30 – Stress, Part 5: stress and social status (and teens)
     
  • Sun., 30 – An Illustrated History of Quebec
     
  • Sat., 29 – Monkey Ranch: Julie Bruck's new book of poetry
     
  • Sun., 23 – Meat Cove : serialized crime novel by brothers
     
  • Sun., 16 – CBC Books: Fall reading list
     
  • Sun., 16 – Stress Part 4: chronic stress
     
  • Sun., 9 – Stress, Part 3: stress and our brains
     
  • Sat., 8 – The Mile End Cookbook
     
  • Sun., 2 – Stress, Part 2: stress and our bodies
     
  • Sat., 1 – Going green for back-to-school
     
• August 2012
  • Sun., 26 – Stress, Part 1: driving ourselves NUTS
     
  • Sun., 19 – Louise Penny's The Beautiful Mystery
     
  • Sun., 19 – Brome Lake Books launches The Beautiful Mystery
     
  • Sun., 12 – Louise Penny: looking for Gamache ... and Three Pines
     
• July 2012
  • Sun., 15 – The Darling of Kandahar
     
  • Sat., 14 – Pasha Malla: People Park
     
  • Sat., 7 – Kids' summer reading with CBC Books
     
• June 2012
  • Sat., 23 – "The Sweet Sixteen", a true Canadian story
     
• May 2012
  • Sat., 26 – BBQ and beer : Ted Reader's match made in heaven
     
  • Sat., 26 – Well Stressed, the antidote to mammoth problems
     
  • Sat., 12 – Mendel Guide to Quebec City's Lower Town
     
  • Sun., 6 – Deni Béchard's "Cures for Hunger"
     
  • Sat., 5 – Anna Olson takes us Back to Baking
     
  • Sat., 5 – Louise Penny's master class in crime (writing)
     
• April 2012
  • Sat., 28 – Peter Hobbs: In the Orchard, the Swallows
     
  • Sun., 22 – 1000 awesome things
     
  • Sat., 21 – Mmmm....La Tartine Gourmande
     
  • Sat., 21 – Howard Shrier's new crime novel Boston Cream
     
  • Sun., 15 – Freedom Climbers of Poland
     
  • Sat., 14 – ImagiNation Writers' Festival: The Book Madam
     
  • Sat., 14 – Spring cleaning for books
     
  • Sat., 7 – David McGimpsey talks about Li'l Bastard