Mind Set
Gun Registry
Please sit down and read either letter
A or B on your desk As others arrive
share your answer to the questions
with your table when you have
finished reading”. (Read-think-PairShare)
Letter A
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Having been a collector and user of the ultimate sporting
shotguns English side by sides and over and unders by Purdey,
Boss and Holland & Holland and high-grade American by Parker,
Ansley Fox and L.C Smith, and a long-time subscriber to your
great newspaper, I was delighted to read your editorial on why
the long-gun registry should be ended. You hit the bull's eye!
At 75, I'm still harvesting wild pheasant, woodcock, ruffed
grouse, ducks and Canada geese in the beautiful fields and
coverts of Nova Scotia. I shoot for my Brittany Spaniels, for the
table and the challenge, adhering strictly to the sporting arm
and game laws of our country. Given the respect and credibility
your editorials enjoy, you should have no trouble in educating
your ill-informed detractors.
George M. Cunningham, Halifax
Letter B
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You argue that the registry didn't prevent registered
guns from being used to kill. Well, sometimes registered
dogs bite children. Sometimes registered cars are used
by drunk drivers. Should we toss out dog registration?
Licence plates on cars? Even registered handguns kill –
but you never mention deregistering handguns.
If you don't believe the evidence that owner
accountability reduces the misuse of guns, then how
about a little common sense? How many more people
would park their cars illegally, fail to return a library
book or lend their hunting rifle to an unlicensed cousin if
there were no way of identifying those responsible?
Heidi Rathjen, Montreal
Letters to the editor
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These letters are from readers of a
newspaper (Globe) in response to
something the paper printed.
Letters to the Editor Need :
 To Agree or disagree.
 To Say Why.
 Facts and personal opinions are used!
Women in WW1
Women’s involvement and Suffrage
Information Sharing
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Information Sharing
Talk about:
-Women role in the work place
-Women at home
- Women at war
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Suffragists (male and female)
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
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-Reactions to the suffrage movement from:
-males fearing for work/family values
-Other women (family values)
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-Women helping promote Conscription
(IODE)
- Government
-Wartime Elections Act of 1917
- 24 May 1918- vote extended to all women
21 and over federally (including those not
able to provincially)
Women IN a Shell Factory
Canadian Nurses and Wounded
WW1
Woman's Christian Temperance
Union
Men after Victory at Vimy Ridge
Why is this a cartoon against
Women’s suffrage?
Prime Minister Robert Borden- 100 Dollar Bill
Barbara Wylie Comes to Montreal
1912
Margaret's Clipping: September 28, 1912. Montreal Daily Witness
(abridged for space).
Miss Barbara Wylie, the English suffragist, whose visit to Canada has aroused
so much interest and speculation as to what it may eventually lead to, arrived
at Place Viger Station at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but looked so unlike one
who had twice been in prison and was willing to fight again for 'the cause' that
the small group of newspapermen waiting at the gate had a hard time finding
her, and actually let her walk past. Miss Wylie (it turns out) is a tall really
beautiful looking woman with every appearance of refinement and intelligence
above the ordinary. She spoke intelligently of the suffrage movement,
explaining the larger significance of the demand for votes for women and what
she called 'the absolutely unjust, cruel and disgraceful conduct and trickery of
the Asquith government. She spoke as a highly intelligent woman burning with
the conviction that her cause was right. She also showed plainly a spirit of
resolute intention not to give up the fight for minute until the battle had been
won. This was evident from her tone and voice and the way she threw back
her head as she spoke of the conflict and the reasons why they should succeed.
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She was going to join the Canadian suffragists in asking Mr. Borden and his
government to grant the vote for women. "If the government will not grant the
demand, will you encourage suffragists on this side to adopt militant tactics?
asked a Witness Reporter.
"The Canadian women are quite able to look after their own case," was her
evasive reply.
"What about the hurling of the hatchet at Mr. Asquith," asked another reporter.
"It never touched him and even if he had got a crack in the head, it might not
have done him any harm. It might have pounded a little sense into him," was
Wylie's reply.
Asked if there was a deeper meaning to the movement.
"Women will never be respected nor hold the place and influence they should
have as long as they are denied the right to vote. We also want to exert an
influence on legislation such as public health and social questions, which we
think are more important than commerce and the things that men think most
important."