Women of Canada: Their Life and Work

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Page 179 - We've raced the rapid, we're far ahead ! The river slips through its silent bed. Sway, sway, As the bubbles spray And fall in tinkling tunes away. And up on the hills against the sky, A fir tree rocking its lullaby, Swings, swings, Its emerald wings, Swelling the song that my paddle sings.
Page 43 - These are the chief legal effects of marriage during the coverture; upon which we may observe, that even the disabilities which the wife lies under, are for the most part intended for her protection and benefit. So great a favourite is the female sex of the laws of England.
Page 281 - For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 8 - There is the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty. The power of conduct is the greatest of all.
Page 232 - ... (2) It has obtained the appointment of women factory inspectors for factories and workshops where women are employed, in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario. (3) It has obtained the extension of the provisions of the Factory Act to the Shop Act in Ontario as regards the supervision of women workers.
Page 312 - ... at nightfall without proper guardianship and the age or apparent age of boys and girls respectively under which they shall be required to be in their homes at the hour appointed and such municipal council shall in each case cause a bell or bells to be rung at or near the time appointed as a warning to be called a "curfew bell...
Page 311 - Children's aid society" means a society, having among its objects the protection of children from cruelty and the care and control of neglected children, and which has been incorporated under The Children's Protection Act...
Page 231 - Council shall thereby render itself liable to be interfered with in respect to its complete organic unity, independence, or methods of work, or be committed to any principle or method of any other society, or to any act or utterance of the Council itself, beyond compliance with the terms of this Constitution.
Page 231 - We, women of the United States, sincerely believing that the best good of our homes and nation will be advanced by our own greater unity of thought, sympathy and purpose, and that an organized movement of women will best conserve the highest good of the family and the State, do hereby band ourselves together in a confederation of workers committed to the overthrow of all forms of ignorance and injustice, and to the application of the Golden Rule to society, custom and law.
Page 312 - ... in case of twins more than two infants, under the age of one year for the purpose of nursing or maintaining such infants apart from their parents for a longer period than twenty-four hours, except in a house which has been registered as herein provided.

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