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Damoff and Shermy Freeman have known each other since high school, with Damoff in the school blues band and Freeman being the first female guitar player in the school rock band. [3] Bassist Sarah Butler previously played upright bass in Canadian rockabilly acts The Millwinders and Real Gone. [2] The band has worked with a number of drummers.
Gertrude Harding (1889–1977) – one of the highest-ranking and longest-lasting members of the Women's Social and Political Union; Anna Leonowens (1831–1915) – travel writer, educator and social activist; Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922) – writer; president, Women's Suffrage Association of Nelson, British Columbia
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The Famous Five (French: Célèbres cinq), also known as The Valiant Five, [1] and initially as The Alberta Five, were five prominent Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby. [2]
In 1998, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls initiated the Suffragette Sessions Tour, a loose amalgamation of female artists that Ray described as "a socialist experiment in rock and roll--no hierarchy, no boundaries."
Mary Rutnam – Canadian-born doctor, gynaecologist, and suffragist who emigrated and became a member of the Women’s Franchise Union of Sri Lanka and a co-founder of the All-Ceylon Women's Conference [23] Agnes de Silva (1885–1961) – secretary of the Women's Franchise Union of Ceylon then founder of the Women's Franchise Union of Sri ...
The Woman Suffrage Movement in Canada (2nd ed. U of Toronto Press, 1974) full text online; Domareki, Sarah. "Canadian Identity, Women's Suffrage, and the Rights of Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Stories and Activism of Nellie McClung and Thérèse Casgrain." American Review of Canadian Studies 48.2 (2018): 221-243.
Headstones is a Canadian punk-influenced [1] rock band that was formed in Kingston, Ontario [2] in 1989, broke up in 2003, and then reunited in 2011. [3] Consisting of vocalist Hugh Dillon, guitarist Trent Carr, bassist Tim White, keyboardist Steve Carr and Jesse Labovitz on drums, and a reputation for high energy, 'more rock less super shock' stage presence, and interaction with the audience ...