Wikipedia Needs Assessment –

Women (week of June 15, 2020)
Guest Editor Jenny Higgins

Existing Articles to Improve:
Georgina Stirling (needs citations)
Jenny Gear (needs citations)
Susan Kent (actress) (needs expansion)
Krystin Pellerin (needs expansion)
Mary Southcott (needs expansion, can add photo from Wikimedia Commons)
Hazel McIsaac (needs expansion)
Ethel Dickenson (needs expansion)
Vera Perlin (needs expansion)
Margaret Duley (needs citations)
Louise Saunders (needs expansion)
Helena Squires (needs expansion)
Lydia Campbell (needs expansion)
Cassie Brown (needs expansion)
Dora Oake Russell (needs expansion)
Margaret Davidson (needs expansion)
Anita Best (needs expansion)
Pamela Morgan (needs expansion)
Doris Saunders (needs citations/references, and can be expanded)
Sarah Leo (this is a stub article that needs to be expanded and updated)
Kay Burns (needs citations/references, and can be expanded)
Women's Patriotic Association (needs citations)
Bushra Junaid (needs expansion) - NOTE: update to include her latest exhibition at the Rooms, called "What Carries Us: Newfoundland and Labrador in the Black Atlantic" - an article about the exhibition: http://visualartsnews.ca/2020/06/listening-to-silence/

Articles to Create:
Marjorie Doyle
Grace Butt
Agnes Miller Ayre
Adeline Browning
Anna (Barnes) Mitchell
Myra Campbell
Barbara Doran
Noreen Golfman
Phoebe Florence Miller
Violet Cherrington
Connie Hynes
Louise Belbin
Anna Templeton
Elizabeth (Tshaukuesh) Penashue
Berni Stapleton
TA Loeffler
Ann Hulan
Jessie Ohman
Ruth Lawrence
Anne Troake
Water Lily (newsletter)
Ladies Reading Room (St. John’s, Newfoundland)
Newfoundland Women’s Franchise League
Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association (NONIA)

Online Resources on Newfoundland and Labrador Women
“Women’s Movement” in Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador Volume 5, pp. 607-611
http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/2500

Women’s Suffrage (Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador Website)
https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/women-suffrage.php

Women in Politics (Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador Website)
https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/women-politics.php

Women’s History Walking Tour (Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador Website)
https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/womens-tour-table-contents.php

Coastal Women (Maritime History Archive)
https://www.mun.ca/mha/cw/home.html

Also consult Online Resources with Newfoundland and Labrador Content.
www.mun.ca/publicengagement/engagememorial/OnlineResourcesWikiProjectFINAL.pdf

Recommended readings and potential citations for articles:
Browne, Susan Chalker. Mother of the Regiment : And Other Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John’s: Flanker Press, 2019.
Cullum, Linda K., Carmelita. McGrath, and Marilyn Porter. Weather's Edge : A Compendium. St. John's, N.L.: Killick, 2006.
Duley, Margot I. Where Once Our Mothers Stood We Stand: Women's Suffrage in Newfoundland, 1890-1925. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy, 1993.
The Finest Kind : Voices of Newfoundland and Labrador Women. St. John's, Nfld.: Creative, 1992.
Higgins, Jenny. Agnes Ayre's ABCs of Amazing Women : Newfoundland & Labrador Women of Note (some of Whom Won Us the Vote). Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Newfoundland and Labrador: Boulder Books, 2019.
McGrath, Carmelita., Barbara Neis, and Marilyn Porter. Their Lives and times : Women in Newfoundland and Labrador : A Collage. St. John's, Nfld.: Killick, 1995.
Morgan, Bonnie. Ordinary Saints : Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland. Montreal ; Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Porter, Marilyn, and Linda K. Cullum. Creating This Place : Women, Family, and Class in St. John's, 1900-1950. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
Pumphrey, Marilyn. Who's Who and Why : Newfoundland Women 1991. St. John's, Newfoundland: Marilyn Pumphrey, 1990.
Pursuing Equality : Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's, Nfld.: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University, 1993.
A sisterhood of suffering and service : women and girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press. 2012.
St. John's Local Council of Women. Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's, Nfld.]: Valhalla Canada, 1976.
White, Marian Frances. Woman's Almanac.

Compiled June 7, 2020
Centre for Newfoundland Studies
cnsqeii@mun.ca