This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large. During the early 1900s, women on the prairies looked for ways to overcome their isolation. Out of the resulting farm women's organizations grew a group of women possessing remarkable intellectual abilities, social and cultural awareness, and advanced worldviews.
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Virginia Beckner
Farm Couple
Dennis Cyr
Farm Couple
Brandi Beckner
Child
David Beckner
Child
Shaun Umscheid
Child
Miriam Newhouse
Violet McNaughton
Judith Lebane
Irene Parlby
Juliet Brown
Meeting Chairperson / Voices
Brenda Prentice
Rally Speaker
Sandi Gregg
Peace Petitioner
Elan Ross Gibson
Narrator
Cori Stent
Voices
Meredith Adams
Voices
Elizabeth Hoffpauir
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