Kim Campbell

One woman in my opinion who has done something that is a large step forward for women is Kim Campbell, who was the first female Prime Minister of Canada. Something that I thought was very interesting was she was born in Port Alberni, BC (which is on Vancouver Island). She was elected into office for the Progressive Party of Canada on June 25, 1993, becoming the first female leader of Canada. Although her run was a short one. In October 1993 she retired from politics when Canada chose a new Liberal government. One other thing that interested me was that her real name was Avril Phaedra, and when her mom left the family, (Kim was 12) she renamed herself Kim. She went to Prince of Wales Secondary School, and became the first girl to be elected as class president. And in 1964 when she went to UBC, and became the first female freshman president. Also, while she was an early teenager, she was a reporter on a CBC program called Junior Television Club. For a period of time she was married to Nathan Divinsky, although they later divorced. She is now living in Paris, France with her common law husband Hershey Felder.

Sources Used:

http://www.mta.ca/about_canada/study_guide/famous_women/kim_c

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Campbell

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/campbellkim/Kim_Campbell.htm

Source for picture:

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/002026/f1/campbell.jpg

The Friday Everything Changed

*A story we read in English that we are now writing a paragraph about*

(This was a really well written post, but then my Internet crashed and the draft only saved ONE sentence.)



If you ask me, I think that this story was mainly about women's rights and how girls can do anything boys can do. The paragraph we read was saying how the teacher, Miss Ralston, was both feminine and masculine, and that she was the main character in this story that made the difference. She was masculine because she would strap the children quite hard, and she was feminine because she dressed pretty and was nice.
As we got deeper into the story, I think that Miss Ralston proved to be more masculine than feminine because she went out to play ball with the boys and ended up hitting it into the ox pasture.
Another thing that made her special was that she actually considered the idea of girls going to get the water bucket, while most male teachers probably would have not even thought about it twice.
So in the end, I think that this story is saying that girls can do what guys can do, and that one person can make a huge difference.