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The following information is from an article entitled 'Canadian Feminists in the International Arena' by Philippa Schmiegelow. The full article can be seen here: pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/cws/article/viewFile/89... In 1941, Muriel Goggin Denison, Flora MacDonald's daughter-in-law and gifted singer, manager and mainstay of the Bon Echo Inn for 8 years, became Canadian women's representative at the United Nations Information Office in New York. From 1942-46, as a member of the Women's Advisory Committee, Muriel worked with representative women from 11 allied nations - China, Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Greece, Luxenbourg, Netherlands, Norway and the Union of South Africa - preparing a report on the role of women with the newly formed United Nations Organization (UNO) (Women's Advisory Committee). The report was presented to the primary session of the General Assembly in February 1946. The opening paragraph is blunt. It reads: 1) the support of the women of the world is essential to the permanent success of the UNO; 2) in order best to gain that support UNO must assign to women a basic functional role. The recommendations of the report are wide-sweeping, integrating women into every aspect of the UNO body and calling for women's greater participation in policy making. The 1946 report is a daring document in light of the industrialized world's post war frenzy to re-domesticate women. Muriel Denison forwarded a copy of the report to Eleanor Roosevelt - the longest serving First Lady of the United States (March 1933-April 1945). Muriel received a letter of thanks dated October 21,1946 and an invitation to meet Roosevelt. Presumably, the photo above depicts that meeting however it is unknown the exact date and which woman on the left or right (if any) is Muriel Goggin Denison. Muriel may have captured the photograph? |
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| Author | Cloyne and District Historical Society from Cloyne, Canada |
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