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CANADA- Women's Suffrage (bottom is our Aussie girlfriends- check out the 60s look- Canadian women were exactly the same- all be4 the days of the internet- a long journey)
Women in Canada obtained the right to vote in a sporadic fashion. Federal authorities granted them the franchise in 1918, more than two years after the women of Manitoba became the first to vote at the provincial level.
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This is what USA and Germany is betraying the rest of the world over.... this country.... this IRAN
Don't
be homosexual, Don't have any religion but the right one, Don't form unions,
Don't be a woman, TORTURE IS NORMAL IN IRAN
Iranian
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Beautiful
Sochi Winter Olympics/Paralympics- Mother Russia- by the by...RUSSIA thx 4
helping us win the WWII OVER GERMANY- without u we'd be on our knees or; if not
pure white, dead..... God bless Mother Russia... take can of our Canadian kids
please... we love them dearly.... total respect... and again 4 Canadians who
did make it home ... and Canadians who did not... without u Russia.... the
world would now be German,white and pure.... we remember
Settling
in: Falmouth resident provides pre-Olympic report from Sochi
Published
on February 03, 2014
Stan
Kochanoff, from Falmouth, is volunteering in Russia for the 2014 Winter
Olympics. He will be submitting special reports to the Hants Journal while
abroad. (Submitted photo)
The
end of the month has arrived and I am into my 11th day here in Sochi, Russia
preparing for my volunteer work at 2014 Winter Olympics. I have been assigned
to work as a general volunteer at Endurance Village, one of the two Olympic
mountain villages with the third being the coastal village located by the
Olympic Park in Adler south of Sochi.
Our
venue is hosting the cross-country skiing and biathlon events and the village
is totally self-contained to accommodate and service the athletes, coaches,
trainers and NOC officials. Our village is the highest elevation of the two
mountain villages at approximately 1,400 feet.
My
role as a volunteer is working with the Village Plaza events group. The Village
Plaza offers all types of services to the athletes, trainers, coaches and
guests, including a state-of-art fitness centre, spa, games room, Internet
cafe, entertainment club, DVD and karaoke lounge, general store, art gallery,
multi-faith centre, the usual retail services, beauty salon, florist, bank,
ticket office for events, post office, library, cleaning and laundry services —
everything you can imagine.
There
are two dining rooms, one for the athletes and their contingents, and another
for operational staff and the volunteers.
In
our group, there are about 40 volunteers to man the two operational shifts
seven days a week between 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. to service everyone. In my
group, I am the only international volunteer with the rest being young Russians
averaging about 23 years of age. They are mostly university students or young
professionals from all over the Russian Federation. About 70 per cent of the
volunteer force is made up of women and that holds true for our group as well.
All
of the training to date has been in Russian so I am totally immersed in the
language. Many who speak some English have been very helpful with translation.
I have several guardian angels who have taken me under their wing and are
helping me translate. My target by the end of the Olympics is to be able to
converse a little in Russian with my workforce mates.
For
the most part, volunteers working in the two mountain villages are housed at 7
Village Cluster in East-Sadok, east of Sochi, and about a 50-minute train ride
from the Olympic Village. The Olympic Village is located in Adler, south of
Sochi.
Housing
accommodations are pretty Spartan-like, generally two bedrooms with four beds,
a kitchen area, a bath and a toilet for about six to eight people. Our dinning
area for meals is close by and presently being set up as a lounge area for
relaxing with a television and maybe wifi for Internet use.
The
meals are basic Russian fare — lots of soups, borscht, stew types with rice and
potatoes, cabbage salads for lunch and dinner. Breakfast is usually a sweet
spring roll along with several types of porridge or rice. Tea is standard, or
coffee with no milk or cream, and juices and fruit are non-existent. Butter or
margarine doesn't seem to be used with bread.
Probably
the toughest thing for most volunteers is the commute time to report to and
from work. Our transit passes cover the Olympic buses and the high-speed train
but not for local domestic buses. For most, it's a one-hour to one and half
hour trip between buses, waling and cable car. For those of us in the mountain,
and for some living in the coastal villages in Sochi and Adler, the commute can
be up to three hours.
For
me, it's about a two-hour venture because of the pounding taken by my knees
over endless stairs, steep slopes to traverse and lots of hard pavement. The
way to work was definitely designed for the young crowd and not senior
citizens.
At
this point I don't have to worry about working out at the fitness centre as my
walking is averaging about four to six miles a day and lots of cardio activity.
Things
are rolling into high gear, with still lots of work to be done before the
opening of the games.
At
the Olympic Park, grass, trees and soil are still being planted in the rain,
pavers and walkways are being installed. The Russians are confident everything
will be ready for opening day.
Our
uniforms are very colourful — with the colours representing the patchwork of
the 83 ethnic groups and territories of Russia.
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Free
book surprises will be scattered around the Valley by local libraries
Published
on February 04, 2014
The
Annapolis Valley Regional Library will be participating in International Book
Giving Day on Feb. 14.
Each
branch in the region will anonymously place several books within their
community as gifts of literacy. Close to Feb. 14, books will begin appearing in
locations throughout the Valley. These books will be left as gifts to whoever
finds them. The books are donations and from Adopt a Library.
If
you find a book, you can keep it, or read it and pass it along to a
friend. For more information on this
international event, visit http://bookgivingday.com/
We
are hoping that those who find the books will post pictures and share stories
about their finds on Facebook and Twitter, @valleylibs, using the hashtag
#giveabook .
AND... LIBRARY BLOGS:
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MILITARY NEWS: Nov 15- Public Libraries- All ages, cultutures, abilities, disabilities-
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HOMELESS
HARLEY LAWRENCE OF NOVA SCOTIA- MURDERED DOWN ON MAIN- We must do better Nova
Scotia- Canada- we just must- tears and prayers -a little good news
and...
Hey
Annapolis Valley- we need 2 tap this up 4 February 22, 2014 THE COLDEST NIGHT
OF THE YEAR walk.... come on... let's do it 4 Homeless Harley Lawrence -
Murdered down on Main Street Nova Scotia.... come on... let's get that $50,000
folks... if u can't walk, run, roll, crutch... we can always donate....
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY- WE HONOUR CANADA WARRIOR- RITA MACNEIL- now with God...
COUSIN
MARY- FLUDD
PHOTOS:
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2 RITA MACNEIL........CANADIAN WARRIOR 4 WOMEN AND GIRLS AND HUMANITY... AND
ANIMALS.... God how we love this woman- celebrate withus One Billion Rising Feb
14 and International Women's Day (which is every day)....March 8, 2014- God
knows we have the war wounds 2 pay 4 ur freedoms u enjoy 2day.... come respect
this woman... and all women and girls.... it's time...
Those
of us oldies who fought the good fight year in and year out.... love our Rita
MacNeil.... she was right there with us.... and when our Gloria and Marlo came
2 town... 2 honour the fierce Canadian women standing up 4 basic equality ...
we all rejoiced. Gloria called us Canadian women the bravest in the world......
and all these scars, wounds and broken bodies later... us old tarnished, tattered
and wounded old Canadian women warriors... are still fighting the 'shit' and
will til God calls us home... Rita's waiting 4 us... and God she was
glorious.....
There
isn't anything more beautiful than a person who's heart has been broken who
still believes in love
Flying
on Your Own - Rita MacNeil (lyrics)
comment:
Here in the UK, I recall Rita from my several visits to NS over the years. What a sad loss and what a voice! So uplifting!
love u Rita....
My
kids were little years later when took them 2 see Rital MacNeil live..... at
the ballpark.... all of them running around in droves as kids....do..... then on came Rita.... and the children
stopped.... listened... and quietly progressed 2 the front of folks..... my
sons so in awe (still are).... 'IS SHE AN ANGEL MOM?..... and thinking whilst
the big folks around me smiled with pure pleasure.... said, 'WELL, YES DARLIN
SHE IS."...... all they saw was the floating voice of pure heaven - there wasn't an animal or a kid that didn't
adore Rita MacNeil.... and on this day... it just don't get better than that
folks... here's her working man....
WORKING
MAN- RITA MACNEIL
Working
Man sung by Rita MacNeil
MARCH
8, 2014- INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY.... celebrating Rita MacNeil
CONCERT
Symphony
event honours MacNeil
Flying
on Your Own: A Tribute to Rita MacNeil, presented by Symphony Nova Scotia,
will feature Men of the Deeps, Lucy MacNeil of the Barra MacNeils, and Katriona
MacNeil, niece of the late singer-songwriter.
The
concert is slated for March 8, 7:30 p.m., at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium,
Halifax.
It
is the anniversary of MacNeil’s final public performance and is als o
International Women’s Day, which is fitting for the performer who was devoted
to the women’s rights movement, says a news release.
MacNeil’s
longtime collaborator Scott Macmillan will lead the orchestra and guest
performers in some of MacNeil’s most beloved s ongs.
“Rita
MacNeil has given us all such an enormous gift of her music," says
Macmillan, in the release.
“I
myself have had a long and precious friendship with R ita since 1982. I was a
band member in her early years and continued a close relationship with her,
including condu cting her live symphonic recording, A Night at the Orpheum.
This will truly be an evening to remember, in celebration of Rita MacNeil, her
life, and her fabulous gift of songs."
Men
o f the Deeps, formed in 1966, is composed of retired coal miners from Cape
Breton. The choir collaborated with MacNeil on the Juno Awards, appearances on
MacNeil’s variety show Rita and Friends and in MacNeil’s televis ed Christmas
shows.
Lucy
MacNeil and Katriona MacNeil performed at the singer’s memorial last year.
Tickets
range from $30 to $57 (HST included). Call 494-3820 or visit www.symphonynovascotia.
ca.
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Rita
MacNeil's family gets chuckle at singer's last wish: to rest in a teapot
The
Canadian Press / Times Colonist
April 22, 2013 05:45 AM
Rita
MacNeil's ashes rest in a teapot at her funeral at St. Mary's Church in Big
Pond, N. S. on Monday, April 22, 2013.
The
68-year-old singer died in hospital in Sydney, Nova Scotia, following
complications from surgery after a recurring infection. THE CANADIAN
PRESS/Andrew Vaughan BIG POND, N.S. - Wade Langham was making funeral
arrangements for his mother, Rita MacNeil, last week when a handwritten note
unexpectedly tumbled out of the beloved singer-songwriter's will.Turns out that
MacNeil, who ran a tea room in her Cape Breton hometown until her death, wanted
to leave her two grown children with a simple set of burial instructions — and
one last chuckle."Upon my death, I would want to be cremated immediately,
my ashes to be placed in my tea room teapot. Two, if necessary," the
light-hearted letter began.On Monday, relatives, friends and fans packed a
small Roman Catholic church overlooking Cape Breton's Bras d'Or Lakes where —
as per her wishes — MacNeil's cremated remains sat in a white teapot alongside
one of her many hats and a portrait of her.MacNeil's daughter Laura Lewis told
those gathered at St. Mary's church in Big Pond that she was overwhelmed by the
sympathies that have been extended to her family after her mother's
death."What a legacy our mother has left for us. She was a very special
mom. We loved her deeply and we will miss her deeply," she said during a
half hour service that featured prayers and MacNeil's music."My mom loved
to laugh and she had a wonderful sense of humour. She showed us that humour and
laughter is a wonderful coping mechanism in hard times."MacNeil's letter
to her children, which Lewis read during the service, went on to request a
party at the firehall next door to the church immediately following her
funeral."Cash bar and music, so party on down," Lewis read, prompting
laughter from the people who had begun filling the church's pews and upper
balcony hours before the funeral got underway.Though MacNeil's dulcet tones
garnered success abroad, she never strayed too far from Cape Breton.Her
presence on the island was felt in a variety of ways, ranging from her music to
her popular tea room, which she opened in Big Pond in 1986. Langham said his
mother wanted the business to continue operating after her death.Rev. Joe
Gillis said MacNeil touched the hearts of all who listened to her
music."She was indeed the salt of the earth and she was the light of the
world as well," Gillis said."She travelled the world bringing the
light of her giftedness to people everywhere and stirring up feelings of hope
in people who needed to be uplifted."Premier Darrell Dexter, who was among
those who attended the service, said he wanted to pay his respects to a great
Nova Scotian who graced the world with her gift of music."Rita MacNeil is
an iconic individual," Dexter said. "It's an opportunity to reflect
on the tremendous gifts that Rita gave to the island and to the province and to
the world."MacNeil worked for decades to become a beloved fixture in
Canadian culture, with her greatest success coming after she was in her 40s.Her
powerful voice explored genres from country to folk to gospel as she became one
of Cape Breton's most acclaimed performers.Langham, who had previously acted as
his mother's manager, said MacNeil's charms were hard to deny, regardless of
musical tastes."Rita touched people," he said. "Whether you were
a fan of her music or not, she really was remarkable."MacNeil won her
first Juno Award in 1987 as Canada's most promising female vocalist and went on
to win the Juno for vocalist of the year in 1990 and country female vocalist of
the year in 1991.She died last Tuesday following complications from surgery
after a recurring infection.Note to readers: This is a corrected story. A
previous version had an incorrect surname for Rita MacNeil's daughter. - See
more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/rita-macneil-s-family-gets-chuckle-at-singer-s-last-wish-to-rest-in-a-teapot-1.116420#sthash.4jSC9vIb.dpuf
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Rita
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Rita
MacNeil dies at 68 after surgery; son says she had been planning summer
concerts
Flags
are flying at half-mast across Cape Breton today as people pay tribute to
singer Rita MacNeil. Her son and manager, Wade Langham, says no funeral or
memorial services have been arranged yet.
Rita
MacNeil, seen here in 2004, died Tuesday night from complications following
surgery. She was 68.
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SKARSTEDT / CP
Rita
MacNeil, seen here in 2004, died Tuesday night from complications following
surgery. She was 68.
By: Nick Patch The Canadian Press, Published on Wed Apr 17 2013
Flags
are flying at half-mast across Cape Breton today as people pay tribute to
singer Rita MacNeil.
MacNeil,
known as Cape Breton's first lady of song, died last night from complications
of surgery — she was 68.
Her
website says she died Tuesday night from complications following surgery.
MacNeil,
who was born in Big Pond, N.S., recorded 24 albums during her career, the last
released four months ago.
Some
of her most popular songs include, “Working Man,” “Flying on Your Own,” “Reason
to Believe,” “I’ll Accept The Rose Tonight” and “Home I’ll Be.”
Photos
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Rita
MacNeil speaks after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the East Coast
Music Awards Feb. 20, 2005 in Sydney N.S. MacNeil, a singer-songwriter from
small-town Canada whose powerful voice explored genres from country, to folk,
to gospel, died Tuesday night following complications from surgery. She was
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PHOTOS:
The life of Rita MacNeil
MacNeil’s
popular Tea Room in Big Pond was featuring a summer concert and dinner series
featuring the singer, with some of the events already sold out.
“That
was Rita. There wasn’t a year when she didn't have plans to sing because she lived
to sing,” said a person close to the family.
A
recurring infection, the reason she was in hospital for surgery, had forced her
to cancel past performances, “but she would come back. She had such drive and
strength of character.”
Her
son and manager, Wade Langham, told the Star no funeral or memorial services
have been arranged yet but would be by Thursday or Friday.
Langham,
who had been arranging her summer concert series, said his mother had every
intention of performing at her Tea Room when it opened for the season in June.
Her
death was a shock, a subdued Langham said.
Her
music often spoke of the courage to rise above life’s challenges, particularly
those faced by the working class.
“I
am deeply saddened by the loss of a dear sweet woman and a gifted
singer-songwriter who represented women and her beloved Nova Scotia so
eloquently in her songs,” singer Anne Murray said in a statement.
Country
music legend Tommy Hunter said his “one vivid memory” of MacNeil was when she
was a guest on his show.
“Coming
from a coal mining area, she had a soft spot in her heart for those miners.
When she sang 'Working Man,' there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Rita could
convey that kind of warmth and sincerity through her songs to the people in the
studio audience and to the viewers at home. It was evident that she touched
them all from the many letters and comments we received after that show. I have
lost a good friend.”
Cecil
Clarke, mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality, says MacNeil was a
humble and soft-spoken woman whose rise to stardom played a key role in
expanding the influence of Cape Breton music.
“Condolences
to her family, heaven will sound even more joyful now,” wrote Diane B. Lebrun.
MacNeil’s
big breakthrough came relatively late in life. When she was in her 40s, she won
acclaim for her performance on stage at Expo ’86 in Vancouver.
“I
hit the ground running and I never stopped,” she said in an interview with The
Canadian Press in 2004. “I don’t think I ever want to look at retirement,
because if the songwriting is still there in some capacity, please God, if
everything goes well, I’d still love to be doing that.”
Despite
the international success that followed, MacNeil suffered from painful shyness
when preparing to face a live audience.
“When
I’m out onstage I’m not alone, so it’s still intimidating. You know, as corny
as that sounds, on the eve of my 60th birthday it hasn’t changed and I don’t
suspect it ever will.”
MacNeil
won the first of three Junos in 1987 at the age of 42 as most promising female
vocalist.
She
also won numerous East Coast Music Awards, Country Music Awards, and a Gemini
for her CBC variety show Rita &
Friends that ran from 1994 to 1997.
MacNeil
was a Member of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Order of Nova Scotia.
Her
autobiography, On a Personal Note , was published in 1998 and disclosed her
years of sexual abuse by an uncle.
Aside
from her famously melancholy ballads about Cape Breton coal miners, MacNeil’s
musical repertoire included an eclectic blend of folk, country, blues, roots,
Celtic and rock.
She
was also known for her cross-country tours with The Men of the Deeps and
homespun Christmas TV specials. Some of the reaction to her death on Twitter
focused on the latter.
“Not
going to be the same Christmas Eve,” wrote Mitchell Lefebvre.
“RIP
Rita,” tweeted Mindy Leigh. “You are always a part of my Christmas.”
Despite
her image, MacNeil also took some chances along the way, at one point appearing
on TV’s raunchy Trailer Park Boys . She played herself as the trash-talking
boys tried to kidnap her while on tour.
One
of eight children, her chaotic early years in Cape Breton included the trauma
of surgery to overcome a cleft palate, a love affair that left her with a
child, a marriage breakdown and a frustrating period trying to develop a music
career.
She
relocated to Toronto at age 17 in 1962. Once there, she endured a succession of
low-paying jobs, including a retail gig at Eaton’s and a stint as a cleaning
woman.
Meanwhile,
she turned heads with appearances at Toronto’s famed Riverboat folk club and
performances at the Mariposa folk festival, but wasn’t earning enough to pay
the rent.
While
struggling to make ends meet, she found comfort in the fledgling women’s
movement. She began attending meetings in Toronto in the early ’70s that she
found out, years later, were being
monitored by the RCMP .
“All
I was doing back then was writing songs, raising two children and singing at
festivals, colleges, and the occasional rally in support of women’s rights,”
MacNeil told the Star’s Greg Quill.
“I
don’t know what (the Mounties) were up to or why they decided to keep a file on
me. It could have been fear . . . in those days they weren’t used to women
talking about equality, subsidized daycare and empowerment.”
“If
you wanted to see a bunch of women sitting around talking about issues and
going on demonstrations that are peaceful and non-violent, then so be it, but I
don’t think there was a reason to do that,” MacNeil said in 2008.
“What’s
radical about equal pay for equal work? And trying to empower women to reach
the potential that they have?”
MacNeil
has said these meetings gave her strength and pushed forth her songwriting. By
1975, she was ready to independently release her first album, Born a Woman
.
“All
of those songs would have been sung at rallies, demonstrations or meetings that
we attended,” MacNeil said.
She
had two children during that time as well, Laura and Wade, though she would
eventually divorce their father.
She
returned to Big Pond, N.S., in 1976 and continued writing. In 1981, she
issued Part of the Mystery , a record financed by family and friends.
Big Pond Publishing and Productions Ltd., was operated on a minuscule budget
and was forced to conduct sales on a consignment basis.
Still,
MacNeil was building a fan base through her consistently first-rate
performances and slowly growing discography. She issued another album, I’m Not What I Seem , in 1983.
Her
breakthrough came with 1987’s Flying on
Your Own . The album, with a cover
featuring MacNeil under one of her trademark floppy hats, finally won her some
radio play, largely on easy-listening stations in smaller Canadian cities. It
was soon certified platinum.
She
didn’t wait long to issue a followup, releasing
Reason to Believe the following
year. Some reviewers thought the record represented a compromise in MacNeil’s
sound, with a move toward a more rock-oriented style. MacNeil disputed that and
pointing out she always loved rock.
Audiences
seemed to embrace MacNeil’s new sound and the record quickly reached platinum
status in Canada.
She
issued a popular Christmas album later that year and began recording hit
records at a torrid pace, with a new release coming near-annually for the next
decade.
The
announcement of her death on her website included this passage:
“A
mother to Laura (Dana) and Wade (Lori), a grandmother, a dear friend, and a
sister, Rita was a Canadian icon — a woman who had a dream that became a
reality — who brought joy and inspiration to so many.
‘And
you never let the hard times
Take
away your soul
And
you stopped the tears from falling
As
you watched the young ones go
You’re
as peaceful as a clear day
You’re
as rugged as the seas
I
caress you, oh, Cape Breton, in my dreams.’ ”
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AUSTRALIA AND UK OF OUR RITA MACNEIL
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Rita
Mcneil a Life of Song – Editorial
April
17, 2013 Older Stories 1 Comment
Rita
At
age 42 in 1987, Rita Mcneil seemed to receive the recognition of the music
industry for the first time when she won the “most promising female vocalist.”
Rita Mcneil died on Wednesday evening from complications following surgery and
many in the music business are now sharing memories of the prolific songwriter.
My
earliest memory of the beautiful voice came around the time she won her first Juno.
Her songs were about the place she called home and were filled with life
experiences. Her life was not an easy one as she left home at 17 to work for
years at minimum wage jobs before starting a promising career in music.
She
sang from the heart about the work and the life of her beloved Cape Breton. Her
song working man is still sung by the Men of the Deeps at the coal mining
museum. This song is moving and was a treat for me and my family when we
visited and took in a show.
Rita
had so many albums with million of sales and had become so well known
throughout not just Canada but the world. To say she influenced many musicians
would be such an understatement. She
indeed could claim many up and coming musicians as friends. She also worked
with the largest names in the business during her career.
In
1994 she also hosted a television show called Rita and Friends. On the weekly
show many big names in the music industry sang with Rita and audiences numbered
more than a million which for a show in Canada was huge. In her career she won
three Junos, was a member of the Order of Canada and held multiple honorary
degrees from prestigious universities.
Cape
Breton’s First Lady of Song as she was known was also a business owner
establishing Rita’s Tea Room in her home town of Big Pond and could from time
to time be found there through the years.
The
news of her death was posted on her page and it read, “It is with great sadness
that we announce the passing of Cape Breton’s first lady of song, Rita MacNeil.
Rita died last evening (April 16th) from complications following surgery, at
the age of 68.
A
gentle soul with a heart of gold and the voice of an angel, Rita’s music spoke
of her love of home and family, the courage to rise above life’s challenges and
the hardworking men and women that tie this country together. “Working Man”,
“Flying on Your Own”, Reason to Believe”, “I’ll Accept The Rose Tonight” and
“Home I’ll Be”, are just a few of the songs that endeared Rita to fans in
Canada, the U.K and Australia.
Born
in Big Pond, Cape Breton on May 28th, 1944 to Neil and Catherine (Rene)
MacNeil, Rita was one of eight children.It wasn’t an easy life, as depicted in
her autobiography “On A Personal Note”(released in 1998), but with determination
and a passion for writing songs and singing, Rita pushed beyond a profound
shyness and found her way to a stage at Expo 86 in Vancouver. It was here that
the world discovered Rita MacNeil.
In
1987 she won her first Juno Award for Most Promising Female Vocalist. She was
42. “Flying on Your Own” followed in 1987 and in 1989, her Juno performance
with Cape Breton’s Men of the Deeps of “Working Man”, brought the house down.
Over
the course of her career, Rita recorded more than 24 albums which sold in the
millions. She won 3 Juno’s, as well as numerous East Coast Music Awards,
Country Music Awards, and a Gemini for her CBC variety show ‘Rita &
Friends’ that ran from 1994 to 1997. She was a Member of the Order of Canada,
was awarded the Order of Nova Scotia and is the recipient of five honorary
doctorates. In 1986 she opened up Rita’s Tea Room in her hometown of Big Pond,
which in the past few years enjoyed frequent visits from Rita herself.
Rita’s
quick wit and sly sense of humour was a hallmark of her live shows and was in
evidence when she was featured in an episode of the Trailer Park Boys.
A
mother to Laura (Dana) and Wade (Lori), a grandmother, a dear friend, and a
sister, Rita was a Canadian icon – a woman who had a dream that became a reality
– who brought joy and inspiration to so many.
And
you never let the hard times
Take
away your soul
And
you stopped the tears from falling
As
you watched the young ones go
You’re
as peaceful as a clear day
You’re
as rugged as the seas
I
caress you, oh, Cape Breton, in my dreams
Home
I’ll Be – Rita MacNeil
“Music
is timeless and ageless,” noted the legendary singer, “the passion I feel for
what I do can’t be put aside with a number and a year. It is a big part of my
life – the concerts, the touring, the letters and the joy the audience gives
back to me when the music touches a chord with them.” Rita MacNeil“
I
know I am sad to hear of her passing as she was so influential to me and I have
listened to her music since the early days. My children have also grown up on
her music and have been influenced by her as well. We all will be listening
with a tear to her music as we mourn her loss. Another great person left this
earth with a song left behind to sooth the loss. Her music will live on in
those who will continue to be inspired to make great music. Rest in Peace
One
Response to Rita Mcneil a Life of Song – Editorial
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GET
THE POINT- IT'S LIKE CHER SAYS 2
question r u a feminist still??
Cher
on the art of the comeback
A
conversation with Cher on working with Lady Gaga and singing for Jackie O
by
Elio Iannacci on Sunday, September 8, 2013 8:00pm
Q:
So many young performers like Taylor Swift don’t want to identify as feminists.
Why is that?
A:
What is the bad connotation with feminism? When women have full control of
their bodies, when women get paid exactly the same as men, when everything that
happens for men happens for women, I can stop calling myself a feminist.
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One
Billion Rising Halifax 2013- ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY- We got ur backs girls....
women.... ladies...gals.... we got ur backs
This
event at Saint Mary's University was organized in part, to bring awareness to
this years production of the acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues. One Billion
Rising is also a celebration of progress in the work to end domestic violence.
We
rise too, as a reminder that the discussion and activism need to continue.
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billion rising- one billion rising
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becoming popular.,.. good..... or hang their junk on the jailyard wall.... thx
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ur privilege 2 vote - pls honour us
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WWI
To
Our Soldier Boys
To
you, O Men of the Singing Souls,
A
sacred pledge, we give in fee,
The
proud, high name of our mother Queen's,
To
bear as yours, beyond the sea.
Because
you are noble and strong and good,
We
give to your keeping, our crest of gold,
That
an age-old bond of our motherhood
May
bind us all in her sacred fold.
And
the sun sinks low, and the twilight falls
On
your long trench lines and our campus grey,
And
over the world the Queen's voice calls,
To
those who are absent, at closing day.
And
then in the halls of our Mother's home,
We
shall keep the fires and tapers aglow
Till
the trumpets burst with a triumph blast
For
the new fledged heroes of long ago.
To
each has been given his separate vial
The
draught of life, or the draught of love.
Thine
is the sweeter and in the while
May
ours to the taste, not tasteless prove.
Charlotte
Whitton
Queen's
Arts, M.A., 1917
Canada:
A Nation Evolves
World
War I was very influential in the shaping of Canada as a nation. Canada earned
recognition, respect and admiration from the rest of the world through their
successful and dedicated participation in WWI. Canadians successfully
participated in a war that introduced the horrors of modern warfare to the
world. Technology developed at a rapid pace during WWI because of the
increasing demands of modern warfare.
Although
many Canadian lives were lost during the war, Canada grew stronger as a nation,
and moved closer to becoming an independent nation. A distinctive and lasting
Canadian identity was forged on the battlefields of Europe during WWI. Canadian
women also made tremendous strides during the war, some voting for the first
time, several serving as nurses and volunteers at the front, and many others
becoming well established in the Canadian labor force.
World
War I brought many issues of racism to the forefront in Canada. The unjust
internment of many "enemy aliens" or immigrants from
"enemy" countries in Canada during WWI will be remembered as one of
the most embarrassing aspects of Canadian history. The immigrant population of
Canada today, including those who came from war torn Europe after 1918, has
become a major part of the Canadian identity.
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- WWI- we went up as Albertans and Nova Scotians- Came down as Canadians
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2 Nursing Sisters of Mercy WWI Canada
WWI
ONLY IN CANADA- Canada Geese and 2 goslings strolls Big Rock
sculptue- Rice Howard Way down river valley- adorable
UNITED NATIONS - SECURITY COUNCIL- cartoon says it all -we live in year 2013- and yet the western
world is NOT free 4 progress- we must dump United Nations un_cartoon2
LEAGUE OF NATIONS- confronting the New Order UNITED NATIONS- confronting the newage muslim order- these
muslim kkk butchers r everywhere ARTsyskH
BANKS AND CORPORATE CHEATS NEVER GET CHARGED OR PAY BACK THE
$$$ TRILLIONS- so the everyday people have their pennies and lives stolen by UN
1979-inflation-crosses-of-gold
LEAGUE OF NATIONS- Contriubted to this- disbanded 1945 UNITED NATIONS- formed on the ashes of the
Jewish Holocaust 2 become the saviours of the world’s poor, women and children-
is now contributing to a billion muslim women and children slaughtered by
Muslim new age nazis th
UNITED NATIONS- Arms
Trade $$$$$ versus - Poverty- guess who's won G8polyp
The new head of United Nations- The Persian Gulf political_cartoon_(war0
When League of Nations mattered- disgraced THEN United Nations mattered- now disgrace-
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Grant our Vets waitin on us Eternal Rest O Lord- and let us
Remember Each of them
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ONE BILLION RISING- NO MORE EXCUSES- AS MINISTER PETER MACKAY SAY..IT'S WHY OUR
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ONE BILLION RISING
A History of International Women's Day
in words and images
The Nineteen
Fifties and Sixties
The immediate response to the end of the war was one of delirious joy
and relief. People poured into the streets when peace was announced to sing,
dance, cry and to kiss and hug absolute strangers. Peace brought an end to
agonising tensions, to shortages, to the separations, and the long hours of
work. The urgency of returning to "normality" gripped many like a
fever. There was a boom in babies and marriages.
For most women the blessings in the years that followed were mixed
indeed. The trend to shift many more women in paid work into the textile and
clothing industries started before the war ended, and this continued. Women
who had been metalworkers and ironworkers in aircraft and munitions factories
found that their man's jobs and man's pays disappeared. "Rosie the
Riveters" went back to waiting on tables at not quite pre-war levels of
pay. "Equal pay" was reduced to 75% of the male rate.
Many of the comprehensive full-day nurseries and other child care
centres which had appeared during the war disappeared along with federal
government funding for such projects. Some women found themselves widowed on
inadequate pensions or the companions of severely war-shocked men, with little
community understanding of or support for their problems.
The full import of the mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki
began to dawn and many women gave birth to the first atomic generation. These
children, faced with the fragility of life, on a massive scale, produced a
revolt against traditional values. This bewildered parents and placed extra
pressures on women, as Experts debated the extent to which working mothers
might be blamed for social problems.
As the suburban dream grew out of the post-war housing shortages and a
rapidly expanding consumerism, too many women found themselves prisoners of
their new homes and captives to the growth industry of valium and drug
therapy for suburban neurosis.
Peace also brought the Cold War as new spheres of interest were struck
in Eastern Europe, China and the Pacific region. The technologies triggered
by war accelerated both growth and contradictions - development and
underdevelopment, privilege and underprivilege, treks to the stars, space
adventure and the potential for total annihilation. From time to time the
Cold War flared into open conflict in Korea, Hungary, the Suez Canal and,
later, Viet Nam and other areas.
During the 1950s, politics of all kinds were played out against the
background of extreme bigotry and a dwindling democratic practice. Attempts
were made not only to ban the Communist Party, but to give the government
powers to declare who was or was not a communist, with the onus of proof on
the accused. It was a time which has been described by radicals and
conservatives alike as one of hysterical witch-hunting during which
anti-communism was used to smother political dissent or to blacken opponents,
whatever their real persuasion.
One off-shoot of this was that left and radical groups, including IWD,
were refused the use of many public halls. These, and other more
long-standing personal and political tensions, also disrupted the
co-operation established between women's groups during the war.
While much of the war-time co-operation
had been the result of a strong national sentiment in support of the war, it,
too, contained subterranean tensions which sometimes flared into open
dispute. In one instance, in a Sydney factory where women from more
privileged backgrounds had gone to work to aid the war effort, they came into
conflict with working class women when they refused to join the union, or
concern themselves with industrial disputes over equal pay. 4
Nevertheless, it had been possible in 1944 to bring together 200 women
from 90 organisations throughout Australia (despite travel restrictions),
including representatives from traditional women's organisations, feminists,
and unions. This conference agreed on an Australian Women's Charter which
called for equality in opportunity, work and pay, better health services,
child care, pensions and welfare, and supported the need for better
Aboriginal welfare through federal government controls, and land rights for
tribal Aborigines.
The conference was initiated by Jessie Street and resulted in
increased tensions between her and another influential feminist, West
Australian Bessie Rischbieth. Rischbieth, who had been overseas during the
war, saw the Charter Movement as a direct rival to the Australian Federation
of Women Voters which she had founded in 1921.
Street's membership of the ALP and
involvement in other radical politics during war became a vehicle for
sectarian disputation between these two important feminists, resulting in a
weakening of the feminist movement as a whole, particularly of the Charter
movement and the United Associations of Women in Sydney, and Rischbieth's own
organisations, the Women's Services Guild and the Australian Federation of
Women Voters in Perth. 5
The participation of communist women in the Charter movement had also
become contentious, fanned by the Cold War and communist support for strikes,
particularly the 1949 coal strike.
IWD was affected by all this, and from 1945 until 1950, was mainly
marked by small meetings, luncheons or concerts organised by socialist or
communist women.
The formation of the Union of Australian Women in 1950, with the aims
of working for world peace and to safeguard the rights of women and children,
provided a new organisational focus for IWD. In co-operation with the United
Associations of Women in Sydney, and feminists such as Irene Greenwood in
Perth, IWD was then able to make a small but positive contribution to the
airing of issues such as equal pay, child care, peace, and some of the
problems facing Aboriginal women. Often, IWD activities adopted varied and
innovative forms in efforts to make up for lack of public interest or open
hostility.
Vera Deacon was Sydney's IWD joint secretary in 1950. In that year, a
group of women and men addressed 800 people in the Assembly Hall on peace,
democratic liberties and living standards. Vera spoke recently about those
years:
In 1951, '53 and '54, the main Sydney IWD activities were meetings and
concerts held in the Conservatorium or Teachers hall. Speakers included Lucie
Woodcock (first woman vice-president of the Teachers Federation and
campaigner for married women's employment rights and equal pay); Della
Nicholas (Elliot) (assistant secretary of the NSW Clerks Union for five years
and secretary of the Trade Union Equal Pay Committee); Ada Bromham (Women's
Christian Temperance Union); Viv Newson (the United Associations of Women);
and artists Jean Blue, Elwyn Cunningham, Tanya Butler and Dot Mendoza. More
men from the peace and union movement also began to appear as speakers. An
additional feature was hospital visits where gifts were presented to the
first baby born on IWD, or the oldest woman.
In Perth, in 1952, Katherine Susannah Prichard prepared a portrait of
internationally famous women for an IWD function organised by the Modern
Women's Club.
Copy of Katherine S. Prichard's
original draft for Perth's IWD, 1952.
In Brisbane, the Union of Australian Women, who were the main
organisers, frequently involved other women's groups, particularly the
Women's Christian Temperance Union. In 1954, Eva Bacon, a Union of Australian
Women leader, became the IWD secretary and remained so until the seventies.
IWD has always been very dear to my
heart, Eva said recently, I acted as
organising secretary of a broad committee for more than 20 years.
We saw IWD as a campaign, needing
work almost all the year round with March 8 as the highlight, rather than a
one-day function.
The Brisbane IWD committee also adopted specific themes for their
activities which sometimes linked in to other public activities such as Under
Fives Week when they concentrated on the needs of children. They organised
luncheons and concerts which also fairly consistently involved Aboriginal
women, or raised their demands and problems.
Perth activities in 1957 drew 400 people to a meeting in Trinity
Church Hall to listen to Irene Greenwod, sportswoman Shirley Strickland,
writer Donald Stuart, Cecilia Shelley (Hotel, Club and Restaurant Union), and
John Bottomley (Education Department). The continuing public success of IWD
activity in this city was undoubtedly due in large measure to the involvement
of Irene Greenwood and Katherine Susannah Prichard.
At a luncheon in Adelaide in 1957, the main speaker was Phyllis Duguid
on Aboriginal welfare. Other issues included equal pay and opposition to the
atomic tests being held in Australia by the British government.
Brisbane women took advantage of 1957 being the 50th anniversary of
women exercising their right to vote in that state. This had been legislated
for in January 1905, with the first election being in 1907. The basement of
the Town Hall was packed for a display of photos, documents, posters and
crafts. At a meeting and dramatic depiction of a march of women towards
complete emancipation, speakers Jessie Street, three women who had voted in
May 1907, an Aboriginal woman, and others addressed 300 people. The theme of
the day was unity for equality, world peace and the happiness of children.
In Sydney in 1957 attempts were made to decentralise activity to reach
a wider audience. Sixteen factory meetings were held and addressed by 14
different women speakers, mainly Union of Australian Women and Waterside
Workers Federation Women's Committee members.
An IWD meeting was also held and Jessie Street and union leader Tom
Wright spoke about equal pay to 250 people. Guests of honour included Labor
Party founding member Henrietta Greville, Marian Dreyer, an Aboriginal singer
Nancy Ellis, Elsie Rivett and Mrs Griffiths of the Women Justices.
In 1958 Brisbane's IWD activities also attracted 3-400 people to see a
dramatised Cavalcade of Women and hear guest speakers author Dymphna Cusack
and Dame Sybil Thorndyke who recalled her part in the suffragette movement.
She also spoke about world peace and the capacity that socialism and women
have to constructively influence world history. The meeting received a
message from Eleanor Roosevelt and others.
Eva Bacon reports that a post mortem discussion following the Brisbane
activities considered that "we could not be satisfied that permanent
growth of the militant women's movement or political understanding of the
woman's question had been achieved" These remarks revealed the
difficulties even radical women were having in breaking through the barriers
holding them back. These problems were to remain for almost another decade.
In 1958, Sydney IWD held an international handcrafts and jewellery
exhibition in Anthony Horderns store which was opened by Lucie Woodcock and
televised. At an IWD meeting, Lucie Barnes, activist in the Australian
Women's Charter and the Civilian Widows, spoke on the history of IWD and
quoted from a poem published in the United Associations of Women newsheet of
August 1957.
These verses seem to sum up the stoical determination of many of the
women who continued to organise politically during these years:
In Melbourne Mrs. Monk (whose husband was a Labor Party union leader)
chaired a parade of Asian women in costume and luncheons were held in
Newcastle, Adelaide and Wollongong where Mrs. H.V. Evatt was the speaker.
IWD Card distributed by Women's International Democratic Federation in
1959
Activities in 1959 continued in the same vein, spreading once more to
Townsville and Rockhampton in the north of Queensland. In Townsville Jean
Devanny spoke about the history of IWD at a cavalcade of women through the
ages and other speakers discussed the Colombo peace conference and children's
libraries. In Rockhampton the Trades and Labor Council issued an IWD
leaflet in the meatworks and cannery where many women worked.
In the 1960s, a major addition to IWD activities was the participation
of a number of international delegations.
In 1960, Madam Chao Feng from the National Women's Federation of China
and Madame Roesijati R. Sukardi, a journalist from the Indonesian Women's
Organisation, attended meetings from Sydney to Perth. Eva Bacon from
Queensland acted as the co-ordinator of the tour.
This visit was probably the biggest job handled by Brisbane.' she told
me. "In coordinating the national tour the main difficulties were the
facts that China was then not recognised by Australia and that not all states
had functioning IWD committees at that time."
A campaign was necessary to secure visas from the Australian
government for the Chinese delegation and, finally, both delegations were
delayed to the point where the Brisbane, Townsville, Rockhampton and Cairns
meetings had to take place without them.
The overseas guests also missed the Sydney IWD meeting. However, Lucie
Woodcock had prepared a brief history of NSW women, starting with Aboriginal
and convict women, for the IWD meeting and it was read by actress Nellie
Lamport. Noreen Hewett from the Union of Australian Women spoke and Henrietta
Greville Handed on the torch of women's progress" to a younger woman.
Similar symbolic ceremonies took place in other centres.
In Adelaide, 6-700 people attended a Town Hall meeting and concert and
were fortunate enough to hear the overseas visitors.
Melbourne IWD secretary Nell Johns recalls some of the behind
the-scenes organisation for such visits:
Nell also talked about how Melbourne IWD became solvent after many
years of never having any money left over and when individual donations from
women and some unions kept the committee going.
In recalling some of the preceding years, Nell remarked, "Today
younger women have taken IWD to heart and I feel proud that I participated in
those terrible dreary years of struggling to get a celebration off the ground
to find that only 20 or 30 stalwarts would turn up."
In 1962, three Soviet women, Mrs. Parfenova, editor of the Teachers
Gazette, A. Lednikova, a judge, and N. Kulebyakina from the Red Cross,
visited for IWD. Aileen Beaver, Sydney IWD secretary, toured with the
visitors who were also 14 days late because of Australian government delays
in granting visas. For this tour and that of Henrietta Katz in 1964, Aileen
Beaver (Building Workers Union Women's Committee) and Ina Heidtmann (Sydney
Waterside Workers Union Women's Committee) shared the secretarial-organising
work on a state and national level.
In Sydney, the public rally for the Soviet visitors was preceded by a
peace walk through the streets and this walk became an annual IWD event in
Sydney and Melbourne. In Melbourne, the IWD Committee was warned that if the
Soviet visitors participated in the peace march they would have their visas
withdrawn, and they had to walk on the other side of the road. In Brisbane,
women went annually to the Shrine of Remembrance to place a wreath with the
pledge "to do all we can to preserve the peace of the world".
In Brisbane, a highlight of the activity in 1962 was a special evening
for a dramatic presentation of the Ballad of Women written by Dorothy Hewett
and Nancy Wills. Nancy contributed over many years to the dramatic and
artistic presentations of IWD in Brisbane.
In Newcastle, where Trades Hall research officer Merv Copley had
become (the first and only male) IWD secretary, there was a Mayoral IWD
reception and, in Sydney, the Building Workers Industrial Union produced an
IWD card. Trade union women's committees comprised of the wives or friends of
male union members helped to organise IWD in a number of cities.
IWD functions continued up to the mid sixties in Sydney, Brisbane,
North Queensland, Newcastle, Wollongong, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth, many
with peace and prices as the theme. In Sydney, the IWD Committee also
selected a Woman of the Year carrying on a tradition of playing up the
importance of individual women.
In 1964 Henrietta Katz from the Union of French Women visited, when
the special theme was Protect Our Children - Stop French Tests in the Pacific
at meetings in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong,
Rockhampton and Townsville
By 1966 the Viet Nam war also began to feature. In Brisbane,
Aboriginal activist and author, Kath Walker, shared the platform with Bill
Hayden who spoke about the unsuccessful attempts of the ALP opposition to
introduce a Bill restoring the rights of married women to employment in the
Public Service.
In Brisbane, the 1968 IWD gave its proceeds to an Aboriginal Rights
Seminar and, in 1969, a Miss Equality contest provided funds for a Women's
Rights Seminar and an educational grant for an Aboriginal girl.
By 1970, most IWD activities had taken another downward turn and, in
the preceding decade, while many important issues had been taken up, IWD
revealed little awareness of the deep conflicts that had developed in many
women's lives, and were to explode at the end of 1969 with the formation of
the Women's Liberation Movement.
Perhaps this was partly due to the absence of a diverse and autonomous
women's movement with specific women's priorities, as well as concern for the
"common good". Perhaps it was partly due to a generation gap
between the new liberation movements of the sixties and the long-standing
ones who also had weak or no links with the young intellectuals of the day
who were the main voices of these movements. Perhaps it was partly due to the
influence of a socialist movement whose political theory had become fixed and
unable to cast new insights into the political, personal and sexual crises of
the time.
Nonetheless, IWD and the women who organised it had helped to keep
alive a tradition of political involvement, often in hostile circumstances,
and the next decade of feminist development was to change radically political
priorities and agendas.
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