Mind SetGun Registry

Please sit down and read either letter A or B on your desk As others arrive share your answer to the questions with your table when you have finished reading”. (Read-think-Pair-Share)

Letter A Having been a collector and user of the ultimate sporting shotguns

English side by sides and over and unders by Purdey, Boss and Holland & Holland and high-grade American by Parker, Ansley Fox and L.C Smith, and a long-time subscriber to your great newspaper, I was delighted to read your editorial on why the long-gun registry should be ended. You hit the bull's eye!

At 75, I'm still harvesting wild pheasant, woodcock, ruffed grouse, ducks and Canada geese in the beautiful fields and coverts of Nova Scotia. I shoot for my Brittany Spaniels, for the table and the challenge, adhering strictly to the sporting arm and game laws of our country. Given the respect and credibility your editorials enjoy, you should have no trouble in educating your ill-informed detractors.

George M. Cunningham, Halifax

Letter B You argue that the registry didn't prevent registered guns from

being used to kill. Well, sometimes registered dogs bite children. Sometimes registered cars are used by drunk drivers. Should we toss out dog registration? Licence plates on cars? Even registered handguns kill – but you never mention deregistering handguns.

If you don't believe the evidence that owner accountability reduces the misuse of guns, then how about a little common sense? How many more people would park their cars illegally, fail to return a library book or lend their hunting rifle to an unlicensed cousin if there were no way of identifying those responsible?

Heidi Rathjen, Montreal

Letters to the editor These letters are from readers of a

newspaper (Globe) in response to something the paper printed.

Letters to the Editor Need : To Agree or disagree. To Say Why. Facts and personal opinions are used!

Women in WW1Women’s involvement and Suffrage

Information Sharing Information Sharing Talk about: -Women role in the work place -Women at home - Women at war   Suffragists (male and female) Woman's Christian Temperance Union   -Reactions to the suffrage movement from: -males fearing for work/family values -Other women (family values)  

-Women helping promote Conscription (IODE)

- Government -Wartime Elections Act of 1917 - 24 May 1918- vote extended to all women

21 and over federally (including those not able to provincially)

Women IN a Shell Factory

Canadian Nurses and W

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union

Men after Victory at Vim

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Why is this a cartoon

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Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (IODE)

Prime Minister Robert Borden- 100 Dollar Bill

Barbara Wylie Comes to Montreal 1912

Margaret's Clipping: September 28, 1912. Montreal Daily Witness (abridged for space).

Miss Barbara Wylie, the English suffragist, whose visit to Canada has aroused so much interest and speculation as to what it may eventually lead to, arrived at Place Viger Station at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, but looked so unlike one who had twice been in prison and was willing to fight again for 'the cause' that the small group of newspapermen waiting at the gate had a hard time finding her, and actually let her walk past.  Miss Wylie (it turns out) is a tall really beautiful looking woman with every appearance of refinement and intelligence above the ordinary. She spoke intelligently of the suffrage movement, explaining the larger significance of the demand for votes for women and what she called 'the absolutely unjust, cruel and disgraceful conduct and trickery of the Asquith government.  She spoke as a highly intelligent woman burning with the conviction that her cause was right. She also showed plainly a spirit of resolute intention not to give up the fight for minute until the battle had been won.  This was evident from her tone and voice and the way she threw back her head as she spoke of the conflict and the reasons why they should succeed.

She was going to join the Canadian suffragists in asking Mr. Borden and his government to grant the vote for women. "If the government will not grant the demand, will you encourage suffragists on this side to adopt militant tactics? asked a Witness Reporter.

"The Canadian women are quite able to look after their own case," was her evasive reply.

"What about the hurling of the hatchet at Mr. Asquith," asked another reporter. 

"It never touched him and even if he had got a crack in the head, it might not have done him any harm.  It might have pounded a little sense into him," was Wylie's reply.

Asked if there was a deeper meaning to the movement.

"Women will never be respected nor hold the place and influence they should have as long as they are denied the right to vote.  We also want to exert an influence on legislation such as public health and social questions, which we think are more important than commerce and the things that men think most important."