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  Charlotte Whitton
Charlotte Whitton was born on March 8, 1896.
Born in family of rather modest means, Whitton grew to become the first female mayor of the City of Ottawa, a tireless defender of the less fortunate and a relentless crusader for professional standards of juvenile immigrants and neglected children.
Charlotte Whitton died on January 25, 1975 and was laid to rest in the Thompson Hill Cemetery in Renfrew.
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 Charlotte Whitton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charlotte Whitton, OC (March 8, 1896-January 25, 1975) was a noted Canadian feminist and mayor of Ottawa.
Whitton attended Queen's University where she was the star of the women's hockey team and was known as the fastest skater in the league.
Whitton dismissed Pearson's design as a ‘white badge of surrender, waving three dying maple leaves’ which might as well be ‘three white feathers on a red background,’ a symbol of cowardice.
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 Whitton, Charlotte
Whitton founded the Canadian Welfare Council and was mayor of Ottawa when this picture was taken in 1951 (courtesy Library and Archives Canada/PA-121981).
Whitton, Charlotte, social worker, politician, feminist (b at Renfrew, Ont 8 Mar 1896; d at Ottawa 25 Jan 1975).
Whitton was one of this century's most colourful and controversial women.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?ArticleId=A0008570&PgNm=TCE   (317 words)

  
 1998/marshall
Whitton herself argued that the Child Welfare Committee could not treat the American continent as a single unit by insisting on the fact that Canada, being British Dominion, was different from the American republic and the "largely Latin" South America.
Charlotte Whitton strongly opposed Austen Chamberlain’s mocking of the activities of the Child Welfare Committee in the report of its activities he made to the Council, in 1926.
Charlotte Whitton resigned from her position at the CCCW in the middle of the war to embark on work of a more political nature and the administration of the CCCW was reshuffled.
www.psa.ac.uk /publications/psd/1998/marshall.htm   (7347 words)

  
 CBC Ottawa | Ottawa 150
Charlotte Whitton put Ottawa in the history books when she became the first woman mayor of a Canadian city.
Whitton’s first election to city council in 1951 was largely thanks to her amazing ability to harness the women’s vote or ‘the Petticoat Brigade’, as the local media dubbed it.
Whitton served the city over five terms as mayor, from 1951-1956 and from 1961-1964.
www.cbc.ca /ottawa/features/ottawa150/1951.html   (356 words)

  
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Whitton inventively portrayed family allowances as a policy that would encourage idleness and undermine the male-breadwinner ideal.
Indeed, given the domination of the Canadian state by men, and their limited willingness to listen to women’s point of views, it is clear that Whitton got an audience not because of the lucidity and novelty of her arguments, but because she was, however unintentionally, a hack representing ruling-class views.
For Christie, Whitton’s arguments this time were drowned out by arguments from other social workers, such as Leonard Marsh and Harry Cassidy, who launched paternalist arguments in favour of family allowances that negated her equally paternalist defence of the status quo.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/49/10finkel.html   (6079 words)

  
 Kirsten Emmott on ''men and women''
Once, when the Lord Mayor of London was traveling across Canada, Whlitton hosted a formal civic banquet which the Lord Mayor attended in all his finery: buckled shoes, silk stockings, his robe and beloved chain of office.
Whitton wore her mayoral robes, adorned with a corsage.
""Sir, if I pull you chain, will you flush?" Whitton retorted." --from Babad and Mulroney: "Campeau, the Rise and Fall" I was living in Ottawa at the time, and I once one a costume contest at the skating rink by dressing up as Charlotte Whitton.
www.holysmoke.org /fem/fem0219.htm   (294 words)

  
 Charlotte's Birthday by frank cosentino (Book) in Entertainment
This play is a retrospective look to 1952 when Charlotte Whitton of Renfrew was first elected Mayor of Ottawa.
Charlotte (Lottie) was the team's mascot and for her 14th birthday, she was guest of honour on the bench and the game against Ottawa was dedicated to her.
In the play, Charlotte states that evrything she learned about competing in a man's world she learned during that hockey season of 1910.
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 Charlotte WHITTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Luckily, this is not difficult." Charlotte Whitton - as secretary of the Canadian Welfare Council (now the Canadian Council on Social Development), she developed extensive contacts in agencies all over the country, and staff of these agencies were often recommended by her for their posts.
She also initiated the social survey as a method of modernizing and professionalising the provision of charity, a task she saw as her mission.
Charlotte Whitton was the first female mayor of a Canadian city.
www.bytown.net /whitton.htm   (152 words)

  
 | Reviews / Comptes Rendus | Labour/Le Travail, 54 | The History Cooperative
Moreover, Whitton did not see the rise of scientific truths in opposition to the sacred, but as a way to approach the wonders of nature.
      The traditions of social thought in which Carl Dawson and Charlotte Whitton placed themselves have been less studied than Livesay's and Urwick's, mainly because their principles, such as Whitton's belief in the virtues of community solidarity, are less thoroughly discussed in their own writings.
But, as Moffat suggests, Whitton's objections to the detrimental impact of bureaucratic states on individual autonomy and resourcefulness referred to ideas of "rights and responsibilities" of citizens and of "stewardship" of professionals.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/54/br_15.html   (801 words)

  
 Place de Ville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The scheme faced several barriers, the most important of which was that for many years buildings in downtown Ottawa faced a 150 foot height restriction so the Peace Tower would dominate the skyline.
Despite strong opposition from Ottawa mayor Charlotte Whitton, the rule was changed to allow the only somewhat taller Towers A and B to be constructed.
That same year Campeau began lobbying to build the much taller Tower C. Originally hoping to build a 475 foot tower (which would have made it about 42 storeys) the city allowed it to only be 342 feet (29 storeys), but it still was, and remains, the tallest building in the city.
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 Northwest Passages - Canadian Literature Online bookstore! We ship worldwide.
As the first female Mayor of a major Canadian city, Charlotte Whitton took her place in history books when she rose to office as Mayor of Ottawa in 1950.
From the time the two met at Queen's University, Charlotte Whitton and Margaret Grier's special relationship was born and chronicled over the years through letters to each other.
Donated to the National Archives of Canada by Whitton, with the stipulation that they not be opened until 1999, her letters and personal journal have been woven into an emotional portrait of a unique woman - crusader, politician and loving partner.
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 Hoist Away - Excerpts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Chocolate bars were 6 cents, haircuts were raised to $1, there was concern about air raids and people were talking about bomb shelters.
Louis Armstrong was appearing at the Standish Hall hotel in Hull, butter was 70 cents a pound, Charlotte Whitton took over as acting mayor, and the Red Feather goal was $376,173.
Charlotte Whitton forbade TV aerials on houses, the Korean war ended, and Ottawa was 20th in Canada in average income with a figure of $3,173 a year.
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 Quotations
Charlotte Bunch (1944 - ____) US feminist theorist, lecturer, writer In "Words of Women Quotations for Success," by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
Charlotte Bunch (1944 - ____) US feminist theorist, lecturer, writer "Understanding Feminist Theory," in New Directions for Women, 1981.
A good part -- and definitely the most fun part -- of being a feminist is about frightening men.
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 Quindlen: Desecration? Dedication! - Newsweek Columnists - MSNBC.com
Who knew that National Guard service was so flexible that you could duck out nearly a year early because, as President Bush said in his ill-advised interview with Tim Russert, "I was going to Harvard Business School and worked it out with the military.")
The latest citizens to be required to perform, as gadfly feminist politico Charlotte Whitton once said of women, twice as well to be thought half as good are gay men and lesbians.
All these people want is what we hetero types take for granted: the opportunity to drop to one knee in a white-tablecloth restaurant and pledge eternal fealty in the eyes of the waiters and the world.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4270436   (975 words)

  
 Ontario Women's Directorate: Charlotte Whitton
A Guide to Government Services For Women
Location: Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration > Ontario Women's Directorate > Students and Teachers > Women's History > Charlotte Whitton
One of Ontario's cleverest and funniest politicians was Charlotte Whitton, the first Canadian women mayor.
www.citizenship.gov.on.ca /owd/english/students/whitton.htm   (59 words)

  
 Ottawa Horticultural Society - An Honour Roll of Trees Print friendly version   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Does anyone have a Laburnum in their garden?
Did Charlotte Whitton plant any commemorative trees while she was Mayor and if so, where are they?
These and other questions could be answered by the Ottawa Horticultural Society setting up an Honour Roll of Trees.
www.ottawahort.org /pf/pfyearbook1976-2.htm   (528 words)

  
 Mayors - Capital Lives by Valerie Knowles
Neither he nor Scott is profiled in this section.
Instead, two twentieth-century mayors have been chosen: Harold Fisher, whose most visible legacy was the Ottawa Civic Hospital, now known as the Civic Campus of the Ottawa Hospital; and feisty, colourful Charlotte Whitton, the first female mayor of a large Canadian city.
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 UNC Charlotte - J. Murrey Atkins Library - Home Page
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 Toronto-Lime.com
Brooklyn, NY – January 5, 2006--The first full-time female mayor of Canada/controversial feminist Charlotte Whitton once said, “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Luckily, this is not difficult.” With this quote in mind, enter Michelle “Miche” Williams of Catalyst Entertainment, not only is she the President/Director of Music and Video Productions of Catalyst, but she is a musician, producer, arranger, singer, songwriter, and a trained audio engineer.
Reggae Star Sanchez at work on new album
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