Our Volume of Local History: Women of Waterloo County
With suitable fanfare, the first-ever book on notable women who
have lived in the Region of Waterloo was launched on Sunday,
November
5, 2000.
The creators of Women of Waterloo County -- members
of the Kitchener-Waterloo branch of the Canadian
Federation of
University Women--are justifiably proud of their work. This
substantial,
well written and well designed book, 320 pages in length
and superbly
illustrated withvalmost 90 historic photographs, contains
original
biographies of 33 individual women and two thematic
articles.
The book features a Preface by noted Canadian journalist and
women's advocate Doris Anderson, followed by an historical
introduction.
Based on painstaking original research and extensive
personal
interviews,
all the articles are footnoted, and the volume is
thoroughly indexed.
The remarkable lives of these Women of Waterloo County
span the last 200 years, and the women are highly diverse
in their
accomplishments: a Mennonite fraktur artist, an industrial
chemist,
a much-published poet. Some of the women profiled gave
tireless
volunteer leadership in organizations that have defined
Canadian
society; others achieved "firsts" in librarianship, in
education,
in political life.
- Copies of Women of Waterloo County are available
for $25.00 from Words Worth Books in Waterloo.
Orders may be placed through the University of Waterloo
Bookstore:
- Attn: Susan Parsons
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo Canada N2L 3G1
519-888-4567 x 5680
519 747-2859 fax
s3parson@uwaterloo.ca
Shipping and handling costs expected to be $5.00
