Thanks

Thanks to dramaturge and White Rooster Theatre's artistic associate Sherry White for encouraging this production and providing invaluable notes, and to Lois Brown for her insightful feedback and constant support throughout its creation.

Thanks to ArtsNL and  City of St. John's  for funding its creation and production stages; to the Cultural Economic Development Program of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador for supporting this website.

Special thanks to Angela Drake, Peggy Norman, Linda Cullum, Susan Morrison and Maeve Baird – who formed the Women's History Group in St. John's, NL and created the Women's History Walking Tour Booklet. 

Thanks to Marian Frances White for her award-winning 1999 docu-drama, The Untold Story of the Newfoundland Suffragettes, directed by Greg Malone. 

Thanks to Heidi Coombs Thorne, Amy Bowring, Melanie Ozon, Beni Malone, Paul Rowe, Gene Long, Robert Sweeny, Suzanne Sexty, John Clarke & Erin Whitney at the NL Folk Festival,  Santiago Guzman, Jenn Deon, and Dave Walsh. 

​Thanks to audiences at the YWCA Leadership Event, the PARC Cabaret and the Women's Work Festival for their feedback.

Thanks to our volunteers, and to Canada Summer Jobs for their support this summer. 

Research Sources

• Margot I. Duley “The Unquiet Knitters of Newfoundland: from Mothers of the Regiment to Mothers of the Nation.” In A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War, edited by Sarah Glassford and Amy Shaw, 51-75.Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012. 

• Marilyn Porter & Linda Cullum. Creating This Place: Below Stairs: Domestic Service in 20th Century St. John’s    
• Helen Woodrow. Julia Salter Earle: Seeking Social Justice 
  
  
• Kay Whitehead &  Judith Pepperal. Women Teachers in the Turbulent Educational World of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1920-1949. Acadiensis, [S.l.], p. 56, mar. 2008. ISSN 1712-7432
  
  
• Miriam Wright. The Chinese Immigrant in the City: Reflections on Race, Class and Gender in the Public Spaces of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1895-1949,  Jan 2017
  
  
• The Evening Telegram, various articles. St. John's, NL
  
  
• The hymn Beulah sings is called Hope, written by Dr. Parker and published by Julia Salter Earle in her letter to the Evening Telegram on May 6, 1920.
  
  
• 1921 Census of NL
  
  
• Terra Barrett, Heather Elliott, Dale Jarvis, and Li Xingpei, Chinese Graves at the General Protestant Cemetery, St. John’s, HFNLS Occasional Paper Feb 2017                               
• Newfoundland and Labrador Headtax Redress Organization website with contributions by Robert Hong & Miriam Wright
  
  
• Molly’s Peace, a short story by Ken Murphy​                             ​

ADDITIONAL READING 

A Sudden Sun by Trudy Morgan Cole

Their Lives and Times: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador, A Collage by Carmelita McGrath, Barbara Neis, Marilyn Porter