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Fledgling lawyer. Notorious crime boss. Two will go to court-one will walk out. Cora has battled hard to be Canada's first female lawyer. Representing Adeline puts her more than her career on the line. Cora must fight or flee. Her choice will affect a nation.
No war is waged without violence.Ten years of intense training at her aunt's side have taught Shannon much more than how to be a midwife. She's seen first-hand how dangerous fighting for women's rights and access to birth control can be.A brutal attack destroys much of their hard work and results in her aunt's incarceration. To avoid further scandal, her uncle ships Shannon off to Canada where she'll be safe.They are wrong.In Oakland, Manitoba, Shannon lands in the midst of a new fight. She has a choice: stay safe or help a whole new community of women find their voice.She chooses to fight.
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Lose the battle. Win the War. Cora Rood, Canada's first female lawyer and prominent suffragette, gets handed an impossible case. Represent Adeline Pitman in divorce court. Any lawyer who dares stand up to Toronto's most notorious crime boss, Eli Pitman, ends up dead. Faced with no other alternative, Cora tries and fails. Threats and intimidation drive her home to where she's presented with yet another heart-wrenching divorce case. Defeated and disillusioned, she refuses to be dragged back to the front lines of the battle for equality. In 1904, the stakes are too high; she cannot watch the courts destroy another woman. As the clock ticks and a life hangs in the balance, the community of Oakland, Manitoba comes together to help Cora recover her true purpose in life. If there is a spark of hope in Oakland that will heal Cora, they are determined to fan the flame. The women's rights movement and the desperate need to obliterate a shocking double standard in Canadian court depends on one woman recovering her voice - and raising it.
Covers receipts and expenditures of appropriations and other funds.
Clippings from the Anadarko daily news concerning the Anadark High School class of 1951, their neighbors and contemporaries.