Item is a photograph of the “Caribou Bench and Bar”, a group of nineteen men and one woman taken on September 7, 1951 at a dinner in honour of Peter Wilson’s 40th birthday.
Item consists of sound recordings of Debby Yaffe discussing her childhood, schooling and family life in California, including gendered family roles, expectations of femininity in the 1950s, university, marriage and life in Europe, her feminist consciousness raising experience in London, teaching high school in London, the differences between English and American societies, sex discrimination, radical feminist activities, restructuring of sexual relationships, life in Canada and involvement in the Women’s movement in Victoria, Status of Women Action group, Everywomens Books, disordered eating as feminist issue, work as a fitness instructor, abortion rights, impact on feminist awareness of the December 6, 1989 killings at École Polytechnique in Montréal, radical feminism, women’s lives in Canada and England, life as a lesbian, resisting dominant domestic relationship constructs, teaching Women’s Studies, feminist theory, and the Victoria Women’s Movement Archives.
The Debby Yaffe interview was conducted by Joy Fisher as a research project in the course History 358A, “Women in Canada,” taught by Dr. Lynne Marks, which covered histories of women in Canada from the era of New France to the present. Fisher’s resulting essay is entitled “Riding the Wave/ Watching the Wave: A Second Wave Feminist Talks about Gender Ideologies and her Life.”
Yaffe, DebbyItem is a photograph of the “Caribou Bench and Bar”, a group of nineteen men and one woman taken on September 7, 1951 at a dinner in honour of Peter Wilson’s 40th birthday. Judge Ferry is in the second row fifth from the right.
Photograph depicts a group of fourteen Cariboo County Court judges. Judge Ferry is in the second row, fourth from the right.
Item is a photograph of 11 men, probably County Court judges. Judge Ferry is first on the right in the front row. Judge Morrow is beside him.
Item is a photograph of seventeen men. Judge Ferry is in the second row on the right.
Item is a photograph of a group of twelve men. Judge Ferry is in the second row on the right.
Item is a photograph of six men in front of a building. Judge Ferry is on the left.
Item is a photograph of Judge C.W. Morrow administering the oaths of office to new Judge William Dow Ferry.
Photograph depicts William Dow Ferry upon his graduation from the University of British Columbia Law School in May 1949.
Portrait photograph shows William D. Ferry in his judicial robes.
Portrait photograph depicts Judge William Dow Ferry holding a pipe.
Photograph is a head-on portrait of Judge William Dow Ferry.