Projects
The Clothesline Project:
Sponsored by the Department of Justice for the National Victims of Crime Awareness Week, April 10-16, 2011.
A visual display that bears witness to violence against women by hanging a clothesline with shirts that have been decorated to represent a particular woman’s experience with violence.
This event was our first ever Clothesline Project. We had 115 t-shirts created for the project. To view a video display of the shirts created for our first ever Clothesline Project click here.
Click here for a copy of our Clothesline Project Brochure
Click here for a copy of our Open House Poster.
Clothesline Poster Ad
Community Garden Project
Community Garden Pamphlet
The Women's Resource Centre is pleased to be a part of the community garden project in Quesnel. The community garden is located behind Quesnel Junior Secondary and beside the Aboriginal Education Centre. It is a place for everyone to gather and grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs; to learn and share gardening skills; and to meet new friends. It is a great way to increase access to fresh, local, and affordable food.
Thank you to the Quesnel Community Foundation for their generous donation. $3000 was contributed to complete the chain link fence that surrounds the garden, April 2011.
Thank you to all sponsors who contributed to the infrastructure of the garden!
Women's Memorial Monument
In September of 2007, a group of women from the Quesnel Women’s Resource Centre came together to work towards getting a memorial monument built in Quesnel that would honour local missing and murdered women as well as all women who have been victims of violence in our community. Seven women have lost their lives to violence from our community and an additional 5 are still missing under suspicious circumstances.
Across Canada there are nearly sixty monuments remembering women who have been victims of violence. All of these are aimed to inspire individual communities to work towards change, build awareness, and continue to build support for the issue of violence against women. The Women’s Memorial Monument Committee believes that a memorial monument of this nature will benefit the entire community of Quesnel serving as a reminder to everyone what a devastating impact violence against women has on our society. It will not only be a place for families who have been impacted by this crime, but also for others who work towards change.
This monument will allow families a place to grieve for their injustices and concerned community members a place for action and a place to create change. Our goal for this monument is to honour local women who have been impacted by violence, have lost their lives to violence, or are still missing under suspicious circumstances. We seek to honour their families and loved ones while ensuring that their experiences and their murders do not become mere statistics in our community. As well, acknowledging these women’s experiences in a visible form, such as a memorial monument, is a significant step towards social change and shows that the community of Quesnel is progressive in its endeavour to end violence against women.
In September, 2008 the group approached the City of Quesnel to request that this monument be erected at the end of Bowron Avenue along the Riverfront Trail Walk.
September, 2010 marked the completion of this monument and is engraved with the following names: Mary Jane Jimmie; Julia Baptiste; Roxanne Thiara; Tiffany McKinney; Deena Lyn Braem; Dorothee Huguette McLaughlin; Leah Marie Faulkner; Mary Mae Dick; Barbara Anne Lanes; Julie Oakley Parker.
Connecting Northern Women:
Northern Women's Conference, 2009
In April of 2009, the QWRC hosted the Connecting Northern Women: Northern Women's Conference. The conference was attended by 152 women from various places across BC and included two women who came from Whitehorse, YK. Six Women Centres were in attendance including the QWRC; the Williams Lake Women's Contact Society; Victoria Faulkner's Women's Centre; 100 Mile House Women's Centre; the Northern Women's Centre and the Fort St. John Women's Centre.
The focus of the conference was determined from a needs assessment questionnaire that was conducted in December 2008. The top four issues of concern surrounded the areas of poverty, violence against women, addictions, and housing. These issues became the focus for our conference.
For more in depth details surrounding the conference and the recommendations that arose from our interactive workshops, please read the final conference report.
Connecting Northern Women – Conference Report
Keynote speakers:
Marian Laval Gladys Radek
Marian Laval (left) accepts her gift of tobacco during her keynote address at our conference and Gladys Radek (right) speaks to the conference attendees about her Walk4Justice Initiative.