Community Events at Trillium Court
March 2017
Movie Monday – 2pm – 3rd floor Lounge
March 06 – Dad’s Army
March 20 – The Hollars
Trillium Court
Seniors
Community
550 Philip Place
Kincardine, Ont
519-396-4400
Ext. 2017
Heike Boettcher
March 13 – Florence Foster Jenkins
March 27 – Manchester by the Sea
Senior Art Class with Bert Degraaf - 1:30-3:00pm - Every Tuesday - Atrium
No charge and supplies are provided - all skill levels welcome
Scrabble - 10am - Every Friday – Atrium
March 3, Friday - 2pm - International Women’s Day Bingo
International Women’s Day is observed as a day to respect and treasure women & appreciate women’s
achievements. Money Tree Prizes!!
March 14, Tuesday
1:30-3pm - Blood Pressure Clinic – Atrium
4-6pm – Senior Nutrition & Cooking Demonstration – 3rd Floor
Eat better and stay home longer. $5/person. Class includes instruction, demonstration, meal, recipe and
shopping list.
March 15, Wednesday
10am-3pm - Around the Town Bus – free bus service within Kincardine from Trillium Court
2:00pm - Kincardine Travel Club meeting on Voluntourism – 2nd floor Activity Room
March 13 & 27, Monday – 2pm – Knitting Club – 3rd Floor Lounge
Knitting class with Ann Laroque. Learn new skills or improve your knitting. Sign up today.
March 23, Thursday – 1-4pm – Alia Fashion Sale - Atrium
March 26, Sunday – 2-4pm – Open House – everyone welcome. Refreshments served.
Enjoy live entertainment by the country band Leavin’ Tracks from Goderich.
March 28, Tuesday – 6-8pm – Art & Wine Party – Activity Room
Includes all supplies, wine & appetizers. Take your completed art piece home.
Must RSVP to attend. Cost $35/person
March 2017
Every year we celebrate International Women’s Day to recognize the women who have changed the world. Here
are just a few:
Nellie McClung – in 1927 along with 4 others became known as the “Famous Five” who launched the “Person’s
Case” establishing that women are qualified to sit in the Senate. Through her efforts, Manitoba became the first
province in 1916 to let women not only vote but run for office.
Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw – received a medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1905 and became one of
Canada’s first woman doctors.
Susan B. Anthony – a Suffragette who ratified the 19th Amendment in the USA that gave the women the right to
vote in 1920.
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell – first woman to receive a medical degree from an American medical school in 1956.
Marie Curie – born in Poland, she was the first woman Professor of General Physics at the University of Paris in
1903. She is the first person to win 2 Nobel Prizes, one in Physics and one in Chemistry.
Mother Teresa – born in Macedonia, as a Catholic nun she founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity.
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. On 19 Oct 2003, she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and
became a Saint.
Rosemary Brown – born in Jamaica she came to Canada to McGill University. She was elected to the provincial
legislature in British Columbia in 1972, becoming the first black woman to become an MLA.
Nancy Greene – alpine skier, World Cup Champion and Gold Medal winner in the Winter Olympics was voted
Canada’s female athlete of the 20th century.
Roberta Bondar – first Canadian woman astronaut to be invited by NASA on the Discovery Team in 1992.
Mary Shadd Cary – first black woman newspaper editor in North America. At 60 she became the 2nd black
woman in the USA to earn a law degree. She was an advocate for universal education, black emancipation &
woman’s rights. In 1994 she was designated a Person of National Historic Significance in Canada.
Therese Casgrain – in the 1940’s she became the first female leader of a political party in Canada, the
Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Viola Desmond – in 1946 she refused to move to the black section of a Halifax movie theatre. She was dragged
out of the theatre and jailed. Because of this event the black community galvanized and fought for change. She
helped end segregation in Nova Scotia in 1954.
Mary Two-Axe Earley – First Nation woman who lost her Native status by marrying a non-Aboriginal. She
fought for 2 decades to have the discriminatory law reversed. In 1985 she was successful. Her efforts benefited
@ 1600 women and 46,000 first generation descendants.
Margaret Laurence – author of the ‘Stone Angel’, was active in promoting world peace through Project
Ploughshares and a recipient of the Order of Canada.
Agnes MacPhail – from Dundalk Ontario, she was the first woman elected to the House of Commons in 1921.
Her causes included pensions for seniors and she initiated Ontario’s first equal-pay legislation in 1951.
Thank you Ladies!