Hatpins were a deadly weapon?! - What's in the Box?: Box 2-Object #1
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2020
- What's in the Box? Join me as I explore one of the artifacts found in Box #2. This week: Hatpins!
Museum artifacts have many stories they can tell! You can explore what materials they are made of, how they were made, who made them, how they were used, or how they changed society - and so much more! Think of this video as the abridged history behind hatpins, where I explore just a few chapters of its story.
I challenge you to take a look at the objects around you and think about all the stories they have to tell!
This video is part of our "What's in the Box" series, so check-out the playlist for "What's in the Box: Box #2" to see more abridged object histories, as well as behind the scenes museum work.
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Intro and end graphics: Ryan Mealiffe
Research was done with the help of our wonderful Campbell Museums volunteers!
Love the video, but would be even better if the sources were listed in the description
My grandmother had Harkins all over her house just in case...lol
What other stories? Take a look at the Battle of the Hatpins. Far more inspirational than any of the women noted in your video.
It was about the French Ontarians fighting to be able to teach their children French, as it was rendered illegal in 1912, and in 1916, the French Canadians took a school and brought a couple of sisters who insisted they teach French into the school as the women took many household implements to fight off police officers, not for something trivial like the suffrage... But to protect their very culture. They brought brooms, rolling pins, sharpened scizzors, knives, frying pans, and yes... Even hatpins and fought like wild beasts to protect the two sisters, and the right to teach their sons their culture and language. The men were prepared the fight, but they were removed from the premises, but the women insisted they be the ones who fight against the police officers brought clubs to retake the school.
Study up on Regulation 17 from Canada, and the Battle of the Hatpins. Now that is a story that is far better than the usual suffrage story.
While we believe the fight for women's suffrage was anything but "trivial", The Battle of the Hatpins appears to be another great example of the resilience and perseverance of women who wished to shape their communities, and of how the humble hatpin can be used as a catalyst to share these important moments in history.
@@campbellmuseums5053 The French Canadian Men in the area offered to help, but the women insisted they do it themselves, that if they were to fail, that the men could converge on the school, and take down the police. There were thousands of French Canadian men around, but the women would say that it's their job.
We French Canadians have some really stubborn and strong-willed women... Even our shy women are really stubborn.