Virtual presentation for the Department of Education

Rhea Côté Robbins will examine the Franco American suffragist movement. She will start with information on Canadian women’s suffrage and compare it to what was happening in the United States. She will then focus on Camille Lessard Bissonnette and explore the reasons why this Franco American woman was not on the radar for the Maine women’s suffrage in the early 1900s. She will talk about her own work getting Camille Lessard Bissonnette into the exhibit on women’s suffrage at the Maine State Museum. She will end her talk looking at the women who have served in the Maine State Legislature through the years in order to connect the past to the present.

Email Rhea for the zoom link rhea.robbins@maine.edu