Saturday 18th August, the book "Pioneers & Suffragists" was launched in Colac. Over 300 people, many descendants of the women featured in the book, travelled from interestate and throughout Victoria to attend the event. On Saturday night 125 people attended a celebratory dinner.
The book, which was launched by Dr Richard Evans from Deakin University is a result of four years of research and thousands of letters, emails and phone calls to descendants. Photographs were obtained of more than 200 of the women.
PIONEERS and SUFFRAGISTS aims to identify 360 women who lived in Colac and the surrounding districts in 1891. These pioneers and suffragists were among the 30,000 women who signed the Monster Petition in support of Victorian women being granted the vote.
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