![]() We focus on the Tofino Whistlestop on Vancouver Island on the Pacific Coast, the most westerly point on this research-by-rail journey, which began on the Atlantic coast. more This multimedia essay combines words and images in a creative performance drawn from our 2009 cross-Canada Whistlestop Project, 1 a study of the diverse art practices of Canadian popular educators involved in the women’s movement. This multimedia essay combines words and images in a creative performance drawn from our 2009 cro. The next reflex happened in quick succession: I was struck. My mother’s signature on my Little White Ribboner’s pledge card is a promise that she would not “give or allow to take any Intoxicating Drinks” (August 6, 1947). ![]() When I first encountered this, the ceremony of my mother tying a white ribbon around my baby-fat wrist flashed before me. Starting with My Self In a graduate course in adult education that I cofacilitate, the work of The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) makes a fleeting appearance as a bibliographic footnote in the foundational text on adult education in Canada (Butterwick, 1998). I trace the public and private continuities and discontinuities of moral learning across four generations of Ontario WCTU families in the 20 th century. more This qualitative evaluation of the intergenerational moral learning related to the activist work of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) constitutes a critical re-membering of growing up in a WCTU home and community. This qualitative evaluation of the intergenerational moral learning related to the activist work.
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