The Woman's Temperance Union

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Crusade of 1873-75 which was the third phase of women’s religious activity was a movement of Midwestern Protestant America of women rising to “Ban the Saloons.” This was the first time woman to be a group to pit themselves against male culture.
The forth phase was the Woman’s Christian temperance Union(WCTU) which emerged out of the end of the Woman’s Crusade. The WCTU played a significant role in the temperance movement of the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Here, woman was not a baby anymore. They have their own specifically conscious, leaders, organization, conventions, council.
WCTU is the high tide of the emergence of a popular woman’s consciousness.

Part II: The North-America WCTU
The first WCTU chapter was formed at Fair Point, later Chautauqua, New York in North America in 1874. It was the result of the Ohio women’s temperance crusade.
Through these phases, the women’s organizations developed and matured. They were no longer a group women who waited for tasks and followed someone else idea to make change their own life. They were not an isolated woman’s group. They became an international organization and grew fast at an unbelievable rate, especially in North America.
In May 1874, the movement was introduced into Canada by Mrs. Doyle of Owen Sound, Ontario. In 1874 Mrs. Letitia Youmans who was the first Canadian leader later established the second union in Picton, Ontario. In 1875 she organized the Toronto WCTU, and by 1877 a network of local unions necessitated the formation of the Ontario provincial union. The Maritime provinces quickly followed suit. Moncton, Fredericton, Saint John, Woodstock and St. Stephen affiliated to form the WCTU of New Brunswick in 1879. The Nova Scotia WCTU joined with them in a meeting in Fredericton in 1883 to establish the Maritime WCTU. The Prince Edward Island WCTU affiliated with the Maritime WCTU in1890. By 1894 the presi...