In this excerpt Mme. Casgrain speaks of the beginnings of the Voice of Women, since 1960 a movement with members in every province opposing violence and war and promoting disarmament and peace.:
At the end of our first month of work, we had already recruited over one hundred members in Quebec. Despite the variety of political allegiances, everyone rallied to the common cause of peace. We studied the effects of radioactivity, international affairs, the relaxation in world tensions, then disarmament and peace. In March 1961, a special train took a delegation of our Montreal members to Ottawa to present a brief pleading the cause of peace to the Prime Minister, the Honourable J. Diefenbaker. In truth the document contained nothing new on the subject, but the Voice of Women wanted the government to know that a part of the population was very well informed. There were over 400 women there. Mr. Diefenbaker and five ministers received us in the Railway Committee Room in Parliament. The Honourable Léon Balcer, Minister of Transport, answered any questions asked in French. Afterward, the delegates went to see their respective MPs before returning. The newspapers, radio and television all played up our gesture. The event attracted a lot of attention, and a lot of new members, both male and female, across the country. Many men encouraged their wives to go to Ottawa with us, even offering to look after the children for the day. It was during this trip that Solange Chaput-Rolland and Gwendolyn Graham met and decided to collaborate on their book, Dear Enemies (Cher Ennemies), which appeared in 1963, to much success.