Nora Rodd Explained

Nora Rodd
Birth Name:Nora Kathleen Corman
Birth Date:22 August 1893
Birth Place:St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
Death Date:25 May 1994 (age 100)
Death Place:Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:Activist, lecturer

Nora Rodd (22 August 1893 – 25 May 1994) was a Canadian peace activist, feminist, and communist. In 1951, she led a delegation from the Women's International Democratic Federation, investigating war crimes in Korea.

Early life and education

Nora Kathleen Corman was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, the daughter of Frank Lee Corman and Ida Belle Jones Corman.[1]

Career

In the 1930s, Rodd and her husband campaigned for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, then a new political party in Canada.[2] [3] In 1951, Rodd led an international delegation of 21 women from the Women's International Democratic Federation on a controversial study mission to North Korea.[4] [5] Canadian newspapers quoted her as saying in Pyongyang that "if I were young and free, I should want to stay in Korea and help you build your country up again."[6] [7] The Canadian House of Commons considered whether Rodd had committed treason by making a broadcast in support of North Korea during the Korean War.[8] The delegation's report was dismissed by many as Communist propaganda, but historical reconsiderations have since validated some of the report's findings.[9] [10]

As a member of the British Columbian Peace Council and the National Council of the Congress of Canadian Women, Rodd lectured to women's organizations across Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, on anti-imperialism, peace, and women's rights.[11] [12] [13] "Women must live for their communities as well as for their homes", she told a Nanaimo audience in 1954.[14] She continued actively campaigning and organizing through the 1970s, and into the 1980s.[15]

Personal life

Corman married lawyer and prohibitionist leader[16] [17] Roscoe Sherman Rodd in 1919. They had three children, Helen (1920–2016), Philip (1925–1998), and Stephen (1928–2012). Her husband died in 1960.[18] She died in 1994, at the age of 100.[19]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1948-07-16 . Elgin County Native is Dead; Rites Saturday . 14 . The Windsor Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  2. News: 1933-08-08 . Mrs. Rodd Aids C.C.F.; Wife of Roscoe Rodd Takes Stump for Labor Party, Addresses Picnic . 3 . The Windsor Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  3. News: 1935-02-08 . Fight Union Government; C.C.F. Not to Work With Tories, Grits, Claims Roscoe Rodd . 14 . The Windsor Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  4. Book: Kim, Suzy . Among women across worlds: North Korea in the global Cold War . 2023 . Cornell University Press . 978-1-5017-6731-9 . Ithaca London.
  5. News: 1951-05-23 . Identify Woman Heading Inquiry Alleged Atrocities . 2 . The Sault Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  6. News: 1951-06-18 . Canadian in North Korea . 4 . Edmonton Journal . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  7. News: 1951-06-08 . Reds Hail Mrs. Rodd; Weekly Paper Tells Ovation in Korea . 5 . The Windsor Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  8. News: 1951-06-26 . 'Was It Treason?' House Not Decided on Rodd Broadcast . 11 . The Gazette . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  9. Donert . Celia . 2016 . From Communist Internationalism to Human Rights: Gender, Violence and International Law in the Women's International Democratic Federation Mission to North Korea, 1951 . Contemporary European History . 25 . 2 . 313–333 . 0960-7773.
  10. Kim . Taewoo . 2020 . Frustrated Peace: Investigatory Activities by the Commission of the Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) in North Korea during the Korean War . Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies . 20 . 1 . 83–112 . 2586-0380.
  11. News: 1951-08-25 . Kremlin 'Citadel of Peace' -- Mrs. Rudd . 20 . The Vancouver Sun . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 1954-09-17 . Active Role for Women Advocated . 8 . North Shore Review . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  13. News: 1966-11-25 . Marriage rules defined? . 35 . The Ottawa Citizen . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  14. News: 1954-09-02 . Mrs. Nora Rodd Speaker Here . 6 . Nanaimo Daily News . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  15. News: Barrington . Eleanor . 1982-05-03 . World peace is real theme for Mother's Day/Eleanor Barrington . 49 . The Toronto Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  16. News: 1945-05-02 . R. S. Rodd New County Solicitor; Controversy Over his O.P.A. Job . 17 . The Windsor Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  17. News: 1932-03-05 . Prohibition is Demanded; Roscoe S. Rodd, Chief of Ontario Drys, Attacks 'Control' . 7 . The Windsor Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  18. News: 1960-01-15 . R. S. Rodd Dies at 71 . 5 . The Windsor Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.
  19. News: 1994-05-27 . Obituary for Nora Rodd . 51 . The Windsor Star . 2023-11-08 . Newspapers.com.

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