Street Activists
The village of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, may have just 65 year-round residents but its voice is being heard by thousands around the world.
Gwen Quigley Wilson and Melissa Merritt, who both live in the area, wanted to join the millions of people who marched worldwide for women’s rights on Saturday, the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration.
But it’s a 2.5-hour drive to Halifax, where the biggest local march was taking place. So they decided to organize their own march.
We really weren’t expecting any kind of turnout,” Quigley Wilson told CBC News.
But when about 15 people showed up to march on Saturday, “we were ecstatic.”
“It just felt like one of those moments in history that you couldn’t stand by and passively observe it,” she said.
