Orange Campaign

2025 Events

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(Note: Some municipalities mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence with the colour orange, others with purple, some use both. Orange is the colour chosen by the United Nations for the global UNiTE campaign. Canada has used purple for advocacy for women’s rights for over a century.)

Albert College, Belleville ON lit up at night

Slide show and materials available on GRAN Northumberland's info table

GRAN Northumberland's info table at Public Library in Brighton, ON

Albert College Students, Belleville ON in partnership with GRAN Quinte

2024 Events

(Note: Some municipalities mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence with the colour orange, others with purple, some use both. You will see all variations in the photos below.)

Winnipeg GRANs attend event on December 6 at Canadian Human Rights Museum

Victoria GRAN, Liz Dill, speaks at memorial service on December 6, Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

Victoria GRANs attend December 6th memorial service

Lighthouse lit up in orange in Port Credit, ON

Byward Market, Ottawa ON

Heritage Building, Ottawa

GTA GRANs at flagraising at Toronto City Hall with Mayor Olivia Chow

Mayor Brian Ostrander of Brighton, ON proclaims Orange Days

Display at Brighton, ON library with Mayor Brian Ostrander

Outside Brighton, ON Community Centre

GRAN Quinte sign at CFB Trenton

GRAN Quinte Trenton, ON library display

Albert College, Belleville, ON lit up in orange

GV GRAN member "oranges" her own front door

GV GRANs hold Orange luncheon on Human Rights Day, December 10

Orange city lights in Coquitlam, BC

Science World Vancouver lit up in orange and purple

Winnipeg GRANs attend December 6th vigil

GRAN info table at Trenton ON library

Albert College - Belleville, ON

Coquitlam, BC

Oranged Bridge - Coquitlam, BC

Coquitlam, BC

GRAN Quinte, ON

Ubuntu Grannies - Burlington, ON

Marianne Meed Ward, Mayor of Burlington, ON

Vigil - Burlington, ON

Ottawa-Gatineau GRANs at launch and proclamation of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence at Ottawa City Hall with Mayor Mark Sutcliffe

MPs Leah Gazan and Anita Vandenbeld with Ottawa-Gatineau GRANs wearing purple at launch for 16 Days of Activism. Also present, Yamikani Msosa, Executive Director of the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW)

Heritage Building Ottawa City Hall

Peel Region, ON

2022 Events

Northumberland GRAN and grandson oranging Tim's

Someone learning

Angelic Serendipity Trenton

The Odd Jobs Couple window, Brighton, Ontario

Ottawa Heritage Building

Ottawa Gatineau GRANs join the launch of 16 days

Gail Mullan with Mayor's Proclamation New Westminster, BC

2021 events

Burlington Ontario GRANs

BC Science World

BC Place

Ottawa Byward Market

Purple marks November 25

Ottawa Heritage Building

Ottawa Ceremony November 25

Ottawa City Counsellor Theresa Kavanaugh and MP Anita Vandenbeld mark the 16 Days of Activism

GV GRANs Vancouver BC

BC Place Vancouver

Peel Ontario GRANs

Quinte Ontario GRANs Campaign Sign

Quinte Ontario GRANs

Philip Lawrence MP for Northumberland-Peterborough South

Brighton Ontario Tim Horton's displays Orange Campaign sign

Brighton, ON GRANs Christine Hammond and Sonja Rundle

2020 events

Rae Yates - Northumberland GRAN (Ontario)

Tim Hortons Brighton

Brighton, Ontario, business lights up in orange

Heritage Building, City Hall, Ottawa

Ottawa City Councillors Brokington, Kavanagh and McKenney supporting GRANs

Councillor Kavanagh giving Proclamation of City of Ottawa to GRAN Stella Val

Masked Ottawa Gatineau GRANs - Heritage Building

Ribbon at Byward Market in snowy downtown Ottawa

Byward Market Ribbon, Ottawa

BC Parliament Building, Victoria

BC Parliament Building and Fountain, Victoria

BC Place and Science World, Vancouver

BC Place, Vancouver

Science World, Vancouver

2019 events

December 6 Memorial, Victoria

Phyllis Webster of Victoria GRAN at December 6 Memorial

Peel Region

Port Coquitlam GRANs

Port Moody

Burlington Vigil

Mississauga City Hall

Brighton Mayor Brian Ostrander with Northumberland GRANs

Stella, Barb and Annie with Anita Vandenbeld

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson with GRAN member Stella Val

Ottawa GRANs with Mayor, Councillors and MP for Nepean West Anita Vandenbeld

Ottawa Gatineau GRANs

Ottawa City Hall

Lighting of City Hall with Ottawa GRANs

Port Hope GRAN

Victoria GRANs

Whitehorse City Hall

GRAN Quinte Vigil - 2

GRAN Quinte Vigil

2018 events

Victoria GRAN Phyllis Webster lights candle at National Day of Remembrance service Dec. 6

GRAN Kitchener-Waterloo, Community Forum Event

Greater Van GRANs

Calgary GRANs

Calgary tea

MP Kim Rudd with members of GRAN Northumberland (Photo credit: John Campbell, Metroland)

Marlene Merke, Kelowna GRAN, hands out ribbons and info

GRAN Northumberland member Sonja Rundle on her deck in Brighton, ON

Golden Horseshoe GRAN hosts a panel discussion: Culture Shift

Greater Vancouver GRAN Marisa Oth-Pallavicni with her MP Jenny Kwan

Region of Peel Goes Orange

BC GRANs with MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam, Fin Donnelly

Whitehorse, YT City Hall lit up in orange

One World Grannies, Ottawa ON

Saskatoon GRANs

Whitehorse City Council with GRAN member Janet Siddall

Ottawa-Gatineau GRANs

Fenelon Falls GRANs with MP Jamie Schmale

Women’s Voices Count

How women’s stories and activisms challenge gender-based violence

GRAN GTA Panelists

...and they attracted a full house!

Moderator--Bhutila Karpoche, MPP for Parkdale-High Park

Susan Dion, York University: Art, Story and Education: Hearing Indigenous Women's Voices

Elizabeth Renzetti, Globe & Mail columnist highlighted stories of young and old activists

May Chazan, Trent University explores vital-- and often overlooked, activisms

The Raging Grannies closed the event with song....

...and signs

2017 events

Toronto Panel: ‘Leave No One Behind’

Opening the space, Wanda Whitebird

The Raging Grannies sing

Introducing the event

Speakers from Equality Effect, Globe & Mail and Interval House

Winnipeg Speakers’ Forum, ‘Getting Back Up’

Speakers and Sponsors

Frances Molaro and Forum Friends

Nancy Cosway, Elixabeth Aluk (Voices for South Sudan), Frances Molaro

Ottawa Proclamation

Ottawa Mayor with GRANs

Ottawa Launch, Hilary Elliott

Ottawa Launch, Myrtle Blinn

Donation of cookies from Boka Bakery, Ottawa!

Science World Vancouver

Anvil Centre New Westminster

Surrey BC Plaza

Port Coquitlam Sky Train Pillars

Bev Harris and Gail Mullan, Port Coquitlam

Vancouver Convention Centre

BC Place

BC Place in Orange

Orange Box Brighton

Mayor Jim Watson, MP Anita Vandenbeld, MPP Yasir Naqvi and Councillors, Ottawa

Pat Dolan Ottawa Gatineau

Ottawa March

Bunny Keeley and Anne Creighton Ottawa

Janet Wilkinson Ottawa

Phyll Drennan and grandchildren Ottawa

Toronto in Orange

Whitehorse City Hall

Ottawa Planning Committee

Golden Horseshoe GRANs

Toronto Grans and Raging Grans

Historic Port Hope

Ottawa Heritage Building lit up

Proclamation with Ottawa Mayor Watson and Politicians

GRANs across the country hold Orange Campaign Events!!!

Orange the World Rally Saskatoon, SK

Saskatoon GRANs in front of Prairie Wind Sculpture

Saskatoon GRANs with Mayor Charlie Clark

Ottawa Proclamation Event, City Hall

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, Hilary Elliott GRAN co-chair, and Anita Vandenbeld MP with Orange Campaign Proclamation

Mayor, Hilary, MP Vandenbeld and Ottawa City Councillors

Folks of all ages at the Proclamation event

Grannies All About Kids at the Santa Claus Parade, Manotick (ON)

and here they are at the Metcalfe ON Santa Claus paradel

Orange ribbons: Beth Madole, Coburg (ON) Mayor Gil Brocanier, and Bonnie Symons

Grandmothers AIDing Grandmothers, Ottawa

Vancouver in orange

TORONTO letters

Toronto: Why Orange? Ask us!

Toronto GRANs and Friends

Toronto City Hall

OLDER WOMEN COUNT! Ottawa, December 6

MJ Sterne, M Overduin, and L Bergeron, welcoming committee

Ketty Nivyabandi, Burundi Poet and Activist

Peggy Edwards, chair of GRAN's Older Women Committee

Time for questions....

Table talk

Valerie Wright, Co-Chair, Education Working Group

University of Ottawa Professor Gordon DiGiacomo

Grand River ON GRANS and CFUW

Colleen Stefanich at Grandmothers Matter, Vancouver

Pauline Barrett at Grandmothers Matter, Vancouver

Angela Kaida at Grandmothers Matter, Vancouver

Peg Herbert, Help Lesotho at Grandmothers Matter, Vancouver

Grade 12 Sociology Class, Brighton ON

Knitted banner, Brighton ON

Ottawa Letter Writing Campaign

Kelowna BC GRANs at their first meeting

One World Grannies, Ottawa

Science World, Vancouver

Christina Lake (BC) Pickleball Club Friends of GRAN

Golden Horeshoe GRANs (1)

BC MP Joyce Murray and Colleen Stefanich

Victoria BC Legislature Lit in Orange

Ann Frost, BC MP Pam Goldsmith-Jones, and Heather Fraser

Calgary Advograms

Calgary Tower

Calgary Advograms gather

Montreal GRANs

Halifax City Hall Lit in Orange

Coquitlam GRANs and the Sky Train Line

Coquitlam GRANs

Mayor, City Council and GRANs Fredericton, NB 2016

Sue McKenna speaking to Fredericton NB City Council 2016

Peterborough GRAN and CFUW Event 2016

Brighton ON Councillors and GRANs

Greater VAN GRANs

Fin Donnelly, MP for Port Moody-Coquitlam with Gail Mullen and Bev Harris

Greater GRAN VANs at Bowen Island, BC 2016

Capital Grannies, Ottawa 2016

Ottawa-Gatineau GRANs 2016

GRANs and Friends, Ottawa 2016

Montreal GRANs, 2016

Montreal GRANs promoting Orange Walk via McGill University radio, 2016

Lynne Kent with UN reps, 2016

Wakefield (QC) GRANs, 2016

Northumberland GRANs (ON), 2016

BC Place

Ready for the 2016 Orange Campaign: Colleen Stefanich and Heather Fraser

Ending Violence Agains Women Co-Chairs, Colleen Stefanich and Janet Siddall

Coquitlam Fountain

Greater Vancouver GRANs: 2015

Halifax City Hall

Oakville ON GRANs and friends with their Mayor

Ottawa Heritage Building

Toronto City Hall

Vancouver City Hall

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Ottawa Proclamation

Ottawa Proclamation Event, City Hall

OLDER WOMEN COUNT! Ottawa, December 6

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