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ABSTRACT: This study compares audits of Nova Scotian women's groups in the years 1990 and 2004 with the membership of women's groups in the Canadian umbrella group called the National Action Committee on the Status of Women at comparable times. These lists are sufficiently similar to support a number of hypotheses of the development of the Canadian women's movement in the decades of the turn of the century. More generally, this exercise suggests that the understanding of the terms "feminism" and the "women's movement" should be interpreted less restrictively and more in terms of the literature on new social movements. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]