Women and supporters gathered in dozens of communities across Canada on Saturday, including Montreal, to continue a movement that started a year ago when Donald Trump was inaugurated as U.S. president.
Organizers say they feel a sense of momentum they could not have predicted when they first took to the streets last January.
"This momentum has been building for many years, women are saying it's enough, it's time to act and it's time to do something to actually address the systemic nature of sexism and not just the individual interaction between men and women", said organizer Sandra Wesley, who planned the Montreal rally at Place Des Arts.
At that time, more than half a million women converged on the U.S. capital to protest Trump, whose remarks about women included boasts about sexual assault on a leaked recording.
Similar women's marches took place all around the world, but organizers say there's been a spike in the number of Canadian communities taking part this year.
At least 38 municipalities across Canada, including Halifax Toronto and Vancouver, will or hosted marches, rallies or other events throughout the day.
Activists, including Sara Bingham of Women's March Canada, point to the "Me Too'' movement as one example of the way women's voices are being heard more clearly now than they were a year ago.
-With files from the Canadian Press