Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xvii
4. Preface xix
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Introduction Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century xxiii
7. Suggestions on How to Use this Book xxix
8. Living Women's Lives
9. Introduction 3
10. "Club": Laundering Clothing in Newfoundland 7
11. Vignette: Stirring the Pot 9
12. Winnipeg Women Getting Together: Study Groups and Reading Clubs, 1900-1940 10
13. Vignette: Life in the Town of Nelson, British Columbia 15
14. "Doing All the Rest": Church Women of the Ladies' Aid Society 18
15. Preserving Habits: Memory within Communities of English Canadian Women Religious 22
16. Mildred Armstrong and Missionary Culture 27
17. Vignette: Women's Spiritual Lives 33
18. E. Pauline Johnson: Mohawk-English Writer and Performer 35
19. Vignette: Two Perspectives on Urban Livin; 39
20. Ada Gladys Killins: Sacrificing for Art's Sake 41
21. Vignette: The Road Less Taken -The Single Woman as Artist 45
22. A Sense of Place in Alberta: The Art and Life of Annora Brown 48
23. Vignette: Yukon Women Pioneers 52
24. Alice Peck, May Phillips, and the Canadian Handicrafts Guild 54
25. Vignette: Life in a Native Community 57
26. Helen Kalvak: Pioneering Inuit Print-maker 60
27. Virginia J. Watt: Champion of Inuit Arts and Crafts 62
28. A Century of Artistic Experience and Innovation 65
29. Family and the Home
30. Introduction 75
31. Zoe Laurier, Prime Minister's Wife: Family Ideals at the Turn of the Century 82
32. "A Hardier Stock of Womankind": Alice Barrett Parke in British Columbia 86
33. Life on the Frontier: Remembering the Coal Mining Camp at Cadomin, 1929-1934 96
34. Women and Domestic Technology: Household Drudgery, "Democratized Consumption/' and Patriarchy 101
35. Defining the Lives of Rural Women: Laura Rose on "The Womanly Sphere of Woman" 111
36. "Such Outrageous Discrimination": Farm Women and Their Family Grievances in Early Twentieth-Century Ontario 116
37. Between the Rock and a Hard Place: Single Mothers in St John's, Newfoundland, during the Second World War 124
38. Prudence Heward: Painting at Home 129
39. Mothering the Dionne Quintuplets: Women's Stories 134
40. Saving Mothers and Babies: Motherhood, Medicine, and the Modern State, 1900-1945 139
41. Teaching and Learning
42. Introduction 149
43. Shaping Canada's Women: Canadian Girls in Training versus Girl Guides 155
44. The Experience of Women Students at Four Universities, 1895-1930 160
45. Margaret Addison: Dean of Residence and Dean of Women at Victoria University, 1903-1931 166
46. The "Feminization" of High Schools: The Problem of Women Secondary School Teachers in Ontario 170
47. Writing for Whom? Isabel Murphy Skelton and Canadian History in the Early Twentieth Century 174
48. The Rideau Street Convent School: French-Language Private Schooling in Ontario 178
49. "The School on Fardy's Cross": Shamrock School Remembered 184
50. Vignette: Women,Team Sport, and Physical Education 189
51. From Elegance and Expression to Sweat and Strength: Physical Education at the Margaret Eaton School 194
52. Women's Activism and the State
53. Introduction 201
54. History and Human Agency: The Case of Agnes Macphail, Canada's First Woman Member of Parliament 212
55. The Persons Case, 1929: A Legal Definition of Women as Persons 216
56. Women, the Settlement Movement, and State Formation in the Early Twentieth Century 222
57. The Historical Record and Adolescent Girls in Montreal's Red-Light District 228
58. Charlotte Whitton: Pioneering Social Worker and Public Policy Activist 232
59. Consuming Issues: Women on the Left, Political Protest, and the Organization of Homemakers, 1920-1960 240
60. Making Ourselves Heard: 'Voice of Women" and the Peace Movement in the Early Sixties 248
61. The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, 1967-1970: Liberal Feminism and Its Radical Implications 252
62. Florence Bird 257
63. Women, Peace Activism, and the Environment: Rosalie Bertell and the Development of a Feminist Agenda, 1970s-1990s 259
64. State Control of Women's Immigration: The Passage to Canada of South Asian Women 263
65. Making Space: Women Building Culture 267
66. Feminist Theatre in Toronto: A Look at the Nightwood Theatre 271
67. Health Care and Science
68. Introduction 277
69. The Ladies Committee of the Home for Incurable Children 284
70. Margaret Scott: "The Angel of Poverty Row" 287
71. "Hardly Feminine Work!" Violet Wilson and the Canadian Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses of the First World War 289
72. The Emergence of Physiotherapy as a New Profession for Canadian Women, 1914-1918 295
73. Ethel Currant: Portrait of a Grenfell Nurse 300
74. Vera Peters: Medical Innovator 305
75. Norah Toole: Scientist and Social Activist 308
76. Alice V Payne, Mining Geologist: A Lifetime of "Small and Difficult Things" 311
77. Vignette: A Case Study of an Oral History Project 314
78. Earning Their Bread
79. Introduction 319
80. Vignette: An Oral History Case Study 333
81. Bringing "Domestics" to Canada: A Study of Immigration Propaganda 336
82. Women in the Newfoundland Fishery 343
83. Vignette: Madeleine Constant, Leader in the Pasta Industry 347
84. Creative Ability and Business Sense: The Millinery Trade in Ontario 348
85. Our Mothers' Patterns: Sewing and Dressmaking in the Japanese-Canadian Community 359
86. Federica and Angelina: Postwar Italian-Canadian Couturiers in Toronto 366
87. Fabrications: Clothing, Generations, and Stitching Together the History We Live 372
88. The Telephone Operator: From "Information Central" to Endangered Species 376
89. Ann Meekitjuk Hanson: Inuit Broadcaster, Interpreter, and Community Worker 378
90. Cultural Nationalism and Maternal Feminism: Madge Macbeth as Writer, Broadcaster, and Literary Figure 381
91. "The Day of the Strong-Minded Frump Has Passed": Women Journalists and News of Feminism 385
92. Women in Banking: A Case Study of Scotiabank 392
93. Vignette: The Keroacks, a Family of Business Women 395
94. "The Queen of the Hurricanes": Elsie Gregory MacGill, Aeronautical Engineer and Women's Advocate 396
95. The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War: An Exploration of Their Archival Legacy 402
96. Vignette: "Not Just 'Rosie the Riveter 407
97. Women's Wartime Work and Identities: Women Workers at Canadian Car and Foundry Co. Limited, Fort William, Ontario, 1938-1945 409
98. Foreign-Aid Worker and Humanitarian Lotta Hitschmanova and the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada 417
99. Appendix One Archival Sources Identified by Essay/Vignette 423
100. Appendix Two Cross-Referenced Essay Index 427
101. Notes 431
102. Selected Readings 485
103. Contributors 489