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Book SynopsisTelling Tales both challenges founding myths of the region and inspires rethinking of how we tell the story of western Canadian colonization and settlement.
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Introduction / Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne
1 I Wish the Men Were Half as Good: Gender Constructions in the Canadian North-Western Mission Field, 1860-1940 / Myra Rutherdale
2 Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the “Indian Woman” in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter
3 Imagining Native Women: Feminine Discourse and Four Women Travelling the Northwest Coast / Nancy Pagh
4 Irene Marryat Parlby: An “Imperial Daughter” in Western Canada, 1896-1935 / Catherine A. Cavanaugh
5 Gender(ed) Tensions in the Work and Politics of Alberta Farm Women, 1905-29 / Sheila McManus
6 Childbirth on the Canadian Prairies, 1880-1930 / Nanci Langford
7 Nursing Nation Builders: The Council Idea, Western Women, and the Founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, 1896-1930 / Beverly Boutilier
8 Scattered But Not Lost: Mennonite Domestic Servants in Winnipeg, 1920s-50s / Frieda Klippenstein
9 Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement: East Central Alberta between the Wars / Frances Swyripa
10 “Abundant Faith”: Nineteenth-Century African-Canadian Women on Vancouver Island / Sherry Edmunds-Flett
11 Marriage, Family, and the Cooperative Ideal: The Telfords / Ann Leger-Anderson
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