Framing Our Past: Canadian Women's History in the Twentieth Century

Contents: Living women's lives: Introduction / Veronica Strong-Boag -- Sidebar: Fanny Bobbie Rosenfeld -- Sidebar: Lacy Maud Montgomery -- "Club": laudering clothing in Newfoundland / Kathleen Wilker -- Vignette: Stirring the pot -- Winnipeg Women getting together: study groups and reading clubs, 1900-1940 / Jody Baltessen and Shelagh J. Squire -- Vignette: life in the town of Nelson, British Columbia / Brenda Hornby -- "Doing all the rest": Church women of the Ladies' Aid Society / Marilyn Fa*rdig Whitely -- Preserving habits: memory within Communities of English Canadian Women religious / Elizabeth Smyth -- Mildred Armstrong and Missionary Culture / Marjorie Levan -- Vignette: women's spiritual lives -- E Pauline Johnson: Mohawk-English writer and performer / Veronica Strong-Boag -- Sidebar: Emma Albani -- Vignette: two perspectives on urban living -- Mairuth Sarsfield / Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield -- Sidebar: Margaret Marshall Saunders; Gabrielle Roy -- Pierrette Boily -- Ada Gladys Killins: sacrificing for Art's sake / Sharon Anne Cook -- Vignette: The Road less taken -- The single woman as artist -- The unmarried woman artist: Emily Carr / Sonia Halpern -- Isabel and Helen Stadelbauer: Art teachers in Calgary / Helen Diemert -- A sense of place in Alberta: The art and life of Annora Brown / Kirstin Evenden -- Vignette: Yukon women pioneers -- Edith Josie: "These are the news" / Charlene Porsild -- Martha Louise Black -- Alice Peck, May Phillips, and the Canadian Handicrafts Guild / Ellen Easton McLeod -- Vignette: life in a native community -- Helen Kalvak: pioneering Inuit print-maker / Jessica Tomic-Bagshaw -- Virginia J. Watt: Champion of Inuit arts and crafts / Ellen Easton McLeod -- A century of Artistic experience and innovation / Anne Newlands; Family and the home : Introduction / Cynthia R. Comacchia -- Zoe ́Laurier, Prime Minister's wife: family ideals at the turn of the century / Catherine Vye -- "A hardier stock of womankind": Alice Barrett Parke in British Columbia / Jo Fraser Jones -- Life on the Frontier: remembering the coal mining camp at Cadomin, 1929-1934 / Edith Wheeler -- Women and domestic technology: household drudgery, "Democratized consumption," and patriarchy / Dianne Dodd -- Defining the lives of rural women: Laura Rose on "The womanly sphere of woman" / Margaret Kechnie -- "Such outrageous discrimination": farm women and their family grievances in early twentieth-century Ontario / Monda Halpern -- Between the rock and a hard place: single mothers in St. John's, Newfoundland, during the Second World War / Ruth Haywood -- Prudence Heward: painting at home / Pepita Ferrari; Mothering the Dionne Quintuplets: women's stories / Katherine Arnup -- Saving mothers and babies: motherhood, medicine, and the modern state, 1900-1945 / Cynthia R. Comacchio -- Teaching and learning: introduction / Nicole Neatby -- Shaping Canada's women: Canadian Girls in training versus Girl Guides / Patricia Dirks -- The experience of women students at four universities, 1895-1930 / Alyson E. King -- Sidebar: Grace Annie Lockhart -- Margaret Addison: Dean of Residence and Dean of Women at Victoria University, 1903-1931 / Jean O'Grady -- The "Feminization" of high schools: the problem of women secondary school teachers in Ontario / Susan Gelman -- Writing for whom? Isabel Murphy Skelton and Canadian history in the early twentieth century / Terry Crowley -- The Rideau Street Convent School: French-language private schooling in Ontario / Isabelle Bourgeois; "The School on Fard's Cross": Shamrock School Remembered / Pat Trites -- Vignette: Women, Team Sport and Physical Education -- Women and Physical Education / Ellen O'Reilly -- Women and Team Sport / Veronica Strong-Boag -- Montreal Sportswomen and the Penguin Ski Club / Andrea Winlo -- From elegance and expression to sweat and strength: Physical education at the Margaret Eaton School / Anna H. Lathrop -- Women's activism and the State : Introduction / Joan Sangster -- Sidebar: Adelaide Hunter Hoodless -- Sidebar: Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire -- History and human agency: The case of Agnes Macphail, Canada's First woman Member of Parliament / Terry Crowley -- The 'Persons' Case, 1929: A Legal definition of women as persons / Anne White -- Women, the Settlement movement, and State Formation in the Early twentieth century / Cathy James -- The historical record and adolescent girls in Montreal's Red-Light District / Tamara Myers; Charlotte Whitton: pioneering social worker and public policy activist / Judith Roberts-Moore -- Consuming issues: women on the left, political protest, and the organization of homemakers, 1920-1960 / Joan Sangster -- Making ourselves heard: "Voice of women" and the Peace Movement in the early sixties / Candace Loewen -- The Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, 1967-1970: Liberal Feminism and its Radical Implications / Kimberly Speers -- Sidebar: Lady Ishbel Aberdeen -- Florence Bird / Judi Cumming -- Women, Peace activism, and the environment: Rosalie Bertell and the development of a Feminist Agenda, 1970s-1990s / Judi Cumming -- State control of Women's immigration: the passage to Canada of South Asian women / Helen Ralston -- Making space: women building culture / Janice Hladki and Ann Holmes -- Feminist theatre in Toronto: a look at the Nightwood Theatre / Corinne Rusch-Drutz; Health care and science : Introduction / Wendy Mitchinson -- The Ladies Committee of the Home for Incurable Children / Magda Zakanyi -- Margaret Scott: "The Angel of poverty row" / Tamara Miller -- "Hardly Feminine Work!" Vilet Wilson and the Canadian Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurses of the First World War / Linda J. Quiney -- Side bar: Major Margaret C. Macdonald -- The emergence of physiotherapy as a new profession for Canadian women, 1914-1918 / Ruby Heap -- Ethel Currant: portrait of a Grenfell Nurse / Jill Perry -- Vera Peters: medical Innovator / J. Catton and P. Catton -- Norah Toole: Scientist and social activist / Marianne Gosztonyi Ainley -- Alice V. Payne, Mining Geologist: a lifetime of "small and difficult things" / E. Tina Crossfield -- Vignette: A case study of an oral history project -- Shirley Peruniak: Naturalist, Historian, Quetico Provincial Park Interpreter / Wilma MacDonald; Earning their bread : introduction / A.B. McCullough -- Sidebar: depression years -- Sidebar: Pay Equity -- Vignette: An oral history Case study -- A Barnardo Girl becomes a servant an Glanmore / Christine Zaporzan -- Bring "Domestics" to Canada: A study of immigration propaganda / Ellen Schienberg -- Women in the Newfoundland Fishery / Miriam Wright -- Vignette: Madeleine Constant, leader in the pasta industry / Lise Bre*mault -- Creative ability and business sense: The Millinery trade in Ontario / Christina Bates -- Our Mothers' patterns: sewing and dressmaking in the Japanese-Canadian community / Susan Michi Sirovyak -- Federica and Angelina: postwar Italian-Canadian couturiers in Toronto / Alexandra Palmer -- Fabrications: clothing, generations, and stitching together the history we live / Kathryn Church -- The telephone operator: from"information central" to endangered species / Caroline Martel (translated by Rosemary Cover); Ann Meekitjuk Hanson: Inuit broadcaster, interpreter, and community worker / Christine Lalonde -- Cultural Nationalism and maternal feminism: Madge Macbeth as writer, broadcaster, and literary figure / Peggy Kelly -- "The day of the strong-minded frump has passed": women journalists and news of feminism / Barbara M. Freeman -- Sidebar: Jean McKishnie Blewett -- Women in banking: a case study of Scotiabank / Jane Mokes and Lisa Singer -- Vignette: The Keroacks, a family of business women / Lise Brémault -- "The Queen of the Hurricanes": Elsie Gregory MacGill, Aeronautical engineer and women's advocate / Pamela Wakewich -- The Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service during the Second World War: an exploration of their archival legacy / Donna Porter -- Vignette: "Not Just 'Rosie the Riveter ... '" -- Women's wartime work and identities: women workers at Canadian Car and Foundry Co. Limited, Fort William, Ontario, 1938-1945; Pamela Wakewich, Helen Smith, and Jeanette Lynes -- Foreign Aid worker and humanitarian Lotta Hitschmanova and the Unitarian Service Committee of Canada / Grace Hyam.