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Pages: 402
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Arguing that the role of Upper Canadian women in the overall economy of the early colonial period has been greatly undervalued by contemporary historians. Jane
Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids
Language: en
Pages: 396
Authors: Elizabeth Jane Errington
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-09-11 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Errington explores evidence of a distinctive women's culture and shows that the work women did constituted a common experience shared by Upper Canadian women. M
A History of Marriage
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Pages: 507
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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-04 - Publisher: Seven Stories Press

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What does the "tradition of marriage" really look like? In A History of Marriage, Elizabeth Abbott paints an often surprising picture of this most public, yet m
Private Women and the Public Good
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In 1846, a group of women came together to form what would become one of nineteenth-century Hamilton’s most important social welfare institutions. Through the
The Other Quebec
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: John Irvine Little
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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The Other Quebec explores some of the complex ways that religious institutions and beliefs affected the rural societies in which the majority of Canadians still