Telling Tales: Essays in Western Women’s History PDF
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Telling Tales This page intentionally left blank Edited by Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne Telling Tales ’ © UBC Press All rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or transmitted,in any form or by any means,without prior written permission of the publisher,or,in Canada,in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying,a licence from CANCOPY (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), – Adelaide Street East,Toronto,ON . Printed in Canada on acid-free paper ∞ --- Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: Telling tales Includes bibliographical references and index. --- .Women–Canada,Western–History. .Women pioneers–Canada, Western–History. .Canada,Western–History. I.Cavanaugh,Catherine Anne,- II.Warne,R.R.(Randi Ruth),- . .′′ -- This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada,using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. UBC Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities. We also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program,as well as the support of the British Columbia Arts Council. UBC Press University of British Columbia West Mall,Vancouver,BCVT Z () - Fax:() - E-mail:[email protected] www.ubcpress.ubc.ca For John Foster and Barbara Roberts This page intentionally left blank Contents Illustrations / ix Acknowledgments / xi Introduction / Catherine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R.Warne “I Wish the Men Were Half as Good”: Gender Constructions in the Canadian North-Western Mission Field, - / Myra Rutherdale Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the “Indian Woman” in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada / Sarah Carter Imagining Native Women: Feminine Discourse and Four Women Travelling the Northwest Coast / Nancy Pagh Irene Marryat Parlby: An “Imperial Daughter” in the Canadian West, - / Catherine A. Cavanaugh Gender(ed) Tensions in the Work and Politics of Alberta Farm Women, - / Sheila McManus Childbirth on the Canadian Prairies, - / Nanci Langford 7 Nursing Nation Builders:The “Council Idea,” Western Women, and the Founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada, - / Beverly Boutilier viii Contents Scattered but Not Lost: Mennonite Domestic Servants in Winnipeg, s- s / Frieda Esau Klippenstein Negotiating Sex and Gender in the Ukrainian Bloc Settlement: East Central Alberta between the Wars / Frances Swyripa “Abundant Faith”: Nineteenth-Century African- Canadian Women on Vancouver Island / Sherry Edmunds-Flett Marriage, Family, and the Cooperative Ideal: The Telfords / Ann Leger-Anderson Bibliography / Contributors / Index / Illustrations Map of western Canada Charlotte Selina Bompas. Stringer Photos, Anglican Church of Canada, General Synod Archives, P - Nurse Prudence Hockin at St. Luke’s Hospital, Pangnirtung, NWT. MSCC Photos, Anglican Church of Canada, General Synod Archives, P - S - Bishop and Mrs. Stringer, London, England, . Stringer Photos, Anglican Church of Canada, General Synod Archives, P - Florence Hirst and Bessie Quirt skating, . Arctic Photos, Anglican Church of Canada, General Synod Archives, P Box Septima Collis, as shown in A Woman’sTrip to Alaska ( ). Special Collections, UBC Library “Princess Thom,” as illustrated in Collis’s A Woman’sTrip to Alaska ( ). Special Collections, UBC Library Irene Marryat Parlby. Glenbow Archives, PA- - Irene Marryat Parlby at the ranch with her son Humphrey (Hum), c. . Glenbow Archives, NA- - Members of the United Farmers’ Government, with Irene Marryat Parlby center front. Glenbow Archives, ND- - Anti-midwife poster distributed by the Department of Public Health, . Provincial Archives of Alberta, A Mennonite domestic servants. Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies in Canada Young women arriving at the Mary Martha Home in the s. Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies in Canada Former domestics visiting house parent Helen Epp in her retirement. Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies in Canada
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