Never done: three centuries of women's work in Canada

19th century aiud aiul baby baked became bees better British British Columbia Canadian women cities clothing colony cooking D'Aulnay Daughters dowry dress dressmakers early Elsie MacGill Emigration England English factories farm female fill fire France French Gabrielle Roy girls hired Hochelaga household housework husband immigrant Jacquelin labour ladies land laundry lives look Lower Canada Loyalists machine Madame male Maman marriage married meal Montreal mother neighbours Nellie McClung never nuns nursing Ontario organizations Papa pioneer prairie preserving problems prostitution Quebec Quebec City Quilting ready-made Rebellion river servants settlers sewing sewing needles social society stitches story survival Susanna Moodie teaching tell tluit took Toronto towns turn union Upper Canada usually wages wanted wash winter woman women in Canada women teachers workers young YWCA