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"This is our Work": The Women's Division of the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization, 1919-1938

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"This is our Work": The Women's Division of the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization, 1919-1938
Résumé
Anglophone women, working in a new capacity as federal civil servants, exercised a significant influence on Canadian immigration policy in the interwar years. This dissertation focuses on the women's division of the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization, an agency charged with recruiting British women for domestic service from 1919 to 1938. The division was a product of the women's wing of the social reform movement and prevailing theories of gender difference and anglo-superiority. Tracing its nearly twenty years of operations shows how the division, initially regarded as a source of imperial strength and a means of English Canada's cultural survival, came to symbolize the disadvantages of Canada's connection to Great Britain and supposed weaknesses inherent in the female character. This institutional study explores the real and imagined connections among gender, imperialism, and the changing socio-economic landscape of interwar Canada. Lien avec Montréal - dans la thèse
Type
Thèse de doctorat (histoire)
Université
Université McGill
Date
1999
Nb de pages
iii, 242
Citer ce document
MANCUSO, Rebecca. “This is our Work”: The Women’s Division of the Canadian Department of Immigration and Colonization, 1919-1938. Thèse de doctorat (histoire), Université McGill, 1999. iii, 242 p.
Conseil de recherche en sciences humaines du Canada Fonds de recherche Société et culture
Crédit photo : Vue en direction sud-est vers l’édifice de Bell Téléphone, avec le pont Jacques-Cartier au loin, Montréal, QC, vers 1935.
Photographe : Harry Sutcliffe. Collection du Musée McCord, M2011.64.2.3.41 © Musée McCord.
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