Includes bibliographical references.

Kateri Tekakwitha's tortuous path to sainthood / Nancy Shoemaker -- "...sauf les perils et fortunes de la mer': merchant women in New France and the French Transatlantic Trade, 1713-1746 / Kathryn A. Young -- Women and the Escheat movement: the politics of everyday life on Prince Edward Island / Rusty Bitterman -- 'The Queen is a whore!' gender, language, and politics in the Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837-1838 / Allan Greer -- Nobler savages: representations of native women in the writings of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill / Carole Gerson -- Gender ideology and black women as community-builders in Ontario, 1850-1870 / Shirley J. Yee -- Great works and good works: the Toronto Women's Literary Club, 1877-1883 / Heather Murray -- Women's workplaces: the impact of technological change on working-class women in the home and in the workplace in nineteenth-century Montreal / Bettin Bradbury -- First Nations women and colonization on the Canadian Prairies, 1870s-1920s / Sarah Carter -- A legacy of ambivanclence: responses to Nellie McClung / Janice Fiamengo.

Sex and shame: some thoughts on the social and historical meaning of rape / Karen Dubinsky -- Good wives and wise mothers: Japanese picture brides in early twentieth-century British Columbia / Michiko Midge Ayukawa -- Claiming a unique place: the introduction of mothers' pension in British Columbia / Margaret Hillyard Little -- Beyond romance: courtship and marriage in Montreal between the wars / Denyse Baillargeon -- Telling our stories: feminist debates and the use of oral history / Joan Sangster -- Carrier women and the politics of mothering / Jo-Anne Fiske -- Revisiting Canada's civilian women during World War II / Jeff Keshen -- Victims of the times, heroes of their lives: five Mennonite refugee women / Marlene Epp -- From 'Mothers of the Nation' to migrant workers: immigration policies and domestic workers in Canadian history / Seder Arat-Koc -- Recipes for democracy? gender, family, and making female citizens in cold war Canada / Franca Iacovetta -- Home dreams: women and the suburban experiment in Canada, 1945-1960 / Veronica Strong-Boag -- 'Don't let your girlfriends ruin your marriage': lesbian imagery in Chatelaine magazine, 1950-1969 / Valerie J. Korinek -- Race, culture, and the colonization of childbirth in Northern Canada / Patricia Jasen -- 'Women and children first': fishery collapse and women in Newfoundland and Labrador / Barbara Neis and Susan Williams -- Quebec women in politics: a reappraisal / Manon Tremblay -- NAFTA, women, and organizing in Canada and Mexico: forging a 'Feminist internationality' / Christina Gabriel and Laura Macdonald.