Legacy and Contribution to Canada of European Female Emigrants

Contents: Pauline Arseneault: Emergence de nouvelles sources de l'histoire des émigrantes - Yves Landry: Antécédents familiaux et contribution démographique des Filles du roi au peuplement du Canada au XVII e siècle - Lorna McLean/Marilyn Barber: Making Colonial Homes: Sources on Irish Female Domestics in Nineteenth-Century Canada - Sylvie Arend: Women in Business and Liberal Professions in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Some European Immigrant Profiles in Three Ontario Towns - Elizabeth Hopkins: The Enduring Legacy of Catharine Parr Traill - Raymonde Litalien: Une écrivaine séculière, Madame Bégon - Terry McDonald: "My Mistress taught me a great many French words...". English Women Emigrants to Canada in the 1830s - Annie Blondel-Loisel: On the Contribution of Swedes and more particularly Swedish Maids to the Establishment of a Community in Winnipeg at the end of the 19 th Century - Elizabeth Smyth: French Women Religious in Canada West: a Case Study of Two Nineteenth Century Convent Academies of the Sisters of St Joseph (Toronto) and the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (London) - Françoise Le Jeune: British Female Emigrants' Contribution and Legacy to Colonial British Columbia - Georges Letissier: "Awayness" and the immigration experience in Jane Urquhart's Away - Hélène Destrempes/Jean Morency: Naissance de l'écriture migrante au Canada français (1920-1950): les romans de Marie Le Franc et Geneviève de la Tour Fondue.

The Editor: Françoise Le Jeune teaches the history of the British Empire as well as Canadian History at the University of Nantes (France). In her research, she focuses on the various discourses on women as empire-builders in 19th-century British colonies.