Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Note on Terminology

Introduction

Chapter 1. Narrowing Opportunities for Women: From the Indigenous Farmers of the Great Plains to the Exclusions of the Homestead Regime

Chapter 2. "Land Owners and Enterprising Settlers in the Colonies": British Women Farmers for Canada

Chapter 3. Widows and Other Immigrant Women Homesteaders: Struggles and Strategies

Chapter 4. Women Who Bought Land: The "Bachelor Girl" Settler, "Jack" May, and Other Celebrity Farmers and Ranchers

Chapter 5. Answering the Call of Empire: Georgina Binnie-Clark, Farmer, Author, Lecturer

Chapter 6. "Daughters of British Blood" or "Hordes of Men of Alien Race"?: The Homesteads-For-British-Women Campaign

Chapter 7. The Persistence of a "Curiously Strong Prejudice": From the First World War to the Great Depression

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index