Online Resources, Part I
Summary Questions
- How did theories about home reinforce or challenge constructions of gender in Canada?
- How do the articles address negotiations of power in the home?
- How are ideas about class communicated in the "visualizing home" section?
Websites
“An Infectious Idea: 125 Years of Public Health in Toronto” – City of Toronto Archives http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=b14e757ae6b31410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=7a27bcf5a1d21410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
“A Consuming Passion” – McCord Museum http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/webtours/tourID/VQ_P2_3_EN
Dear Sadie: Love, Lives, and Remembrances from Ontario’s First World War – Archives of Ontario http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/explore/online/WW1/index.aspx
Eugenics Archive http://eugenicsarchive.ca/
“Calgary in the 1950s” – Glenbow Museum http://www.glenbow.org/50s/home_eng.htm
“Africville” http://www.africville.ca/index.html
“Niitoy-yiss: The Blackfoot Tipi” – Glenbow Museum http://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/blackfoot/index.htm
“Sharing Authority with Baba” www.sudburyukrainians.ca
Lostscapes: Visiting Old Iroquois – Jon van der Veen and Joy Parr http://megaprojects.uwo.ca/iroquois/OldIroquois_content.html
“Memorable Montreal” – Heritage Montreal http://www.memorablemontreal.com/heritage.html
67 Homes for Canadians (1947) https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/en/corp/about/hi/hi_001.cfm
“Women as Students: Spencer Family Fonds” – University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/archives/womenandeducation/spencer.shtml
Videos
A Depression-era Christmas Message (1936) http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/a-depression-era-christmas-message
“In the Suburbs” (1957) http://www.archive.org/details/IntheSub1957
“Who’s the Happiest Homemaker?” (1957) http://archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/pastimes/topics/1192-6596/
“Casseroles Galore!” (1957) http://archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/food/clips/6605/
“Canadian Immigrant Experience” (1977) http://archives.cbc.ca/society/immigration/clips/12198/
“Cooking for Men” (1965) http://archives.cbc.ca/lifestyle/pastimes/clips/6601/
“Farewell Oak Street” (1953) https://www.nfb.ca/film/farewell_oak_street
Further Reading
Annmarie Adams, Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870–1900 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996)
Denyse Baillargeon, Making Do: Women, Family, and Home in Montreal during the Great Depression translated by Yvonne Klein (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999)
Bettina Bradbury, Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007 [1993])
Nancy Christie, ed., Households of Faith: Family, Gender and Community in Canada, 1760–1969 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002)
Megan Jane Davies, Into the House of Old: A History of Residential Care in British Columbia (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003)
Richard Dennis, Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840–1930 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Magda Fahrni, Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005)
Richard Harris, Creeping Conformity: How Canada became Suburban, 1900–1960 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)
Suzanne Morton, Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995)
Joy Parr, Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Postwar Years (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999)
Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849–1871 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001)
Frances Swyripa, Wedded to the Cause: Ukrainian-Canadian Women and Ethnic Identity, 1891–1991 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993)