Anything in Skirts Stands a Chance: Marketing the Canadian North-West to British Women, 1880-1914 Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • Urgent! Thousands of nice girls are wanted in the Canadian West! Despite the popular view that anything in skirts stood a chance, the Canadian government's campaign to attract British female emigrants between 1880 and 1914 posed barriers of class, education, an d training. Period documents suggest that the government achieved its greatest impact through a strategy that stimulated the efforts of businesses and British societies with similar interests in Canadian settlement.

publication date

  • June 1998