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Skirting the Boundaries: Businesswomen in Colonial British Columbia, 1858–1914

In: Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century

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  • Melanie Buddle

    (Trent University)

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This chapter investigates how marriage and family affected the business behaviours of white settler women from the mid-nineteenth-century gold rush era to the beginning of World War I in British Columbia, Canada. Looking at census records, newspapers and business directories, the author demonstrates that marital status is integral to the story of female entrepreneurship. In the colony-turned-province, the gender imbalance and resulting high rates of marriage for women did not stop them from working but influenced the likelihood they would work on their own account rather than as employees. British Columbia provided particularly fertile ground for women to commercialise their domestic skills through entrepreneurial forms of work. Marriage and motherhood did not halt their participation in the labour force but increased their propensity for entrepreneurship.

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  • Melanie Buddle, 2020. "Skirting the Boundaries: Businesswomen in Colonial British Columbia, 1858–1914," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Jennifer Aston & Catherine Bishop (ed.), Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 315-336, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-33412-3_13
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33412-3_13
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