In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimers left their homes to work in the United States or other parts of Canada. Why they left and how their departure affected the region's economy have long been debated but, until now, a major component of that exodus has been largely ignored. In Obligation and Opportunity Betsy Beattie addresses this oversight, examining the lives of the tens of thousands of single Maritime women who left to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- 305.48/90652/09715
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- 21
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773568228
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- HD6096.B7
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- B43 2000eb
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- 1 electronic text (xii, 176 p.)
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Tables and Figures 8
- Illustrations 10
- Acknowledgments 12
- Introduction: The Unfinished History of Maritime Out-migration 16
- PART ONE: THE VANGUARD 36
- 1 Changes at Home: The Maritime Economy and the Exodus, 1850–1890 38
- 2 Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1880 55
- PART TWO: ELDORADO 76
- 3 The Maritimes in the Early Twentieth Century 78
- 4 Working in Boston in the Early Twentieth Century 96
- 5 Living in Boston in the Early Twentieth Century 119
- Epilogue and Conclusion 134
- Appendix A: Domestic and Agricultural Production in the Maritimes 142
- Appendix B: Occupation Tables 144
- Notes 158
- Index 186
- A 186
- B 186
- C 186
- D 186
- E 187
- F 187
- G 187
- H 187
- I 187
- K 187
- L 187
- M 187
- N 187
- O 188
- P 188
- R 188
- S 188
- T 189
- U 189
- V 189
- W 189
- Y 189
