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Women in nineteenth-century Toronto owned factories and stores, were involved in professions and vocations, and were not housebound uneducated women as historians generally suggest. Elizabeth Gillan Muir shows how wide-ranging womenâ s activities were â from owning taverns, schools, and market gardens to working as doctors, musicians, and butchers.

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Women in nineteenth-century Toronto owned factories and stores, were involved in professions and vocations, and were not housebound uneducated women as historians generally suggest. Elizabeth Gillan Muir shows how wide-ranging womenâ s activities were â from owning taverns, schools, and market gardens to working as doctors, musicians, and butchers.
Autorenporträt
Elizabeth Gillan Muir has taught Canadian history at the University of Waterloo and Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto. She has written extensively about women in Upper Canada and the role of women in the Christian Church. Elizabeth holds degrees from Queen's University, the Harvard Business School, and a Ph.D. from McGill University. She lives in Toronto.