The 1901 Eaton's Catalogue

The 1901 Eaton's Catalogue

Author: T. Eaton Co

Publisher: Stoddart

Published: 1999-03

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780773759237

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In 1901 Timothy Eaton had become one of the world's outstanding retail merchant. Through the pages of the 1901 Eaton's catalogs the rural and quiet life in that period comes vividly to life. Some will relive the days of their youth, others will remember the furnishings and equipment they saw stored in their grandmother's attic, and the young will smile and be amused at that very strange and different era.All members of the family spent hours enjoying by oil or gas light the fascinating and interesting illustrations and descriptions of items including: butter-churns, ostrich feathers, men's fur coats, brass and iron bedsteads, organs, shoo-fly rockers, graphophones, bibles, seal lined underwear, Agnew's heart cure, wigs, ladies' automobile and sealette coats, medical batteries and, of course, Granny's Gift Box of Tom Smith's Toy Crackers.


Women, Work, and Place

Women, Work, and Place

Author: Audrey Lynn Kobayashi

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 077351225X

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Comprises nine essays on the impact of age, ethnic origin, social class, cultural and other experiential factors on the role of women as social agents in the late 19th and 20th century.


Eaton's of Canada

Eaton's of Canada

Author: Samuel Herbert Ditchett

Publisher: New York : Dry Goods Economist, 1923 (New York : Federal Printing Company)

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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Lunch-Bucket Lives

Lunch-Bucket Lives

Author: Craig Heron

Publisher: Between the Lines

Published: 2015-06-03

Total Pages: 1322

ISBN-13: 1771132132

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Lunch-Bucket Lives takes the reader on a bumpy ride through the history of Hamilton’s working people from the 1890s to the 1930s. It ambles along city streets, peers through kitchen doors and factory windows, marches up the steps of churches and fraternal halls, slips into saloons and dance halls, pauses to hear political speeches, and, above all, listens for the stories of men, women, youths, and children from families where people relied mainly on wages to survive. Heron takes wage-earning as a central element in working-class life, but also looks beyond the workplace into the households and neighbourhoods—settlement patterns and housing, marriage, child care, domestic labour, public health, schooling, charity and social work, popular culture, gender identities, ethnicity and ethnic conflict, and politics in various forms—presenting a comprehensive view of working-class life in the first half of the twentieth century. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.


One woman's Charlottetown

One woman's Charlottetown

Author: Evelyn J. MacLeod

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1988-01-01

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1772824054

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Margaret Gray Lord was the second daughter of Father of Confederation, John Hamilton Gray, and the wife of Artemas Lord. The diaries portray the social life of a Victorian lady living in Prince Edward Island and cover her transition from a life of gentility in a British possession to one of domesticity in a Canadian province.