A good investment: women and property ownership in a mid-twentieth century Canadian suburb, Oak Bay, British Columbia, 1940-1960
| dc.contributor.author | Patterson, Brandy J. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | McCann, L. D. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-04-30T17:49:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-04-30T17:49:46Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2010 | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-04-30T17:49:46Z | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Geography | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Arts M.A. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis situates women as stakeholders in Canada’s post-war suburban development in their roles as designers, builders, owners and investors. By 1949, 60 percent of properties in the Municipality of Oak Bay, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, were held in female ownership. Most women owned houses jointly with their husbands. Others owned houses, vacant lots, commercial buildings and investment properties solely in their name. To understand the role that women played in shaping the built landscape of this post-war Canadian suburb between 1940 and 1960, information for each female owned property, along with a 20 percent sample, was collected from the municipality’s 1949 property assessment roll. Results were matched with a Geographic Information System (GIS) to illustrate the spatial characteristics of these ownership patterns and building permit records were examined. In-depth interviews were conducted with eleven women who spoke about their own or a relative’s experiences as property owners. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2682 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | en |
| dc.subject | Canada | en |
| dc.subject | Suburban development | en |
| dc.subject | Post-war | en |
| dc.subject | Women | en |
| dc.subject | Gender | en |
| dc.subject | Property ownership | en |
| dc.subject | Municipal assessment records | en |
| dc.subject | Victoria, B.C. | en |
| dc.subject | Building permits | en |
| dc.subject.lcsh | UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Social Sciences::Geography | en |
| dc.title | A good investment: women and property ownership in a mid-twentieth century Canadian suburb, Oak Bay, British Columbia, 1940-1960 | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |