Domestic service in British Columbia, 1850-1914

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dc.contributor.authorBrown, Lorraine C.
dc.contributor.supervisorRoy, Patricia E.
dc.date.accessioned2007-11-23T16:37:01Z
dc.date.available2007-11-23T16:37:01Z
dc.date.copyright2007en_US
dc.date.issued2007-11-23T16:37:01Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of History
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractFrom the mid 1850s through the early 1900s, the white middle and upper class inhabitants of British Columbia persevered in their attempts to solve the ‘servant problem’ and to re-create the British domestic sphere in a new land. Some families emigrated with their British servants in tow. There were repeated efforts to import English girls and women en masse. And many employers were obliged to tolerate ‘strangers’ (Aboriginal and Chinese servants) in their homes. British Columbia’s peculiar ‘servant problem’ ensured that the Imperial vision of employer-servant relations and domestic order could not be exactly reconstructed.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/254
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subject"domestic service"en_US
dc.subjectwhite female servantsen_US
dc.subjectChinese domestice servantsen_US
dc.subjectFirst Nations servantsen_US
dc.subjectservants British Columbiaen_US
dc.subjectVictoria 1850sen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Canada--Historyen_US
dc.titleDomestic service in British Columbia, 1850-1914en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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