Patterson, Brandy J.2010-04-302010-04-3020102010-04-30http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2682This 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.enAvailable to the World Wide WebCanadaSuburban developmentPost-warWomenGenderProperty ownershipMunicipal assessment recordsVictoria, B.C.Building permitsUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Social Sciences::GeographyThesis