Veronica Strong-Boag, FRSC

Professor

Women's and Gender Studies and Educational Studies

University of British Columbia

University or Institution Degree Subject Area Dates

Toronto PH.D History 1971-5

Carleton M.A. History 1970-1

Toronto B.A.

(Hon)

History 1966-70

University, Company or Organization Rank or Title Dates

UBC Women's & Gender Studies & Educational

Studies

Professor 1991-

Simon Fraser, History and Women's Studies Professor 1988-91

Simon Fraser, History and Women”s Studies Associate Professor 1980-88

Concordia , History Assist. Professor 1976-80

Trent, History Assist. Professor 1974-6

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

Jules and Gabrielle Leger Research Fellowship, SSHRCC, 2010-11

Senior Killam Fellowship 2003-05

British Columbia Representative, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 2005-8

Raymond Klibansky Prize, 2001, w/ Carole Gerson from HSSFCfor the Best Book in English in the

Humanities in Canada in 2000

Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 2001

President of the Canadian Historical Association (1993-4)

Canadian Who's Who 1992-

Killam Prize for Research, UBC 1994

Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Confederation 1993, Government of Canada.

Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for the best book in Canadian History for 1988, awarded by the Canadian

Historical Association

Honourable Mentiion, Hilda Neatby Prize for the best article in women”s history 1987, awarded by the

Canadian Historical Association, for both "Pulling in Double Harness or Hauling a Double Load:

Women, Work and Feminism on the Canadian Prairie", Journal of Canadian Studies, 21: 3 (fall

1986), pp. 32-52 & "Keeping House in God‟s Country: Canadian Women at Work in the Home" in

Craig Heron & Robert Storey (ed.), On The Job: Confronting The Labour Process in Canada,

McGill/Queen‟s University Press, 1986, pp. 124-151

Co-winner, with Anita Clair Fellman, Laura Jamieson Prize, 1987 from Canadian Research Institute for

the Advancement of Women for best feminist book by a Canadian author, for Rethinking Canada,

1986

Joint Runner-up, Hilda Neatby Prize (CHA), 1986

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Canada Council Graduate Fellowship 1972 and 1973

Central Mortgage and Housing Fellowship, 1972 (declinedj)

Ontario Graduate Fellow, 1970 and 1971

Epstein Scholarship, Carleton, 1970

Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, 1970

Canadian History Prize, University of Toronto, 1970

Archibald Lampman Scholarship for Excellence, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 1968

Ontario Scholarship, 1966

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

“Still Waiting for Justice: Provincial Politics and Gender Inequality in BC 2001-2009: Update,” BC

Federation of Labour, March 6, 2009.

“A Work in Progress: Canadian Feminism in the Long 1960s,” Canadian Studies, Princeton University,

Princeton, N.J., USA, November 22, 2008

Presentation on “Still Waiting for Justice: Provincial Politics and Gender Inequality in BC 2001-2008,”

BC Federation of Labour, March 8, 2008.

Presentation on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada at the Annual Conference of the BC

Museums Association October 2007, Richmond BC

Presentation on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada to the BC Family of Historic Sites

and Monuments, Burnaby Village, Feb. 2007.

Presentation on public history to public history course taught by Dr. Patrick Dunae, Malaspina

University College, Nanaimo 30 March 2006

Presentation on the HSMBC at the pre-meetings of the Annual Conference of the BC Museums

Association October 2006, Prince George, BC.

Preparing for War and Building for Peace: Canadian women between the Great Wars” Aug. 13, 2006,

Vancouver Museum.

“Today”s Child: Canadians and Adoption in the Toronto Telegram in the 1960s,” Department of

History, University of Northern B.C., November 2004.

“Never the Squaw: E. Pauline Johnson Challenges White Canada,” History and Women”s Studies

Seminar Series, University of Alberta, November 8, 2003.

“Thinking About Heroines in History: Pauline Johnson and Nellie McClung,” Brock House Seniors,

November 6, 2003

“E. Pauline Johnson and White Canada,” Women”s Studies Lecture Series, Memorial University of

Newfoundland, Oct. 21, 2003

“Pauline Johnson and British Columbia,” International Women”s Day Lecture, Vancouver Museum,

March 2003

“E. Pauline Johnson, New Woman,” w/ Carole Gerson, Women”s History Month Presentation,

Department of Women”s Studies, Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University, October 2002.

“E. Pauline Johnson and Canada”, Flag Day Celebration, University College of the Cariboo, February

2002.

“Natives and Highlanders: “Savages” and Empire”, Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Native

Studies, Trent University, October 2001

E. Pauline Johnson: Native Advocate, New Woman and Nationalist,” Vancouver Historical Society, Oct.

25, 2000

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“The Citizenship Debates: Race and Gender in the Franchise Act of 1885,” York University Research

Seminar in Women”s Studies, September 2000.

“Historians and the News,” Invited Panel, Meetings of the Canadian Historical Association, Edmonton,

Alberta, June 2000

“Pauline Johnson,” Broadcast One, CBC, August 14, 2000

“International Women”s Day,” BCTV, Vancouver, March 8, 2000

Futures and Pasts: New Directions for Research in the History of Women”s Health,” Invited Plenary

Presentation, “Women, Science and Health in Post-War North America: Comparative Canadian-

American Perspectives,” York University, Conference March 5-7, 1999.

“Violence against Women,” Knowledge Network British Columbia, December 6, 1999

“Canadian Born: Pauline Johnson Imagines the New Nation,”Montreal Social History Group, Jan. 1999.

“Sharing Our Histories,” Conference “Giving the Past a Future,” McGill Institute for the Study of

Canada, Montreal, January 1999.

“Pauline Johnson and the New Nation,” Canadian Studies Conference, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon

France. February 1998.

Interview, “Pauline Johnson”, The History Channel, 1998.

“The Life of Pauline Johnson”, Zonta International, Vancouver Branch, March 1997

“A Red Girl”s Reasoning”: E. Pauline Johnson Constructs the New Nation”. Paper given at UNBC

February 1995, U of New Brunswick April 1995; substantially revised versions given for Women”s

Studies at Simon Fraser, October 1995, Native Studies/Women”s Studies Lecture Series, the University

of Toronto, March 1996 and the International Interdisciplinary Congress of Women”s Studies, Adelaide,

Australia, April 1996.

“Reflecting Canada: Observations on Women”s Studies and Gender Studies at the end of the 20th

Century”. Invited Colloquium, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana, Mexico, February 21-24, 1996.

“Protest and Privilege: Confronting the Challenge of Academic Freedom”. to the UBC Faculty

Association, November 1995, abbreviated version, Vancouver Sun, February, 1996.

“The Challenge of Fairness: Thinking About Canada”s Two Feminist Waves”. Colleque “Feminismes et

cultures politiques nationales”. Septième entretiens du Centre Jacques Cartier, Rhône-Alpes 29

novembre - décembre 1994, Lyons, France.

“Independent Women, Problematic Men: First and Second Wave Anti-feminism in Canada from

Goldwin Smith to Betty Steele” and “Their Side of the Story: Women”s Voices from Ontario Suburbs,

1945-60”, Invited Lectures to the University of Calgary, September 1993.

Interview, CBC, Canada AM, on Canada after the election, September 29, 1993.

Interview on ILO report on Women”s Progress, “The World Tonight Show,” with Philip Till,

CKNW/98, February 4, 1993.

“Independent Women, Problematic Men: First and Second Wave Anti-feminism in Canada from

Goldwin Smith to Betty Steele”, Invited Lecture, Mount Royal College, Calgary, September 1993.

Presented by invitation to the Canadian Studies Colloquium, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina,

April 16, 1993 and again to the Women”s Studies Colloquium, Old Dominion University, Norfolk,

Virginia, April 19, 1993.

“Facing Our Differences/Forging Alliances,” Teaching Women”s History: Challenges and Solutions. A

conference organized by the Canadian Committee on Women”s History, Trent University, August 20-22,

1993.

“The First Woman”s Movement in Canada”, Langara College, March 9, 1993.

“Women in British Columbia,” Vancouver Museum, January 5, 1993.

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“Women in British Columbia,” White Rock and South Surrey Women”s Place, Annual Fund-raising

event, October 1992

“Women in Canada,” Okanagan College, Kelowna, January 23, 1992.

“The Centre for Research in Women”s Studies and Gender Relations”, University Women”s Club,

October 10, 1991.

“The Changing Role of Women,” YWCA, Vancouver, November 13, 1991.

“Keeping Canada Together: Feminist Perspectives,” Continuing Education, UBC, November 1991.

“Reflections on History and the Nature of Canada,” Department of History, University of Toronto,

October 1991.

“Work and Suffrage: Women in Turn-of-the-Century B.C.,” Burnaby Historical Museum, March 1991.

“Home Dreams: Canadian Women and Suburbia, 1945-60”. McGill Centre for Research on Women,

January 1991.

“Some Thoughts on Women and Suburbia in Canada,” S.F.U. History Department Seminar, Oct. 1990.

“Aging and History,” Fort St. John Women”s Centre, October 1990.

“Growing Old: Women in English Canada,” Vancouver Historical Society, April 1990.

“Getting on With Life: Women and the Family in Canada 1945-60,” University of B.C., Public Lecture

Series for History and Women”s Studies, February 1990.

“Humanizing Canadian History: Writing the History of Canadian Women,” Invited Lecture, North

Island College, Courtenay, B.C., February 1989.

“Women and Modern Suburbia,” James Jackson Memorial Lecture in History, University of Manitoba,

March 1989.

“Getting on With Life: Women and the Family in Canada 1945-60,” Distinguished Lecture Inaugurating

the Women”s Studies Programme, University of Western Ontario, March 1988.

“Challenging Bad Times: Women”s Studies in the 1980”s,” SSHRCC/SSFC/CRIAW Conference,

Ottawa, Fall 1987.

“The Confinement of Women,” Shaughnessy Hospital, February 1986.“A People”s History of

Canada”, Vancouver Historical Society, 1985.

“Pulling in Double Harness of Hauling a Double Load: Women, Work and Feminism on the Canadian

Prairie,” W.L. Morton Lecture, Trent University, 1985.

“Peace-Making Women: Canada 1919-1939,” International Congress of the Historical Sciences,

Stuttgart, West Germany, 1985 (given by Dr. Ruth R. Pierson in my unavoidable absence due to

pregnancy) and conference on Women, Peace and Education, OISE, 1984.

“Women”s Studies at SFU,” Channel 10, November 1984.

“Working Lives: Vancouver 1886-1986,” Canadian Studies Programme, University of Alberta,

November 1984.

“Discovering the Home: The Last 150 Years of Work in Canada,” Heritage Conference “83, Ontario

Museums Association, Toronto, 1983.

“New Model Home and Mistress: Canadian Women as consumers in the 1920s and 1930s,” Conference

on Women, Consciousness and Power, Toronto, 1982.

Invited Speaker, “Ideas” Series, CBC/FM: two talks, April 1982.

“Canadian Women as Consumers in the 1920s and 1930s,” University of B.C., 1982.

“Intruders in the Nursery: Childcare Professionals and the Years from One to Five, 1920-1939,”

Children and the Family in Historical Context Workshop, University of Victoria, February 1982.

“History of Canadian Women,” B.C. Teachers Federation Colloquium on Women”s Studies, Feb. 1981.

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“Working Women and the State: The Case of Canada, 1889-1945”. Women and the Canadian Labour

Force Workshop, UBC, January 1981.

“The Graduates of Canada”s Medical Schools for Women,” History Guest Lecture Series, Sir Wilfrid

Laurier, March 1978.

“Early Women Doctors in Canada,” Varieties of Feminism Conference, Concordia, February 1977.

“Women in the Canadian Reform Movement,” The History of Women in Canada, Professor S. Van

Kirk, University of Toronto, January 1977.

“The National Council of Women of Canada,” McGill Colloquium, February 1975.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

“Running Rapids: Cynicism and Sympathy in the Writing of Feminist Biography,” Paper presented to

the Canadian Historical Association Meetings, Montreal, June 1, 2010.

“Wrestling with the Past: The Relations between Fostering and Adoption and Original Kin and

Community in Canada,” Society for the History of Children and Youth, UC Berkeley, July 9, 2009.

“Not Alone: Writing Canadian History as If the World Mattered,” Association for Canadian Studies,

National History Conference, Quebec City, Oct. 25, 2008.

Commentator, sessions on “Second Wave Feminism in Canada” and “Women‟s Sexuality in 20th

Century North America,” Canadian Historical Association, Vancouver June 2008.

“Saving Children, the World, and Ourselves: Canadians and the Children of Vietnam in the 1970s,”

Conference on “Canada as a Refuge,” Centre for Canadian Studies, Edinburgh, May 1-2, 2008.

Keynote, “Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves (or Not): Sisters and Aunts and Responsibilities for

Children in Canada,” New Zealand Historical Association, Wellington, November 2007.

“Experts on Our Own Lives: Commemorating Canada at the Beginning of the 21st Century,” Canadian

Historical Association, Saskatoon, May 2007.

Commentator on Women”s History Session, Canadian Historical Association, Saskatoon, May 2007

Organizer, with Mona Gleason, Tamara Myers, and Leslie Paris, of the SSHRCC-supported invited

workshop, “Lost Kids: Negotiating Disadvantage for Children and Youth in Canada, Australia, and the

United States the 19th

Century to the Present,” University of British Columbia, December 8-10, 2006

Presenter, “Children of Adversity”: Disabilities and Child Welfare in Canada from the 19th

century to the

21s,

,”Lost Kids” Workshop, UBC, December 2006.

Presenter, Foreign Affairs: Canadians and International Adoption, 1945-1990”, British Association of

Canadian Studies, Cambridge, England, April 2006.

Presenter, “Casual Fornicators, Young Lovers, Deadbeat Dads, and Family Champions: Men in

Canadian Adoption Circles,” “The Adoption and Culture Conference,” University of Tampa, Nov. 2005.

Organizer, “BC and Beyond - A Conference Honouring Jean Barman,” w/ Mona Gleason, Jan Hare, and

Kristina Llewellyn, UBC, March 18, 2005

Keynote speaker, “Experts on their Own Lives: E. Pauline Johnson and Canada”s Native Women

Writers,” Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries, 25th

Anniversary

Conference, Grainau, Germany, February 2004.

Keynote Speaker, “Plural Identities, Plural Loyalties: Adoption and Citizenship in Canada”, Presence of

the Past: A National Conference on Teaching, Learning and Communication the History of Canada,

Association for Canadian Studies and Heritage Canada, keynote Speaker, Halifax, October 24, 2003

“Heroic Women”, Presence of the Past: A National Conference on Teaching, Learning and

Communication the History of Canada, Association for Canadian Studies and Heritage Canada, Halifax,

October 24, 2003

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Chair and Organizer, “Rethinking Our Children: On the Margins in B.C.”, BC Studies, May 2003

“Belonging: Canadians and Adoption from the Mid-19th

Century to the present,” Canadian Historical

Association, May 2002

Organizer, “Race, Gender and the Construction of Canada,” October 1997, UBC.

Organizer, “The State of the World”s Children: The Difference Gender Makes,”1996, UBC.

Organizer, “Poverty: Feminist Perspectives”, Conference hosted jointly by the Centre for Research in

Women”s Studies and Gender Relations and the School of Social Work, UBC, Nov. 18-20, 1993.

Organizer with Sherrill Whittington of a Workshop to Develop a Non-Sexist Guide to Writing Distance

Education Materials, Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, June 18-19, 1993.

Commentator, Canadian Society for the History of Medicine, Meetings, Ottawa, June 1993

Commentator, Session on “Working Women in Modern Canada,” C.H.A., Charlottetown, May 1992.

Commentator, “Issues in Women”s Studies: Programme Organization” session, Canadian Women”s

Studies Association, Charlottetown, May 1992.

With Gillian Creese, “Taking Gender into Account in British Columbia: More than Just Women”s

Studies,” BC Studies/Atlantic Studies meetings, St. John”s May 1992, rev. for Victoria, Nov. 1992.

“Women with a Choice: Canada”s Wage-Earning Wives and the Construction of the Middle Class:

1945-1960,” Canadian Historical Association, Charlottetown, May 1992.

Commentator, “Family, Gender and Politics in the 20th Century” session, Conference on History of

Marriage and the Family, Ottawa, May 1992.

Discussant, monthly series on feminist issues, Coop Radio Vancouver, March 1992 to 1998

Organizer, with Dean Lynn Smith and Jeannette Hermes of West Coast Leaf, of “Designing a Future:

B.C. Women and the Constitution,” May 2, 1992.

Organizer, “Women”s Health Across the Life Cycle: Research Issues,” UBC,October 16,18, 1992.

Commentator, “Society on the Resource Frontier,” BC Studies Meetings, UBC, November 1990.

Commentator, “An Eye on Ottawa,” C.H.A. Meetings, Victoria, 1990.

Member, Organizing Committee, BC Studies Meetings, November, 1990.

Organizer, “Transforming Tomorrow: Women”s Studies in the High Schools,” SFU, November 1989.

Organizer, “Women, Work and Unions,” Discussion Series, SFU, September-October 1989.

Organizer, “Women”s Studies in the Universities and Colleges of B.C. and the Yukon,” May 1988.

Chair (two sessions) and member of the Organizing Committee, J.S. Woodsworth Conference, The

Institute of the Humanities, SFU, April 1988.

Chair, “The Female Constituency Conference,” session on Childcare, SFU, February 1988.

Organizer, “Women, Medicine and Psychoanalysis,” Lecture Series in Honour of Western Canada”s

First Endowed Chair in Women”s Studies, Shaughnessy Hospital, Winter-Spring 1986.

Commentator, Conference on “Women and Education,” UBC, 1986.

Commentator on Anne Wood, “The Role of School Art in the Transformation of Liberal Idealism” and

Nancy Sheehan, “Junior Red Cross in the Schools”, CHA, Montreal 1985.

Commentator, “Women”s Access to Curriculum,” Women and Education Conference, UBC, June 1983.

Organizing Committee, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women Conference, 1983

Organizing Committee, Canadian History of Education Association Conference, 1983.

Programme Coordinator, Canadian Women”s Studies Association Conference, 1983.

Liaison, Canadian Committee on Women”s History/Canadian Historical Association, CHA 1983.

Organizer, SSHRCC Workshop, “Women and the Canadian Economy,”September 1982.

Workshop Leader, Women's History, Lower Mainland Social Studies Conference, May 1981.

Joint Coordinator, Panel on Women”s History, Pacific Northwest History Conference, April 1981.

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Writing the History of Women and Work in Canada,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical

Association, University of Western Ontario, June 1978.

“Canada”s Early Experiences with Income Supplements: The Introduction of Mothers” Allowances,”

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Quebec City, November 1978.

Chair, Session on “Women and the Home,” Annual Meetings of the Canadian Association of American

Studies, Concordia University, October 1978.

Chair, Session on “Women and the State: The Case of Canada,” Fourth Berkshire Conference on the

History of Women, Mount Holyoke, August 1978.

“The Girl of the New Day”: Canadian Working Women in the 1920s,” Annual Meeting of the Canadian

Association of American Studies, McMaster University, October 1977.

Commentator on Mary Kinnear”s “The First Women”s Rights Movement in Canada; the Icelandic

Women,” Conference on the Canadian Women”s Movement, York University, September 1977.

Chair, Session on “Women”s History,” CHA, University of New Brunswick, June 1977.

Joint Organizer, Women in Politics Conference, Trent University, October 1975.

Commentator, Colloquium on Social Protest Movements, Dalhousie University, October 1975.

Chair, Session on Women”s History, Canadian Historical Association, Edmonton, 1975.

Workshop Leader, Conference on Women in Canadian Literature, Lac Simon, Quebec, October 1973.

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

a. Journals

“Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves, or Not: Aunts and Caregiving in Canada,” Journal of

Comparative Family History, v. 40, no. 5 (Autumn 2009). 791-807.

VSB and Ruppa Bagga, “Saving, Kidnapping, or Something of Both? Canada and the Vietnam/

Cambodia Babylift, Spring 1975, ” American Review of Canadian Studies 39:3 (Sept. 2009), pp. 271-89.

“Experts on Our Own Lives: Commemorating Canada at the Beginning of the 21st Century, ” The

Public Historian. v. 31, no. 1 (Feb. 2009): 46-68.

Sally Mennill and VSB, “Identifying Victims: Child Abuse and Death in Canadian Families,” Canadian

Bulletin of Medical History/BCHM 25:2 (2008), pp. 11-33/

“Judging Men: Assessments of Fathers in Canadian Adoption Circles” in Emily Hipchen, ed. Adoption

and Culture, v. 1, no. 1 (2007): 69-100.

“Children of Adversity”: Disabilities and Child Welfare in Canada from the nineteenth century to the

twenty-first,‖ Journal of Family History v. 32, no. 4, (2007) 413-32.

“Today”s Child: Preparing for the “Just Society” One Family at a Time,‖ Canadian Historical Review

86, 4 (December 2005): 673-99.

“Interrupted Relations: The Adoption of Children in Twentieth Century British Columiba, ” BC Studies

144 (Winter 2004-5): 3 – 28. Repr. in Diane Purvey and Christopher Walmsley, ed., Child and Family

Welfare in British Columbia: A History (Calgary: Detselig, 2005).

“Experts on their Own Lives: E. Pauline Johnson and Native Women Writers, ” in D. Hoerder and K.

Gross, eds. Twenty-Five years: Gesellschaft fur Kanada-Studien/Achievements and Perspectives, Band

12 (2004)

“Guest Introduction: The Spotlight on Children”. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/BCHM. v. 19:

2002 (2002): 5-16

“”A People Akin to Mine”: Indians and Highlanders within the British Empire, ” Native Studies Review

v. 14: 1 (2001): 27-53.

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“Long Time Coming: The Century of the Canadian Child? ” Journal of Canadian Studies 35:1(Spring

2000): 124-37.

“We Know Many Histories, ” Policy Options, McGill University, 20:2 (March 1999): 45-6.

“No Longer Dull: Women, Gender and the Renewal of Canadian History,” Canadian Social Studies 32:2

(Winter 1998): 55-7.

“Claiming a Place in the Nation: Citizenship Education and the Challenge of Feminists, Natives, and

Workers in Post-Confederation Canada, ” Canadian and International Education 25:2 (December

1996) Special Issue, ed. Alan Sears (1997): 128-45.

“Independent Women, Problematic Men: First and Second Wave Anti-Feminism in Canada from

Goldwin Smith to Betty Steele, ” Histoire sociale/Social History 57 (May 1996):1-22.

“Canada”s Wage-Earning Wives and the Construction of the Middle Class, 1945-60, ” Journal of

Canadian Studies 29:3 (Fall 1994): 5-25.

“Educating Medicine, Educating Women Doctors: The Canadian Experience,” Annals of the Royal

Society of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 27:6 (September 1994): 336-9.

And Gillian Creese, “Taking Gender into Account in British Columbia: More than Just Women”s

Studies,” BC Studies 105/6 (Spring/Summer 1995): 9-26.

“Home Dreams: Canadian Women and the Suburban Experience, 1945-60”,” Canadian Historical

Review 72:4 (December 1991): 24-34. Repr. in Constructing Modern Canada: Readings in Post-

Confederation History, ed. C. Gaffield (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman 1994), in Rethinking Canada

(1997) and in Reappraisals in Canadian History, eds. C.M. Wallace & R.M. Bray (Scarborough: 1999).

“Pulling in Double Harness of Hauling a Double Load: Women, Work and Feminism on the Canadian

Prairie, " Journal of Canadian Studies 21:3 (Fall 1986): 32-52. Repr. in The Prairie West: Historical

Readings (University of Alberta Press, 1991).

And K. McPherson, ““The Confinement of Women, Childbirth and Hospitalization in Vancouver 1919-

1939, " BC Studies 69/70 (Sprig/Summer1986):142-74. Repr. in Delivering Motherhood: Maternal

Ideologies and Practices in the 19th and 20th Cenuries, eds. K. Arnup, A. Levesque and R. R. Pierson

(1990) and in British Columbia Reconsidered. eds. G. Creese and VSB (1992).

“Wages for Housework: Mothers” Allowances and the Beginnings of Social Security in Canada,"

Journal of Canadian Studies 14 (1979): 24-34. Repr. in The Social Basis of Law, ed., Stephen Brickey

and Elizabeth Comach (Toronto: Garamond Press, 1986).

“Mapping Women”s Studies in Canada: Some Signposts,” Journal of Educational Thought 17:2

(August 1983).

“Working Women and the State: The Case of Canada, 1889-1945," Atlantis 6:2 (Spring 1981): 1-9.

Repr. in D. Smith, Women and the Canadian Labour Force (Ottawa: SSHRCC, 1982).

“You be sure to tell it like it is”: The Recovery of Canada”s Past, " Journal of Canadian Studies, 16P: 3

& 4 (Fall-Winter 1981): 217-21.

“"Wages for Housework": Mothers” Allowances and the Beginnings of Social Security in Canada,"

Journal of Canadian Studies 14:1 (Spring 1979): 24-34. Repr. in i eds. R.B. Blake and J. Keshen

(Toronto: Copp Clark, 1995).

“The Girl of the New Day: Canadian Working Women in the 1920s" Labour/Le Travailleur, 4

(1979):131-64. Repr. in M.C. Cross & G.S. Kealey, eds., The Consolidation of Capitalism, 1986-1929:

Readings in Canadian Social History, v. 4 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983).

““Canada”s Early Experience with Income Supplements: The Introduction of Mother”s Allowances, "

Atlantis 4:2 (Fall 1979): 35-43.

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“Raising Clio”s Consciousness in Canada: Archives and Women”s History, " Archivaria 6 (Summer

1978): 70-82.

“Canadian Feminism in the 1920s: The Case of Nellie L. McClung," Journal of Canadian Studies, 12:4

(Summer1977): 58-68. Repr. in The Prairie West Historical Readings, eds. R.D. Francis and Howard

Palmer (Edmonton: Pica Press, 1985).

b. BOOKS

(i) Authored

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts the History of Childhood Disadvantage (Waterloo: Wilfrid

Laurier University Press, 2011).

Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Confronts Adoption from the 19th

Century to the

1990s (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006).

VSB and Carole Gerson, Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson

(Tekahionwake) (Toronto: UTP, 2000), 331 pp.

―Janey Canuck‖: Women in Canada Between Two World Wars, 1919-1939 (CHA Historical Booklet,

1994). Also in French; rev. 1999. 42 pp.

M. Conrad, A. Finkel, with VSB, A History of the Canadian Peoples, v. 2: 1867 to the Present

(Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1993)

The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada 1919-1939 (Toronto: Copp,

Clark, Pitman and Penguin Books, 1988). Chapter 1 repr. in Readings in Canadian History: Post-

Confederation, eds., R.D. Francis and J.D.B. Smith (HRW 1990), 233 pp.

The Parliament of Women: The National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1929 (Ottawa: National

Museum, 1976), 487 pp.

(ii) Edited

M. Gleason, T. Myers, L. Paris, and V. Strong-Boag, eds., Lost Kids: Disadvantaged Children and

Youth in Canada and the U.S (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009). 272 pg

C. Warsh and VSB, eds. Children‖s Health: International Historical Perspectives (Waterloo: Wilfrid

Laurier University Press, 2006).

VSB and Michelle Lynn Rosa. Nellie L. McClung. Clearning in the West and The Stream Runs Fast, ed.,

annotated, and introduced (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2003), 540 pp.

C. Gerson and VSB, E. Pauline Johnson. Tekahionwake. Collected Poems and Selected Prose (Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 2002), 343 pp.

Cheryl K. Warsh and VSB, Special Issue on Children‖s Health, The Canadian Bulletin of Medical

History (v. 19: 2002) published w/ significant additions as book above 2006.

VSB, M. Gleason and A. Perry, eds. Rethinking Canada. The Promise of Women‖s History, ed. and

introd., revis. and enlarged, 4th edition (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2002), 419 pp.

VSB, S. Grace, A. Eisenberg and J. Anderson, eds., Painting the Maple: Essays on Race, Gender and

the Construction of Canada, edited and introduced (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998), 290 pp

VSB and A. C. Fellman, eds., Rethinking Canada, ed. and introd., revis, including introductions to each

article, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997), 498 pp.

VSB and Gillian Creese, British Columbia Reconsidered ed. and introd. (Vancouver, Press Gang, 1992),

451 pp.

A.C. Fellman and VSB, eds. Rethinking Canada, ed. and introd., revis. 2nd ed. (Toronto: Copp Clark

Pitman, 1991), 455 pp.

A.C. Fellman and VSB, eds., Rethinking Canada, ed. and introd. (Toronto: Copp Clark, Pitman, 1986),

282 pp.

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Beth Light and VSB, ―True Daughters of the North‖: Research and Reference Bibliography of

Canadian Women‖s History, ed. and introd. (To.: OISE, 1980), 210 pp.

A Woman with a Purpose: The Diaries of Elizabeth Shortt, selected, edited and introduced (Toronto:

University of Toronto Press, 1980), 298 pp.

(iii) Chapters

M. Gleason, T. Myers, L. Paris, and VSB, eds., “Introduction,” Lost Children: Disadvantaged Children

and Youth in Canada and the U.S (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009).

“”Forgotten people of all the forgotten”: Children with Disabilities Encounter Child Welfare in English

Canada from the 19th

Century to the New Millennium.” In Gleason, Myers, eds. Paris, and VSB, Lost

Children (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009).

M. Gleason and VSB, Chapter 2: Community in A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the

Modern Age (1900-2000) Ed. N. Ray Hiner and Joseph M. Hawes (NY: Berg, 2010)

“The Citizenship Debates: Race and Gender in the 1885 Franchise Act,” repr. from Constructing

Canadian Citizenship, ed. R. Adamoski, D. Chunn, and R. Menzies (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2002) in

M. Conrad and A. Finkel (eds.), Nation and Society: Readings in Post-Confederation Canadian History,

v. 2, 2nd

ed. (Toronto: Pearson, Longman, 2008 )..

“Casual Fornicators, Young Lovers, Deadbeat Dads, and Family Champions: Men in Canadian

Adoption Circles in the 20th Century,” Science, Polity, and Society in Canada: Essays in Honour of

Michael Bliss ed. E. Heaman and A. Li (Toronto: UTP, 2008) : 211-37.

C.K. Warsh, and VSB., “Introduction” to Children's Health Issues in Historical Perspective (Waterloo:

Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006).

C. Gerson and VSB. “Championing the Native: E. Pauline Johnson Rejects the Squaw,” in K. Pickles

and M. Rutherdale, eds. Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women (Van.: UBC Press, 2005): 47-66.

“Women Suffrage and Print,” ch. 5, History of the Book in Canada/l‖Histoire du Livre et de l‖imprimé

au Canada v. 2, eds. Y. Lamonde, P. Fleming, and F. Black, (Toronto: UTP, 2005).

M. Swann and VSB, “McClung, Helen (Nellie) L.”, Dictionary of Canadian Biography (Toronto: UTP,

2005).

McClung, Nellie L.,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography v.35, 2004, 130-1

VSB and G. Creese, “Canada” in Women‖s Issues in North America and the Caribbean, C. Kalny, ed.

In Women”s Issues Worldwide Seriess (N.Y.: Greenwood Publishing, 2003), 49-77.

“Women”s Studies,” Encylopedia of Literature in Canada ed, W.H. New (UTP, 2002).

“Who Counts? Late 19th and Early 20th Century Struggles about Gender, Race, and Class in Canada” in

Citizenship in Transformation ed. Y. Hebert (Toronto: UTP, 2002), 37-56

“Getting to Now: Children in Distress in Canada”s Past,” in B. Wharf, ed. Community Work in Child

Welfare (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2002): 29-46

“The Citizenship Debates: Race and Gender in the 1885 Franchise Act,” in Constructing Canadian

Citizenship: Historical Readings, ed. R. Adamoski, D. Chunn, and R. Menzies (Toronto: Broadview

Press, 2002), 69-94.

“Living Women”s Lives” and “E. Pauline Johnson: Mohawk-English Writer and Performer” in A

Century Stronger: Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century eds. S.A.Cook, L. McLean & K.

O”Rourke (Kingston & Montreal: McGill-Queen”s University Press, 2001), pp. 1-6 and 35-8.

VSB, I. Dyck, K. England and L. Johnson, “What Women's Space?” Changing Suburbs: Foundation,

Form and Function eds. R. Harris and P.J. Larkham (London: E & FN SPON, 1999): 168-186.

“A Red Girl”s Reasoning: E. Pauline Johnson Constructs the New Nation,” in Painting the Maple, eds.

VSB, S. Grace, A. Eisenberg, J. Anderson (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998): 130-54. Repr. in in M.E.

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Kelm and L. Townsend, eds., In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women‖s

History in Canada (Toronto: UTP, 2006): 367-96.

S. Grace, J. Anderson, A. Eisenberg and VSB, “Constructing Canada: An Introduction” in Painting the

Maple: Essays on Race, Gender and the Construction of Canada, eds. VSB, S. Grace, A. Eisenberg, and

J. Anderson (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1998): 3-15.

Chapter 11 “B.C. Society in the 20th Century”, The Pacific Province, ed. Hugh Johnston (Vancouver:

Douglas & McIntyre, 1996): 273-312.

“Too Much and Not Enough--The Paradox of Power for Feminist Academics Working with Community

Feminists on Issues Related to Violence”, Violence: A Collective Responsibility ed. Cannie Stark

(Adamec) (Ottawa: Social Science Federation of Canada, 1995): 105-15.

"Their Side of the Story": Women”s Voices from Ontario Suburbs, 1945-60,” A Diversity of Women,

ed. Joy Parr (Toronto: UTP, 1995): 46-74.

Gillian Creese and VSB, “Introduction: Taking Gender into Account in British Columbia: More than

Just Women”s Studies” in British Columbia Reconsidered eds. G. Creese and VSB (Vancouver: Press

Gang, 1992): 1-17.

“Writing About Women”, Writing About Canada, ed. J. Schultz (Scarborough: Prentice-Hall, 1990):

175-200.

“Peace-Making Women: Canada 1919-1939,” Women and Education for Peace, ed. R. R. Pierson

(London: Croom-Helm, 1987):170-91.

“Ever a Crusader: Nellie McClung 1st Wave Feminist,” Rethinking Canada, eds. VSB and A. Fellman

(Toronto: Copp, Clark, Pitman, 1986): 78-90; revis 1991 edition, repr. 1998 Oxford UP edition.

“Keeping House in God”s country: Canadian Women at Work in the Home” , On the Job, eds. C. Heron

and R. Story (Toronto: McGill-Queens, 1986): 124-51.

“Living,” Chapter 3 in Working Lives, Vancouver 1886-1986 (Van.: New Star Books, 1985): 89-97.

“Greek Days” in Working Lives, Vancouver 1886-1986 (Vancouver: New Star Books, 1985): 112.

“Neighbour Helping Neighbour” in Working Lives, Vancouver 1886-1986, (Vancouver: New Star

Books, 1985): 145.

“Discovering the Home: The Last 150 Years of Domestic Work in Canada," in Women‖s Paid and

Unpaid Work: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, ed. P. Bourne (Toronto: New Hogtown

Press, 1985): 35-60.

“Intruders in the Nursery: Childcare Professionals Reshape the Years for One to Five, 1920-1939” in J.

Parr, ed., Childhood and Family in Canadian History (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982): 160-78.

“Canada”s Women Doctors: Feminism Constrained” in A Not Unreasonable Claim: Women and

Reform in Canada, ed. L. Kealey (Toronto: Women”s Press, 1979): 109-29, 219-22. Repr. S.E.D.

Shortt, ed., Medicine in Canadian Society (Toronto: McGill Queen”s 1981).

“Setting the Stage: National Organization and the Women”s Movement in Late Nineteenth Century

Canada” in The Neglected Majority: Essays in Canadian Women‖s History, ed. S.M. Trofimenkoff and

Alison Prentice (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977): 87-103. Repr. Childhood and Family in

Canadian Society (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982).

VSB and Jean Dryden, “Archival Holdings on Canadian Women”s History: Ontario,” Canadian

Newsletter of Research on Women 5:1 (February 1976): 40-7.

J. Stoddart and VSB, “...And Things Were Going Wrong at Home,” Atlantis 1:1 (Fall 1975): 38-44.

“Nellie L. McClung” in B. Semotok, The Historical Dictionary of Education in Manitoba (1975).

“Cousin Cinderella: A Guide to Historical Literature Pertaining to Canadian Women” in Women in

Canada, ed. M. Stephenson (Toronto: New Press, 1973: General Publishing 1975): 245-74.

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“Introduction” to Nellie McClung, In Times Like These (1915; Toronto: University of Toronto Press,

1971): vii-xxii.

(c) OTHER

The Campaign for the Vote, Visual History Series, National Museum, Ottawa, 1978. Slides and text.

Revised for CD 1993.

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

(a) Journals

"Not Alone: Writing Canadian History as If the World Mattered," Canadian Issues (Fall 2008), 40-43.

"Moving Beyond Tired “Truths” or Let”s Not Fight the Old Battles," BC Studies, No. 111 (Autumn

1996): 84-7.

"Contested Space: The Politics of Canadian Memory, " Journal of the Canadian Historical Association

NS 5 (1994): 3-17. (Presidential address)

L. Kealey, R. Pierson, J. Sangster, VSB, “"Point-Counterpoint": Teaching Canadian History in the

1990s: Whose "National History" Are We Lamenting," Journal of Canadian Studies 27: 2

(Summer1992): 129-31.

"Female Mind, Feminine Experience: The Emerging Definition of Female Intellect in America History,"

Canadian Review of American Studies 13:1 (Spring 1982): 97-107.

"The Fugitive Female: An Introduction to the Bibliography of Canadian Women”s Studies," Canadian

Issues IV (1982): 48-57.

(b) Conference Proceedings

"Reflejando a Canadá: Observaciones en Estudios de la Mujer y Estudios de Género al Final del siglo

XX." Documento de Trabajo de Sociales Núm. DTS 3/1997. Julio de 1998.

"Making a Difference: The History of Canadian Nurses, " Proceedings of the Canadian Association for

the History of Nursing, Calgary, June 1990. Revis. in Canadian Bulletin of the History of Medicine 8:2

(1991): 231-48 and Past is Present, The CAHN/ACHN Keynote Presentations 1988-1996, ed. S.J.

Rankin Zerr, E.A. Fitzpatrick and G. Zilm (Vancouver: CAHN/ACHN, June 1997).

(c) Other

Entries on “Margaret Ormsby”, “Dorothy Smith”, “Mary Bollert”, “Centre for Research in Women”s

Studies and Gender Relations”, in Eric Damer and Herbert Rosengarten, UBC—The First 100 Years

(Tribute Books, 2009)

VSB and Gillian Creese, Still Waiting for Justice: Update 2009 – Provincial Politics and Gender

Inequality in BC, Commissioned Report, BC Federation of Labour, 8 March 2009, 45 pages.

VSB and Gillian Creese, “Still Waiting for Justice: Provincial Politics and Gender Inequality in BC

2001-2008,” Commissioned Report, BC Federation of Labour, 8 March 2008, c36 pages.

G. Creese and VSB, "Canada”” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Ed. Bonnie

Smith (N.Y.: Oxford University Press 2008) and http://www.oxford-

womenworldhistory.com/entry?engry=t248.e143.

G. Creese and VSB, Losing Ground: The Effects of Government Cut-backs on Women in B.C. 2000-

2005, Report for BC Federation of Labour, c 30 pages, 8 March 2005.

“Mothers Allowances”, “Adoption”, Anti-feminism”, “Courtship & Marriage”, “Dionne Quints”, “First

Wave Feminism”, “Pauline Johnson”,”Dorothy Livesay”, “Nellie McClung”, “National Council of

Women of Canada”, “Women Suffrage”, Oxford Companion to Canadian History, ed. G. Hallowell

(To.: Oxford UP, 2005)

“Round Two on Gender Politics,” Vancouver Sun, September 11, 1999

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“Round 3 in the historic pursuit of academic freedom,” Vancouver Sun, January 20, 1996

Work to Be Done: The Canadian Committee on Women‖s History/Comité Canadien de l‖histoire des

femmes, booklet for the 20th anniversary of he CCWH/CCHF (Montreal: CCWH/CCHF, 1995), 12 pp.

“Daughters of the True North”, The Beaver 74:6 (December 1994/January 1995): 29-40.“Independent

Women, Problematic Men: First and Second Wave Anti-feminism in Canadafrom Goldwin Smith to

Betty Steele”, Working Papers, v. 2, Centre for Research in Women”s Studies and Gender Relations,

University of British Columbia, 1993

“50s dream no guide for “90s women”, Globe and Mail (May 7, 1992).

“The suburbs: heaven or hell”, Globe and Mail (May 10, 1991).

With Neil Sutherland and Jean Barman, A Bibliography of Canadian Childhood: Articles (Vancouver:

UBC 1987).

“Shoring up the Nuclear Family: A History of Mothers” Allowances,” Branching Out, 7:2 (1980).

“Graduating into Women”s History,” Resources for Feminist Research 8:2 (July1979): 10-11.

“The Canadian Committee on Women”s History,” Canadian Newsletter of Research on Women,

February 1976

“The Roots of Modern Canadian Feminism,” Canada. An Historical Magazine 3:2 (December1975):12-

33. Reprinted in B. Hodgins and R. Page, eds., Canadian History Since Confederation (1979).

WORK SUBMITTED

“Ever a Crusader: Nellie McClung, First-Wave Feminist” in VSB and Anita Clair Fellman (eds),

Rethinking Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1997, 3rd ed., to be reprinted in Canadian

Women‖s Movement in Historical Perspective, eds. S.A. Cook and E. O'Connor.

WORK IN PROGRESS

““An Edifying Couple”: Lord and Lady Aberdeen, Liberal Aristocrats, Reformers, and Viceregal

Activists in an Imperial World (1877-1939)”

TEACHING

History of Canadian Women, Gender Studies, History of Canadian Children, History of Canadian

Education

Student Name Program Type Year Principal

Supervisor

Co-Supervisor(s)

Start Finish

Cindy Baldassi UBC Law

Comprehensive

Field

2008 w/d Susan Boyd

Sara Rudrum Phd WMST 2009 VSB

Yesman Post Phd

Comprehensive

Field

2008 w/d Mona Gleason

Sonia Eusebio M.Ed. 2007 2009 VSB

Mareva Hope M.Ed 2007 2009 VSB

Laurie Parsons MA WMST 2005 2008 VSB

Sally Mennill Phd. WMST 2005 VSB

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Patricia Barkaskas MA History 2005 2009 W/ Paige

Raibmon

Kristina Lllewelyn Ph.d. EDST 2002 2006 VSB

Lindsay

Donaldson

M.Ed EDST 2003 2007 VSB

Noel Currie M.Ed. EDST 2001 2005 Lesley Andres

Stephanie Khan MA EDST 2005 2007 VSB

Isabella Losinger Ph.d. EDST 2001 VSB

Molly Eichar Ph.d. EDST 2001 dropped VSB

Michelle Swann Ph.d. EDST 1999 2008 VSB

Barbara Issac Ph.d. EDST 1997 dropped VSB

Verna Sheppard EDD EDST 1999 2003 C. Shields Cttee member

Harjinder Sangra MED EDST 2001 2003 VBS Supervisor

Regina

Lyakhovepska

MA EDST 2001 2004 L. Andres Cttee member

Claudia Tovilla-

Borraz

MA EDST 2001 Dropped L. Andres Cttee member

Melanie Scheuer MA WMST 2002 2005 VSB Supervisor

Kimberley Book MA WMST 2001 2004 G. Creese Cttee member

Karen Dias MA WMST 2001 2004 I. Dyck Cttee member

Karen Murray Ph.d. Political

Science

1996 2001 W/ Barbara Arneil

Kevin Belliveau MA 1998 2001 J. Barman Cttee member

Laura Thomas MA EDST 1999 2001 P. Vertinsky Cttee Member

Diane Purvey Ph.d. EDST 1995 2000 VSB

Helen Brown Ph.d. EDST 1994 1999 J. Barman Cttee member

Sheila Martineau Ph.d. EDST 1994 1999 D. Kelly Cttee Member

Lorraine Snowden MA EDST 1994 1997 VSB

Brian Lowe Ph.d. EDST 1993 1998 N. Sutherland Cttee Member

SIMON FRASER (only Senior Supervisor)

Gillian Stainsby MA WMST 1988 1991 VSB

Gwen Szychter MA WMST 1989 1992 VSB

Marcia Toms MA WMST 1989 1993 VSB

Susan Riddell MA History 1989 1991 VSB

Frances

Wasserlein

MA History 1985 1990 VSB

K.athryn

McPherson

Ph.d. History 1985 1990 VSB

Mary Ellen Kelm MA History 1988 1990 VSB

Elaine Bernard Ph.d. History 1983 1989 VSB

Susan Walsh MA History 1981 1994 VSB

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Jane Sproule MA History 1988 1991 VSB

Pamela Karlenzie MA History 1989 1992 VSB

Patricia Roome Ph.d. History 1990 1996 VSB

Barbara Gutman-

Gee

MA WMST 1990 1995 VSB

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (Selected; only S.S.)

Isabel St. Martin MA History 1977 1979

CONTINUING EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

Response to Michael Apple, “Markets, Standards, God and Inequality,” Vancouver, Nov. 14, 2005, SFU

Harbour Centre.

“Canadian Heroine: Nellie L. McClung, and Pauline Johnson”, Brock House Seniors, Nov. 2003

B.C. People: E. Pauline Johnson, Native Advocate and New Woman,” Classical Pursuits, UBC

Continuing Studies, June 2003.

“Women in BC Politics, Luncheon Keynote Speaker, Women”s Campaign School, UBC Cont. Studies

April 2003

“E. Pauline Johnson and the Construction of Canada,” Continuing Education, UBC, November 2002

RESEARCH GRANTS

Granting

Agency

Subject CO

MP

$

Per Year

Year Principal

Investigator

Co-

Investigator(s)

SSHRCC

Gilles &

Gabrielle

Leger

Research

Fellowship

““An Edifying

Couple”: Lord and

Lady Aberdeen, Liberal

Aristocrats, Reformers,

and Viceregal Activists

in an Imperial World

(1877-1939)”

C $50,000 2010 VSB

SSHRCC Always Second Best?

The Nature and

Implications of Foster

Care in English Canada

from the 19th

Century to

the 1990s”

C Total:

$91,000

2006-9 VSB

SSHRCC “Making Room:

Canadians and

Adoption…”

C 3 years for

$73,904.00

2003-6 VSB

Killam “Belonging: Canadians

and Adoption from the

mid-19th

century to the

C 2 years for

$136,376.0

0

2003-5 VSB

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present”

SSHRCC Advertising for

Children

C $3000.00 2002 V. Strong-

Boag

SSHRCC International Travel

Canadian Studies,

Genoa, Italy

C $1800.00 2001

Hampton

Fund, UBC

Educating Girls and

Boys for Poverty

C $31,115.00 2001 V. Strong-

Boag

Canadian

Foundation

for

Innovation

Centre for Studies in

Autobiography, Gender

and Age

C $100,000.0

0

2000 Valerie Raoul VSB and eight

other faculty

SSHRCC Family and a Hard

Place

C $1800.00 2000

SSHRCC Painting the Maple:

Essays on Race, Gender

and the Construction of

Canada (1998)

publication grant

C $6,566.00 1998 V. Strong-

Boag

Sherrill Grace,

Abigail

Eisenberg, Joan

Anderson

SSHRCC A Reconsideration of

Pauline Johnson

C $3,000.00 1997-8 V. Strong-

Boag

Hampton

Place Grant

A Reconsideration of

Pauline Johnson

C $15,800.00 1996-7 V. Strong-

Boag

SSHRCC “Race, Gender & The

Construction of

Canada”

C $125,000.0

0

1993-6 V. Strong-

Boag

Sherrill Grace,

Joan Anderson,

Abigail

Eisenberg

UBC HSS New Faculty

Grant

C $2,000.00 1991-2 V. Strong-

Boag

SSHRCC “Women & the

Suburbs”

C $46,606.00 1989-90 V. Strong-

Boag

SFU Dean of Arts

Publications Grant -

“The Pacific Province”

C $40,000.00 1988 Robin Fisher VSB &

7 co-authors

SFU Publications Grant The

New Day Recalled

C $340.00 1987

SSFC (ASP) Publication Grant The

New Day

C $3,664.00 1987

SSHRCC Sabbatical Leave

Fellowship

C $9,675.00 1985-6

SSHRCC Strategic Grant -

Bibliography on

Canadian Childhood

C $135,000.0

0

1984-7 with Jean

Barman

and

Neil Sutherland

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SSHRCC Strategic Grant Leave

Scholarship

C $37,891.00 1984-5

SSHRCC Strategic Grant C $6,000.00 1982

SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY

a.UBC (selected)

Acting Director, Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, July 1-8, 2009

Occasional Acting Chair, Undergraduate Program in Women”s and Gender Studies, for Wendy Frisby

and Becki Ross, 2009-10.

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Centre for Women”s and Gender Studies, 2007-10

Faculty of Education, Adjudication Committee for Governor-General”s Gold Medal, Ted T. Aoki Prize,

Graduate Student Summer Scholarships 2009

Member, Canadian Studies Coordinating Committee, Faculty of Arts, 2008-

Member, Scholarship Committee, EDST, 2008-10

Member, GPAC, EDST, 2007-10

Coordinator, SCPE Section, Educational Studies, June 2007- June 2010.

Member, Faculty Personnel Committee, Faculty of Education, 2007-8

Member, Faculty SSHRCC Grant and John Andrews Prize Adjudication Committee, Faculty of

Education, 2008

Member, Graduate Student Research Grant Adjudication Committee, Faculty of Education, December

2007.

Member, Dept. of Asian Studies, promotion of Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh to Full Professor, 2007-2008.

Organizer, “Celebrating Teaching in Women”s and Gender Studies at UBC”, March 7, 2008

Coordinator, Graduate Student Poster Session, “Fall Forum, Engendering Social Justice: Celebrating

Women”s and Gender Studies Research at UBC, St. John”s College,Sept. 2007

Member, School of Human Kinetics, promotion of Dr. Wendy Frisby to Full Professor, 2007.

Dean of Arts' Representative, Review of School of Social Work and Family Studies, UBC, Feb. 2007

Peer Evaluation Coordinator, WMST, 2002-on-going

Member, Phd admissions committee, EDST 2006-2010

EDST Representative, Faculty of Education Faculty and Graduate Students Awards Committee, 2006

Chair, Scholarships Committee, EDST, 2004-6

Member Advisory Committee, Centre for Research in Women”s Studies and Gender Relations 2003-on-

going

Member, UBC Senior Awards Committee, 2002-4

Member, Search Committee, CRC in Early Childhood Education, 2002-3

Member, Search Committee, Head, Department of Asian Studies, 2002-3

Member, Advisory Council, Institute for Child Study, Faculty of Education, 2002-05

Graduate Advisor, Department of Educational Studies, 2000-2001

Member, University Student Discipline Committee, 2000-2

Member, Search Committee, Head, Department of History, 1998-2000

Director, UBC Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, 1991-97

Member, UBC Killam Awards Committee, 1996, 1997

Member, UBC Faculty of Education, SSHRCC Small Grants Committee, 1997

Member, University Committee to review the UBC Library System 1995

Member, Personnel Committee, UBC Faculty of Graduate Studies, FOGS, 1995, 1997

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Member, FOGS Graduate Student Survey Committee, 1994

Member, Personnel Committee, Faculty of Education, 1993-7, 2000

Member, Advisory Committee, Multi-Cultural Liaison Office, UBC, 1992-4

Member, Committee to review Administrative Organization and Costs (aka Dupré Committee),1993-4

Member, Task Force on Appropriate Use of Computer Technology, Fall 1992

Member, Council, UBC Centre for Human Settlements, 1992-7

Member, then Chair, Graduate Awards Committee, SEDS/EDST, 1992-7, 1999-on-going

b. Simon Fraser University (selected)

Coordinator, Women”s Studies Programme, Simon Fraser University, 1984-5, 1988-91

Member, President”s Advisory Committee on University Planning, 1982-4

Member, University Tenure Committee, 1987-9.

SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY

Member, Tyrrell Medal, Royal Society of Canada, 2010

Chair, Gender Prize Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 2009

Member, Adjudication Committee, Neil Sutherland prize for the best article in the history of childhood,

International Association for the History of Childhood, Spring 2008.

Judge, Adjudication Committee for the Best Graduate Essay, New Zealand Historical Assoc., Nov. 2007

BC Board Member, Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada (Parks Canada), 2005-8

Member, Membership Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 2005-7.

Member, Advisory Sub--Committee, Periodicals” Committee, Canadian Institute for Historical

Microreproduction, 2002-on-going

Member, Tyrrell Prize Committee, Royal Society of Canada, 2002-8

Member, Raymond Kilibansky Prize Committee, HSSFC 2002-3

Member, Joint Consultative Committee of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and the Social

Sciences Federation of Canada to plan a merger of the bodies (Chair: Dr. Claude Corbo), 1995

Past President, Canadian Historical Association, 1994-5

President, Canadian Historical Association, 1993-4

Member, Board of Directors, Social Science Federation of Canada, 1993-5

Vice-President, Canadian Historical Association, 1992-93

Representative, B.C. and the Yukon, Canadian Committee on Women”s History, 1990-2

Member, Canadian Society for Studies in Education, 1991-on-going

Member, Canadian Committee on Labour History, Publications Committee, 1991-7

Nomination Committee, Canadian Historical Association, 1985-87

Judge, Canadian Studies Writing Awards, Canadian Studies Program, Secretary of State, 1986-7

Member, CRIAW Prize Committee for best popular and scholarly articles 1985-6

Canadian Women”s Studies Association 1985-on-going

General Council, Canadian Historical Association, 1978-81

Canadian Historical Association Standing Committee on the State of the Historical Association, 1977-80

Quebec Coordinator, Canadian Committee on Women”s History, 1976-7

National Coordinator, Canadian Committee on Women”s History, 1975-6

Canadian Research Institute for the Study of Women 1975-on-going

Canadian Historical Association 1968-on-going

Canadian Committee on Women”s History 1975-on-going, Founder

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EDITORIAL SERVICE

Editor, Report Cards, Friends of Women and Children in B.C., April 2002-April 2005

Member, Editorial Board, BC Studies 2000-2009.

Member, Advisory Board, Feminist Research, Education and Development Group on Violence Against

Women and Children, 1992-6

Member, Advisory Editorial Board, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d‖histoire

de la médecine, 1993-6

Member, Advisory Board, A Century Stronger: Canadian Women in the Twentieth Century, eds. Sharon

A. Cook, Lorna McLean & Kate O”Rouke 1995-1999.

Member, Advisory Board, H-Canada Electronic News Group 1995-on-going

Member, Advisory Board, Atlantis, 1977-94,

Member, Advisory Panel, Atlantis. A Women‖s Studies Journal, 2000-7

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Urban History Review, 1993-2009

Editor, Working Papers Series, Centre for Research in Women”s Studies and Gender Relations, UBC,

1992-7.

Advisory Board, Resources for Feminist Research, 1985-2007.

Director, Editorial Board, Labour/Le Travail, 1983-6

Member, Editorial Board, Labour/Le Travail, 1981-3

REVIEWER

External Reviwer, Women's Studies Program, Vancouver Island University, November 2010.

External Reviewer, Proposal for a MA programme in Feminist and Women's Studies, McMaster

University, Ontario Council of Graduate Studies, April 2010.

Assessment of introductory Canadian Women's Studies Text, Pearson Publishing, June 2010.

Reviewer for texts of Plaques for the Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 2005-9

Assessment of Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History, eds. F. Iacovetta,

V.J. Korinek, and Marlene Epp (UTP Nov. 2009)

Assessment of „Menopause and Historical Constructions of Cancer Risk‟ for Canadian Bulletin of

Medical History, Sept. 2009-09-02

Assessment of manuscript for Atlantis: A Women‖s Studies Journal, July 2009-07-27

Assessment of manuscript for Ontario History Feb. 2008

Reviewer of WMST text for OUP Canada, Nov. 2008

Reviewer of WMST text for Pearson Education, March 2008

Judge, Best Graduate Essay, New Zealand Historical Association, November 2007

External Reviewer, Graduate Program in Department of History, Laurentian University, Sudbury, For

the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies, June 2007.

External Reviewer, MA Programme in Canadian Studies and Native Studies, Frost Centre, Trent

University, December 2005.

Consultant, Women”s Studies Department, University of Lethbridge, April 2005.

External Reviewer, Women”s Studies Programme, Memorial University of Newfoundland, March 2005.

External Reviewer, History Programme, University of Northern British Columbia, November 2004

External Reviewer, Women”s Studies Programme and Centre for Research on Violence against Women

and Children, University of Western Ontario, April 2000

External Reviewer, Department of History, University of Windsor, April 2000

External Reviewer, History Section, University College of the Cariboo, December 1999.

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Consultant, McGraw-Hill Ryerson (School Editorial), Ontario Social Studies text for Grade 10, 1999.

External Reviewer, Department of History, University of Toronto, April 1999.

Regular reviewer for SSHRCC

Regular reviewer for Hannah Institute for the History of MedicineMany Reviews in Labour/Le Travail,

Canadian Historical Review, The Globe and Mail, Histoire Sociale/Social History, Vancouver Sun, The

Journal of Educational Thought, Atlantis, The Canadian Book Review Annual, Acadiensis, Studies in

Religion, Saskatchewan History, Canadian Jewish Studies, Prairie Forum, BC Studies, American

Historical Review, University of Toronto Quarterly, Historical Studies in Education, Review of

Constitutional Studies, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Left History.

Reviewer for texts of Plaques for the Historical Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, 2005-10.

EXTERNAL EXAMINER

University Examiner, Caroline Harder, Doctor of Musical Arts, UBC, April 2009.

Lindsey Bingley, MA, Department of History, University of Lethbridge, July 2006

Lesley Erickson, Ph.d., Department of History, University of Calgary, April 2003

Sharon Wall, Ph.d., Department of History, York University, February 2003

Lara Campbell, Ph.d., Department of History, Queen”s University, February 2002

Linda Quiney, Ph.d., Department of History, University of Ottawa, December 2001

Mary-Jane McCallum, MA, Department of Native Studies, Trent University, October 2001

Jo-Anne M. McCutcheon, PH.d., Department of History, University of Ottawa, September 2001

Catherine Carstairs, Ph.d., Department of History, University of Toronto, October 2000

Catherine Cookson, Women”s Studies, SFU, April 1996

University Examiner, Janice Fiamenco, English, UBC, April 1996

University Examiner, Lorraine Littlefield, ANSO, UBC, Sept. 1995

University Examiner, Robin Dowling, Ph.d., Geography, UBC, May 1995

University Examiner, Sandra Parker, Ph.d., Psychology, Sept. 1994

University Examiner, Dorothy Seaton, Ph.d., English, Sept. 1993

University Examiner, Linda Eyres, Ph.d., SEDS, Education, Dec. 1992

Chair of Examining Committee, Claire Cutler, Ph.d., Political Science, Nov.1992

University Examiner, Kim Alexis, M.A. Geography, SFU, August 1991.

Susan Cross, Ph.D., Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, September 1988.

Cynthia Aberle, Ph.D.,Department of History, University of Guelph, July 1987.

Joan Sangster, Ph.D., Department of History, McMaster University, 1984.

University Examiner, Gillian Weiss, D.Ed, Faculty of Education, UBC, 1983.

John Cleveland M.A., Department of Sociology, SFU, 1983.

Post-doctoral supervision:

Donica Belisle (Trent) (SSHRCC) 2007-9

Sharon Wall (York) (Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine), 2003-5

Adele Perry (York) (SSHRCC) 1998-9, w/ Jean Barman

Jo-Anne Lee (Saskatchewan) (SSHRCC) 1996-7, w/ Gillian Creese

CONSULTANCIES

Workshop on Ethno-cultural and Women”s History, Parks Canada, Vancouver, February 2008.

Workshop on Ethno-cultural and Women”s History, Parks Canada, Vancouver, March 2007

Workshop on Ethno-Cultural History, Parks Canada, Vancouver, March 2006.

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“Workshop on Women”s History,” Parks Canada, March 7, 2005

CBC Series on the History of the Canadian Peoples 1997-2001

Various historical videos, 1995-on-going, inter alia, Mother”s Day, Red Cross Women during WWII,

Pauline Johnson.

National Working Group on Women”s History at National Sites, Parks Canada, 1992-4.

Review of National Archival Policy, Public Archives of Canada

New Canadian Encyclopedia, University of Alberta, 1981-4