Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Works by Sylvia Van Kirk

Jennifer S.H. Brown

“All These Stories About Women”: “Many Tender Ties” and a New Fur Trade History

Franca Iacovetta

Sylvia Van Kirk: A Feminist Appreciation of Front-line Work in the Academy

Valerie J. Korinek

Daring to Write a History of Western Canadian Women’s Experiences: Assessing Sylvia Van Kirk’s Feminist Scholarship

Elizabeth Jameson

Ties Across the Border

Adele Perry

Historiography that Breaks Your Heart: Van Kirk and the Writing of Feminist History

Angela Wanhalla

Beyond the Borders: The “Founding Families” of Southern New Zealand

Robert Alexander Innes

Multicultural Bands on the Northern Plains and the Notion of “Tribal” Histories

Patricia A. McCormack

“A World We Have Lost”: The Plural Society of Fort Chipewyan

Robin Jarvis Brownlie

Others or Brothers?: Competing Settler and Anishinabe Discourses about Race in Upper Canada

Victoria Freeman

Attitudes Toward “Miscegenation” in Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Australia, 1860–1914

Kathryn McPherson

Home Tales: Gender, Domesticity, and Colonialism in the Prairie West, 1870–1900

Katrina Srigley

“I am a proud Anishinaabekwe”: Issues of Identity and Status in Northern Ontario after Bill C-31

Contributors