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The Ladies of the Backwoods |
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The Canadian Farm Wife |
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For a woman living in rural Canada, life would be quite different from her counterpart's in the towns and cities. Farming was a business, and it took all hands to make it productive, so while she may have had lots of household chores, she might also be needed to milk a cow or help plant a field. Not that her domestic skills were ever taken lightly. |
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In 1870, Egerton Ryerson had this to say of the farmer's wife: "The farmer's wife is not less essential to successful farming than her husband. How much is to be saved and made by the proper care of milk, cleanliness and skill in making butter and cheese, even in cooking different kinds of meat, as weIl as in the domestic preparation and use of the various producions of the garden and the farm, and the general order and neatness of the household!" |
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The Write Stuff - Ink Making |
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Give Us This Day - Making the Daily Bread |
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A Little Bit of Ironing Goes a Long Way - Reward for the Backwoods Lady |
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The Cream of the Crop - Churning Butter |
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Messing, Slopping and Soaping - The Wash Day Blues |
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Dipping, Moulding and Forming - Not the Newest Dance Steps |
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Sweetening the Pot - Making Maple Sugar |
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Curds and Whey - Cheese Making |
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Hump of Buffalo and Nose of Elk - The Art of Meat Processing |
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A Drachm of This and a Tincture of That - Household Chemistry |
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Got Milk? - The Household Dairy |
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Babes, Bairns and Little Strangers - Growing Up In Victorian Canada |
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Keeping the Home Fires Burning - Literally Speaking |
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On a Wing and A Prayer - Cleaning and Housework |
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Varmints and Crawly Things - Controlling Household Pests |
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The Culinary Arts - Cooking Canadian Style |
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Stitch and _itch - The Quilting Bee |
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Dr. Mom and Her Diagnostic Skills - Prescriptions For All Diseases |
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Scraps and Bits - Making Rugs |
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Ashes to Ashes - Say a Prayer For the Soapmaker |
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In the Latest Style - Fashion and Dressmaking Dress Making |
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Frolics and Frenzies - Spinning the Yarn |
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Dyed in the Wool - Those Colourful Canadians |
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E-Mail Me |
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Home Sweet Log Cabin |
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Uniquely Canadian During Victorian Times |
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Victorian Canada Home Page |
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