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Introduction 3
1 Gender, Wealth, and Investment: Victoria and Hamilton, 1869-1931 17
2 Inheriting and Bequeathing: Women and Men in Victoria and Hamilton,1880-1930 55
3 The Gender of Shareholders: Investment in Banking and Insurance Stocks in Ontario, 1860-1911 76
4 The "fountain-head of all production": Land and Gender in Victoria and Hamilton, 1881-1901 93
5 Stretching the Liberal State: Legal Regimes, Gender, and Mortgage Markets in Victoria and Hamilton, 1881-1921 122
6 Gender, Credit, and Consumption: The Market for Chattels in Victoria, 1861-1902 163
7 Canadian Urban Women in Business 190
8 "A Retail Dry Goods Merchant on My Own Separate Account": Gender and Family Enterprise in Urban Canada at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 222
Conclusion 236
App. 1 The Gendered Nature of Sources for the Calculation of Property Ownership Trends 251
App. 2 The Construction of Tables 4.7 to 4.10 254
App. 3 Property Ownership by Relation to Means of Production: Women in Urban Canada, 1901 256
App. 4 Women and the Business of Philanthropy: The Case of Victoria 258
Tables 263
Notes 307
Bibliography 345
Index 369
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