Newfoundland

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all areas and in all fields of opportunity and defeat that their colony has had to offer. It is the attempt of this paper to review only a representative fraction of the diverse fields and accomplishments some women of have made. We can break this down into the political, medical, educational and social realms of the island. It is the hope that, like David MacFarlane’s novel, we can put into perspective the difficult and sad history of the people of .
The Political Realm

The political and judicial world of Newfoundland has been a trying ordeal for the women of that island. The trials and tribulations the women have had to suffer have been quite different from that of what the men of Newfoundland have always tended to focus on. One such example from The Danger Tree is the comparison of confederation the brothers had. The question of Newfoundland’s confederation with Canada presented an unusual problem to the Goodyears. The brothers were accustomed to dividing any given ...

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The climate of religious tension at the time may have been a contributing factor.
Being a woman and a catholic was certainly not an advantage at the turn of the century in Newfoundland. There have been some improvements with the introduction of the industrial revolution. It was still a poor condition as the women shop workers can point out. There were other women like that of Catherine Snow that trudged from the outports to find that gender and religion were only an anchor to them. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many young women came to St. John's from the outports to work in domestic service in upper class homes. They worked as housekeepers, cooks, maids or ...

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