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The settler colonialism of women: Sally Mennill, ‘”Pioneering” Women: Tales of Female Settler Colonialism in BC, A Review Essay, BC Studies, 211, 2021, pp. 115-221

03Nov21

Excerpt: In 2018 and 2019 a handful of popular histories telling the stories of women settlers in early British Columbia were published. Composed by authors of varying persuasions and motivations and published by TouchWood Editions and the Royal BC Museum, these texts trace the experiences of a variety of women who, at the behest of their family members, came to British Columbia seeking a new life and adventure in the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth. These books, which highlight and bring to light some of the extraordinary adventures of early BC settler women, reify the tropes of settler colonialism in their lack of critical engagement with their subjects’ racism.


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