Gender, class and community: the history of Sne-nay-muxw women’s employment

• Main Author: Littlefield, Loraine
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Coast Salish > Women > Colonization > Impact; First Nations > Women > Employment > British Columbia > Nanaimo; Indian non-Indian relations > Women > British Columbia > Nanaimo; Fraser River; Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7487

This thesis documents the employment history of Sne-nay-muxw women. The Sne nay-muxw, a Coast Salish peoples, live on the southeast coast ofVancouver Island close to the city ofNanaimo. Nanaimo was established by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1852 as coal mining town. Coal dominated the economy until...