Domestic service in British Columbia, 1850-1914

• Main Author: Brown, Lorraine C.
• Other Authors: Roy, Patricia E.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: "domestic service"; white female servants; Chinese domestice servants; First Nations servants; servants British Columbia; Victoria 1850s; UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Canada > History; Canada; British Columbia; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/254

From the mid 1850s through the early 1900s, the white middle and upper class inhabitants of British Columbia persevered in their attempts to solve the ‘servant problem’ and to re-create the British domestic sphere in a new land. Some families emigrated with their British servants in tow. There were...