pt. 1. Community building. Cultivating a love of Canada through history : Agnes Maule Machar, 1837-1927 / Dianne M. Hallman ; Women's rights and duties : Sarah Anne Curzon and the politics of Canadian history / Beverly Boutilier ; Ontario Women's Institutes and the work of local history / Linda M. Ambrose -- pt. 2. Transitions. 'Writing teaches us our mysteries' : women religious recording and writing history / Elizabeth Smyth ; 'I walk my own track in life & no man can bump me off it' : Constance Lindsay Skinner and the work of history / Jean Barman ; Isabel Skelton : precursor to Canadian cultural history / Terry Crowley -- pt. 3. The Academy. Laying siege to the history professoriate / Alison Prentice ; A view from the front steps : Esther Clark Wright and the making of a Maritime historian / Barry M. Moody ; Kathleen Wood-Legh : a Canadian in Cambridge / Megan J. Davies and Colin M. Coates -- pt. 4. New departures. Women's history : founding a new field / Deborah Gorham.