Cultivating a love of Canada through history : Agnes Maule Machar, 1837-1927 / Dianne M. Hallman -- Women's rights and duties : Sarah Anne Curzon and politics of Canadian history / Beverly Boutilier -- Ontario Womens' Institutes and the work of local history / Linda M. Ambrose -- "Writing teaches us our mysteries" / Elizabeth Smyth -- "I walk my own track in life & no mere male can bump me off it" : Constance Lindsay Skinner and the work of history / Jean Berman -- Isabel Skelton / Terry Crowley -- 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 / Megan J. Davies and Colin M. Coates -- Women's history / Deborah Gorham