Liberal-Labour Lady

Veronica Strong-Boag is a historian specializing in the history of Canadian women and children. She is a professor emerita in the Social Justice Institute and the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia and an adjunct professor in history and gender studies at the University of Victoria. She is the general editor of the seven-volume series Women's Suffrage and the Struggle for Democracy. She is the author of many publications and the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Canada, Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada, the Raymond Klibansky Prize, the Queen Elizabeth Diamond and Golden Jubilee Medals, the Canada Prize in the Social Sciences, the Riley Fellowship in History, the James R. Mallory Lectureship, and a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa (University of Guelph, 2018). In 2012, the Royal Society of Canada awarded her the J.B. Tyrrell Historical medal for "outstanding work in the history of Canada." In July 2018, she was appointed to the Order of Canada.

• Introduction: Worker, Settler, Liberal, Feminist1 Setting the Stage in British Mining Villages, to 18922 Replenishing the Empire, 1892–19003 From Nanaimo to Ottawa and Back Again, 1900–114 Boom, Bust, War, and Death, 1912–175 Independent Liberal Lady? 1917–206 From Hope to Disillusion, 1920–287 On the Margins, 1928–33Conclusion: British Columbia's Famous PioneerPolitician: Making HistoryNotes; Index

As an acclaimed scholarly chronicler of Canadian, especially British Columbian, herstory, Veronica Strong-Boag is determined that Mary Ellen Spear Smith will not slip from recorded memory. - Phyllis Reeve (The British Columbia Review) Not quite a woman for her times, let alone ours, Smith seemed destined to disappear. Until, that is, Strong-Boag took on the task, uncovering both the good and the bad, using Smith as a lens onto gender relations and gender politics, British Columbia and Ottawa, and electoral politics and the power of connection. The result is a refreshingly complex picture of early twentieth-century Canada and of the crooked path to power.- P.E. Bryden, University of Victoria (BC Studies)