As Silk Sails entertainingly demonstrates, existing records show that women of the Atlantic region were owners of boats, ships and waterfront properties from as early as 1650. Women's involvement in early fishing adventures as sole owners and “co-partners in trade” was real and substantial. This sample of approximately 500 Newfoundland women depicts a hardy, durable and tenacious woman who was more than equal to the challenges and opportunities of her time. The study is complemented by interviews with some of the women who had owned working ships from the 1930s to the 1960s. A companion volume on more than 1,000 women ship owners of the Maritime provinces, Ontario and Quebec is in progress.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 10
- Foreword 12
- Introduction 15
- Chapter One: Women and the Sea 17
- Chapter Two: Women and Ships 30
- How this Project Originated 30
- Women as Shipowners 35
- Women and Property 44
- Advent of Married Women’s Property Acts 49
- Women’s Occupations in Canadian Ship Registers 52
- Chapter Three: Newfoundland Women and Their Ships 59
- The Seventeenth Century 59
- The Eighteenth Century 66
- The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 77
- Ownership by Women 82
- Sole Ownership 82
- Joint Ownership 96
- Owning Ships Jointly with Husbands 105
- Owning Ships Jointly with Other Women 109
- Owning Ships Jointly with Men Who Are Not Their Husbands 110
- Women Who May Have “Staked” Planters or Shipbuilders 112
- Women as Executors and Administrators of Wills and Estates 113
- Women and Wills 119
- Designated as Co-partners in Trade 119
- Managing Owners of Ships 120
- Women and the Sale of Ships 124
- Women, Ships and Mortgages 127
- Owning Ships and the Value of Shares 132
- Occupations of Newfoundland Women 134
- Women Naming Ships After Themselves 136
- Ships, Irregularities, and Even Hints of Scandal 138
- Oddities and Noteworthy Women 144
- Women Who Went to Sea 148
- Later Newfoundland Women Shipowners 152
- Chapter Four: Summary and Conclusions 155
- Appendix A: Other Newfoundland Women in the Ship Registers 173
- Appendix B: Women in the Conception Bay Plantation Book of 1805 202
- Bibliography 225
- Index 243
- A 243
- B 243
- C 245
- D 246
- E 246
- F 247
- G 248
- H 248
- I 249
- J 249
- K 250
- L 250
- M 251
- N 252
- O 253
- P 253
- Q 254
- R 254
- S 254
- T 255
- U 256
- V 256
- W 256
- Y 257
- Z 257
- Acknowledgements 259
- Author 261
