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Sykes, Ella Constance (d.1939) [info]. A home-help in Canada. London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1912.
Physical description: xv, 304 p., port.; 21 cm.
Language: English
Also published, London: Bell & Sons, 1912 (304p.); 2nd edition, London: Smith, Elder, 1913 and 1915 (xv, 304p.). Sykes, spent six months in 1911 in Western Canada posing as a domestic worker in five different positions to investigate employment opportunities for English women. Sykes' investigation was under the auspices of the Colonial Intelligence League for Educated Women.
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