Ebook: Silk Sails: the Women of Newfoundland and Their Ships

Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: Women and the Sea; Chapter Two: Women and Ships; How this Project Originated; Women as Shipowners; Women and Property; Advent of Married Women's Property Acts; Women's Occupations in Canadian Ship Registers; Chapter Three: Newfoundland Women and Their Ships; The Seventeenth Century; The Eighteenth Century; The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Ownership by Women; Sole Ownership; Joint Ownership; Owning Ships Jointly with Husbands; Owning Ships Jointly with Other Women; Owning Ships Jointly with Men Who Are Not Their Husbands.