2013/03/01 by Esmé Cleall, Laura Ishiguro, Emily J. Manktelow · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Ancient history #Archaeology #Art #Australian History and Society #British Empire #Canadian Identity and History #Colonialism #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Context (archaeology) #Empire #Gender studies #Genealogy #History #Identity (music) #Power (physics) #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1353/cch.2013.0006
openalex publication_date 2013/03/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/30
In early 1860, Mary Moody gave birth to a daughter, Susan, at the Royal Engineers camp in New Westminster, British Columbia, where her husband was stationed as detachment commander, chief commissioner of lands and works and lieutenant governor of the colony. Writing to her Newcastle family, she longed for the emotional and practical support that her sister Emily could have offered in person in the immediate post-partum period, concluding that “[o]ne really needs relations in a Colony.” While rooted in her own concerns and experiences in New Westminster, Moody’s sentiment resonates more widely: family connections were often critical to securing a new immigrant’s position in an unfamiliar context, and more generally to navigating colonial configurations of power, identity and everyday life for men, women and children across the British imperial world...