Diaries

The diaries of Rebecca Chase Kinsman Ells, from the year 1901, describes the difficulties of women from that time. The diary was written between January and December of 1901 in commercial farm in Port Williams, Kings Country, Nova Scotia. Through the diary, the reader can sense the struggles in her life and how the tragedies she went through affected her life. She raises her son alone while her husband is searching for gold in Yukon. All along the whole diary, Rebecca shares her emotions and her feelings with the diary that the reader can identify with those feelings and really understand the hardness that women had to go through in the 1900’s. She draws a picture of “single mother” daily life routine that deals with a lot of responsibility and difficulties maintaining a house in rural Environment. Across the whole diary you can see how her life was influenced by religion and faith that helped her dealing with difficulties and Crises in her life and it is a significant factor for the power she had. The diary pictures a very strong woman that finds a way to deal with a lot of tragedies she went through in her life. She is participating in the labour and she is responsible for major income that comes from egg and butter Production and sale. The reader get a unique opportunity to see the Canadian life style from the perspective of Canadians that accurately represent Canada in 1901 and to look at the role that rural society and women had back then. Furthermore to try to describe how the religion was a major issue in the 1900’s and look for another Features that affected people life in Canada’s early years.

Rebecca’s life surrounds her family. She lives only with her son but her father and sister come to her home regularly. From time t...

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...losis. Nowadays, when one of those formidable disease was eradicated, we can point on lack of medicine and healthcare in 1901 in rural Canada.

The life of a woman in her 40’s in rural Canada during the early 20th century wasn’t easy at all. Through her diaries we can see the struggles and the life style of those who lived in early rural Canada. Life that based on physical labor but with religion to rely on, Diseases that spread and killed people but with family that was key factor to the stability and goodness she had in her life, we can see a true example of Canada in her first years through viewpoint of a women that represent The average Canadian in 1901-Religious, earns a living from farming and lives in a rural area. By reading the diary the reader can have a glance into Canada’s 1901 rural society and see the major part that religion and women had back then.