Bettina Bradbury

From 1989 to 1991, Bradbury worked as the history director of graduate studies at the Université de Montréal.^[2] Since the 1980s, Bradbury has been a member of the Montreal History Group. It was through her activity with this group that she wrote Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal in 1993.^[3] In 1994, Bradbury won the CHA Sir John A. Macdonald prize for her book, Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal^[4] and the Harold Adams Innis Prize.^[5] In 2000, while working as the director of the History graduate program at York University, Bradbury participated in CBC's television documentary series Canada: A People's History.^[6]

From 2007 to 2011, Bradbury served as chair of York University's School of Women's Studies.^[2] In 2011, Bradbury was awarded York University's Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award^[7] and the Principal's Research Award at Glendon College.^[8]

In 2013, her book Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in 19th century Montreal was shortlisted for the Canada Prize in Social Sciences.^[9] The book focused on two generations of women in Montreal living around the Lower Canada Rebellion to showcase how women of different religions interacted with Montreal society.^[10] Although she eventually lost, her book was awarded the Prix Lionel Groulx – Fondation Yves-Saint-Germain prize, the Clio-Québec Prize, and François-Xavier Garneau Medal by the CHA.^[11][12] That same year, Bradbury was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[13]

In 2014, Bradbury retired from York University.^[5]

The following is a list of Bradbury's publications:^[14]

• Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal (2011)
• Negotiating Identities in 19th and 20th Century Montreal (2005)
• Wife to Widow: Class, Culture, Family and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Quebec (1997)
• Familles ouvrières à Montréal. Age, genre et survie quotidienne pendant la phase d'industrialisation (1995)
• Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal (1993)
• Canadian Family History (1992)
• Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga (2019)