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features of their woman's pages, and the emerging conditions of modern
travel that allowed women to explore new places. Woman's pages and travel
writing allowed the newspaper to contribute to nation-building in a multitude of
ways and across a number of sites, such as the family, the city and countryside,
Canada's colonial history and women's roles as the moral heads of
household. In turn, mobile practices were both strategies for dealing with the
emerging conditions of modernity as much as they were instruments for its continuation.
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