After James Hassan died and his family no longer had his income from his employment as a farm instructor, what did his widow Lucy Hudson Hassan do?
According to the 1916 census, Lucy moved the family to Regina and she took in roomers.
Unfortunately, this digitized image is too blurry at the end to see what the enumerator took down as Lucy’s occupation, but a few of the others are pretty clear:
Lucy’s job begins with an H. Perhaps it is Housekeeper?
Ellen was a stenographer. Correspondence courses in shorthand were popular in the early twentieth century, and Ellen may have taught herself during her time on the reserve.
It looks like Elvira and Irwin both worked in stores. Elvira’s occupation is illegible to me, and Irvin was a shipping clerk.
Rounding out the house with the roomers, Phyllis was a student, and I can’t make out what Peter was (English teacher? Engine something?)
Aug 31, 2011 @ 03:54:03
This is an interesting focus because in my lines, I haven’t found many women working at all until closer to the time of the Depression. In the earlier census records, I always wonder how those widows lived unless there was an able-bodied son at home running the farm. Thanks for posting this.