Isabella Frampton Hawken: Leading Ladies in Niagara’s Manufacturing Industry

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Isabella Frampton Hawken: Leading Ladies in Niagara’s Manufacturing Industry

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Isabella Frampton Hawken, was the primary owner and operator of the Dominion Electric Company in St. Catharines in the 1910s and into the 1920s. This was a very rare position for a woman in this industry for this time period. Isabella’s business career not only shows what an exceptional person she was but it also gives insight into the experience of some women had in the manufacturing industry in the early-20th century.

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Paige Groot

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Brock University

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2024

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