Elizabeth Kirkland, Ph.D. History, McGill University, is a full-time member of the teaching faculty at Dawson College in the Department of History and Classics. She is a historian of women and gender in Montreal and Canada more broadly. She is also an active member of the Montreal History Group and recipient of an FRQSC team grant for the project Montréal: Ville d’empires. Her current research examines domestic workers in Montreal, with a particular focus on migration and the cohort of children who arrived as British Home Children. Through this work, she explores the intersections of labour, family, class, migration, and empire in the city’s history. Her recent publications have examined women’s political engagement in municipal elections, the relationship of elites to Montreal’s imperial context, and the tragedy of young death.

Selected Publications

•  A Peculiar Power to Lead: Elite Women and Politics in Imperial Montreal, 1890–1919 (forthcoming, McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• with Dimitry Anastakis and Don Nerbas, eds., Montreal’s Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole (University of Toronto Press, 2024)
• with Mary Anne Poutanen, “Searching for Intimacies Beyond the Notman Photographs: The Case of Amy Redpath Roddick,” in Montreal’s Square Mile: The Making and Transformation of a Colonial Metropole (2024)
• “Weaving a Tapestry of Suffrage Activism in the Atlantic Provinces,” Acadiensis 53, no. 2 (2025): 168–74
• “Landscape of Tragedy: Young Death, Rumour and Speculation in Early 20th-Century Montreal,” Urban History Review 51, no. 1 (2023): 44–74
• “Citizens of the City: Women and Montréal’s Municipal Election of 1910,” Histoire Sociale / Social History 54, no. 110 (2021): 43–67