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The Fabric of Canada: Women’s Fashion, Settler Colonialism, and the Eaton’s Catalogue

How did the creation of a mail-order catalogue change the way fashion and clothing were consumed in 19th-century Canada? What did this have to do with settler colonialism? In this Source Story episode, Dr. Alanna McKnight, a fashion historian, talks with Dr. Samantha Cutrara about how a 19th-century Eaton’s catalogue opens up conversations about women’s fashion, bodies, labor, and the shaping of colonial life. Using two pages from the 1899–1900 Fall and Winter catalogue, she highlights how catalogue design, clothing styles, and consumption practices reveal deeper patterns of power, exclusion, and industry. Dr. McKnight also connects this history to today’s fast fashion. She asks how access to ready-made clothes shaped ideas of convenience, waste, and labor—and how these trends have continued into the present. Each Source Story episode brings historical sources into the classroom in meaningful and challenging ways. Each episode asks: What is the source? What is the story? How can it help us rethink Canadian history? Connect with Dr. Alanna McKnight: Instagram:   / dr.mcknight.fashion   Twitter:   / allana_mck   Email: allanna.mcknight@tmuniversity.ca Connect with Dr. Samantha Cutrara: Website: www.SamanthaCutrara.com YouTube:    / @samanthacutrara   TAGS: canadian history, eatons catalogue, womens fashion canada, fashion history canada, source story, histoire source, alanna mcknight, settler colonialism canada, canadian mail order, 19th century fashion, fast fashion history, canadian fashion industry, history of clothing canada, teaching canadian history, visual culture canada, catalogues and colonialism