Bettina Bradbury

Bettina Bradbury (born 1949) is a professor emerita in the Department of History and Gender Studies at York University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is also the author of numerous history books.

In 2012, she was awarded the Prix Lionel Groulx – Fondation Yves-Saint-Germain Prize and Clio-Québec Prize from the Canadian Historical Association (CHA) for her book Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in 19th century Montreal. She was also awarded the François-Xavier Garneau Medal by the CHA and shortlisted for the Canada Prize in Social Sciences.

Education Bradbury earned her Bachelor of Arts in sociology and English at the Victoria University of Wellington before earning her master's degree in history at Simon Fraser University. From there, she earned her PhD at Concordia University.

Career From 1989 to 1991, Bradbury worked as the history director of graduate studies at the Université de Montréal. In 1994, Bradbury won the CHA Sir John A. Macdonald prize for her book, Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal and the Harold Adams Innis Prize. In 2000, while working as the director of the History graduate program at York University, Bradbury participated in CBC's television documentary series Canada: A People's History.

From 2007 to 2011, Bradbury served as chair of York University's School of Women's Studies. and the Principal's Research Award at Glendon College.

In 2013, her book Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in 19th century Montreal was shortlisted for the Canada Prize in Social Sciences. The book focused on two generations of women in Montreal living around the Lower Canada Rebellion to showcase how women of different religions interacted with Montreal society. Although she eventually lost, her book was awarded the Prix Lionel Groulx – Fondation Yves-Saint-Germain prize, the Clio-Québec Prize, and François-Xavier Garneau Medal by the CHA. That same year, Bradbury was inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 2014, Bradbury retired from York University. Wife to Widow. Lives, Laws and Politics in Nineteenth-century Montreal (2011) Negotiating Identities in 19th and 20th Century Montreal (2005) Wife to Widow: Class, Culture, Family and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Quebec (1997) Familles ouvrières à Montréal. Age, genre et survie quotidienne pendant la phase d'industrialisation (1995) Working Families. Age, Gender and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal (1993) Canadian Family History (1992) Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga (2019)