Domestic chores, either paid or unpaid, continued to be a major activity for women. Often working conditions of such employment were found lacking. These women are seen in the dismal kitchen of the Nettie L. Mine in Ferguson, B.C., where they would have worked as general domestics and cooks for a very low wage. (This was a gold, silver, and lead mine which operated between the years of 1899 and 1922.) Female suffrage advocates could not understand why this type of labour, like other types of female employment, should not be rewarded by conferring of the full rights of citizenship.
