Working Girls in the WestAs the twentieth century got under way in Canada, young women who entered the paid workforce became the focus of intense public debate. Young wage earning women working girls embodied all that was unnerving and unnatural about modern times: the disintegration of the family, the independence of women, and the unwholesomeness of city life. These anxieties were amplified in the West. Long after eastern Canada was considered settled and urbanized, the