Pynne Money: doily, hand crocheted by the artist’s mother-in-law c. 1970; pieces of the artist’s grandmother’s PHD thesis 1923, her graduation picture and later with her children, photographed and printed and a hand painted image of a pin passed down from a great aunt; pen and Ink drawing of typewriter

Pynne or Pin money was an allowance given to married women in order to allow them a small amount of financial independence.

In 1929 women were first recognized as “persons” under the law in Canada, after an appeal of the Supreme Court decision in 1928 that the law did not include women in this definition. Women were only able to open bank accounts without their husband’s signature in 1964.