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Taking its cue from Alison Prentice’s work on women historians in English Canada, this article argues that gender was central to the professionalization of history in English Canada before 1960. Whereas women were welcome participants in the writing and promoting of history when it was understood as a pastime, their participation was circumscribed as history professionalized. The professionalization of history involved boundary work, or the drawing and policing of boundaries between who could and who could not be a historian. An examination of the treatment of women as undergraduates, graduate students, and potential candidates for positions in university history departments between 1900 and 1960 reveals the extent to which this process was gendered. Seeking to protect their claim to knowledge, objectivity, and reason, and seeking to protect academic work as male work, male professional historians consistently excluded women from the professoriate.