The evolution of the right of married women to own and control property in the western provinces was marked by an ongoing struggle between the legislatures and the judiciary. The legislatures in each of the western provinces were prompt to grant property rights to married women in an effort to respond to social and economic change. However, the judiciary continued to limit the property women could own. This paper reviews the married women\u27s property legislation in British Columbia, the North-West Territories, Alberta, and Saskatchewan and examines the major cases defining separate property, the scope of liability of husbands and wives, and associated property issues. While successive statutes prescribed the incremental abolishment of the...