Joy Parr (1949-2024) was an eminent Canadian historian of work, gender, and technology. Parr’s major monographs include The Gender of Breadwinners(1990; winner of the Francois-Xavier Garneau Medal, the John A. Macdonald Prize, and the Harold Adam Innis Prize award by the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada), Domestic Goods(1999), and Sensing Changes(2010; winner of the Canada Prize, 2011). Parr was an innovative thinker whose works challenged conventional wisdom and captured the imagination of scholars in a diversity of academic fields.