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Histories of Canadian Children and Youth is a survey of the history of children, youth, and Canadian families from New France and the fur trade to immigrant children in the last half of the 20th century. It covers topics from growing up Metis to sex education to literacy; work and school; race and ethnicity, including some important articles on residential schools. Each section is carefully arranged by time period and theme and includes both primary and secondary sources.
Contents
Acknowledgement ; Introduction ; 1. How Do We Know the Histories of Children and Youth? ; Historiography of Children in Canada ; When You Listen to the Winds of Childhood, How Much Can You Believe? ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; 2. Colonial Childhood, 1700-1880 ; Les Petits Sauvages: The Children of Eighteenth-Century New France ; A Most Remarkable Phenomenon: Growing Up Metis: Fur Traders' Children in the Pacific Northwest ; From A journal of voyages and travels in the interiour of North America ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; 3. Youthful Workers in Resource and Manufacturing Industries, 1841-1923 ; The Boys in the Nova Scotian Coal Mines: 1873-1923 ; Between School and Marriage: A Case Study Approach to Young Women's Work in Early Twentieth-Century Canada ; Father? Master? Boss? ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; 4. Schools for the Nation, 1850-1923 ; The Rhythm of Work and the Rhythm of School ; An Argument for Assessment and Free Schools (Nova Scotia) ; White Supremacy, Chinese Schooling, and School Segregation in Victoria: The Case of the Chinese Students' Strike, 1922-23 ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; 5. Defining 'Bad Homes' and Delinquent Children, 1890-1955 ; La maratre: Maria-Anne Houde and the Myth of the Wicked Stepmother in Quebec ; Incest, the Sexual Abuse of Children, and the Power of Familialism ; Mother ; Boys Will Be Men, Girls Will Be Mothers: The Legal Regulation of Childhood in Toronto and Vancouver ; Problems of Modern Life and Young Offenders ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; 6. Narratives of Childhood: The Instance and Legacy of Residential Schools, 1938-1949 ; Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Aboriginal Children ; From Our Mothers' Arms: Inez Deiter and Ben Stonechild ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; 7. Children's Rights: The Influence of War on Peace, 1940-1960 ; Holocaust War Orphans-A Scrapbook Set ; Reconstruction Politics, the Canadian Welfare State, and the Ambiguity of Children's Rights, 1940-1950 ; The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924) ; The Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; 8. Being an Immigrant Child in Late Twentieth-Century Canada, 1970-1985 ; Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots ; From Come with Us: Children Speak for Themselves ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; 9. 'Let's Talk about Sex: Learning about Sexuality, 1950-1984 ; Sex at the Board, or Keeping Children from Sexual Knowledge ; Understanding Homophobia ; About Coming Out ; Lesbianism: breaking the silence ; Suggestions for Further Reading ; Permission Credits