Histories of Canadian Children and Youth

Nancy Janovicek is in the Department of History, University of New Brunswick.

• 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