Histories of Canadian Children and Youth
Oxford University Press, copyright date: 2003 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; raceand 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. Purchase Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/histories-of-canadian-children-and-youth-9780195417920 Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Histories-Canadian-Children-Youth-Janovicek/dp/0195417925 AbeBooks:...
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada
McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1980. 181pp. Between 1868-1924, 80,000 British children, most of them under fourteen, came to Canada to be apprenticed as labourers and domestic servents. Joy Parr’s study of these children, first published in 1980, became a significant resource for courses in women’s history, family history, immigration history, and labour history. Out of print for several years, Labouring Children now has a substantial new introduction in which the author examines the historiography of the history of childhood, particularly in the light of recent literature on sexuality and the post-structuralist critique. She also considers recent popular historical views of children and their relationship to professional history....
Childhood and Family in Canadian History
Joy Parr, Ed. Oxford University Press, 1982. 224 pp. Drawing on archeological evidence, paintings, photographs, census records, case files, and parish rolls, the contributors to this collection of original essays draw a fascinating portrait of the lives of Canadian children from the seventeenth century onward, describing child labor practices,the many different models of child-rearing, the family structure and economy and the lives of children in and outside of institutions. Together, these articles constitute a strong, rich addition to Canadian social history. Reviews What is becoming clear is that an abstracted notion of a “childhood” shared by all Canadian children is none too helpful. Instead, we need to recognize that the centre of all this...