History

L.M. Montgomery considered her sojourn at Prince of Wales College “the happiest year of my life.” As Prince Edward Island’s only non-sectarian college for over a century, the Charlottetown institution always engendered passion in its students. Even today, 36 years after its doors were closed to prepare for the newly constituted University of …

In the early nineteenth century, governments introduced kindergartensand infant schools to give children a head start in life. Theseprograms hinged on new visions of childhood that origin-ated in Englandand Europe, but what happened when they were exported to the colonies?This book unwinds the tangled threads of this history, from earlyinfant schoo …

Using sources from women's history, women's studies, and critical social theory, Dr. Lenskyj situates two stories - her own and that of her mother - within the broader Australian socio-cultural context from 1900 to 1960. She presents the background for her mother's narrative, beginning in 1832 when her grandfather arrived in Sydney, Australia, as a …

In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide schoolsystem to buttress its power. Although the Communists, contemporaryobservers, and more recent scholarship have all depicted rural societyas feudal and these educational reforms a failure, Elizabeth VanderVendraws on untapped archival materials to show that villagers and localoffici …

Alex Lord, a pioneer inspector of rural British Columbia schools,shares in these recollections his experiences in a province barely outof the stage coach era. Travelling through vast northern territory,utilizing unreliable transportation and enduring climatic extremes,Lord became familiar with the aspirations of remote communities andtheir faith in …