Description
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.
About the authors
Nancy Janovicek is an associate professor of History at the University of Calgary.
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Joy Parr is a Farley Endowed Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of The Gender of Breadwinners, winner of the 1990 Macdonald Prize for the best work in Canadian history.
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Moving Natures
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Sensing Changes
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
Sensing Changes
Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003
Domestic Goods:
Labouring Children
British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
Domestic Goods
Domestic Goods
These Goods Are Canadian Made
An Historian Thinks About Things
The Gender of Breadwinners
Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950
A Diversity of Women
Women in Ontario since 1945