Veronica Strong-Boag

Veronica Strong-Boag is a professor of women’s and gender studies and of educational studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and a past president of the Canadian Historical Association. She has written widely on the history of Canadian women and children—including studies of the 1920s and 30s, the experience of post—WW II suburbia, Nellie L. McClung, E. Pauline Johnson, childhood disabilities, and modern neo-conservatism’s attack on women and children—and has won the John A. Macdonald Prize in Canadian History, the 2012 Canada Prize in the Social Sciences awarded by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and, with Carole Gerson, the Raymond Klibansky Prize in the Humanities. In 2012 Strong-Boag was awarded the Tyrrell Medal from the Royal Society of Canada for outstanding work in Canadian history. She is the author of Fostering Nation: Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (WLU Press, 2010).

Books by Veronica Strong-Boag

A Liberal-Labour Lady

The Last Suffragist Standing

Paddling Her Own Canoe

In Times Like These

Liberal Hearts and Coronets

Painting the Maple

Fostering Nation?

Lost Kids

Finding Families, Finding Ourselves

Children’s Health Issues in Historical Perspective

Nellie McClung

E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake

Rethinking Canada

A Woman with a Purpose