Cold War Comforts

By Tarah Brookfield
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Social Science, Child Studies, Women’s Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Cold War Comforts examines Canadian women’s efforts to protect children’s health and safety between the dropping of the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945 and the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. ...

Fostering Nation?

By Veronica Strong-Boag
Subjects: Social Science, Sociology, Political Science, Social Services, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is ...

Depicting Canada’s Children

Edited by Loren Lerner
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Art, Social Science, Child Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, ...

The One Best Way?

By Tasnim Nathoo & Aleck Ostry
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Medical, History Of Medicine, Social Science, Child Studies, Women’s Studies, Public Health
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In recent years, breastfeeding has been prominently in the public eye in relation to debates on issues ranging from parental leave policies, work-family balance, public decency, the safety of our food ...

The Social Origins of the Welfare State

By Dominique Marshall
Translated by Nicola Doone Danby
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Political Science, Social Services, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

The Social Origins of the Welfare State traces the evolution of the first universal laws for Québec families, passed during the Second World War. In this translation of her award-winning Aux origines ...

Love Strong as Death

Edited by J.I. Little
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

A transcription of Lucy Peel’s wonderfully readable journal was recently discovered in her descendent’s house in Norwich, England. Sent in regular installments to her transatlantic relatives, the ...

Evangelical Balance Sheet

By B. Anne Wood
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ...

Freedom to Play

Edited by Norah L. Lewis
Subjects: Sports & Recreation, Social Science, Sociology, History, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

“When we were children we made our own fun” is a frequent comment from those who were children in pre-television times. But what games, activities and amusements did children enjoy prior to the mid-1950s? ...

A Question of Commitment

Edited by R. Brian Howe & Katherine Covell
Subjects: Political Science, Social Policy, Law, Child Advocacy, Social Science, Social Work
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

In 1991, the Government of Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, requiring governments at all levels to ensure that Canadian laws and practices safeguard the rights ...

Babies for the Nation

By Denyse Baillargeon
Translated by W. Donald Wilson
Subjects: Social Science, Child Studies, Multiculturalism, History, Medical, Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Women’s Studies, Canadian History
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

Described by some as a “necropolis for babies,” the province of Quebec in the early twentieth century recorded infant mortality rates, particularly among French-speaking Catholics, that were among ...