Histories of Canadian Children and Youth Nancy Janovicek & Joy Parr SUB Gottingen 7 217 213 103 2004 A 4177 OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents Acknowledgement viii Introduction 1 1 How Do We Know the Histories of Children and Youth? 9 Historiography of Children in Canada 10 Andri Turmel When You Listen to the Winds of Childhood, How Much Can You Believe? 19 Neil Sutherland . Suggestions for Further Reading 34 2 Colonial Childhood, 1700-1880 35 Les Petits Sauvages: The Children of Eighteenth-Century New France 36 Peter Moogk A Most Remarkable Phenomenon: Growing Up Metis: Fur Traders' Children in the Pacific Northwest 57 Juliet Pollard From A journal of voyages and travels in the interiour of North America 71 Daniel Williams Harmon Suggestions for Further Reading 73 3 Youthful Workers in Resource and Manufacturing Industries, 1841-1923 75 The Boys in the Nova Scotian Coal Mines: 1873-1923 77 Robert Mclntosh Between School and Marriage: A Case Study Approach to Young Women's Work in Early Twentieth-Century Canada 88 Rebecca Priegert Coulter Father? Master? Boss? 100 From Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital Suggestions for Further Reading 105 vi Contents 4 Schools for the Nation, 1850-1923 107 The Rhythm of Work and the Rhythm of School 108 Ian Davey An Argument for Assessment and Free Schools (Nova Scotia) 122 Theodore Rand White Supremacy, Chinese Schooling, and School Segregation in Victoria: The Case of the Chinese Students' Strike, 1922-23 126 Tim Stanley Suggestions for Further Reading 143 5 Defining'Bad Homes'and Delinquent Children, 1890-1955 145 La maratre: Maria-Anne Houde and the Myth of the Wicked Stepmother in Quebec 147 Peter Gossage Incest, the Sexual Abuse of Children, and the Power of Familialism 167 Joan Sangster Mother 185 Emily Can Boys Will Be Men, Girls Will Be Mothers: The Legal Regulation of Childhood in Toronto and Vancouver 188 Dorothy Chunn Problems of Modern Life and Young Offenders 207 Roderick Haig-Brown Suggestions for Further Reading 210 6 Narratives of Childhood: The Instance and Legacy of Residential Schools, 1938-1949 211 Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Aboriginal Children 212 Jean Barman From Our Mothers' Arms: Inez Deiter and Ben Stonechild 236 Constance Deiter Suggestions for Further Reading 242 Contents vii 7 Children's Rights: The Influence of War on Peace, 1940-1960 245 Holocaust War Orphans—A Scrapbook Set 246 Robbie Waisman (Romek Wajsman) Reconstruction Politics, the Canadian Welfare State, and the Ambiguity of Children's Rights, 1940-1950 255 Dominique Marshall The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1924) 271 The Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) 272 Suggestions for Further Reading 274 8 Being an Immigrant Child in Late Twentieth-Century Canada, 1970-1985 275 Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots 277 Dionne Brand and Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta From Come with Us: Children Speak for Themselves 285 Judy McClard and Naomi Wall Suggestions for Further Reading 288 9 'Let's Talk about Sex': Learning about Sexuality, 1950-1984 289 Sex at the Board, or Keeping Children from Sexual Knowledge 291 Mary Louise Adams Understanding Homophobia 305 About Coming Out 310 Lesbianism: breaking the silence 313 Suggestions for Further Reading 315 Permission Credits 316.