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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Claiming Kinship; 2 "It was an evil place. It was a beautiful place": Institutions for Children; 3 Beginning the Search for Best Interest: Child Protection Considers Fostering from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1960s; 4 Still Searching for Best Interest: Child Protection and Fostering from the 1960s to the Present; 5 First Families and the Dilemma of Care; 6 Negotiating Surrogacy: The Construction of Foster Parents; 7 "Dear Mom and Dad": Canada's Children; Conclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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 the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has meant for North America's most disadvantaged Aboriginal and newcomer girls and boys. Gender, class, race, and (dis)ability are always important factors that bear on youngsters' access to resources. State fostering initiatives occur as part of a broad continuum of arrangements, from social assistance for original families to k.

Childcare arrangements of many wage-earning parents depend on sisters or sisters-in-law. Yet, for all their significance, aunts have been largely invisible in discussions of child welfare. "Sisters Are Doing for Themselves, Or Not" invokes the iconic Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin to remind us that the very vocabulary of feminist solidarity celebrates an idealized kin relationship. The very popularity of notions of sisterhood contributes to the taken-for-grantedness of sibling ties and recurring failure to investigate them. This article begins with observations about women's longstanding role in kith and kin care and then turns to Canadian aunts and their involvement with nieces and nephews over more than one hundred and fifty years. This last discussion has four parts. The first, "Alliances with the Living," points to sibling practices of mutual aid in child rearing. The next, "Tributes to the Dead," addresses aunts' substitution for dead mothers. "Sibling Contests," considers sisters in disagreement about the best interests of youngsters. The final section, "Disengagement," acknowledges another story, the disinterest, withdrawal, or worse of some sisters from any duty of care. In all cases, women's work as kinkeepers underpins Canada's longstanding political economy of residualism.

The needs of particularly vulnerable children and youth have long tested Canadian parents and communities. Youngsters with mental and physical impairments have historically experienced a wide range of conditions that are always negotiated in the context of cultural assumptions, existing social supports and barriers, and available technologies. Both institutionalization and inadequate domestic substitutes have a long history, like birth families everywhere, of devastating youngsters beyond their original impairments. The construction of that predicament and its relationship to the use of institutions, fostering, and adoption in Canadian child welfare practices is the concern here. This article begins with a review of the commonplace evaluation of disabled youngsters in English-speaking Canada, next considers the vulnerability of families, and turns finally to institutional and domestic alternatives to birth family care. Although the story in each case is mixed, youngsters with disabilities remained vulnerable into the twenty-first century.

"Canada's vibrant suffrage movement was a complicated story of achievement and loss. The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democracy. A rich product of archival and public sources, this biography of Laura Marshall Jamieson (1882-1964) opens a window into the political and social landscape of the time. Veronica Strong-Boag chronicles Jamieson's life from orphaned child of marginal Ontario farmers to member of British Columbia's Legislative Assembly and Vancouver city councillor. The last suffragist in Canada to be elected to a provincial or federal legislature, Jamieson embraced issues such as factory labour conditions, minimum wage, feminist pacifism, housing, municipal franchise, and employment equality throughout her six decades of activism. Jamieson's political radicalism was forged by the suffragist movement and the Great Depression, whetted by her exposure to mainstream and fringe activist groups, and tempered during her tenures in office. Strong-Boag's meticulous research and deep knowledge of the history of the women's movement and Canadian politics turn this compelling account of a woman's life into an illuminating work on the history of feminism, socialism, internationalism, and activism in Canada."--

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Dedication I -- Dedication II -- Contents -- 1. The war that never ends -- 2. The war that ends in exhaustion sometimes mistaken for peace -- 3. What do women think of war? (not that it matters) -- 4. Should women think? -- 5. The new chivalry -- 6. Hardy perennials! -- 7. Gentle lady -- 8. Women and the church -- 9. The sore thought -- 10. The land of the fair deal -- 11. As a man thinketh -- 12. The war against gloom

Nellie McClung -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: "Some Small Legacy of Truth" -- Bibliography -- Clearing in the West -- Chapter 1. The Youngest of Six -- Chapter 2. The Family -- Chapter 3. The House and the People -- Chapter 4. Echoes from the West -- Chapter 5. The Decision -- Chapter 6. We Arrive -- Chapter 7. On the Trail -- Chapter 8. Companions on the Way -- Chapter 9. The First Winter -- Chapter 10. Spring Came at Last, Bringing Neighbours -- Chapter 11. The Henhouse Door -- Chapter 12. Social Activities -- Chapter 13. The Church and the School -- Chapter 14. Picnics -- Chapter 15. The Way of the Transgressor -- Chapter 16. Men and Machines -- Chapter 17. Limitations -- Chapter 18. Retribution -- Chapter 19. My First Sight of Brandon -- Chapter 20. Christmas Day -- Chapter 21. A Visit from the Teacher -- Chapter 22. Trouble in the North West -- Chapter 23. The Tragic Ending -- Chapter 24. The Dramateurs -- Chapter 25. The Party -- Chapter 26. The Family Is Extended -- Chapter 27. Hands Across the Sea -- Chapter 28. The First Sorrow -- Chapter 29. When the Door Opened -- Chapter 30. Winnipeg in 1889 -- Chapter 31. My First School -- Chapter 32. Winds of the World -- Chapter 33. Raw Material -- Chapter 34. The Young Evangelists -- Chapter 35. I Saw E. Cora Hind -- Chapter 36. My First Political Meeting -- Chapter 37. Manitou -- Chapter 38. Summer Holidays -- Chapter 39. In Which the First Part of My Life Ends -- Chapter 40. Life Goes On, No Matter Who Dies -- Chapter 41. Treherne -- Chapter 42. The Royal Visit -- Chapter 43. The Farm in 1895 -- Chapter 44. Commencement -- The Stream Runs Fast -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Manitou—1896 -- Chapter 2. Humble Beginnings -- Chapter 3. Genesis -- Chapter 4. The Family -- Chapter 5. Town Hall Tonight -- Chapter 6. Social Life -- Chapter 7. The Winds of the World -- Chapter 8. Strong Women -- Chapter 9. The Flavour of a Hymn -- Chapter 10. My First Story -- Chapter 11. The First House -- Chapter 12. The First Move -- Chapter 13. A Gentleman of the Old School -- Chapter 14. "The Women's Parliament" -- Chapter 15. The Campaign -- Chapter 16. The War -- Chapter 17. Westward We Go! -- Chapter 18. We Take the Bitter with the Sweet -- Chapter 19. New Places and People -- Chapter 20. Alberta Politics -- Chapter 21. Singing Up the Hill -- Chapter 22. The Glad Day -- Chapter 23. The Prairie Pilgrim -- Chapter 24. Family Matters -- Chapter 25. Up to London -- Chapter 26. On the Writing of Books -- Chapter 27. The Middle Years -- Chapter 28. Travellers' Joy -- Chapter 29. Nova Scotia -- Chapter 30. The League of Nations, 1938 -- Chapter 31. The Way of Words -- Chapter 32. Conclusion