Ontario Since Confederation
A Reader, Second Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 11. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
610 pages
978-1-4875-2429-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the more than two decades since the publication of Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader, Ontario, Canada, North America, and the world have experienced a whirlwind of profound changes. This new edition brings together leading scholars to present a new and expansive view of Ontario's social, political, and economic history.
Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition reflects on the dramatic changes in historical practice and understanding that have marked the last two decades. Taking a chronological approach and broadening the theme of state and society, the book explores important topics such as the environment, gender, continentalism, urban growth, and Indigenous issues. This timely update to Ontario Since Confederation features new and revised chapters, as well as new discussion questions designed to stimulate and guide readers to make connections between and across the entire book.
Bringing together a wide range of perspectives, approaches, and frameworks, Ontario Since Confederation sheds light on historical changes in Canada's most populous province across more than one and a half centuries.
Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition reflects on the dramatic changes in historical practice and understanding that have marked the last two decades. Taking a chronological approach and broadening the theme of state and society, the book explores important topics such as the environment, gender, continentalism, urban growth, and Indigenous issues. This timely update to Ontario Since Confederation features new and revised chapters, as well as new discussion questions designed to stimulate and guide readers to make connections between and across the entire book.
Bringing together a wide range of perspectives, approaches, and frameworks, Ontario Since Confederation sheds light on historical changes in Canada's most populous province across more than one and a half centuries.
More details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1060 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-2429-6 (9781487524296)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lori Chambers is a professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at Lakehead University.
Edgar-Andre Montigny is an independent scholar and lawyer living in Toronto.
James Onusko is the principal of Champlain College and an adjunct graduate professor at Trent University.
Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Edgar-Andre Montigny is an independent scholar and lawyer living in Toronto.
James Onusko is the principal of Champlain College and an adjunct graduate professor at Trent University.
Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson and R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
Content
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: Race and Gender
2. Putting Flesh on the Bones: Writing the History of Julia Turner
Afua Cooper
3. "Both silly and loose": Deconstructing Women's Criminal Behaviour in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Oxford County, Ontario
Rebecca Beausaert
4. The Case of the "One Good Chinaman": Rex v. Charles Lee Hing, Stratford, Ontario, 1909
Mona-Margaret Pon
5. The History of Education at Six Nations of the Grand River, 1828-1939
Alison Norman
6. "I Just Felt Like I Belonged to Them": Women's Industrial Softball, London, Ontario, 1923-1935
Carly Adams
Part II: Class, Business, and Politics
7. "Cracking the Stone" and Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto's Dispossessed in the Age of Industry, 1880-1925
Bryan Palmer and Gaetan Heroux
8. The Rise and Fall of an Ontario Business Dynasty: William Kennedy & Sons and Its Successors, 1857-1997
Keith R. Fleming
9. Indian Reserves v. Indian Lands: Reserves, Crown Lands, and Natural Resource Use in Northeastern Ontario
Jean L. Manore
10. The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Postwar Strategies in Intergovernmental Relations
P.E. Bryden
11. Power at the Centre: The Evolution of the Premier's Office in Ontario since 1945
Patrice Dutil and Peter P. Constantinou
12. New Public Management, New Technology: Who Foots the Bill? Information Infrastructure Renewal in Ontario, 1996-2003
David Rapaport
Part III: Family
13. Families, Institutions, and the State in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Edgar-Andre Montigny
14. "A Barren Cupboard at Home": Ontario Families Confront the Premiers during the Great Depression, 1929-1939
Lara Campbell
15. Adoption Records in Ontario: Secrecy and the Movement for Reform
Valerie Andrews and Lori Chambers
Part IV: Epidemiologies and Environments
16. "I had a little bird, its name was Enza": Children and Adolescents in Ontario and the 1918-20 Spanish Flu
James A. Onusko
17. From Polluted Periphery to Vital Green Corridor: Toronto's Don River Valley, 1793-1989
Jennifer L. Bonnell
18. Ontario and a Changing Climate
Mark Winfield and Colleen Kaiser
Part V: The State and Welfare
19. "By Every Means in Our Power": Child and Maternal Welfare in Ontario, 1914 to 1940
Cynthia R. Comacchio
20. The Birch Battles: Daycare and the Welfare State in 1970s Ontario
Lisa Pasolli
21. Intolerable Harm: Demanding Mental Health Services for Franco-Ontarian Youth Prior to the Montfort Hospital Crisis
Mathieu Arsenault and Marcel Martel
22. A Disability History of Ontario from Confederation to the Coronavirus Pandemic, 1867-2020
Geoffrey Reaume
23. Welfare to Workfare to Basic Income: Poverty and the "Dependency Debate" in Ontario, from the 1930s to 2020
James Struthers
1. Introduction
Part I: Race and Gender
2. Putting Flesh on the Bones: Writing the History of Julia Turner
Afua Cooper
3. "Both silly and loose": Deconstructing Women's Criminal Behaviour in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Oxford County, Ontario
Rebecca Beausaert
4. The Case of the "One Good Chinaman": Rex v. Charles Lee Hing, Stratford, Ontario, 1909
Mona-Margaret Pon
5. The History of Education at Six Nations of the Grand River, 1828-1939
Alison Norman
6. "I Just Felt Like I Belonged to Them": Women's Industrial Softball, London, Ontario, 1923-1935
Carly Adams
Part II: Class, Business, and Politics
7. "Cracking the Stone" and Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto's Dispossessed in the Age of Industry, 1880-1925
Bryan Palmer and Gaetan Heroux
8. The Rise and Fall of an Ontario Business Dynasty: William Kennedy & Sons and Its Successors, 1857-1997
Keith R. Fleming
9. Indian Reserves v. Indian Lands: Reserves, Crown Lands, and Natural Resource Use in Northeastern Ontario
Jean L. Manore
10. The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Postwar Strategies in Intergovernmental Relations
P.E. Bryden
11. Power at the Centre: The Evolution of the Premier's Office in Ontario since 1945
Patrice Dutil and Peter P. Constantinou
12. New Public Management, New Technology: Who Foots the Bill? Information Infrastructure Renewal in Ontario, 1996-2003
David Rapaport
Part III: Family
13. Families, Institutions, and the State in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Edgar-Andre Montigny
14. "A Barren Cupboard at Home": Ontario Families Confront the Premiers during the Great Depression, 1929-1939
Lara Campbell
15. Adoption Records in Ontario: Secrecy and the Movement for Reform
Valerie Andrews and Lori Chambers
Part IV: Epidemiologies and Environments
16. "I had a little bird, its name was Enza": Children and Adolescents in Ontario and the 1918-20 Spanish Flu
James A. Onusko
17. From Polluted Periphery to Vital Green Corridor: Toronto's Don River Valley, 1793-1989
Jennifer L. Bonnell
18. Ontario and a Changing Climate
Mark Winfield and Colleen Kaiser
Part V: The State and Welfare
19. "By Every Means in Our Power": Child and Maternal Welfare in Ontario, 1914 to 1940
Cynthia R. Comacchio
20. The Birch Battles: Daycare and the Welfare State in 1970s Ontario
Lisa Pasolli
21. Intolerable Harm: Demanding Mental Health Services for Franco-Ontarian Youth Prior to the Montfort Hospital Crisis
Mathieu Arsenault and Marcel Martel
22. A Disability History of Ontario from Confederation to the Coronavirus Pandemic, 1867-2020
Geoffrey Reaume
23. Welfare to Workfare to Basic Income: Poverty and the "Dependency Debate" in Ontario, from the 1930s to 2020
James Struthers