Ontario Since Confederation : : A Reader / / ed. by Lori Chambers, Edgar-Andre Montigny.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Azoulay, Dan,; Bryden, P. E.,; Burley, David G.,; Burr, Christina,; Campbell, Lara,; Chambers, Lori,; Comacchio, Cynthia R.,; Cooper, Afua,; Derry, Margaret,; Duder, Karen,; Heap, Ruby,; Holman, Andrew C.,; Manore, Jean L.,; Montigny, Edgar-André,; Noel, S. J. R.,; Pon, Mona-Margaret,; Read, Jennifer,; Sethna, Christabelle,; Struthers, James,; Telford, Rhonda,; Tillotson, Shirley,
• HerausgeberIn: Chambers, Lori,; Montigny, Edgar-Andre,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (470 p.)

Ontario Since Confederation contains some of the most recent scholarship in the field of post-Confederation Ontario history. This comprehensive collection, the first of its kind to be published in almost a decade, is intended primarily to introduce students to new areas of debate and new methodologi...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Patterns of Gendered Labour and the Development of Ontario Agriculture
• Putting Flesh on the Bones: Writing the History of Julia Turner
• The Wikwemikong First Nation and the Department of Indian Affairs’ Mismanagement of Petroleum Development
• The Other Side: The Rhetoric of Labour Reform in Toronto during the 1870s
• Families, Institutions, and the State in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario
• Oliver Mowat, Patronage, and Party Building
• ‘Cultivation’ and the Middle-Class Self: Manners and Morals in Victorian Ontario
• The State, Public Education, and Morality: Evaluating the Results of School Promotion, 1893–1896
• The Case of the ‘One Good Chinaman’: Rex v. Charles Lee Hing, Stratford, Ontario, 1909
• ‘By Every Means in Our Power’: Maternal and Child Welfare in Ontario, 1900–1945
• Indian Reserves v. Indian Lands: Reserves, Crown Lands, and Natural Resource Use in Northeastern Ontario
• ‘Salvaging War’s Waste’: The University of Toronto and the ‘Physical Reconstruction’ of Disabled Soldiers during the First World War
• Illegitimate Children and the Children of Unmarried Parents Act
• ‘That Repulsive Abnormal Creature I Heard of in That Book’: Lesbians and Families in Ontario, 1920–1965
• ‘A Barren Cupboard at Home’: Ontario Families Confront the Premiers during the Great Depression
• Citizen Participation in the Welfare State: The Recreation Movement in Brantford, 1945–1957
• Managing Water Quality in the Great Lakes Basin: Sewage Pollution Control, 1951–1960
• The CCF and Post–Second World War Politics in Ontario
• The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Postwar Strategies in Intergovernmental Negotiations
• ‘We Want Facts, Not Morals!’ Unwanted Pregnancy, the Toronto Women’s Caucus, and Sex Education
• Welfare to Workfare: Poverty and the ‘Dependency Debate’ in Post–Second World War Ontario
• Contributors