The Rising Generation’: Laying Claims to the Health of Adolescents in English Canada, 1920-70 The beginning of doctors subcategorizing adolences Medicalization of children Child welfare Sexually transmitted diseases were one on the greatest public health problems of this time Domestic science was the best form of schooling for girls, and …
It Was Two Different Times of the Day, But in the Same Place’: Coast Salish High School Experience in the 1970s High school is especially hard for those of Aboriginal descent Many Aboriginal students didn’t even graduate high school Residential schools have affected the way the Aboriginal students learn today, …
Schooled for Inequality: The Education of British Columbia Aboriginal Children First Nation adults have the highest rates of alcoholism, abuse, suicide, poverty and incarceration in Canada; This can be related back to the abuse they have suffered from the residential schools they were once a part of The event that …
Black Parents Speak – Education in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada West Some black children could enroll in public school but many were forced to move to another school where only black children were allowed to go Canada was a place where the black slaves would come to seek refuge In 1840’s …
Boys Will Be Men, Girls Will Be Mothers: The Legal Regulation of Childhood in Toronto and Vancouver The ideas about childhood are tied closely with family and sexuality Middle-class individuals fell into the stereotypical roles that were given to them Paper focuses on Ontario and British Columbia It was deviant …
The Boys in the Nova Scotian Coal Mines: 1873-1923 Boys had a different definition of the age, in the mills it was anyone under 18 years of age. Yet boy was defined as anyone from age eight to age 21. Horses and motor runner vehicles replaced women in the mills. …
The movement of the focus of production from farm to factory, decreased the interdependency of the family and offered individual members a greater number of occupational choices. This was a change from how people believed that a home was a home with a working father and a stay at home …