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The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917
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Roy Parker
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$45.00 Hardcover
Release Date: 2/20/2008
ISBN: 9780774815406
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About the Book
Some 80,000 British children - many of them under the age of ten - were shipped from Britain to Canada by Poor Law authorities and voluntary bodies during the 50 years following Confederation in 1867. How did this come about? What were the motives and methods of the people involved in both countries? Why did it come to an end? What effects did it have on the children involved and what eventually became of them? These are the questions Roy Parker explores in a meticulously researched work that brings together economic, political, social, medical, legal, administrative and religious aspects of the story in Britain and Canada. He concludes with a moving review of evidence from more recent survivors of child migration, discussing the lifelong effects of their experiences with the help of modern psychological insights.
His book - humane and highly professional - will capture and hold the interest of many: the academic, the practitioner and the general reader; and they will include the relatives and descendants, both in Britain and Canada, of the children around whom this study revolves.
About the Author(s)
Roy Parker is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the University of Bristol. Formerly he taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research and writing reflect a longstanding interest in the politics of social policy and in the condition and needs of disadvantaged children.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Part I: Setting the Scene
one The Background
I Prelude
II The Pressure for Emigration Grows
III The Ups and Downs of Official Policies
IV Maria Rye’s Appearance on the Scene
V The Scene is Set
two Early Initiatives
I London: Rye, Macpherson and Stephenson
II Liverpool: Nugent and Birt
III Quarrier and Glasgow
IV Middlemore in Birmingham
V The Networks
Part II: Setbacks and Anxieties
three Checks and Balances
I Orphans,Waifs, Strays and the Deserted
II Asking the Children
III The Pros and Cons of Emigration
IV Growing Anxieties
V The Doyle Inquiry and the Moratorium
four The Issue of Inspection
I The Canadian Answer to Doyle’s Report
II The Response of the Local Government Board
III A Second Canadian Offer
IV A Particular Case
V Eventually Something is Heard of the Children
Part III: The Field Expands
five The Second Wave of Organised Protestant Child Emigration
I Enter Barnardo
II Shaw and Manchester
III Fegan’s boys
IV The Established Church
six The Catholic response
I The Context
II Liverpool: Preserving the Faith
III Westminster and the French Connection
IV Southwark and Different Policies for Girls and Boys
V Salford Records the Details but Soon Withdraws
VI The Amalgamation and New Policies
VII The Disapproved
VIII The main features
seven The ‘Unorganised’ Emigrationists
I The Examples
II Emma Stirling Confronts the Law
III The Pady Scandal
IV Confusion:The Bristol Emigration Society
V The General Pattern
Part IV: The Canadian Dimension
eight Canadian Demand for Child Labour
I The Farm Family
II Girls as Domestic Servants
III Ages and Wages
IV The School Lottery
nine Canadian Opposition to Child Immigration
I The Setting
II Organised Labour Takes a Stand
III The Disquiet of the Civic Authorities and the Charities
IV The Doctors Express Alarm
V Opposition in the Press
VI Needed but Not Wanted?
ten The Management of the Opposition in Canada
I May and June 1888
II Developments after 1888
III A Charge Repudiated
Part V: Ambiguities and Obfuscation
eleven The Reformatories and Industrial Schools
I The Background
II Rising Unease
III The Royal Commission and Child Emigration
IV The Repercussions of the Royal Commission’s Report
V Canadian Vacillation
VI Uneasy Politics
Part VI: The Children and Their Parents
twelve What Befell the Children
I Letters from Canada
II The Unwanted and the Runaways
III Removing the Ill-treated
IV Seduction, Sexual Assault and Rape
V Repatriation and Deportation
VI Citizenship
thirteen Parents’ Rights, Consent and Legislation
I A Changing Pattern
II The Campaign to Limit Parental Rights
III The Legislation
IV Parents’ Complaints and Where They Stood
Part VII: A Chapter Closes
fourteen Into the Twentieth Century
I The Quest for Improvements
II Many or Few?
III The Newcomers
Part VIII: A Review
fifteen Explanation and Assessment
I Why?
II Outcomes and Evaluation
III Hearing from the Survivors
IV Later Voices
V Confirmation
VI A Reckoning
Notes
References
Index
Reviews
"This is an excellent historical analysis of the push and pull factors that not long ago engineered the transportation of thousands of children to live with homestead families or in institutions in Canada."
-- Professor Emeritus John Triseliotis, University of Edinburgh
This is a sober, scholarly study of the forces that fed and restricted the forced emigration of British children to Canada, largely to Canadian farms. It does not neglect the most emotionally poignant stories, but nor does it dwell on them. … This is truly an interdisciplinary study, giving due weight to a stunning number of factors….
- Suanne Kelman, Literary Review of Canada, Vol.16, No.6, July-August 2008
Sample Chapter
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