Research Catalog

Title

Uprooted : the shipment of poor children to Canada, 1867-1917 / Roy Parker.

Author

Parker, R. A. (Roy Alfred), 1931-

Publication

Vancouver : UBC Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description

xiv, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"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 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Home children (Canadian immigrants)
• Immigrant children > Canada > History
• Canada > Emigration and immigration > History
• British > Canada > History
• Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History
• Orphans > Canada > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-344) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Setting the Scene -- 1. The Background -- 2. Early Initiatives -- Pt. II. Setbacks and Anxieties -- 3. Checks and Balances -- 4. The Issue of Inspection -- Pt. III. The Field Expands -- 5. The Second Wave of Organised Protestant Child Emigration -- 6. The Catholic Response -- 7. The 'Unorganised' Emigrationists -- Pt. IV. The Canadian Dimension -- 8. Canadian Demand for Child Labour -- 9. Canadian Opposition to Child Immigration -- 10. The Management of the Opposition in Canada -- Pt. V. The Ambiguities and Obfuscation -- 11. The Reformatories and Industrial Schools -- Pt. VI. The Children and their Parents -- 12. What Befell the Children -- 13. Parents' Rights, Consent and Legislation -- 14. Into the Twentieth Century -- Pt. VIII. A Review -- 15. Explanation and Assessment.

ISBN

• 9780774815406
• 077481540X

LCCN

40015658989

OCLC

• ocn184738617
• 184738617
• SCSB-5418729

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries